WEBVTT - Lakers/Wolves Postgame Spaces 0:00:08.280 --> 0:00:10.880 All right, welcome to these Day of the Lakers post 0:00:10.960 --> 0:00:18.480 game show presented by Dash Radio Man. The season has 0:00:18.480 --> 0:00:21.720 been a hell of a roller coaster ride, and tonight 0:00:21.800 --> 0:00:25.120 felt like a big six Flags level drop. I don't 0:00:25.120 --> 0:00:27.600 know if anyone else has ever been on Goliath, but 0:00:27.680 --> 0:00:30.960 there's like a huge shock on Goliath, and that's what 0:00:31.120 --> 0:00:35.000 tonight kind of felt like. And honestly, before this game 0:00:35.159 --> 0:00:38.279 I kind of had a bad feeling about tonight. There 0:00:38.320 --> 0:00:41.199 was a lot of just chaos surrounding the team, right, 0:00:41.320 --> 0:00:44.080 just with all the people coming in and out, Malik 0:00:44.200 --> 0:00:47.360 Monk being okay to go on the plane, but he 0:00:47.440 --> 0:00:50.640 wasn't okay to play. Russell Westbrook coming in and out 0:00:50.640 --> 0:00:56.560 of protocols, signing Isaiah Thomas right, And I felt, just 0:00:56.640 --> 0:00:58.880 for me, I'm a big process guy, but tonight I 0:00:58.920 --> 0:01:01.160 felt like it was just, uh, just get a win 0:01:01.240 --> 0:01:02.960 and get out of here. Like That's kind of was 0:01:03.040 --> 0:01:06.000 my thought process going to this one. I wasn't really 0:01:06.000 --> 0:01:08.639 going to care about process. And again, it's not about 0:01:09.080 --> 0:01:11.640 Isaiah Thomas or John j. Brown or Jahoff, but just 0:01:11.680 --> 0:01:14.960 to me, those kind of players coming up just signaled 0:01:15.000 --> 0:01:19.039 that we were in survival mode, right that Johnny Brown 0:01:19.200 --> 0:01:21.080 and then were and Jayhoff just were never with the 0:01:21.120 --> 0:01:23.839 team before. And Isaiah Thomas to me, just doesn't fit 0:01:24.120 --> 0:01:25.880 with this team needed. And I'll get into him a 0:01:25.880 --> 0:01:27.560 little bit better, a little bit more later, because I 0:01:27.640 --> 0:01:30.160 actually played well tonight, but again on the team with 0:01:30.200 --> 0:01:34.120 so many guards and getting another guard back hopefully sometime 0:01:34.120 --> 0:01:36.640 in January, his fit just didn't make sense to me. 0:01:37.160 --> 0:01:42.360 So like this game felt very survival mode, very panicky, right, 0:01:42.400 --> 0:01:44.319 That's what the moves and the signings kind of told 0:01:44.319 --> 0:01:46.280 to me, and you could tell it. You could tell 0:01:46.319 --> 0:01:49.400 that with the team as well. I'm not gonna go 0:01:49.440 --> 0:01:51.480 too long tonight because I don't think anyone needs to 0:01:51.520 --> 0:01:55.800 hear me ramble about this game. This wasn't a It's 0:01:55.840 --> 0:01:58.520 not a very happy game to talk about, especially just 0:01:58.640 --> 0:02:02.880 right after the game, all the us still there. Let 0:02:02.880 --> 0:02:06.240 me start with the start of the game. Obviously, Karl 0:02:06.240 --> 0:02:09.000 Anthony Towns and the whole Minnesota Timberwolves to me came 0:02:09.040 --> 0:02:12.919 in with a we can get a win on this team. 0:02:12.960 --> 0:02:15.320 And I was at that. I was at the game 0:02:15.560 --> 0:02:17.760 where they played US at home. I was at the 0:02:17.760 --> 0:02:20.280 Minnesota Laker game when they played US and beat us 0:02:20.280 --> 0:02:23.960 by thirty. There was a physical dominance to them that 0:02:24.000 --> 0:02:27.480 they had that I saw again tonight, and even without 0:02:27.520 --> 0:02:30.200 Anthony Edwards, there was a physical dominance that I saw 0:02:30.240 --> 0:02:32.480 them just keep up. And Lebron didn't play in that 0:02:32.560 --> 0:02:34.959 first game, but it felt a lot like this. Jared 0:02:35.040 --> 0:02:37.640 Vanderbilt how the same type of impact, a lot of 0:02:37.639 --> 0:02:40.720 offensive rebounding, a lot of players where we just weren't there. 