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Speaker 1: Hmmm, welcome to the state of the Lakers post kids

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Speaker 1: shows like you guys read patient through the technical difficulties. Um,

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Speaker 1: it wouldn't be the this season if the Lakers wouldn't

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Speaker 1: make us sweat a little bit there at the end

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Speaker 1: of the night. But other than the ending, I thought

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Speaker 1: it was one of their more impressive games of the season.

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Speaker 1: What do you think, Roger, Yeah, definitely, I mean that

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Speaker 1: was that was the biggest win so far. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I'm still out off a high off that win. Um,

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Speaker 1: so yeah, that was gray. Seeing a d back. Like

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Speaker 1: I said before, I didn't really care about the win.

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Speaker 1: I just wanted to like the win was cherry on top.

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Speaker 1: For me, seeing a d back was the, uh, the

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Speaker 1: most important thing, and we got that. We got full

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Speaker 1: big time when uh tonight, Yeah, I was. I was,

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Speaker 1: you know, throughout the game, I kept waiting for this,

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Speaker 1: you know, a stressful part on account of the fact

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Speaker 1: I know, Denver doesn't have a ton of defensive talent,

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Speaker 1: There were a couple of wide open threes that they

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Speaker 1: And it actually Denver defended it really well. He just

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Speaker 1: like that's always in there. But that's what he's capable

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Speaker 1: That's what makes him that generational defender, right, the ability

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Speaker 1: Because the Lakers, they didn't change really their defensive coverage

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Speaker 1: that's what we wanted, right. We spent the whole Yesterday's

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Speaker 1: This is um. This is the best that he looked.

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Speaker 1: Like it was shown in the scoreboard. The Lakers. I

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Speaker 1: The Lakers were the second best defense in all of

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Speaker 1: the defensive ceiling razor. That last play is a great

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Speaker 1: and advantage and makes the defense commit one way or

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00:20:00,520 --> 00:20:03,520
Speaker 1: the other. Then he can bring some value there and

431
00:20:03,720 --> 00:20:06,600
Speaker 1: get get him rumbling to the rim as opposed to

432
00:20:06,800 --> 00:20:09,359
Speaker 1: trying to go straight up over Yokis or whoever it is,

433
00:20:09,440 --> 00:20:13,360
Speaker 1: where he just struggles to finish. And I do think

434
00:20:13,400 --> 00:20:17,720
Speaker 1: that just because Gasol is the obvious sticks to a

435
00:20:17,720 --> 00:20:20,480
Speaker 1: lot of their problems, doesn't mean Drummond can't play. It

436
00:20:20,600 --> 00:20:23,439
Speaker 1: just means, you know, you need to adjust on the

437
00:20:23,480 --> 00:20:25,480
Speaker 1: fly here and use him in a way that makes sense.

438
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Speaker 1: And I don't know, maybe you stagger those two guys

439
00:20:28,000 --> 00:20:30,560
Speaker 1: instead of instead of staggering with Trez and maybe he's

440
00:20:30,600 --> 00:20:32,040
Speaker 1: the odd man out. I don't know. I think these

441
00:20:32,040 --> 00:20:34,760
Speaker 1: are tough questions, but it's very clear that Marcusol has

442
00:20:34,800 --> 00:20:37,600
Speaker 1: to be one of the guys who is in the rotation. Yeah,

443
00:20:37,640 --> 00:20:39,520
Speaker 1: so the thing you're talking about, what's tough about that

444
00:20:39,600 --> 00:20:41,600
Speaker 1: is making Drummond the screener is then you turn a

445
00:20:41,680 --> 00:20:43,800
Speaker 1: D pretty much into a spot up shooter, right, like

446
00:20:43,840 --> 00:20:45,880
Speaker 1: he'll just go stand in the corner. And they did

447
00:20:45,880 --> 00:20:47,679
Speaker 1: that a few times today. The problem is Denver, they

448
00:20:47,680 --> 00:20:49,919
Speaker 1: just cheated off the shooters. I think Alex trus hit

449
00:20:49,960 --> 00:20:52,320
Speaker 1: a few, but they left him open time times. And

450
00:20:52,560 --> 00:20:54,520
Speaker 1: the problem with Drummond is like he's not a good

451
00:20:54,520 --> 00:20:57,359
Speaker 1: finisher in the dunker spot. He's not a lop threat,

452
00:20:57,720 --> 00:21:00,680
Speaker 1: and like he has a tough time catching like passes

453
00:21:00,720 --> 00:21:02,960
Speaker 1: that if they're not thrown for from like Lebron right,

454
00:21:03,000 --> 00:21:05,160
Speaker 1: Like Crusoe's a good pastor. He's not going to pass

455
00:21:05,200 --> 00:21:07,399
Speaker 1: you open, but like if you're open, he can find you.

456
00:21:07,600 --> 00:21:09,800
Speaker 1: But again, he's not a great pastor. Neither is a D.

457
00:21:09,920 --> 00:21:11,840
Speaker 1: I think they ran like a screen roll with a

458
00:21:11,960 --> 00:21:14,119
Speaker 1: D as a ball handler, right with Drummond as a screener.

459
00:21:14,119 --> 00:21:16,240
Speaker 1: And I thought it was really nice a d shortness,

460
00:21:16,280 --> 00:21:18,080
Speaker 1: Dribble had the big on his back like he was

461
00:21:18,119 --> 00:21:21,600
Speaker 1: a guard and then through this like nice little pass

462
00:21:21,720 --> 00:21:24,040
Speaker 1: in the painted Drummond right in his hands. But it's

463
00:21:24,080 --> 00:21:25,879
Speaker 1: just a little too hot. And again ad is not

464
00:21:25,920 --> 00:21:28,520
Speaker 1: like an awesome pastor like Lebron. Maybe that gets through

465
00:21:28,520 --> 00:21:30,120
Speaker 1: with Lebron, I don't know, And it goes right through

466
00:21:30,160 --> 00:21:32,720
Speaker 1: Drummond's hands and Denver goes the other way. So that's

467
00:21:32,720 --> 00:21:35,000
Speaker 1: where like the struggle is finding like an offensive role

468
00:21:35,040 --> 00:21:37,640
Speaker 1: for him, and it looks like the only real role

469
00:21:37,680 --> 00:21:39,440
Speaker 1: for him where he can get shots up is through

470
00:21:39,480 --> 00:21:42,080
Speaker 1: post uffs, right, even if they're super inefficient, they just

471
00:21:42,359 --> 00:21:43,840
Speaker 1: they need him to get looks. And when a guy

472
00:21:43,920 --> 00:21:46,160
Speaker 1: is just in the you know, right near the rim,

473
00:21:46,440 --> 00:21:48,520
Speaker 1: has a guy sealed, like, it's tough for a guard

474
00:21:48,560 --> 00:21:51,200
Speaker 1: to like look that away, right, Cruiser has to throw

475
00:21:51,240 --> 00:21:52,840
Speaker 1: that like if a guy has got a new pin.

476
00:21:53,119 --> 00:21:55,159
Speaker 1: Drummond just does not hit them at a rate that

477
00:21:55,200 --> 00:21:57,600
Speaker 1: you would believe a big ship. But again again I

478
00:21:57,600 --> 00:21:59,399
Speaker 1: don't like piling on him because I feel like he

479
00:21:59,440 --> 00:22:02,560
Speaker 1: does do things that add to the game. Um he uh,

480
00:22:02,720 --> 00:22:05,840
Speaker 1: he defends at least at a normal good enough level.

481
00:22:05,880 --> 00:22:07,280
Speaker 1: Where he can stay on the floor. It's just his

482
00:22:07,359 --> 00:22:10,480
Speaker 1: offensive to struggle, especially with no Lebron and the shooting

483
00:22:10,800 --> 00:22:13,880
Speaker 1: is inconsistence of Denver can kind of play off him.

484
00:22:13,920 --> 00:22:16,240
Speaker 1: So I guess that's a lot of drum and talk.

485
00:22:16,320 --> 00:22:19,560
Speaker 1: But yeah, again, like I just feel like he's ancillary still,

486
00:22:19,600 --> 00:22:21,359
Speaker 1: like to these title hopes, and like what we need

487
00:22:21,400 --> 00:22:23,919
Speaker 1: to be The key things are eight needs to be

488
00:22:24,000 --> 00:22:27,040
Speaker 1: himself and we got that tonight and Mark showed they

489
00:22:27,080 --> 00:22:29,280
Speaker 1: still big time competitor, and those are things that really

490
00:22:29,280 --> 00:22:32,880
Speaker 1: matter tonight looking rather than looking at this through like wow,

491
00:22:32,960 --> 00:22:35,800
Speaker 1: Drummond really closed again or was about to close, because

492
00:22:35,840 --> 00:22:38,320
Speaker 1: I think that's just what's gonna happen right now. And

493
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Speaker 1: I really don't think those things will matter once we

494
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Speaker 1: get into the into the real games. You're right, and

495
00:22:42,720 --> 00:22:44,440
Speaker 1: and and for the record, I think I think there's

496
00:22:44,480 --> 00:22:48,159
Speaker 1: some line up moves from Frank that could help some

497
00:22:48,200 --> 00:22:50,000
Speaker 1: of these problems. Like, for instance, I used to complain

498
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Speaker 1: all the time about Rondo being a starter, if you remember,

499
00:22:52,960 --> 00:22:55,640
Speaker 1: because I felt, yeah, I felt like what he did

500
00:22:55,720 --> 00:22:59,400
Speaker 1: with Lebron was very redundant and inevitably the Lakers would

501
00:22:59,440 --> 00:23:01,639
Speaker 1: get off the slow starts because you have these two, like,

502
00:23:01,680 --> 00:23:04,720
Speaker 1: you know, pound the ball type playmakers, and neither of

503
00:23:04,720 --> 00:23:07,440
Speaker 1: them were well. Rondo in particular wasn't very good off

504
00:23:07,480 --> 00:23:09,120
Speaker 1: the ball, and it would cause problems for them. Well,

505
00:23:09,119 --> 00:23:10,879
Speaker 1: then they put Rondo on the bench, and then that

506
00:23:10,960 --> 00:23:12,959
Speaker 1: actually ended up working for them in the postseason when

507
00:23:13,000 --> 00:23:16,040
Speaker 1: they kind of staggered Rondo and Lebron. And that's the

508
00:23:16,080 --> 00:23:18,679
Speaker 1: thing is you're right, like, ideally you don't want to

509
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Speaker 1: turn a D into a spot up shooter. That's why

510
00:23:21,000 --> 00:23:23,400
Speaker 1: the drum and minutes makes so much more sense coming

511
00:23:23,400 --> 00:23:26,320
Speaker 1: off the bench and playing with Lebron. But I agree

512
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Speaker 1: with you, these are all ancillary things and the most

513
00:23:29,680 --> 00:23:32,679
Speaker 1: important thing, uh, you know I said last night, if

514
00:23:32,680 --> 00:23:34,800
Speaker 1: you guys remember, I said I just need to see

515
00:23:34,800 --> 00:23:39,160
Speaker 1: it once. And what I was referring to it are

516
00:23:39,200 --> 00:23:42,040
Speaker 1: the three things that I think are abundantly important to

517
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Speaker 1: this team winning the title, and that's a D looking

518
00:23:46,040 --> 00:23:50,040
Speaker 1: like a D, Lebron looking like Lebron, and the defense

519
00:23:50,119 --> 00:23:53,080
Speaker 1: looking like the Laker defense. And tonight we saw two

520
00:23:53,119 --> 00:23:57,480
Speaker 1: of those three things, so we can be relatively comfortable

521
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Speaker 1: knowing that there's still a dominant basketball player inside of

522
00:24:00,880 --> 00:24:03,080
Speaker 1: a D. This season, I think we all knew, you know,

523
00:24:03,119 --> 00:24:05,199
Speaker 1: over the course of his contract that he would be

524
00:24:05,280 --> 00:24:07,879
Speaker 1: a d again, but there was concerned with his health

525
00:24:07,960 --> 00:24:11,399
Speaker 1: and with his frame of mind that maybe he wasn't