0:02:40.800 --> 0:02:44.880 And that was the most frustrating thing for me. We 0:02:44.960 --> 0:02:47.760 just didn't give the requisite effort to win this one. 0:02:48.120 --> 0:02:51.640 Karl Anthony Town's obviously cared about this. He cares about 0:02:51.639 --> 0:02:53.480 the A D matchup in a way that you know, 0:02:54.000 --> 0:02:56.160 some big dudes, some big stough. I don't think your 0:02:56.200 --> 0:02:58.800 kid cares about it in the same way. And Beat 0:02:58.840 --> 0:03:00.840 I don't think even in b doesn't take it the 0:03:00.880 --> 0:03:03.360 same way to me that Towns does when they play. 0:03:03.520 --> 0:03:05.919 Towns obviously has some kind of personal feeling and a 0:03:06.040 --> 0:03:08.400 D just was not there for it. And I can't 0:03:08.440 --> 0:03:10.400 blame him for that. I mean, Anthony did this is 0:03:10.520 --> 0:03:12.880 a superstar, Like in his mind, he's like, what do 0:03:12.919 --> 0:03:14.800 I have to prove against kar Anthony Towns and some 0:03:15.200 --> 0:03:16.959 matchup at the end of February. But it would have 0:03:17.000 --> 0:03:18.640 been nice to see him kind of pick that up. 0:03:19.400 --> 0:03:21.600 And obviously a D is the story tonight, right, He's 0:03:21.639 --> 0:03:25.280 the backdrop of anything I say, because all the jokes, 0:03:25.320 --> 0:03:27.600 and I'm tired of the soft jokes about a D. 0:03:27.720 --> 0:03:29.920 I don't know how you watch a guy have someone 0:03:29.960 --> 0:03:31.720 running to his knee and the first thing you think 0:03:31.760 --> 0:03:35.000 of is you know, he's made of glass, or he's 0:03:35.040 --> 0:03:38.160 soft or he's not tough, Like I don't know how 0:03:38.200 --> 0:03:41.960 that's the first thing in your mind, but anyway, that's 0:03:42.000 --> 0:03:45.320 obviously everything that this revolves around. Now, hopefully a D 0:03:45.520 --> 0:03:49.200 is fine. Hopefully a D is good to go sooner 0:03:49.200 --> 0:03:51.600 than later. I don't think he's gonna play Sunday. That's 0:03:51.960 --> 0:03:55.760 probably out of the picture now, but hopefully he's ready 0:03:55.760 --> 0:03:59.320 to go soon. And I wanted to start I guess 0:03:59.320 --> 0:04:01.520 I'm I'm an kind of rambow around back. The first 0:04:01.520 --> 0:04:04.080 place I really wanted to start with. It felt like 0:04:04.120 --> 0:04:06.480 this team has been theoretical for a very long time, 0:04:06.800 --> 0:04:10.000 right after the bubble, obviously after the title. I mean, 0:04:10.480 --> 0:04:12.840 it felt like we've had a theoretical team for so long. 0:04:12.880 --> 0:04:17.080 I mean, especially when a D went down in February 0:04:17.080 --> 0:04:19.200 one and six. Record just gets stamped in my head, 0:04:19.200 --> 0:04:21.160 and that team had its issues, right, and then I 0:04:21.240 --> 0:04:23.120 was fine with all the roster moves in in a 0:04:23.160 --> 0:04:26.000 hole from that season, but a D went down in February, 0:04:26.080 --> 0:04:28.960 and then from then on it just felt like a okay, well, 0:04:29.000 --> 0:04:31.160 when Lebron gets back, now, what would this team will 0:04:31.160 --> 0:04:33.360 look like? Okay, now we have Andre Drummond. Oh what 0:04:33.560 --> 0:04:35.039 it looks like when a D gets back and all 0:04:35.080 --> 0:04:36.960 of a sudden it's game four of the playoffs, right, 0:04:37.120 --> 0:04:38.720 and all of a sudden and then a D goes down. 0:04:38.880 --> 0:04:41.479 And then you have this year as well, right, which 0:04:41.520 --> 0:04:44.560 is felt like a oh, wait till Trevor Reason gets back. Oh, 0:04:44.640 --> 0:04:46.520 wait till Kendrick Nunn gets back, or wait till th 0:04:46.680 --> 0:04:49.479 HD gets back. And we've been in this like constant 0:04:49.560 --> 0:04:51.920 circle of like okay, wait till this player gets back 0:04:51.960 --> 0:04:54.080 before we can judge the team, which is not really 0:04:54.080 --> 0:04:57.280 how basketball works, right. A team is a construction, it's 0:04:57.320 --> 0:05:00.640 its own ecosystem. Every single year, my team has a 0:05:00.680 --> 0:05:03.640 new kind of way that they perform on the court. 0:05:03.680 --> 0:05:05.800 And this is what this team has been. They are 0:05:05.880 --> 0:05:09.400 what fifteen and thirteen now two games over five. I 0:05:09.440 --> 0:05:13.280 saw a lot of comments tonight about people hate this team, right, 0:05:13.360 --> 0:05:15.960 and and that's kind of been the feeling for this team, 0:05:16.000 --> 0:05:20.160 that the effort is just so lackluster for for way 0:05:20.200 --> 0:05:22.120 too long. And I just hated the start of this one. 0:05:22.400 --> 0:05:24.880 Karl Anthony Towns punked a lot of our team, and 0:05:24.880 --> 0:05:27.080 we can get mad at him screaming and all that, 0:05:27.160 --> 0:05:29.560 but he obviously felt like this was a game his 0:05:29.600 --> 0:05:32.520 team could win. The Wolves haven't been great. I think 0:05:32.520 --> 0:05:34.640 they've lost like five in a row recently. They've lost 0:05:34.680 --> 0:05:35.960 they won two in a row, but they lost like 0:05:35.960 --> 0:05:37.920 five in a row recently. But obviously tonight's the game. 0:05:37.960 --> 0:05:42.840 They felt like they can out physical us, out rebound us, 0:05:42.920 --> 0:05:45.400 dominate us inside. And we were like four for twenty 0:05:45.440 --> 0:05:48.240 a half time and stuff like that as well, you know, 0:05:48.440 --> 0:05:51.440 from four for twenty from three from a halftime, which 0:05:51.480 --> 0:05:53.360 doesn't help at all. But it just felt like we 0:05:53.440 --> 0:05:57.640 got we got really outplayed. And let me start with Lebron, 0:05:57.720 --> 0:06:00.120 I guess because Lebron was disengaged on both ends, and 0:06:00.160 --> 0:06:04.000 that's that's extremely clear, and it reminded me of the 0:06:04.040 --> 0:06:06.520 Memphis game. Honestly, there were a lot of turnovers. There 0:06:06.560 --> 0:06:08.600 was one turnover I think where he hit a guy 0:06:08.680 --> 0:06:11.320 in the face, Um, get a guy right in the 0:06:11.320 --> 0:06:13.320 head and went and went the other way. A lot 0:06:13.360 --> 0:06:16.640 of just lack of engagement turnovers. And I can't really 0:06:16.640 --> 0:06:21.159 get mad at lebronx He's played so well recently and 0:06:21.200 --> 0:06:23.760 I keep competing this drum that it's unfair that he 0:06:23.800 --> 0:06:27.360 has to be this level, this certain level of defense, 0:06:27.400 --> 0:06:30.240 this baseline of defense for this team. But it just 0:06:30.400 --> 0:06:33.240 is what it is. That's the roster construction, uh, that 0:06:33.279 --> 0:06:35.920 we have this year, is that Lebron and A D 0:06:36.120 --> 0:06:39.280 both have to be this super engaged four or five combo, 0:06:39.440 --> 0:06:42.120 especially when they're starting. And the next thing I'm gonna 0:06:42.120 --> 0:06:44.840 get to his the starters, But just from an identity 0:06:44.960 --> 0:06:47.560 basis here, this team needs Lebron A D to be themselves. 0:06:47.560 --> 0:06:50.160 And I like, as a person watching, can't get mad 0:06:50.240 --> 0:06:53.560 at lebron And you're nineteen for taking plays off, right, Like, 0:06:53.600 --> 0:06:56.320 how can I get upset at him for taking defensive 0:06:56.320 --> 0:06:58.000 plays off. He knows what he needs to do for 0:06:58.040 --> 0:07:00.680 his body and all that, but it's just looks bad 0:07:00.720 --> 0:07:02.760 on film. It also looks bad when you have all 0:07:02.800 --> 0:07:04.920 these cards that also don't do the same thing. Then 0:07:04.920 --> 0:07:07.600 you're playing Isaiah Thomas and again you you can't. I 0:07:07.640 --> 0:07:09.560 really can't get mad at Vogel either. What he's gonna 0:07:09.600 --> 0:07:13.239 do with the roster. He the roster he had um tonight, 0:07:13.320 --> 0:07:16.520 but man a d has and again I hope he's okay. 