526
00:24:11,480 --> 00:24:15,240
Speaker 1: there this year. Well he clearly is because tonight tonight

527
00:24:15,280 --> 00:24:19,360
Speaker 1: he made some world changing blaze and he he actually

528
00:24:19,440 --> 00:24:22,640
Speaker 1: like straight up just outplayed the m v P like

529
00:24:22,920 --> 00:24:26,000
Speaker 1: Nikol Yoka is the MVP, Anthony Davis was better than

530
00:24:26,080 --> 00:24:30,159
Speaker 1: him tonight. So that was was obviously very uh you know,

531
00:24:30,400 --> 00:24:33,080
Speaker 1: uh comforting for like a fantasy. And then you know,

532
00:24:33,200 --> 00:24:37,359
Speaker 1: the defense was they took an extremely gifted offensive group

533
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Speaker 1: with arguably one of the top two or three offensive

534
00:24:40,280 --> 00:24:43,080
Speaker 1: players in basketball this year, and they basically shut him

535
00:24:43,119 --> 00:24:47,440
Speaker 1: down tonight and uh you know, held him well under

536
00:24:47,440 --> 00:24:51,320
Speaker 1: a hundred points and in one with by getting stops

537
00:24:51,480 --> 00:24:54,200
Speaker 1: down the stretch of the game. And so those two

538
00:24:54,200 --> 00:24:56,439
Speaker 1: things are very comforting. And now basically just comes down

539
00:24:56,480 --> 00:24:59,760
Speaker 1: to the Lebron stuff, which I was wrong about last

540
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Speaker 1: night because I thought that he was I thought that

541
00:25:02,240 --> 00:25:04,080
Speaker 1: he was going to play tonight, because I thought he

542
00:25:04,280 --> 00:25:08,600
Speaker 1: just exited the game early essentially just to get ready

543
00:25:08,640 --> 00:25:11,439
Speaker 1: for tonight. And clearly there he is dealing with some

544
00:25:11,520 --> 00:25:13,840
Speaker 1: linger in pain. Is that something you're concerned about at all,

545
00:25:14,640 --> 00:25:17,240
Speaker 1: not really from like the doctors that I follow, and

546
00:25:17,320 --> 00:25:20,080
Speaker 1: obviously Lakers Twitter is a nice, big space. There's a

547
00:25:20,119 --> 00:25:21,919
Speaker 1: lot of people and a lot of professions. There are a

548
00:25:21,840 --> 00:25:24,040
Speaker 1: a lot of really good doctors. And they say that, like,

549
00:25:24,119 --> 00:25:26,040
Speaker 1: I think he was a little bit sore, right, I

550
00:25:26,040 --> 00:25:27,960
Speaker 1: think that was the Shams report, And they say that's

551
00:25:28,200 --> 00:25:31,680
Speaker 1: pretty normal after a highly ankle sprain like this. So, um,

552
00:25:31,720 --> 00:25:33,679
Speaker 1: I don't think I'm nervous about it. I mean, Lebron

553
00:25:33,720 --> 00:25:35,640
Speaker 1: had a quote that he doesn't feel like he'll ever

554
00:25:35,680 --> 00:25:38,399
Speaker 1: be a d percent again. I think in his career

555
00:25:38,480 --> 00:25:40,080
Speaker 1: he had some quote like that which is a little bit,

556
00:25:40,240 --> 00:25:42,359
Speaker 1: a little bit, a little bit dooming, especially with the

557
00:25:42,400 --> 00:25:44,600
Speaker 1: way the others were playing. But I'm not worried about him,

558
00:25:44,600 --> 00:25:46,960
Speaker 1: And I feel like Lebron's gonna be there. Um, he's

559
00:25:47,000 --> 00:25:48,960
Speaker 1: like the least of my worries on this team, to

560
00:25:49,000 --> 00:25:51,040
Speaker 1: be honest, Like, I think I think he'll be there

561
00:25:51,040 --> 00:25:52,600
Speaker 1: when it when it matters that he just needs to

562
00:25:52,640 --> 00:25:54,800
Speaker 1: get some time with this team. And and that's where

563
00:25:54,800 --> 00:25:56,600
Speaker 1: I want to see on Thursday. Like I'm not I'm

564
00:25:56,640 --> 00:25:58,440
Speaker 1: not sure if they'll beat the Clippers. Clippers they're playing

565
00:25:58,440 --> 00:26:00,640
Speaker 1: at a at a pretty awesome level well right now.

566
00:26:00,760 --> 00:26:02,560
Speaker 1: But I just want to see that same effort in

567
00:26:02,560 --> 00:26:05,840
Speaker 1: intensity as when Lebron wasn't here, you know, tonight, all

568
00:26:05,880 --> 00:26:08,080
Speaker 1: those guards defending the same way. Um, I want to

569
00:26:08,119 --> 00:26:10,399
Speaker 1: see a D being a D. And again, I'm not

570
00:26:10,400 --> 00:26:12,560
Speaker 1: talking about win and loss, just him impacting the game

571
00:26:12,600 --> 00:26:14,560
Speaker 1: like he did tonight. He had a big time impact

572
00:26:14,560 --> 00:26:15,960
Speaker 1: on it when he was on the floor. And I

573
00:26:16,000 --> 00:26:18,440
Speaker 1: want to see that same thing on Thursday with with

574
00:26:18,680 --> 00:26:22,560
Speaker 1: hopefully with Lebron um coming back. And maybe Lebron might

575
00:26:22,560 --> 00:26:26,400
Speaker 1: not be yet, and that's expectable. That's expected. Um, there's

576
00:26:26,440 --> 00:26:29,439
Speaker 1: still like seven games left. Um, I trust that he

577
00:26:29,480 --> 00:26:31,359
Speaker 1: knows how to ramp up. The guy that's been a

578
00:26:31,400 --> 00:26:34,520
Speaker 1: multiple finals multiple times in a row. Uh. If anybody

579
00:26:34,560 --> 00:26:38,640
Speaker 1: knows how to wrap himself up for a playoff, playoff run,

580
00:26:38,680 --> 00:26:41,240
Speaker 1: he knows it. So I trust him more than anything

581
00:26:41,240 --> 00:26:43,080
Speaker 1: else on this team. Everything else needs to work right,

582
00:26:43,200 --> 00:26:45,800
Speaker 1: I'm sure Lebron will be there to control things when

583
00:26:45,840 --> 00:26:48,720
Speaker 1: it when it matters. Yeah, we're on the same page.

584
00:26:48,800 --> 00:26:52,320
Speaker 1: I I'm not necessarily concerned about it either. Are one

585
00:26:52,320 --> 00:26:54,359
Speaker 1: of the nice things too with Lebron, Like if you

586
00:26:54,400 --> 00:26:58,719
Speaker 1: had to, if you had to pick between getting, you know,

587
00:26:59,400 --> 00:27:04,239
Speaker 1: for this season, having a D AT or Lebron AT

588
00:27:05,560 --> 00:27:10,879
Speaker 1: or Lebron A and a d AT physically, I would

589
00:27:10,880 --> 00:27:14,680
Speaker 1: take a D being more healthy because he we actually

590
00:27:14,800 --> 00:27:19,760
Speaker 1: need his physical tools so much more for this team

591
00:27:19,760 --> 00:27:22,240
Speaker 1: to reach its ceiling because of what he does defensively.

592
00:27:22,760 --> 00:27:27,160
Speaker 1: But Lebron at of what he is physically, is still

593
00:27:27,440 --> 00:27:30,320
Speaker 1: so capable of impacting the game. And for the record,

594
00:27:30,359 --> 00:27:33,000
Speaker 1: we saw that in these last two games the Lakers,

595
00:27:33,520 --> 00:27:37,719
Speaker 1: we had an extremely good defense and we're positive on

596
00:27:37,760 --> 00:27:41,240
Speaker 1: the scoreboard in Lebron's first two outings even though the

597
00:27:41,320 --> 00:27:46,160
Speaker 1: Lakers defended like dogshit overall over those two games, when

598
00:27:46,240 --> 00:27:48,520
Speaker 1: Lebron was on the floor, things looked good because he

599
00:27:48,640 --> 00:27:51,040
Speaker 1: just impacts the game really well on the defensive end

600
00:27:51,080 --> 00:27:53,520
Speaker 1: as a communicator and as a back line defender, and

601
00:27:53,560 --> 00:27:56,600
Speaker 1: then on the offensive end just making decisions, just making

602
00:27:56,600 --> 00:27:59,399
Speaker 1: basketball decisions every time he goes down the floor. And

603
00:27:59,440 --> 00:28:02,639
Speaker 1: so like, I'm less worried about him getting to his

604
00:28:02,760 --> 00:28:06,080
Speaker 1: peak physical form than I am about a D. And

605
00:28:06,119 --> 00:28:07,919
Speaker 1: so that's what makes it so comforting to see a

606
00:28:08,000 --> 00:28:10,440
Speaker 1: D make plays the way that he did tonight. As

607
00:28:10,480 --> 00:28:14,639
Speaker 1: far as like you know, Lebron's progression here, you know,

608
00:28:15,359 --> 00:28:18,639
Speaker 1: uh what the what's most important is to understand what

609
00:28:18,680 --> 00:28:22,000
Speaker 1: this particular injury. It appears to be mostly about pain tolerance.

610
00:28:22,600 --> 00:28:25,200
Speaker 1: So like right now in this regular season, he can

611
00:28:25,240 --> 00:28:27,960
Speaker 1: be a little bit more you know, uptight about it

612
00:28:28,200 --> 00:28:30,359
Speaker 1: and and take rest when he needs it. But at

613
00:28:30,359 --> 00:28:32,560
Speaker 1: the end of the day, like when they when they

614
00:28:32,560 --> 00:28:34,680
Speaker 1: get into when they get into the postseason, Lebron is

615
00:28:34,680 --> 00:28:37,000
Speaker 1: gonna be able to you know, do whatever he needs

616
00:28:37,040 --> 00:28:39,080
Speaker 1: to do to deal with the pain and play through it.

617
00:28:39,480 --> 00:28:42,600
Speaker 1: And the other wrinkle on this UM that makes it

618
00:28:42,640 --> 00:28:45,400
Speaker 1: a little bit less concerning for him to take a

619
00:28:45,560 --> 00:28:49,479
Speaker 1: night like tonight off is the standings are entirely in flux.