0:07:16.600 --> 0:07:18.880 You know, the injury sucks. He had two injuries in 0:07:18.920 --> 0:07:21.760 the same game, which is just I don't know what 0:07:21.840 --> 0:07:25.280 you call that. I don't think bad luck. I don't 0:07:25.280 --> 0:07:28.040 think bad luck. You know, gives it the proper name 0:07:28.200 --> 0:07:32.120 for having two separate type of injuries. Um, and the 0:07:32.160 --> 0:07:34.160 body is obviously one whole thing, so they can kind 0:07:34.160 --> 0:07:36.240 of be connected by I mean, it just sucks to 0:07:36.280 --> 0:07:38.360 have two separate kind of injuries, to come back from 0:07:38.360 --> 0:07:40.440 one injury and then get injured again. But he's been 0:07:40.520 --> 0:07:42.600 in a funk for a while. I mean, I don't 0:07:42.600 --> 0:07:45.120 know what it is. The numbers are still there because 0:07:45.400 --> 0:07:47.880 you can walk into twenty and twelve, right, That's just 0:07:48.480 --> 0:07:50.840 that's just how good Anthony Davis is. Like he can 0:07:50.960 --> 0:07:53.679 walk into twenty and twelve while being disengaged for quarters 0:07:53.720 --> 0:07:56.120 at a time, And that's really what's been happening. And 0:07:56.160 --> 0:07:58.160 again we started him at the five tonight and at 0:07:58.160 --> 0:08:01.200 the five it's just a lot of possessions he's it 0:08:01.280 --> 0:08:05.080 looks like an injury prevention, right. And look, Karl Anthony 0:08:05.080 --> 0:08:07.640 Towns is a superstar player, but if a D is engaged, 0:08:07.720 --> 0:08:09.800 if he's locked in, and we saw some of them 0:08:09.800 --> 0:08:12.400 in the third quarter, which I'll get into later, but 0:08:12.600 --> 0:08:15.000 we saw him engage, and that when you can when 0:08:15.040 --> 0:08:17.040 a D is engaged, like Karl Anthony Towns is not 0:08:17.120 --> 0:08:19.800 going to be able to just post up from the 0:08:19.880 --> 0:08:23.160 free throw line, extended dribble down with five dribbles and 0:08:23.200 --> 0:08:25.960 get into an easy jump up like that. That does 0:08:26.000 --> 0:08:28.720 not happen if Anthony Davis is engaged and he wasn't, 0:08:28.760 --> 0:08:31.080 like he just plane wasn't, And he starts these games 0:08:31.080 --> 0:08:34.120 these way. He starts these games walking into him trying 0:08:34.120 --> 0:08:37.560 to trying to work his way into rhythm, right, And 0:08:37.600 --> 0:08:40.360 I disagree with the approach. I understand the approach. I 0:08:40.440 --> 0:08:42.640 disagree with it. I just think this team kind of 0:08:42.679 --> 0:08:45.640 needs him engaged from from tips like, I just think 0:08:45.640 --> 0:08:48.360 that's how the roster's construction. But that's what he does. 0:08:48.440 --> 0:08:50.960 He gets into these games and he tries to work 0:08:51.040 --> 0:08:54.080 himself into it right and tries to get engaged later 0:08:54.120 --> 0:08:55.960 on the game, and you'll see him have a huge 0:08:55.960 --> 0:08:58.280 third quarters, right, so have like five points at halftime 0:08:58.440 --> 0:09:00.720 and he'll still finish with his twenty two twelve because 0:09:00.720 --> 0:09:03.439 we'll have like a third quarter where he dominates. But again, tonight, 0:09:03.440 --> 0:09:05.559 I thought we needed it. We were so short handed. 0:09:05.640 --> 0:09:07.920 Like I can't judge the team. I could judge the 0:09:08.000 --> 0:09:11.120 Stars every levels though, like that's I think that's fair. 0:09:11.160 --> 0:09:14.439 I can judge a D as being worked by Karl 0:09:14.520 --> 0:09:16.320 Anthony Towns, like I would like him to take this 0:09:16.360 --> 0:09:19.040 matchup a little bit more personally. Uh, he just wasn't. 0:09:19.040 --> 0:09:20.559 But yeah, Ad has been in a funk and I 0:09:20.600 --> 0:09:22.840 don't know what it is. Hopefully you know he can 0:09:22.880 --> 0:09:25.720 come back. And I don't think it's just a jumper either. 