620
00:28:49,520 --> 00:28:53,440
Speaker 1: I was listening to the Low Post today um and

621
00:28:53,920 --> 00:28:58,000
Speaker 1: Zach low is reading off basically the statistical percentages of

622
00:28:58,040 --> 00:29:03,000
Speaker 1: teams landing and specific needs. It's all over the place,

623
00:29:03,120 --> 00:29:06,120
Speaker 1: like Utah is considered a sixty forty favor to get

624
00:29:06,120 --> 00:29:08,360
Speaker 1: the one seed, which is just a little better than

625
00:29:08,400 --> 00:29:12,120
Speaker 1: a coin flip. Denver and the Clippers are straight up

626
00:29:12,120 --> 00:29:15,000
Speaker 1: in a fifty fifty coin flip in terms of probabilities

627
00:29:15,240 --> 00:29:17,960
Speaker 1: as to where they'll end up. And then literally coming

628
00:29:18,000 --> 00:29:21,680
Speaker 1: into tonight Portland's Dallas in the Lakers were all pied,

629
00:29:22,600 --> 00:29:25,360
Speaker 1: and you know, it's so like the truth of the

630
00:29:25,400 --> 00:29:28,040
Speaker 1: matter was is like you could have you you could

631
00:29:28,200 --> 00:29:32,440
Speaker 1: theoretically have approach to the end of the season in

632
00:29:32,480 --> 00:29:35,560
Speaker 1: a super aggressive manner and been rewarded with the Clippers

633
00:29:35,600 --> 00:29:39,440
Speaker 1: for your trouble. So I do think that his approach

634
00:29:39,440 --> 00:29:44,480
Speaker 1: of prioritizing his physical health makes the most sense. However,

635
00:29:45,120 --> 00:29:47,640
Speaker 1: I do I I do think that it's a little

636
00:29:47,680 --> 00:29:49,760
Speaker 1: bit less important for him than it is for a

637
00:29:49,880 --> 00:29:52,440
Speaker 1: d If that makes sense, Yeah, for sure. And again,

638
00:29:52,440 --> 00:29:54,760
Speaker 1: like I wasn't standing watching at all today because to me,

639
00:29:54,800 --> 00:29:57,040
Speaker 1: it was no point until we got you know, eighty

640
00:29:57,120 --> 00:29:58,880
Speaker 1: to look like this and the team looked like they

641
00:29:58,920 --> 00:30:01,400
Speaker 1: cared about any of these games because looking at the standings,

642
00:30:01,400 --> 00:30:03,440
Speaker 1: really didn't matter if the Lakers was gonna keep dropping

643
00:30:03,480 --> 00:30:06,040
Speaker 1: games m due to no engagement. So that was a

644
00:30:06,080 --> 00:30:07,440
Speaker 1: good thing. Now I can go back to kind of

645
00:30:07,480 --> 00:30:09,560
Speaker 1: looking at the standings again, which I think we're tied

646
00:30:09,600 --> 00:30:14,200
Speaker 1: with Dallas still, so um, we have a tough skin tonight. Okay,

647
00:30:14,240 --> 00:30:16,520
Speaker 1: Portland lost all right, So yeah, that that's a that's

648
00:30:16,520 --> 00:30:18,200
Speaker 1: a good thing, I guess We'll try to stay out

649
00:30:18,200 --> 00:30:19,960
Speaker 1: of that playing game, I guess, but man, we have

650
00:30:20,200 --> 00:30:22,840
Speaker 1: I think three back to backs left um to close

651
00:30:22,960 --> 00:30:25,400
Speaker 1: the close of the season with teams like Phoenix, the

652
00:30:25,400 --> 00:30:28,480
Speaker 1: Clippers coming up, the Knicks. Um, all all tough games.

653
00:30:28,520 --> 00:30:31,120
Speaker 1: But another guy I wanted to touch on tonight, Crusoe

654
00:30:31,160 --> 00:30:33,440
Speaker 1: I thought had his best game in a while, right.

655
00:30:33,840 --> 00:30:35,920
Speaker 1: I think I think he was hurt, but um, yeah,

656
00:30:35,960 --> 00:30:38,040
Speaker 1: he had like a really nice It looked like playoff

657
00:30:38,080 --> 00:30:39,680
Speaker 1: Caruso to me. That's why I kind of put in

658
00:30:39,680 --> 00:30:42,200
Speaker 1: my notes here. Um, he looked back to his old self.

659
00:30:42,800 --> 00:30:44,480
Speaker 1: I think he was like a plus four tonight, but

660
00:30:44,560 --> 00:30:46,120
Speaker 1: the whole team was kind of in the low plus

661
00:30:46,160 --> 00:30:48,720
Speaker 1: minuses as well. But I thought he just looked awesome

662
00:30:48,760 --> 00:30:51,280
Speaker 1: being able to deflect. He was awesome on Yokich as well,

663
00:30:51,680 --> 00:30:54,200
Speaker 1: especially when they were helping and recovering. He had he

664
00:30:54,280 --> 00:30:56,760
Speaker 1: had timely threes, missed a few down the stretch, but

665
00:30:56,960 --> 00:30:58,680
Speaker 1: he cut, he dove on the floor, He just he

666
00:30:58,760 --> 00:31:01,200
Speaker 1: did everything that he does. And I thought that was

667
00:31:01,200 --> 00:31:03,800
Speaker 1: an underrated part that that wasn't really talked about. Was

668
00:31:03,840 --> 00:31:06,480
Speaker 1: they missed him and his energy. Um, that's really that

669
00:31:06,520 --> 00:31:08,240
Speaker 1: really helps them. And uh, I thought he was a

670
00:31:08,280 --> 00:31:09,880
Speaker 1: big part of the win too. I don't think they

671
00:31:09,920 --> 00:31:12,360
Speaker 1: went tonight without him. Denver has a guy like him

672
00:31:12,360 --> 00:31:14,880
Speaker 1: on on their side and Composo it really gets under

673
00:31:14,880 --> 00:31:17,160
Speaker 1: guy's skin. And I thought he matched that, he matched

674
00:31:17,200 --> 00:31:18,920
Speaker 1: the energy on our side. What do you see from

675
00:31:19,200 --> 00:31:22,720
Speaker 1: Caruso tonight, Well, I mean you said it all man,

676
00:31:22,760 --> 00:31:24,480
Speaker 1: he was, He was awesome. He's their best point of

677
00:31:24,480 --> 00:31:26,400
Speaker 1: attack defender in my opinion. I actually think he's a

678
00:31:26,400 --> 00:31:28,200
Speaker 1: little bit better than Dennis too, because he's just a

679
00:31:28,280 --> 00:31:31,440
Speaker 1: little bit bigger um and you could tell when he

680
00:31:31,440 --> 00:31:34,280
Speaker 1: would come off the floor how much easier you know,

681
00:31:34,920 --> 00:31:37,480
Speaker 1: Composo was getting to his spots or Austin Rivers was

682
00:31:37,520 --> 00:31:40,040
Speaker 1: getting to his spots, just because there was a little

683
00:31:40,040 --> 00:31:43,600
Speaker 1: bit less resistance at the point of attack, and you know,

684
00:31:43,720 --> 00:31:47,080
Speaker 1: and then offensively, like I I have reached I was

685
00:31:47,120 --> 00:31:48,880
Speaker 1: actually thinking about this. I think it was in the

686
00:31:48,920 --> 00:31:51,960
Speaker 1: third quarter. I have reached a point with Caruso where

687
00:31:51,960 --> 00:31:54,800
Speaker 1: when he's shooting, I feel like it's going in from three,

688
00:31:55,280 --> 00:31:57,760
Speaker 1: which is crazy to think about because last year you

689
00:31:57,800 --> 00:31:59,680
Speaker 1: and never in a million years would have felt that way.

690
00:32:00,200 --> 00:32:03,480
Speaker 1: But his form, his form, his is solid and he

691
00:32:03,520 --> 00:32:05,520
Speaker 1: pretty consistently knocks him down, and yeah, he missed a

692
00:32:05,520 --> 00:32:07,000
Speaker 1: couple at the end of the game, but kind of

693
00:32:07,000 --> 00:32:09,360
Speaker 1: the Lakers just in general as a jump shooting team

694
00:32:09,400 --> 00:32:10,880
Speaker 1: went cold at the end of that game, which is

695
00:32:10,880 --> 00:32:12,920
Speaker 1: something that can happen and it tends to percolate through

696
00:32:12,920 --> 00:32:16,000
Speaker 1: the whole roster. But I mean, he with him being

697
00:32:16,040 --> 00:32:18,400
Speaker 1: able to knock down those shots that transforms everything. He's

698
00:32:18,440 --> 00:32:21,040
Speaker 1: a little bit like he had he struggle a little

699
00:32:21,040 --> 00:32:23,400
Speaker 1: bit and pick and roll there at the end, uh,

700
00:32:23,440 --> 00:32:25,040
Speaker 1: when they kind of tried to run him with the

701
00:32:25,040 --> 00:32:27,440
Speaker 1: closing group a couple of times where he got into

702
00:32:27,440 --> 00:32:30,000
Speaker 1: no man's land there at the free throw line, and

703
00:32:30,040 --> 00:32:32,240
Speaker 1: then he kept picking up his dribble when he was

704
00:32:32,240 --> 00:32:33,800
Speaker 1: trying to give the ball to a D which then

705
00:32:33,800 --> 00:32:36,720
Speaker 1: they would just do like crazy ball pressure and denial

706
00:32:37,200 --> 00:32:39,360
Speaker 1: on a D and he kind of got caught, you know,

707
00:32:39,440 --> 00:32:41,280
Speaker 1: in in a tough spot. But those are those are

708
00:32:41,480 --> 00:32:44,160
Speaker 1: like really nitpicky things and that's not something he's going

709
00:32:44,200 --> 00:32:47,719
Speaker 1: to have to do when the time comes. But I mean,

710
00:32:47,760 --> 00:32:49,959
Speaker 1: he's the lifeblood of that team. And when when they

711
00:32:50,000 --> 00:32:52,840
Speaker 1: are playing like this, when they're playing this, well, uh,

712
00:32:53,040 --> 00:32:57,040
Speaker 1: he usually starts with him and It's the best compliment

713
00:32:57,080 --> 00:32:58,720
Speaker 1: I can I can pay him is that he's kind

714
00:32:58,720 --> 00:33:01,880
Speaker 1: of like the hard the soul of their defense. One

715
00:33:01,880 --> 00:33:04,200
Speaker 1: other guy I wanted to compliment was k C. P

716
00:33:04,960 --> 00:33:09,960
Speaker 1: Um just he's such a winner, man, it's ridiculous. Like

717
00:33:10,200 --> 00:33:12,000
Speaker 1: he had two plays at the end of that game

718
00:33:12,680 --> 00:33:16,760
Speaker 1: that were completely ridiculous. There was one where him and

719
00:33:16,840 --> 00:33:18,920
Speaker 1: Drummond got caught in the pick and roll and I

720
00:33:18,920 --> 00:33:21,680
Speaker 1: think I think k CP was on Michael Porter Jr.

721
00:33:22,280 --> 00:33:25,360
Speaker 1: And they switched it and and Yokis got the ball

722
00:33:25,400 --> 00:33:28,040
Speaker 1: at the top of the key against KCP and actively

723
00:33:28,040 --> 00:33:30,120
Speaker 1: on the couch. I'm like, oh, like, why did they

724
00:33:30,160 --> 00:33:33,120
Speaker 1: switch that? He should have fought over the top. Yokis

725
00:33:33,120 --> 00:33:35,920
Speaker 1: is gonna barrel to the rim on him. Yokis does

726
00:33:35,960 --> 00:33:38,480
Speaker 1: his classic you know, you know, kind of ripped through

727
00:33:38,520 --> 00:33:41,200
Speaker 1: over the top and the rolling down the rim looking

728
00:33:41,200 --> 00:33:43,560
Speaker 1: clumsy like crazy. But he's got a step on KCP

729
00:33:44,280 --> 00:33:45,880
Speaker 1: and he just stripped it right off. It was leg

730
00:33:45,880 --> 00:33:50,200
Speaker 1: out of bounce. It was a huge play. Uh. And

731
00:33:50,240 --> 00:33:53,040
Speaker 1: then there was another one where someone took a shot

732
00:33:53,040 --> 00:33:54,920
Speaker 1: I think it was I think it was Michael Porter Jr.

733
00:33:54,960 --> 00:33:56,080
Speaker 1: I think it was the one that he missed from

734
00:33:56,120 --> 00:33:59,479
Speaker 1: the top of the key, and KCP was not in like,

735
00:33:59,520 --> 00:34:01,840
Speaker 1: you know, because there's all these different elements to rebounding, right, like,

736
00:34:01,880 --> 00:34:03,680
Speaker 1: you gotta be the guy. There's gotta be some boxes

737
00:34:03,720 --> 00:34:05,400
Speaker 1: out with people around the rim, and then there's gotta

738
00:34:05,400 --> 00:34:08,719
Speaker 1: be people who crash, and and KCP was guarding someone

739
00:34:08,760 --> 00:34:12,880
Speaker 1: in the opposite corner. His man wasn't crashing, and KCP

740
00:34:13,120 --> 00:34:17,200
Speaker 1: just went flying through the lane, took off off one leg,

741
00:34:17,360 --> 00:34:19,960
Speaker 1: rose way up over everybody, and ended up tapping the

742
00:34:20,000 --> 00:34:23,400
Speaker 1: ball out to Marcusol on a play that could have

743
00:34:23,480 --> 00:34:26,880
Speaker 1: ended in an offensive rebound for Yoki. And I'm literally

744
00:34:26,880 --> 00:34:29,200
Speaker 1: sitting there, I'm like, this dude just like he feels

745
00:34:29,280 --> 00:34:32,399
Speaker 1: the moment and he just knows how he can make

746
00:34:32,400 --> 00:34:35,000
Speaker 1: these little plays that can swing the outcome of a game.