0:09:25.800 --> 0:09:30.920 And I don't think it's just lineups. I remember early 0:09:31.000 --> 0:09:33.000 in the year everyone just said, you know, take DeAndre 0:09:33.080 --> 0:09:35.320 Jordan out the starting lineup and and you'll get the 0:09:35.360 --> 0:09:37.880 real bubble a D again. And I always thought that 0:09:37.960 --> 0:09:40.520 was kind of misguided. And look at DeAndre Jordan was 0:09:40.559 --> 0:09:43.680 not an answer to any solution. I just don't think 0:09:44.040 --> 0:09:47.080 he was a He was a problem where you pull 0:09:47.200 --> 0:09:49.800 the you pulled the you pull the plug on DeAndre 0:09:49.920 --> 0:09:51.559 Jordan and all of a sudden everything else kind of 0:09:51.640 --> 0:09:53.720 lights up, like I just never thought that was the case. 0:09:54.040 --> 0:09:57.520 I thought this team had bigger issues then just DeAndre 0:09:57.640 --> 0:09:59.880 Jordan's taking him out of the lineup. And you see 0:09:59.880 --> 0:10:01.920 that right that I've I've been kind of preaching this 0:10:02.320 --> 0:10:04.080 because everyone's been so high on the A D at 0:10:04.080 --> 0:10:05.960 the five line, and I still think that's the best 0:10:06.080 --> 0:10:09.240 for this team. I just think there are there are 0:10:09.640 --> 0:10:11.760 places where it pulls from and you could see it 0:10:11.760 --> 0:10:14.640 when he starts there's he's not as mobile, he's not 0:10:14.720 --> 0:10:18.400 as live defensively, and he's been very clear about wanting 0:10:18.440 --> 0:10:19.719 to play the four. And I don't want to make 0:10:19.760 --> 0:10:22.920 this podcast all again about a D playing the five 0:10:23.040 --> 0:10:25.160 or four. That's not what I wanted to do tonight. 0:10:26.400 --> 0:10:28.680 But you could you could totally tell he likes playing 0:10:28.679 --> 0:10:31.079 the four in terms of being able to roam right 0:10:31.160 --> 0:10:32.960 and he can't roam as much if he's the back 0:10:32.960 --> 0:10:35.200 line center. And you could tell he gets frustrated a 0:10:35.200 --> 0:10:39.520 lot because like he'll like, you have help the helper principles, right, 0:10:39.559 --> 0:10:42.680 So when a D comes over, when a guard, usually 0:10:42.720 --> 0:10:44.600 they'll run a lot of screen role at the Lakers 0:10:44.640 --> 0:10:47.680 because they have small guards who get eaten up by screens. 0:10:47.960 --> 0:10:50.199 You put a D into any action, that means there's 0:10:50.240 --> 0:10:52.920 really no rim protection besides, you know Lebron. And again 0:10:52.960 --> 0:10:55.280 on a game like tonight, Lebron is not trying to 0:10:55.760 --> 0:10:58.319 go up and block a hundred shots or being verticality 0:10:58.360 --> 0:11:00.680 of million times like he just wasn't trying to do 0:11:00.720 --> 0:11:03.680 that tonight. And again all those caveats heasy in year nineteen, 0:11:03.679 --> 0:11:05.720 it's not really fair to expect that. But just from 0:11:05.760 --> 0:11:07.760 a D side of you, he picks up the guard 0:11:07.800 --> 0:11:09.839 he has. His job is now to protect the paint. 0:11:10.080 --> 0:11:11.719 His job is to make sure the guard doesn't get 0:11:11.720 --> 0:11:13.840 a lay up and make sure the big doesn't get dunk. 0:11:13.880 --> 0:11:16.160 But the guard who comes over that screen has to 0:11:16.200 --> 0:11:17.680 then help the help it right. He has to go 0:11:17.760 --> 0:11:20.360 back and tag or take away to take away the 0:11:20.440 --> 0:11:23.160 role in kar Anthony Towns tonight. He got a lot 0:11:23.160 --> 0:11:25.360 of roles on that. And that's not eighties fault, but 0:11:25.400 --> 0:11:27.880 it's it's just the way that the team is, uh, 0:11:28.040 --> 0:11:30.280 the team is kind of constructed. So this is a 0:11:30.360 --> 0:11:33.560 rough night, man, This is a this is a tough one. Okay, 0:11:33.559 --> 0:11:35.280 I'm glad I got kind of the negatives out of here. 0:11:35.360 --> 0:11:37.199 I want to go into that starting lineup. I want 0:11:37.200 --> 0:11:38.760 to kind of I kind of want to go into that, 0:11:40.480 --> 0:11:43.559 so the starting lineup to preface this. On media day, 0:11:43.679 --> 0:11:46.920 we were sold that we were gonna get russ lebron 0:11:47.520 --> 0:11:51.840 A d with Ellington and Trevor Reason. Four of those 0:11:51.880 --> 0:11:54.200 guys have been healthy for the last few weeks, but 0:11:54.280 --> 0:11:57.959 we haven't really started to get that until recently. Um 0:11:58.000 --> 0:12:00.160 just with the way things that work have gone big. 0:12:00.320 --> 0:12:02.760 You know, we've started Avery Bradley instead of Wayne Allington, 0:12:02.800 --> 0:12:06.840 and I've been I've been really parading for Ellington to 0:12:06.840 --> 0:12:08.959 start because I just think the spacing is needed, and 0:12:09.000 --> 0:12:11.839 I thought we saw some of it tonight. And again 0:12:11.880 --> 0:12:14.560 the game started and we were running right. We we 0:12:14.600 --> 0:12:17.280 got out and ran, We created I think two turnovers. 0:12:17.320 --> 0:12:19.840 Rust was on the role. Baysmore missed a layup I 0:12:19.840 --> 0:12:21.400 think at the rim, but I that was like the 0:12:21.440 --> 0:12:23.240 identity and he saw a little bit of it and 0:12:23.240 --> 0:12:26.040 the Basemore picked up two fouls and then it just 0:12:26.080 --> 0:12:28.679 went right out right. We we subbed in John Dy 0:12:28.760 --> 0:12:31.640 Brown and it's not Chohndy's Brown's fault. It's just it 0:12:31.760 --> 0:12:33.320 just felt like they didn't know what to do on 0:12:33.360 --> 0:12:35.480 that end. And I feel like base more can be 0:12:35.559 --> 0:12:38.480 some kind of a facsimile of Trevor Reza, right, Like 0:12:38.520 --> 0:12:41.800 he's not obviously as good a defender, but he's a 0:12:41.800 --> 0:12:43.960 lot younger, he has a lot more legs. He had 0:12:44.000 --> 0:12:46.800 his three ball working tonight as well. I just think 0:12:46.840 --> 0:12:49.520 that that's something that we can kind of move into. 0:12:50.240 --> 0:12:53.120 And I'm gonna share this like little play here, bear 0:12:53.200 --> 0:12:58.120 with him me here, Okay, I'm gonna see if you 0:12:58.120 --> 0:12:59.840 guys can see it. But this is kind of what 0:13:00.080 --> 0:13:01.360 I kind of want to see, and this is kind 0:13:01.360 --> 0:13:03.240 of how the Lakers have to play to me, and 0:13:03.360 --> 0:13:06.880 again people listening on the podcast feed later on, I'll 0:13:06.880 --> 0:13:09.520 try I'll just describe it. It's not too complicated, um 0:13:09.559 --> 0:13:11.240 all it is. We started this game. We started a 0:13:11.320 --> 0:13:14.400 d at the five, and we had all guys around, right, 0:13:14.440 --> 0:13:18.280 we had Russ, a d Baysmore Ellington with Lebron and 0:13:18.320 --> 0:13:21.040 you had Russ coming up and it was just in 0:13:21.080 --> 0:13:23.640 transition eight sets a little screen and it's an empty 0:13:23.640 --> 0:13:25.400 side screen, so they have to come up and he 0:13:25.440 --> 0:13:28.400 finds Wayne Ellington open in the corner. And I'm just thinking, like, 0:13:28.520 --> 0:13:30.240 that's kind of how we have to play. And I 0:13:30.280 --> 0:13:32.960 thought we did, uh and again, I don't know if 0:13:33.000 --> 0:13:34.520 you can kind of see it, if you guys can 0:13:34.520 --> 0:13:37.439 see it in the space or not. But again it's 0:13:37.480 --> 0:13:39.760 just an empty side screen role. So Russ comes up 0:13:39.760 --> 0:13:41.560 the left side of the left side of the floor 0:13:41.559 --> 0:13:43.360 and that's where he likes to come up from left 0:13:43.440 --> 0:13:45.800 or right. Crossover, gets in the paint two feet in 0:13:45.800 --> 0:13:48.400 the paint and finds Ellington in the corner and you 0:13:48.440 --> 0:13:50.360 can just see the spacing on that as well. And 0:13:50.400 --> 0:13:53.040 I just think that's something that was a positive I thought, 