747
00:34:35,440 --> 00:34:38,000
Speaker 1: And both of those plays I just mentioned could have

748
00:34:38,120 --> 00:34:40,000
Speaker 1: ended up saving the Lakers two points in a game

749
00:34:40,000 --> 00:34:43,239
Speaker 1: that they won that was just barely a two possession game.

750
00:34:43,840 --> 00:34:46,640
Speaker 1: So I mean that that's that's how I love I

751
00:34:46,719 --> 00:34:49,399
Speaker 1: love I love room for KCP man, Like he's come

752
00:34:49,440 --> 00:34:51,719
Speaker 1: so far from where he was, you know, two years ago,

753
00:34:51,840 --> 00:34:56,080
Speaker 1: and it's just like just a bona fide winning player. Yeah,

754
00:34:56,080 --> 00:34:58,000
Speaker 1: he was a big part of I thought the defense

755
00:34:58,040 --> 00:34:59,960
Speaker 1: on MPG as well. They had him up, I think

756
00:35:00,040 --> 00:35:01,840
Speaker 1: on him at the end of the game too, And

757
00:35:01,880 --> 00:35:04,680
Speaker 1: I wrote here MPJ had zero assists tonight that that

758
00:35:04,719 --> 00:35:06,120
Speaker 1: was a big part of it. They really made it

759
00:35:06,120 --> 00:35:08,279
Speaker 1: tough for him. Um, they got on on him and

760
00:35:08,520 --> 00:35:11,200
Speaker 1: he had a tough time getting space at all. KCB

761
00:35:11,320 --> 00:35:13,880
Speaker 1: put up seven rebounds as well, hit two threes. I

762
00:35:13,920 --> 00:35:16,600
Speaker 1: thought they were preally timely threes as well, and they

763
00:35:16,640 --> 00:35:18,760
Speaker 1: needed shooting. Like I think he went over five against

764
00:35:18,760 --> 00:35:20,960
Speaker 1: the Kings, but you know, he's four for four for

765
00:35:20,960 --> 00:35:24,040
Speaker 1: for nine and these last two against Toronto and Denver,

766
00:35:24,120 --> 00:35:26,399
Speaker 1: and he's proved that he hit shots like when it matters, right,

767
00:35:26,440 --> 00:35:28,799
Speaker 1: Like he's proven that he's gonna hit him at least

768
00:35:28,800 --> 00:35:30,759
Speaker 1: in the playoffs. Last year. Um, he had a little

769
00:35:30,760 --> 00:35:32,520
Speaker 1: cold streak in the season, but he looks like he's

770
00:35:32,719 --> 00:35:35,480
Speaker 1: finding his way back. So yeah, like it's nice to

771
00:35:35,520 --> 00:35:37,440
Speaker 1: have him back. Um, it's gonna be tough now because,

772
00:35:37,440 --> 00:35:39,080
Speaker 1: like I think the big news is that we're not

773
00:35:39,080 --> 00:35:42,000
Speaker 1: gonna have a Dennis Shrewd to the playoffs start, right,

774
00:35:42,040 --> 00:35:44,480
Speaker 1: So like that's another ten four teen games where the

775
00:35:44,560 --> 00:35:46,680
Speaker 1: Lakers won't have the starting backcourt, and I don't think

776
00:35:46,680 --> 00:35:49,400
Speaker 1: they really lose anything because they get Crusoe more minutes

777
00:35:49,440 --> 00:35:51,320
Speaker 1: I guess, so that kind of other than the th

778
00:35:51,480 --> 00:35:53,640
Speaker 1: h T minutes. But they get a Crusoe and KCP

779
00:35:53,760 --> 00:35:58,640
Speaker 1: in there, and that's still a really really elite backcourt defense. Um,

780
00:35:58,920 --> 00:36:01,759
Speaker 1: they played really hard, especially when they got it going. Um,

781
00:36:01,760 --> 00:36:04,799
Speaker 1: they can really shut down opposing guards. And uh, Denver

782
00:36:04,960 --> 00:36:06,880
Speaker 1: is a really good team where like once they passed

783
00:36:06,880 --> 00:36:08,760
Speaker 1: the Yokers, they do a lot of really nice cutting

784
00:36:08,760 --> 00:36:11,200
Speaker 1: actions and a lot of split huts and and I

785
00:36:11,239 --> 00:36:13,680
Speaker 1: thought the switching and the guards playing well, it was

786
00:36:13,719 --> 00:36:15,440
Speaker 1: a big part of them. Mean p J Josie got

787
00:36:15,520 --> 00:36:17,120
Speaker 1: hurt I think in the middle of that, but he's

788
00:36:17,160 --> 00:36:19,120
Speaker 1: been playing lights out for them and they did a

789
00:36:19,200 --> 00:36:21,560
Speaker 1: nice job shutting him down. So yeah, I agree. KCP

790
00:36:21,760 --> 00:36:24,440
Speaker 1: was great. Hey man, Caruso were a big part of this. Um,

791
00:36:24,480 --> 00:36:26,719
Speaker 1: they need their guards playing like this, because it was

792
00:36:26,760 --> 00:36:29,120
Speaker 1: so obvious that they weren't right, Like it just jumped

793
00:36:29,120 --> 00:36:30,920
Speaker 1: off the screen. Since a D came back, like the

794
00:36:31,040 --> 00:36:34,319
Speaker 1: all everyone's intensity was pretty much at like a preseason level,

795
00:36:34,320 --> 00:36:36,680
Speaker 1: and it it seemed back to like really intense ready

796
00:36:36,680 --> 00:36:38,839
Speaker 1: for the playoffs tonight, so hopefully they picked that up

797
00:36:38,880 --> 00:36:41,719
Speaker 1: going forward on on Thursday. But it was good to

798
00:36:41,719 --> 00:36:44,520
Speaker 1: see KCP and Crusoe both like shut and be able

799
00:36:44,560 --> 00:36:46,360
Speaker 1: to shut down this other team, along with a D

800
00:36:46,480 --> 00:36:50,120
Speaker 1: being back to himself engaged on every possession. And I

801
00:36:50,120 --> 00:36:51,600
Speaker 1: want to know, like, what do you think, because they

802
00:36:51,640 --> 00:36:53,600
Speaker 1: ran it a lot through th HD tonight right now,

803
00:36:53,600 --> 00:36:55,680
Speaker 1: I just don't think he's ready. Um, I think you

804
00:36:55,960 --> 00:36:57,560
Speaker 1: tweeted about this. If he's going to play in the

805
00:36:57,560 --> 00:37:00,399
Speaker 1: playoffs right like, I think it's gonna be really tough.

806
00:37:00,480 --> 00:37:04,080
Speaker 1: Like he he's not ready for full ball control. He

807
00:37:04,120 --> 00:37:06,359
Speaker 1: had a lot of turnovers against Compozo. He really got

808
00:37:06,360 --> 00:37:08,239
Speaker 1: into him. Um, you had that weird layoup at the

809
00:37:08,320 --> 00:37:10,359
Speaker 1: end that kind of won the game too. I thought

810
00:37:10,360 --> 00:37:12,920
Speaker 1: that was kind of crazy. Oh man, that was one

811
00:37:12,920 --> 00:37:14,880
Speaker 1: of the craziest plays I've ever seen. Like it was

812
00:37:15,719 --> 00:37:21,279
Speaker 1: literally like about to become a catastrophe if th D,

813
00:37:21,800 --> 00:37:24,600
Speaker 1: Like if the Lakers had somehow lost that game and

814
00:37:24,840 --> 00:37:28,200
Speaker 1: their last offensive possession was th h T shooting literally

815
00:37:28,239 --> 00:37:31,160
Speaker 1: like literally a backwards the hook shot, like it would

816
00:37:31,160 --> 00:37:34,600
Speaker 1: have been unbelievable. But I mean to your to your

817
00:37:34,640 --> 00:37:37,279
Speaker 1: original point, like you had mentioned, like you know the

818
00:37:37,320 --> 00:37:39,880
Speaker 1: Lakers will be fine without Dennis. I agree. I I

819
00:37:39,960 --> 00:37:44,479
Speaker 1: view Dennis as more of like a ceiling razor. Uh Now,

820
00:37:44,520 --> 00:37:47,439
Speaker 1: without Lebron and Dennis, it becomes a huge problem when

821
00:37:47,440 --> 00:37:50,560
Speaker 1: they lack all of that offensive creation. But we know

822
00:37:50,719 --> 00:37:53,239
Speaker 1: the Lakers can win with Lebron and a D and

823
00:37:53,480 --> 00:37:56,480
Speaker 1: various defensive role players around them. We know they can

824
00:37:56,520 --> 00:38:00,480
Speaker 1: do that. But Dennis Shooter, to me, he's just ceiling

825
00:38:00,560 --> 00:38:04,120
Speaker 1: razor for specific matchups. When when you're playing a switching

826
00:38:04,160 --> 00:38:06,960
Speaker 1: defense in a late round playoff series and you just

827
00:38:07,000 --> 00:38:09,719
Speaker 1: need someone to make a play, He's that guy that

828
00:38:09,760 --> 00:38:12,200
Speaker 1: will be able to make offensive plays that they didn't

829
00:38:12,239 --> 00:38:15,200
Speaker 1: have in the past, and so I think he does

830
00:38:15,280 --> 00:38:18,160
Speaker 1: bring a great deal of value there um. But in

831
00:38:18,200 --> 00:38:22,000
Speaker 1: the meantime, they can defend extremely well down with all

832
00:38:22,040 --> 00:38:26,000
Speaker 1: their positions with without Shrewder, they have enough depth to

833
00:38:26,080 --> 00:38:29,160
Speaker 1: cover for that. It's just an out without Lebron, they

834
00:38:29,200 --> 00:38:31,759
Speaker 1: just have to rely on a lot of Crusoe and

835
00:38:31,800 --> 00:38:33,560
Speaker 1: th h T and pick and roll, which is just

836
00:38:33,760 --> 00:38:37,000
Speaker 1: they're just not They're they're what you would call below

837
00:38:37,080 --> 00:38:40,959
Speaker 1: average NBA pick and roll playmakers. And THD is gonna

838
00:38:40,960 --> 00:38:44,120
Speaker 1: have his nights where and he's gonna have his moments,

839
00:38:44,200 --> 00:38:49,360
Speaker 1: but but he's not reliable. Is the word that Darius

840
00:38:49,360 --> 00:38:54,200
Speaker 1: Soriano used that I thought was apt for this specific description.

841
00:38:54,719 --> 00:38:57,120
Speaker 1: And you know, as far as like you had mentioned

842
00:38:57,120 --> 00:39:01,920
Speaker 1: earlier that he thrives with gassoul And I don't think

843
00:39:01,960 --> 00:39:05,760
Speaker 1: I think that's as simple as literally just what happens

844
00:39:05,800 --> 00:39:09,839
Speaker 1: with his uh spacing. I think just like any other

845
00:39:09,880 --> 00:39:12,600
Speaker 1: basketball player who prefers to put his head down and

846
00:39:12,640 --> 00:39:15,680
Speaker 1: go to the rim um, he does better when there's

847
00:39:15,719 --> 00:39:18,359
Speaker 1: space to operate and when you put him out there

848
00:39:18,360 --> 00:39:19,960
Speaker 1: with because all he has space to operate in a

849
00:39:20,000 --> 00:39:21,960
Speaker 1: way that he doesn't have when you put him out

850
00:39:21,960 --> 00:39:25,400
Speaker 1: there with, you know, a lack of shooting. And so

851
00:39:25,480 --> 00:39:27,040
Speaker 1: I think I think that I think it really is

852
00:39:27,080 --> 00:39:32,399
Speaker 1: that that's simple on that front. Yeah, and especially right now,

853
00:39:32,520 --> 00:39:35,160
Speaker 1: Like that's why I think most fans wanted Marcus all right,

854
00:39:35,160 --> 00:39:37,960
Speaker 1: because that's another playmaker like you can have out there.