0:13:53.080 --> 0:13:54.680 and we saw that in the third quarter as well. 0:13:54.840 --> 0:13:56.880 They want to They went on an eleven oh run 0:13:56.920 --> 0:13:59.280 I think to come back in the game, and I 0:13:59.280 --> 0:14:02.000 think that was a towards the spacing. I thought baysmore 0:14:02.040 --> 0:14:04.280 Is hitting threes was a big part of it as well. 0:14:05.520 --> 0:14:07.880 And that was kind of my positive from tonight is 0:14:07.920 --> 0:14:10.000 that that was the you know, we got a little 0:14:10.040 --> 0:14:12.240 glimpse of it. I don't remember what the run was. 0:14:12.320 --> 0:14:15.040 He was and also a d was engaged right Adi 0:14:15.080 --> 0:14:18.800 started defending. He started to he started to really get 0:14:18.800 --> 0:14:21.720 engaged on carl Ampy Towns. He started winning the physical battles. 0:14:21.800 --> 0:14:24.560 Right Towns couldn't just back him down five again like 0:14:24.560 --> 0:14:27.600 I said earlier, if adies engaged, there's no way Towns 0:14:27.680 --> 0:14:29.520 is just doing five dribbles from the free throw line 0:14:29.560 --> 0:14:31.320 down and getting a jump hook, right. And he was 0:14:31.360 --> 0:14:33.840 engaging that third quarter. He's winning the physical battles, he 0:14:33.920 --> 0:14:36.880 was boxing out, he was starting to uh, he started 0:14:36.920 --> 0:14:39.280 to win that match up a little bit and uh. 0:14:39.360 --> 0:14:41.280 And I just thought that was something that was a 0:14:41.320 --> 0:14:45.240 positive for me in this game. And hopefully when the 0:14:45.280 --> 0:14:47.120 reason gets back, like I said, he can play that 0:14:47.120 --> 0:14:51.080 bigmore role Ellington or he can even be Kendrick Nunn. 0:14:51.600 --> 0:14:53.800 I thought seeing Isaiah Thomas played as well. And I 0:14:53.800 --> 0:14:55.880 don't think Isaiah Thomas is gonna be a big part 0:14:55.880 --> 0:14:58.640 of this team. Nothing against him, like I hope he 0:14:58.800 --> 0:15:00.520 gets a spot in the league. It just made me 0:15:00.560 --> 0:15:03.000 think of Kendrick Nunn, Like, how Kendrick Nunt can come in. 0:15:03.840 --> 0:15:06.240 We miss a guy that has a mid range game, right, 0:15:06.320 --> 0:15:08.600 I think we. I think that's why Isaiah Thomas pops 0:15:08.640 --> 0:15:11.000 off the screen so much. That's why he looks so 0:15:11.160 --> 0:15:14.200 different than any of our other scores. Carmelo has a 0:15:14.200 --> 0:15:17.320 mid range game, but it's more like back to the 0:15:17.320 --> 0:15:19.880 basket fade away, right, Carmelo is not really a come 0:15:19.920 --> 0:15:22.080 off a screen roll and pull up in the mid range. 0:15:22.440 --> 0:15:24.680 And I thought Isaiah Thomas kind of brought that that 0:15:24.800 --> 0:15:27.960 kind of spark. He also has a floater. Russell Westbrook 0:15:28.240 --> 0:15:30.720 is our starting guard, but he doesn't have a floater game. 0:15:31.000 --> 0:15:33.640 Lebron James isn't a floater type of guy, right. Lebron 0:15:33.720 --> 0:15:35.480 is more of a get to the rim, step back 0:15:35.520 --> 0:15:38.680 three or the fade away jumper. He doesn't take floaters either. 0:15:39.560 --> 0:15:41.840 A D this year A D honestly is a great 0:15:42.160 --> 0:15:44.520 He has great floater shots. He just hasn't taken them 0:15:44.520 --> 0:15:46.800 this year. He hasn't been getting to that as he 0:15:46.880 --> 0:15:49.760 used to. He hasn't been as mobile in the paint either. 0:15:50.840 --> 0:15:53.160 And I thought, that's why Isaiah Thomas just popped off 0:15:53.200 --> 0:15:54.920 the screen of me. It's why his scoring just felt 0:15:54.920 --> 0:15:57.480 like it felt like a breath of fresh air. Honestly, 0:15:57.520 --> 0:16:00.520 this game was awful, by the way, but his scoring 0:16:00.600 --> 0:16:02.440 kind of just felt like a breath, a breath of 0:16:02.480 --> 0:16:04.880 fast share to me, just watching watching a guy who 0:16:04.920 --> 0:16:06.840 can get to the mid range and he's still super quick. 