855
00:39:38,000 --> 00:39:40,360
Speaker 1: Like the no spacing kind of compounds the issue of

856
00:39:40,640 --> 00:39:43,200
Speaker 1: not enough ball handlers and a d really has to

857
00:39:43,239 --> 00:39:45,120
Speaker 1: create a lot of the offense through the post, and

858
00:39:45,160 --> 00:39:47,600
Speaker 1: it's really easy easy to double him, right, So they

859
00:39:47,600 --> 00:39:49,440
Speaker 1: come down and they throw it into him. And the

860
00:39:49,440 --> 00:39:51,640
Speaker 1: shock clocks already at like six, so I throw it

861
00:39:51,680 --> 00:39:53,319
Speaker 1: to him. It's a quick double. He kicks it out

862
00:39:53,360 --> 00:39:56,040
Speaker 1: to like Caruso or you know, or Ben McLamore, another

863
00:39:56,040 --> 00:39:57,920
Speaker 1: guy that like they just trust that they can get

864
00:39:57,920 --> 00:39:59,920
Speaker 1: out and contest on that. So that's why it's nice

865
00:40:00,080 --> 00:40:01,759
Speaker 1: have like a saul out to the three point line,

866
00:40:01,760 --> 00:40:04,359
Speaker 1: a guy who can create shots for for other guys,

867
00:40:04,480 --> 00:40:07,120
Speaker 1: especially guys like k cp um even cruise out cutting.

868
00:40:07,200 --> 00:40:09,200
Speaker 1: So I think that's that's why we were kind of

869
00:40:09,200 --> 00:40:11,560
Speaker 1: asking for him to play, especially right now. No Dennis

870
00:40:11,640 --> 00:40:14,400
Speaker 1: Ruder to the play until probably Game one of the playoffs,

871
00:40:14,400 --> 00:40:17,520
Speaker 1: so I'm expecting hopefully BECAUSEOL gets a lot more minutes there. Um,

872
00:40:18,000 --> 00:40:20,160
Speaker 1: they obviously do trust th HD kind of run to

873
00:40:20,280 --> 00:40:22,239
Speaker 1: run screen roles. I mean, they gave him the ball

874
00:40:22,280 --> 00:40:24,440
Speaker 1: at the end of the game they're to kind of create,

875
00:40:24,520 --> 00:40:26,400
Speaker 1: so so hopefully he can kind of make it up.

876
00:40:26,440 --> 00:40:28,319
Speaker 1: The Clippers are a tough team to do that too, though.

877
00:40:28,480 --> 00:40:30,480
Speaker 1: They're really good at ball pressuring and they have a

878
00:40:30,520 --> 00:40:32,160
Speaker 1: lot of wings that make it really tough for you

879
00:40:32,239 --> 00:40:34,960
Speaker 1: that can really cause turnovers. So like that's where my

880
00:40:35,000 --> 00:40:36,839
Speaker 1: worry is. But yeah, for right now, I think they'll

881
00:40:36,880 --> 00:40:39,160
Speaker 1: be able to, especially if Lebron plays on Thursday, they

882
00:40:39,160 --> 00:40:41,560
Speaker 1: should be fine. Um, it'll be another guy that obviously

883
00:40:41,640 --> 00:40:44,080
Speaker 1: will create shots for everyone, but for right now. For

884
00:40:44,080 --> 00:40:46,200
Speaker 1: for a time, I thought I thought THHD really struggled

885
00:40:46,360 --> 00:40:49,400
Speaker 1: in that in that aspect. Yeah, And you know what

886
00:40:49,560 --> 00:40:53,160
Speaker 1: I had tweeted about earlier was like, there's specific means

887
00:40:53,200 --> 00:40:55,239
Speaker 1: that the Lakers app from their role players, and one

888
00:40:55,239 --> 00:40:58,760
Speaker 1: of them is they just need a lack of mistakes. Um,

889
00:40:58,800 --> 00:41:01,080
Speaker 1: you know, because it is a game of inches when

890
00:41:01,120 --> 00:41:04,120
Speaker 1: you get into these playoff series and and you don't

891
00:41:04,120 --> 00:41:07,960
Speaker 1: necessarily need the crazy, uh the highs that come with

892
00:41:08,040 --> 00:41:10,600
Speaker 1: th HT because you're gonna be leaning on better players

893
00:41:10,640 --> 00:41:13,360
Speaker 1: for those moments. You're gonna be leaning on a d

894
00:41:13,840 --> 00:41:16,759
Speaker 1: Lebron and Dennis Schroders. So when you when you no

895
00:41:16,800 --> 00:41:19,640
Speaker 1: longer need th h t s highs, you suddenly need

896
00:41:19,920 --> 00:41:23,279
Speaker 1: people that aren't gonna have the lows. And that's why

897
00:41:23,320 --> 00:41:25,879
Speaker 1: you play someone that is a lower ceiling, a little

898
00:41:25,880 --> 00:41:28,719
Speaker 1: bit more dependable. If there's one silver lining on the

899
00:41:28,719 --> 00:41:32,680
Speaker 1: shrewder thing, Um, if there's one silver lining on the

900
00:41:32,719 --> 00:41:38,040
Speaker 1: shooter thing, it's just that Uh. He kind of took

901
00:41:38,080 --> 00:41:41,520
Speaker 1: on a whole lot of mileage on his legs during

902
00:41:41,560 --> 00:41:45,640
Speaker 1: that non lebron A d phase. There was even the

903
00:41:45,640 --> 00:41:47,880
Speaker 1: time where he was complaining about his knee starting to

904
00:41:47,920 --> 00:41:50,480
Speaker 1: be a little sore, and there's a lot of limping.

905
00:41:50,520 --> 00:41:52,840
Speaker 1: There's some tailbone stuff too there where he took a

906
00:41:52,840 --> 00:41:55,440
Speaker 1: bad fall in one of the games. He took a

907
00:41:55,440 --> 00:41:57,960
Speaker 1: beating there for a while. So if you had to

908
00:41:58,000 --> 00:42:01,080
Speaker 1: find some reason to be a little bit less annoyed

909
00:42:01,120 --> 00:42:02,919
Speaker 1: by the fact that he's out for two weeks, would

910
00:42:02,920 --> 00:42:05,640
Speaker 1: be the fact that he's gonna get some rest. But

911
00:42:05,760 --> 00:42:08,399
Speaker 1: I mean there's also stuff that goes with COVID having

912
00:42:08,440 --> 00:42:11,080
Speaker 1: to do with conditioning. Um. You know, if you if

913
00:42:11,120 --> 00:42:13,799
Speaker 1: you really are bed ridden for seven days, it can

914
00:42:13,800 --> 00:42:16,160
Speaker 1: be the problematic for your conditioning. So I mean it's

915
00:42:16,160 --> 00:42:18,920
Speaker 1: certainly not a good thing, um, But but may it

916
00:42:19,000 --> 00:42:21,480
Speaker 1: may end up being a blessing in disguise if they

917
00:42:21,520 --> 00:42:24,520
Speaker 1: can get him back and get him integrated before they

918
00:42:24,560 --> 00:42:28,239
Speaker 1: get into a real barn burner of a playoff series. Yeah,

919
00:42:28,239 --> 00:42:30,040
Speaker 1: and I wonder he might just come off the bench,

920
00:42:30,080 --> 00:42:32,279
Speaker 1: I guess for maybe the first series right, just to

921
00:42:32,440 --> 00:42:35,640
Speaker 1: get his his legs back. People people are out for

922
00:42:35,680 --> 00:42:38,080
Speaker 1: hopefully like he's out for probably I don't know if

923
00:42:38,080 --> 00:42:41,680
Speaker 1: they tested positive for COVID, but hopefully he's okay. And yeah,

924
00:42:41,719 --> 00:42:43,400
Speaker 1: when he comes back, I'm sure he'll he'll have to

925
00:42:43,400 --> 00:42:46,439
Speaker 1: get his win back again. But I mean, the Lakers

926
00:42:46,480 --> 00:42:49,000
Speaker 1: have enough guards to kind of especially if Lebron is

927
00:42:49,000 --> 00:42:51,239
Speaker 1: gonna play a lot more minutes going forward, they should

928
00:42:51,239 --> 00:42:52,880
Speaker 1: be able to be okay. But he's a big part

929
00:42:52,920 --> 00:42:54,719
Speaker 1: of their team. And that's the only thing I worry

930
00:42:54,719 --> 00:42:57,040
Speaker 1: about is getting him getting enough reps with Lebron and

931
00:42:57,160 --> 00:43:00,239
Speaker 1: e d together, um, those two I think only like

932
00:43:00,280 --> 00:43:02,239
Speaker 1: twenty something games together, and he's going to be a

933
00:43:02,320 --> 00:43:04,480
Speaker 1: big part of their offense, a big part of their

934
00:43:04,480 --> 00:43:07,480
Speaker 1: shock creation, getting baskets, and he needs a rhythm and

935
00:43:07,560 --> 00:43:10,240
Speaker 1: a flow to know when and where they like the basketball,

936
00:43:10,280 --> 00:43:12,719
Speaker 1: where he shoots from and uh, all that stuff. They

937
00:43:12,800 --> 00:43:15,319
Speaker 1: just don't have enough time to get that going. Maybe

938
00:43:15,360 --> 00:43:18,320
Speaker 1: the first round is where they can build build those habits.

939
00:43:18,680 --> 00:43:21,520
Speaker 1: Maybe if it's maybe if it's against a team like Denver,

940
00:43:21,719 --> 00:43:26,600
Speaker 1: like this Denver team perfect, Yeah, yeah, And Denver really

941
00:43:26,640 --> 00:43:29,800
Speaker 1: plays the style of a defense that's really conductive to

942
00:43:29,960 --> 00:43:32,160
Speaker 1: Dennis Shrewder right, they played like a drop coverage with

943
00:43:32,480 --> 00:43:34,840
Speaker 1: with Nicole Yo Kitchen. That's that's a shot that he

944
00:43:34,920 --> 00:43:37,480
Speaker 1: looks for, Dennis looks for, so it can really get

945
00:43:37,600 --> 00:43:39,840
Speaker 1: him going, get him in a rhythm very quickly. This

946
00:43:39,920 --> 00:43:41,680
Speaker 1: would be the perfect team for him, but you know,

947
00:43:42,360 --> 00:43:44,239
Speaker 1: you don't know. There's like eight games left and the

948
00:43:44,360 --> 00:43:47,600
Speaker 1: standings are all all bunched together, so we really don't know.

949
00:43:47,719 --> 00:43:49,200
Speaker 1: But it would be a ferrict team for him to

950
00:43:49,280 --> 00:43:51,160
Speaker 1: kind of come back from, get his legs back from,

951
00:43:51,239 --> 00:43:54,080
Speaker 1: get his jumper going again, because he was playing well

952
00:43:54,320 --> 00:43:56,680
Speaker 1: until he came out so this and he was carrying

953
00:43:56,719 --> 00:43:59,279
Speaker 1: the team. He kept them afloat while Lebron and A

954
00:43:59,400 --> 00:44:01,680
Speaker 1: D were out. Um, and maybe this is good rest

955
00:44:01,719 --> 00:44:03,920
Speaker 1: for him, like Lebron and eight he got. But we'll

956
00:44:03,920 --> 00:44:06,160
Speaker 1: see it. It's tough to lose your starting point guard though,

957
00:44:06,200 --> 00:44:08,759
Speaker 1: two weeks before or three weeks before the playoffs start.

958
00:44:08,800 --> 00:44:10,759
Speaker 1: I mean, that's just that's just really tough. But that's

959
00:44:10,760 --> 00:44:13,800
Speaker 1: how this season has gone. Oh man, Like, what what

960
00:44:13,920 --> 00:44:16,480
Speaker 1: a weird roller coaster? Today has been? Like waking up

961
00:44:16,520 --> 00:44:19,719
Speaker 1: to the terrible Schroder news, finding out that Lebron really

962
00:44:19,880 --> 00:44:23,279
Speaker 1: is having ankle Payne like it was, it was as

963
00:44:23,440 --> 00:44:26,520
Speaker 1: low as I can remember in this last two years,

964
00:44:26,840 --> 00:44:30,359
Speaker 1: and then they finished the night looking like every bit

965
00:44:30,880 --> 00:44:32,920
Speaker 1: like a team that if you throw Lebron and then

966
00:44:32,960 --> 00:44:37,200
Speaker 1: Mix is probably the title favorites. Like, that's that's how quickly,

967
00:44:37,280 --> 00:44:40,239
Speaker 1: that's how quickly things turned around. But hey, let's get

968
00:44:40,239 --> 00:44:42,640
Speaker 1: a couple of let's get a couple of guests up here,

969
00:44:42,840 --> 00:44:44,800
Speaker 1: and then let's call it at night. Roger and I

970
00:44:44,880 --> 00:44:46,360
Speaker 1: are gonna be doing a lot more of these, and

971
00:44:47,000 --> 00:44:48,920
Speaker 1: if they run this late, we probably won't try to

972
00:44:49,000 --> 00:44:51,520
Speaker 1: go too long. But you know, part of the reason

973
00:44:51,520 --> 00:44:52,560
Speaker 1: why we do this is we want to get you

974
00:44:52,600 --> 00:44:55,400
Speaker 1: guys on board. Let's see. I'm gonna start with I

975
00:44:55,480 --> 00:45:11,439
Speaker 1: think this is g that maning to hear us? Yeah,

976
00:45:11,520 --> 00:45:14,040
Speaker 1: can y'all hear me? Yes, sir? What's going on? Man?

977
00:45:14,760 --> 00:45:18,000
Speaker 1: Nothing much? Finally a good win here. But what I

978
00:45:18,080 --> 00:45:20,719
Speaker 1: want to ask you guys, pinky backing off the THHD thing,

979
00:45:21,200 --> 00:45:24,040
Speaker 1: what do you think the rotation is gonna be cut too?

980
00:45:24,120 --> 00:45:26,879
Speaker 1: Because you know, West was huge, because Saul was huge,

981
00:45:26,920 --> 00:45:29,839
Speaker 1: and when a Shooter and eight Shooter and Lebrons are back,

982
00:45:29,960 --> 00:45:32,160
Speaker 1: I mean, you can't have all of them playing because

983
00:45:32,160 --> 00:45:33,880
Speaker 1: I think we're gonna cut it too. What like ten eleven,

984
00:45:33,960 --> 00:45:37,160
Speaker 1: So I just want your thoughts on that. Yeah, I

985
00:45:37,200 --> 00:45:40,279
Speaker 1: feel like it's gonna be a matchup dependent most likely.

986
00:45:40,360 --> 00:45:42,799
Speaker 1: I mean, like to me, in the playoffs, the Vets

987
00:45:42,840 --> 00:45:45,879
Speaker 1: are gonna play like I feel like West Marcus all

988
00:45:45,960 --> 00:45:48,160
Speaker 1: those guys are gonna play more. Right now, th HD

989
00:45:48,239 --> 00:45:50,120
Speaker 1: is getting a lot of minutes. Especially how's the ball handler.

990
00:45:50,160 --> 00:45:51,719
Speaker 1: I just I just don't see him being in that

991
00:45:51,880 --> 00:45:53,600
Speaker 1: role in the playoffs, and they're gonna throw them in

992
00:45:53,640 --> 00:45:55,400
Speaker 1: see if it if it works when the playoffs, to

993
00:45:55,400 --> 00:45:59,080
Speaker 1: possessions just matters so much more, right, Like every possession matters,

994
00:45:59,120 --> 00:46:00,480
Speaker 1: and it just you just can't have these kind of

995
00:46:00,520 --> 00:46:03,000
Speaker 1: turn homes and stuff. So I think that's will be

996
00:46:03,040 --> 00:46:05,200
Speaker 1: cut too. But the Lakers, they have a deep team,

997
00:46:05,239 --> 00:46:07,960
Speaker 1: deep roster. Everyone's going to be expecting minutes. So that's

998
00:46:08,200 --> 00:46:10,360
Speaker 1: that's a tough part of this. But I think everyone

999
00:46:10,440 --> 00:46:12,920
Speaker 1: getting minutes now allows Bogo to kind of pick and

1000
00:46:13,000 --> 00:46:16,560
Speaker 1: choose who he wants to play when the playoffs started. Yeah,

1001
00:46:16,600 --> 00:46:18,560
Speaker 1: I think I think you saw today to just in

1002
00:46:18,600 --> 00:46:20,560
Speaker 1: the second half, like there's a lot less in Montrez

1003
00:46:21,000 --> 00:46:24,759
Speaker 1: and you know, I think, uh he actually went to

1004
00:46:25,000 --> 00:46:29,520
Speaker 1: Caruso instead of th HT down the stretch, and then

1005
00:46:29,600 --> 00:46:32,640
Speaker 1: when Crusoe started to struggle to create offense, he went

1006
00:46:32,680 --> 00:46:35,719
Speaker 1: back to th HD for a couple of possessions. That

1007
00:46:35,840 --> 00:46:37,640
Speaker 1: was kind of the interesting back and forth he was

1008
00:46:37,680 --> 00:46:41,799
Speaker 1: having tonight. But that means Vogel views th HT as

1009
00:46:41,920 --> 00:46:45,759
Speaker 1: is one of his offensive creators, and right now, for

1010
00:46:45,800 --> 00:46:49,319
Speaker 1: a game like tonight, the offensive creator depth chart was thin.

1011
00:46:50,200 --> 00:46:54,360
Speaker 1: They didn't have Lebron and Dennis there, so he needed

1012
00:46:54,440 --> 00:46:56,880
Speaker 1: th h T more. But t is gonna fall the

1013
00:46:57,040 --> 00:47:00,399
Speaker 1: fourth on that depth chart pretty quickly, if not fifth,

1014
00:47:00,440 --> 00:47:03,000
Speaker 1: if he has Alex Crusoe ahead of him. So it's

1015
00:47:03,040 --> 00:47:05,719
Speaker 1: one of those things where I think he's the obvious squeeze.

1016
00:47:06,280 --> 00:47:08,839
Speaker 1: And then if you're gonna play Gassault and he has

1017
00:47:08,960 --> 00:47:12,440
Speaker 1: some clear loyalty to playing Drummond, then Tres is an

1018
00:47:12,480 --> 00:47:15,360
Speaker 1: obvious squeeze. And then the other one to pay attention

1019
00:47:15,440 --> 00:47:18,160
Speaker 1: to is Markief, who just can't hit the side of

1020
00:47:18,200 --> 00:47:21,319
Speaker 1: a barn with a jump shot lately. Um that that's

1021
00:47:21,360 --> 00:47:24,120
Speaker 1: starting to to to become a bit of a problem,

1022
00:47:24,760 --> 00:47:27,560
Speaker 1: um And I'm hoping that that that rectifies, because he

1023
00:47:27,680 --> 00:47:29,279
Speaker 1: was one of their best shooters in the post season

1024
00:47:29,400 --> 00:47:32,040
Speaker 1: last year. But I mean, those are the three names

1025
00:47:32,080 --> 00:47:34,440
Speaker 1: that come to mind to me Keith, tres And and

1026
00:47:34,520 --> 00:47:36,520
Speaker 1: th Hd as guys that will probably fall out of

1027
00:47:36,560 --> 00:47:40,600
Speaker 1: the rotation when when all hands are on deck. So

1028
00:47:41,640 --> 00:47:44,520
Speaker 1: for mcilmore because I know he hasn't been utilized as

1029
00:47:44,560 --> 00:47:47,239
Speaker 1: well when Lebron was in, because I think Frank brought

1030
00:47:47,360 --> 00:47:49,799
Speaker 1: him in when he pulled Lebron, which like doesn't make

1031
00:47:49,840 --> 00:47:52,040
Speaker 1: sense at all. And I know his defense is a

1032
00:47:52,160 --> 00:47:53,880
Speaker 1: little bit shaky, but when you have him, you know,

1033
00:47:54,040 --> 00:47:55,440
Speaker 1: with a b out there, I think it's fine. Do

1034
00:47:55,480 --> 00:47:57,480
Speaker 1: you see any way of him falling out a little bit?

1035
00:47:57,680 --> 00:48:00,520
Speaker 1: But I think he has three point not making. He's

1036
00:48:00,520 --> 00:48:05,480
Speaker 1: probably needed the most. Yeah, Like I think Jason's higher

1037
00:48:05,560 --> 00:48:08,520
Speaker 1: on Ben Malgimore than I am. Uh, Like, I do

1038
00:48:08,760 --> 00:48:11,200
Speaker 1: think they needed shooting, like he's an unconscious shooter, and

1039
00:48:11,239 --> 00:48:13,560
Speaker 1: the Lakers like really need that. They don't have a

1040
00:48:13,600 --> 00:48:15,239
Speaker 1: lot of guys that kind of take threes like that

1041
00:48:15,360 --> 00:48:16,880
Speaker 1: where they don't even have to. He doesn't even have

1042
00:48:16,920 --> 00:48:19,480
Speaker 1: to be open, right, Like he thinks every shot is

1043
00:48:19,520 --> 00:48:21,799
Speaker 1: a good shot for him, which has its good and bad.

1044
00:48:21,840 --> 00:48:23,920
Speaker 1: But it's just like his defense. He needs to be

1045
00:48:23,960 --> 00:48:25,960
Speaker 1: playing with Lebron, right, That's who needs to play next

1046
00:48:26,000 --> 00:48:28,200
Speaker 1: to he'll get good looks there and then he can survive,

1047
00:48:28,280 --> 00:48:30,239
Speaker 1: like if he's playing with the starters, playing next to

1048
00:48:30,280 --> 00:48:32,279
Speaker 1: a D I just don't like him in that all

1049
00:48:32,440 --> 00:48:34,640
Speaker 1: second unit, Like he plays a lot of minutes with

1050
00:48:34,760 --> 00:48:37,320
Speaker 1: like all of our worst defenders together would be like

1051
00:48:37,719 --> 00:48:40,960
Speaker 1: it was like thht Ben Malcolmore treads Markie Moore's right,

1052
00:48:41,200 --> 00:48:42,800
Speaker 1: Like that's just a line of where he's just not

1053
00:48:42,880 --> 00:48:44,840
Speaker 1: going to be good at and he's gonna be guarding

1054
00:48:44,920 --> 00:48:47,360
Speaker 1: people that you know are good score so that I

1055
00:48:47,400 --> 00:48:48,960
Speaker 1: think he'll play in the playoffs though, Like I think

1056
00:48:49,000 --> 00:48:51,000
Speaker 1: he'll get minutes, but he'll be I think he'll be

1057
00:48:51,040 --> 00:48:54,200
Speaker 1: a lot more situational. Um. Yeah, so that's why I

1058
00:48:54,239 --> 00:48:56,640
Speaker 1: think of Ben Malkimore. Yeah, I think so. Two. I

1059
00:48:56,680 --> 00:48:58,480
Speaker 1: think there was a lot of debate going on with

1060
00:48:58,560 --> 00:49:01,600
Speaker 1: Ben Malcamore today on it or um. You know, like

1061
00:49:01,719 --> 00:49:03,080
Speaker 1: if you look at his numbers, it's a lot of

1062
00:49:03,120 --> 00:49:05,440
Speaker 1: bad stuff defensively, but the ones that were lining is

1063
00:49:05,920 --> 00:49:08,320
Speaker 1: it's been good with lebron Um. I think they have

1064
00:49:08,400 --> 00:49:12,520
Speaker 1: about thirty minutes together so far, and in the UH

1065
00:49:12,840 --> 00:49:14,839
Speaker 1: maybe a less than that, maybe like fifteen. I can't remember.