0:16:06.840 --> 0:16:09.400 And again, I hope he I hope he kind of 0:16:09.440 --> 0:16:11.800 he kind of gets into it. I'll just go through 0:16:11.800 --> 0:16:13.480 a few other things that I had in my notes here. 0:16:14.800 --> 0:16:17.360 Regyard Jefferson was on the broadcast and he talked about 0:16:17.400 --> 0:16:20.360 how we have a team full of guys that don't 0:16:20.400 --> 0:16:23.400 do the little things, and I thought that was so 0:16:23.480 --> 0:16:25.240 on point, and I just want to bring that up, 0:16:25.800 --> 0:16:27.960 and I think that's another reason why. And it sucks 0:16:28.000 --> 0:16:31.360 that Austin Reeves had to come out after probably the 0:16:31.400 --> 0:16:34.119 game of his life, Like I think that's extremely unfortunate, 0:16:35.360 --> 0:16:37.680 But I think that's another reason why Austin Reeves just 0:16:37.800 --> 0:16:40.720 pops up so much. Right, It's because he does do 0:16:40.800 --> 0:16:42.920 the little things, and he's a good player outside of 0:16:42.960 --> 0:16:46.440 that pigeonhole pigeonholing him into just a guy who does 0:16:46.440 --> 0:16:50.760 a little things also isn't fair. But he does do 0:16:50.840 --> 0:16:52.720 those things. He goes in and he boxes out, and 0:16:52.760 --> 0:16:56.280 it's all just institctional, instinctual. You don't have to tell 0:16:56.320 --> 0:16:59.320 Austin Reeves, hey, go find a body, you know what 0:16:59.320 --> 0:17:01.440 I mean, Like, you don't have to tell him that. 0:17:01.480 --> 0:17:05.440 He just goes and finds a body by himself. And 0:17:05.480 --> 0:17:08.159 there's one more player I kind of want to sharing 0:17:08.320 --> 0:17:17.359 here if I could, Okay, if you can see this 0:17:17.440 --> 0:17:21.560 disengaged play, so again people listening on the podcast and 0:17:21.920 --> 0:17:24.440 on dash radio. I'll try to I'll explain. I was 0:17:24.480 --> 0:17:27.960 playing what happens, so Russ misses a layup on one end. 0:17:30.600 --> 0:17:32.120 I was supposed to slow this down, but I don't 0:17:32.160 --> 0:17:35.199 think that was able to. But so if you can 0:17:35.240 --> 0:17:38.040 kind of rewind, del does a pump fake and Anthony 0:17:38.119 --> 0:17:41.399 Davis leaves his feet A d doesn't really do that, 0:17:41.440 --> 0:17:42.879 and that was kind of my start of like, Okay, 0:17:42.880 --> 0:17:45.280 this guy isn't really just that engaged in this game, 0:17:45.359 --> 0:17:47.679 leaves this feet for no reason right on D'Angelo Russell, 0:17:47.680 --> 0:17:49.679 like it's a transition three eighties right there. There's no 0:17:49.720 --> 0:17:51.879 reason to leave your feet off that leaf, leave you 0:17:51.920 --> 0:17:54.040 feed on that takes him out of the play. And 0:17:54.040 --> 0:17:57.760 then Russ Lebron and then I believe that's Ellington or 0:17:58.200 --> 0:18:00.320 On on the other side, just staring at the all 0:18:00.640 --> 0:18:03.399 while Vanderbilt goes and gets it. And the Lakers were 0:18:03.440 --> 0:18:06.000 annoyed at Vanderbilt tonight, and I thought he was flopping 0:18:06.040 --> 0:18:09.720 a lot. I thought Lebron was annoyed it as well. 0:18:11.160 --> 0:18:13.760 But he played. He played harder than our whole team 0:18:13.800 --> 0:18:16.879 combined for a lot of this night. And he again, 0:18:17.119 --> 0:18:18.719 I don't like to use the word punk, but he 0:18:18.840 --> 0:18:21.040 really killed us on the boards. I don't know how 0:18:21.040 --> 0:18:25.080 many rebounds he had, but that was really frustrating. And 0:18:25.119 --> 0:18:28.160 again you saw Baysmore try to box him out and 0:18:28.200 --> 0:18:31.200 he finally kind of Vanderbilt fell down right and Baseemore 0:18:31.280 --> 0:18:33.679 kind of looked at him and that was kind of 0:18:33.680 --> 0:18:35.480 our first like box out right and Lebron is not 0:18:35.520 --> 0:18:39.000