1066
00:49:14,840 --> 00:49:17,040
Speaker 1: They have some amount of minutes together so far, and

1067
00:49:17,160 --> 00:49:21,120
Speaker 1: in those minutes they've defended extremely well. The defensive braining

1068
00:49:21,160 --> 00:49:23,520
Speaker 1: is about one oh three, and they've scored the ball

1069
00:49:23,560 --> 00:49:25,960
Speaker 1: at a crazy rate, about a hundred and thirty three

1070
00:49:26,160 --> 00:49:28,840
Speaker 1: points per one Hunter possessions. And you know, it's a

1071
00:49:28,880 --> 00:49:31,479
Speaker 1: no brainer. It's a it's an archetype of basketball player

1072
00:49:31,560 --> 00:49:33,800
Speaker 1: that Lebron is one with throughout his entire career. I

1073
00:49:33,840 --> 00:49:37,120
Speaker 1: think Jr. Smith, think Kyle Korver, even Ray Allen there

1074
00:49:37,120 --> 00:49:39,279
Speaker 1: towards the end wasn't as good defensively as he used

1075
00:49:39,280 --> 00:49:42,799
Speaker 1: to be Lebron. Lebron as a back line communicator can

1076
00:49:42,880 --> 00:49:44,719
Speaker 1: help guys who have, you know, a little bit of

1077
00:49:44,719 --> 00:49:48,319
Speaker 1: a space case attitude on defense and on the other end,

1078
00:49:48,440 --> 00:49:50,400
Speaker 1: can get them wide open looks so that they can

1079
00:49:50,480 --> 00:49:53,799
Speaker 1: capitalize in their value. And so I tend to think

1080
00:49:53,920 --> 00:49:57,960
Speaker 1: that it's too early to give up on McLemore, even

1081
00:49:58,000 --> 00:50:01,120
Speaker 1: though he's had some struggles, because he really is a

1082
00:50:01,200 --> 00:50:04,719
Speaker 1: player that you need a Lebron type to really unlock him.

1083
00:50:04,760 --> 00:50:07,600
Speaker 1: And to Rodge's point, like it's like the rising tide

1084
00:50:07,640 --> 00:50:10,200
Speaker 1: that floats all boats if you put if you put

1085
00:50:10,280 --> 00:50:13,560
Speaker 1: Ben McLamore with crazy bench lineups that don't have a

1086
00:50:13,600 --> 00:50:16,040
Speaker 1: ton of talent, like it's kind of setting him up

1087
00:50:16,080 --> 00:50:20,000
Speaker 1: to fail a little bit. All right, Well, yeah, thank

1088
00:50:20,040 --> 00:50:21,960
Speaker 1: you all for answering that. I don't want to take

1089
00:50:22,040 --> 00:50:23,920
Speaker 1: up too much time for him people to speak, so

1090
00:50:24,120 --> 00:50:29,839
Speaker 1: I'll have off this, but thank you too. I see

1091
00:50:29,880 --> 00:50:33,480
Speaker 1: you'll later. Thank you. All Right, let's get another one

1092
00:50:33,520 --> 00:50:50,279
Speaker 1: in here. Let's see what we got. Let's try t Yeah,

1093
00:50:50,360 --> 00:50:55,440
Speaker 1: what's up? Um? Well, obviously Lakers, you know, close win,

1094
00:50:55,640 --> 00:51:00,480
Speaker 1: close win against Nuggets. But my question is that I'm

1095
00:51:00,680 --> 00:51:03,480
Speaker 1: just you know, I've been watching a few of the

1096
00:51:03,600 --> 00:51:07,400
Speaker 1: Lakers games, you know, against the Raptors, um against the

1097
00:51:07,520 --> 00:51:10,759
Speaker 1: King Sacrament Kings, and you know, my issues just with

1098
00:51:11,239 --> 00:51:14,320
Speaker 1: with Andre Drummond and Ga saw minutes, you know, like

1099
00:51:15,520 --> 00:51:19,720
Speaker 1: you know, you see you see what Marcusol did throughout

1100
00:51:19,760 --> 00:51:22,400
Speaker 1: the whole game. He you know, space to you know,

1101
00:51:22,680 --> 00:51:26,759
Speaker 1: spaces for folk floor. You know, made some playmaking you know,

1102
00:51:27,960 --> 00:51:30,640
Speaker 1: uh assist and all that. But when you see you know,

1103
00:51:31,200 --> 00:51:36,680
Speaker 1: Andre Drummond, you know, floppy plays, always creating turnovers. But

1104
00:51:36,840 --> 00:51:40,160
Speaker 1: my my question is like when it but from from

1105
00:51:41,280 --> 00:51:44,120
Speaker 1: from now on or when it comes to the playoffs

1106
00:51:44,239 --> 00:51:50,080
Speaker 1: playoff time, do you think um um vocal, do you

1107
00:51:50,160 --> 00:51:55,960
Speaker 1: think Vocos should start um Gassol then Drummond because I

1108
00:51:56,520 --> 00:52:00,399
Speaker 1: believe I believe he should, to be honest, got that's

1109
00:52:00,480 --> 00:52:04,600
Speaker 1: that's my question. You're preaching to the choirer T Like

1110
00:52:06,960 --> 00:52:09,400
Speaker 1: I mean, I've been preaching. I've been preaching because like

1111
00:52:09,760 --> 00:52:12,480
Speaker 1: I don't know what because they I was watching the

1112
00:52:12,560 --> 00:52:16,880
Speaker 1: fourth to fourth quarter, and you know, I was Gasol

1113
00:52:17,040 --> 00:52:19,760
Speaker 1: was planning. You saw the Lakers were making creating, shots,

1114
00:52:19,800 --> 00:52:23,600
Speaker 1: were making shots were falling in and that. But when

1115
00:52:23,680 --> 00:52:28,080
Speaker 1: you bring in drumming in the game, somehow, some way,

1116
00:52:28,160 --> 00:52:30,759
Speaker 1: the Nuggets they come crawling back, and I'm like, what

1117
00:52:31,120 --> 00:52:38,279
Speaker 1: the hell is vocal doing? Bro? We were we here?

1118
00:52:38,320 --> 00:52:40,000
Speaker 1: You man? I think I think we're Roger and I

1119
00:52:40,080 --> 00:52:44,400
Speaker 1: both agree that like, uh, that we think that Gasol

1120
00:52:44,560 --> 00:52:47,160
Speaker 1: is the obvious option as a starter, but that you

1121
00:52:47,200 --> 00:52:49,640
Speaker 1: don't give up on Drummond either. But at the end

1122
00:52:49,680 --> 00:52:52,160
Speaker 1: of the day, like Frank has shown a tendency, just

1123
00:52:52,280 --> 00:52:54,839
Speaker 1: like he did with Javeil last year, that when push

1124
00:52:54,880 --> 00:52:57,160
Speaker 1: comes to shove in the postseason moment, that he is

1125
00:52:57,280 --> 00:53:00,879
Speaker 1: willing to make those adjustments, those tough calls that make

1126
00:53:00,920 --> 00:53:03,640
Speaker 1: a guy after, you know, sit on the bench, after

1127
00:53:03,800 --> 00:53:07,000
Speaker 1: he played a lot throughout the season, and so I'm

1128
00:53:07,040 --> 00:53:10,800
Speaker 1: not worried about that specific decision being made. What about you,

1129
00:53:10,920 --> 00:53:14,080
Speaker 1: rog Yeah, T Like what I would say is like,

1130
00:53:14,120 --> 00:53:17,560
Speaker 1: if you remember last year, like Javal was on the side,

1131
00:53:17,880 --> 00:53:19,600
Speaker 1: was on the other side. He was on the other

1132
00:53:19,680 --> 00:53:22,640
Speaker 1: side tonight, but he started every single game right um

1133
00:53:22,800 --> 00:53:25,800
Speaker 1: last year. And that's how I would picture Andre Drummond,

1134
00:53:25,880 --> 00:53:28,000
Speaker 1: Like he's in that role. He's in that role to

1135
00:53:28,200 --> 00:53:31,200
Speaker 1: like bang around with fives in the regular season so

1136
00:53:31,360 --> 00:53:34,239
Speaker 1: that a D doesn't have to take those matchups, take

1137
00:53:34,320 --> 00:53:38,399
Speaker 1: some weird shots, eat possessions right where um where there's

1138
00:53:38,440 --> 00:53:40,239
Speaker 1: nothing going, they just throw it to him and he

1139
00:53:40,360 --> 00:53:42,400
Speaker 1: gets a shot up instead of getting a turnover. Like

1140
00:53:42,480 --> 00:53:44,040
Speaker 1: that's why I see. That's how I see him in

1141
00:53:44,160 --> 00:53:46,200
Speaker 1: Gasol will be in that Dwight Howard roll right, that

1142
00:53:46,520 --> 00:53:48,520
Speaker 1: former Defensive Player of the Year, the guy you can

1143
00:53:48,800 --> 00:53:51,440
Speaker 1: you know, lean on for his experience and stuff. And

1144
00:53:51,719 --> 00:53:54,040
Speaker 1: maybe he'll start some games, maybe he won't, Maybe they'll

1145
00:53:54,040 --> 00:53:55,840
Speaker 1: start a D at the five, But that's how I

1146
00:53:55,880 --> 00:53:57,719
Speaker 1: see I don't think again, I don't think Drummond is

1147
00:53:57,760 --> 00:53:59,320
Speaker 1: going to be a big part of like whether we

1148
00:53:59,400 --> 00:54:02,520
Speaker 1: win or lose the title here. I really don't. I

1149
00:54:02,560 --> 00:54:04,479
Speaker 1: think it'll be a lot of the stalls. So maybe

1150
00:54:04,520 --> 00:54:06,719
Speaker 1: this is just being wishful thinking. I don't know. They

1151
00:54:06,800 --> 00:54:08,839
Speaker 1: might start drumming game one of the playoffs, who knows,

1152
00:54:09,080 --> 00:54:12,000
Speaker 1: But I just think like Vogel has has shown in

1153
00:54:12,080 --> 00:54:15,320
Speaker 1: the past that he won't if the matchups needed that

1154
00:54:15,400 --> 00:54:17,720
Speaker 1: he won't. Right. He started Marti Morris in the second

1155
00:54:17,800 --> 00:54:20,560
Speaker 1: round against Houston UM and I think against Portland he

1156
00:54:20,600 --> 00:54:23,560
Speaker 1: also bench Jabail in the finals. Jabil and Dwight. I

1157
00:54:23,600 --> 00:54:26,200
Speaker 1: don't think play JaVale at least didn't play a single

1158
00:54:26,280 --> 00:54:29,120
Speaker 1: minute and in those first few games. So that's how

1159
00:54:29,160 --> 00:54:31,080
Speaker 1: I say, like I wouldn't, I wouldn't stress too much

1160
00:54:31,080 --> 00:54:35,200
Speaker 1: about that. I mean it pisces me off man. You

1161
00:54:35,280 --> 00:54:37,560
Speaker 1: see what Mark you saw? You saw what you saw

1162
00:54:37,760 --> 00:54:41,839
Speaker 1: did tonight, like you know anytimes Secul saw the way

1163
00:54:41,920 --> 00:54:45,480
Speaker 1: he's playing this And I'm thinking to so, why is

1164
00:54:45,600 --> 00:54:50,960
Speaker 1: Frank Vogel point and giving one minutes to drumming who

1165
00:54:51,040 --> 00:54:53,920
Speaker 1: does nothing? Like literally does nothing. All I see is

1166
00:54:54,320 --> 00:54:58,880
Speaker 1: him posting up, him him not rebounding the ball. But

1167
00:54:59,000 --> 00:55:03,120
Speaker 1: when I see the saw, he's making the plays. He's

1168
00:55:03,160 --> 00:55:05,920
Speaker 1: making the plays, And you know, I don't know, man,

1169
00:55:05,960 --> 00:55:08,440
Speaker 1: I don't know what Vank Frank Vogel is no one man,

1170
00:55:08,520 --> 00:55:11,320
Speaker 1: But I mean, I mean I'm not I'm not worried

1171
00:55:11,760 --> 00:55:14,920
Speaker 1: like all, but the Lakers, to be honest, I mean,

1172
00:55:14,960 --> 00:55:17,200
Speaker 1: there's like, I don't know how many games it's left,

1173
00:55:17,320 --> 00:55:21,600
Speaker 1: like seven games, but like I mean, they I don't

1174
00:55:21,600 --> 00:55:23,880
Speaker 1: want to see him in the playing tournament, to be honest,

1175
00:55:23,960 --> 00:55:29,120
Speaker 1: I as don't. But I mean hopefully, you know, they

1176
00:55:29,160 --> 00:55:33,239
Speaker 1: can figure this out and uh, you know, hopefully we

1177
00:55:33,239 --> 00:55:37,160
Speaker 1: can get another trip. Yh yeah, we we agree with you.

1178
00:55:37,320 --> 00:55:41,279
Speaker 1: Te hey man, thanks for hopping on. We appreciating thank you.

1179
00:55:43,239 --> 00:55:44,960
Speaker 1: All right, Let's do one more and get out of here.

1180
00:55:45,040 --> 00:55:57,080
Speaker 1: Let's give Mr David up here. We lose David. All right,

1181
00:55:57,160 --> 00:56:14,080
Speaker 1: let's try another one. Let's do Daniel. Hello, can you

1182
00:56:14,120 --> 00:56:18,239
Speaker 1: hear me? Hey, guys, like your nation, what's up. We're

1183
00:56:18,280 --> 00:56:22,480
Speaker 1: feeling a little bit better tonight. Absolutely. I think that

1184
00:56:22,640 --> 00:56:25,879
Speaker 1: was a much needed win for everyone. And the only

1185
00:56:25,960 --> 00:56:28,040
Speaker 1: thing I would really like to say is overall, to

1186
00:56:28,160 --> 00:56:30,839
Speaker 1: not really freak out. I think now is a little

1187
00:56:30,880 --> 00:56:34,879
Speaker 1: bit too early to get worried, but maybe it's okay

1188
00:56:34,960 --> 00:56:37,520
Speaker 1: to be a bit nervous, just kind of the Lakers overall,

1189
00:56:38,000 --> 00:56:42,759
Speaker 1: you know, mm hmm, yeah, everything's go ahead. Rush. I

1190
00:56:42,760 --> 00:56:45,040
Speaker 1: would say, what makes you what makes you most nervous, Like,

1191
00:56:45,160 --> 00:56:49,919
Speaker 1: what's making you the most nervous um, So the high

1192
00:56:49,960 --> 00:56:53,560
Speaker 1: ankle spring is what's really making me nervous because that

1193
00:56:53,760 --> 00:56:56,600
Speaker 1: takes just so long to recover from and it's not

1194
00:56:56,800 --> 00:56:59,080
Speaker 1: something that you can really like speed up with a

1195
00:56:59,160 --> 00:57:01,040
Speaker 1: ton of physical thing arapy. You just kind of have

1196
00:57:01,160 --> 00:57:03,160
Speaker 1: to let it heal on its own. So that's a

1197
00:57:03,280 --> 00:57:07,359
Speaker 1: huge drag. Fortunately, Anthony Davis is looking a lot better,

1198
00:57:07,560 --> 00:57:10,200
Speaker 1: and I think the last hurdle he needs to overcome

1199
00:57:10,280 --> 00:57:13,440
Speaker 1: from returning his injury is just that mental hurdle, and

1200
00:57:14,360 --> 00:57:16,560
Speaker 1: him getting a lot of minutes tonight makes me feel

1201
00:57:16,600 --> 00:57:20,320
Speaker 1: better with that, So overall, I think things are going

1202
00:57:20,360 --> 00:57:23,400
Speaker 1: to be okay. I agree you man. I've talked a

1203
00:57:23,440 --> 00:57:25,960
Speaker 1: lot about the mental hurdle when it comes to these injuries.

1204
00:57:26,000 --> 00:57:28,840
Speaker 1: I broke my foot in between my first and second

1205
00:57:28,920 --> 00:57:31,840
Speaker 1: year playing college ball, and like I it took me

1206
00:57:32,160 --> 00:57:35,000
Speaker 1: like six months to trust taking off of that foot again.

1207
00:57:35,320 --> 00:57:37,720
Speaker 1: And I think I think when you factor in the

1208
00:57:37,760 --> 00:57:39,880
Speaker 1: fact that it's his achilles, I think it gets a

1209
00:57:39,960 --> 00:57:43,040
Speaker 1: little a little bit even more nerve wracking. That's scary.

1210
00:57:44,400 --> 00:57:47,280
Speaker 1: But what's nice is you know, just by virtue of

1211
00:57:47,400 --> 00:57:51,320
Speaker 1: the threat of the competition tonight, he rose to the

1212
00:57:51,360 --> 00:57:53,760
Speaker 1: occasion and he forced he was forced to trust it

1213
00:57:54,040 --> 00:57:56,160
Speaker 1: and uh and it held up for him. And so

1214
00:57:56,240 --> 00:57:58,080
Speaker 1: I think that helps to build a little bit more

1215
00:57:58,120 --> 00:58:02,120
Speaker 1: confidence overall in terms of feeling nervous about this team,

1216
00:58:02,560 --> 00:58:05,120
Speaker 1: everything's about the margin for error. Like last year there

1217
00:58:05,200 --> 00:58:08,560
Speaker 1: just wasn't this outstanding threat other than maybe the Clippers

1218
00:58:09,080 --> 00:58:13,080
Speaker 1: out there. But this season it's like, man like, Denver

1219
00:58:13,240 --> 00:58:15,840
Speaker 1: looked really good before the Lakers man handled him tonight.

1220
00:58:16,200 --> 00:58:18,880
Speaker 1: The Clippers look really good. Phoenix and Utah both look

1221
00:58:18,960 --> 00:58:22,920
Speaker 1: really good. The Brooklyn is this behemoth out east. If

1222
00:58:22,920 --> 00:58:25,320
Speaker 1: they can get healthy, that could be a gigantic problem

1223
00:58:25,400 --> 00:58:27,600
Speaker 1: in terms why would they stop Anthony Davis and Lebron

1224
00:58:27,680 --> 00:58:30,520
Speaker 1: from getting to the rack or for that matter, I'd

1225
00:58:30,560 --> 00:58:33,640
Speaker 1: love to see the Milwaukee Brooklyn series. What are they

1226
00:58:33,680 --> 00:58:36,240
Speaker 1: gonna do with you? Honest, I don't know. No, I agree,

1227
00:58:36,280 --> 00:58:38,920
Speaker 1: And and that's the thing is like then also Milwaukee

1228
00:58:39,040 --> 00:58:41,480
Speaker 1: and Hilling, So is that these huge challenges, And so

1229
00:58:41,840 --> 00:58:46,040
Speaker 1: I think being nervous normal. That's just a reaction to

1230
00:58:46,120 --> 00:58:50,480
Speaker 1: the fact that the league is so unbelievably talented right now. Yeah,

1231
00:58:50,600 --> 00:58:52,680
Speaker 1: and just speaking to the Lebron point, like, I don't

1232
00:58:52,680 --> 00:58:55,720
Speaker 1: think anyone knows their body better than Lebron, like you should,

1233
00:58:55,720 --> 00:58:57,840
Speaker 1: he said, he kind of rushed back a little bit,

1234
00:58:57,920 --> 00:58:59,920
Speaker 1: but I'm rewatching that. Like Toronto game, I thought he

1235
00:59:00,040 --> 00:59:03,000
Speaker 1: was moving pretty fine on both ends. He was hitting

1236
00:59:03,040 --> 00:59:05,880
Speaker 1: his jumpers as well. So, like Lebron is the last

1237
00:59:05,920 --> 00:59:08,120
Speaker 1: time I'm worried about what this team, Like, I wanted

1238
00:59:08,120 --> 00:59:10,160
Speaker 1: to see Anthony Davis, me and Jason wanted to see

1239
00:59:10,160 --> 00:59:12,240
Speaker 1: Anthony Davis put up a game like this, and he did,

1240
00:59:12,520 --> 00:59:14,520
Speaker 1: and I thought that was the most important thing. We

1241
00:59:14,560 --> 00:59:16,920
Speaker 1: can't really predict how Lebron will play, but like just

1242
00:59:17,000 --> 00:59:19,360
Speaker 1: watching his playoffs, um, I don't know who else is

1243
00:59:20,160 --> 00:59:22,000
Speaker 1: right now as well. So a lot of teams are

1244
00:59:22,040 --> 00:59:23,480
Speaker 1: banged up, a lot of teams are gonna have to

1245
00:59:23,560 --> 00:59:26,160
Speaker 1: fight through this. This is a really tough schedule that's

1246
00:59:26,160 --> 00:59:28,120
Speaker 1: been put out. All teams are going through hell of

1247
00:59:28,160 --> 00:59:30,680
Speaker 1: a schedule. So maybe it's just the healthiest team that

1248
00:59:30,720 --> 00:59:32,680
Speaker 1: will win. But I like your point about like Brooklyn

1249
00:59:32,800 --> 00:59:35,160
Speaker 1: and all these teams have like flaws right that they're

1250
00:59:35,160 --> 00:59:36,720
Speaker 1: gonna have to go through. I don't know what Brooklyn's

1251
00:59:36,720 --> 00:59:38,760
Speaker 1: answer for a guy like nice is. I don't think

1252
00:59:38,800 --> 00:59:40,880
Speaker 1: it's Blake Griffin, Like, I don't think that's the answer

1253
00:59:40,960 --> 00:59:43,920
Speaker 1: for him. Um, So it's gonna be it's gonna be

1254
00:59:44,080 --> 00:59:46,520
Speaker 1: like really interesting to see. And and the Lakers have

1255
00:59:46,600 --> 00:59:49,920
Speaker 1: two really big trump cards A D and Lebron are

1256
00:59:50,160 --> 00:59:52,280
Speaker 1: to the best cards you want going into the playoffs,

1257
00:59:52,320 --> 00:59:53,919
Speaker 1: So that that's thing that you can make you calm

1258
00:59:53,960 --> 00:59:56,320
Speaker 1: all that chemistry and stuff that those are real concerns,

1259
00:59:56,400 --> 00:59:59,480
Speaker 1: like chemistry with the team and getting enough reps with

1260
00:59:59,680 --> 01:00:01,720
Speaker 1: this with the guys. That's when I'm most nervous about.

1261
01:00:01,800 --> 01:00:04,720
Speaker 1: But I don't think I'm nervous about Lebron, right, Jason

1262
01:00:05,000 --> 01:00:07,160
Speaker 1: Lebron probably would be fine. I think he's he's a

1263
01:00:07,200 --> 01:00:11,400
Speaker 1: guy I'm least nervous about in the playoffs. Yep. Agree.

1264
01:00:12,120 --> 01:00:15,560
Speaker 1: As we mentioned earlier, I just he's less dependent on

1265
01:00:15,680 --> 01:00:18,320
Speaker 1: his physical gifts at this phase of his career. Um,

1266
01:00:19,440 --> 01:00:21,680
Speaker 1: I should say strictly just his mobility. He's a little

1267
01:00:21,720 --> 01:00:24,520
Speaker 1: bit more dependent on his strength, size, and his brain,

1268
01:00:25,400 --> 01:00:27,560
Speaker 1: which allows him to kind of compensate for some of

1269
01:00:27,640 --> 01:00:31,760
Speaker 1: his uh you know, physical issues dealing with the injury, Daniel,

1270
01:00:31,800 --> 01:00:34,120
Speaker 1: thanks for coming out, man. We really appreciate you. Yeah,

1271
01:00:34,200 --> 01:00:37,120
Speaker 1: you guys made tremendous points, and I thank you. Guys

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Speaker 1: have been doing a really good job, so thanks for

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Speaker 1: having me. Appreciate Thank you. Let's give David one last

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Speaker 1: chance real quickly before we call it a night, and

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Speaker 1: he bounced out again. I don't know what's going on

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Speaker 1: with that, all right, everybody, Well, we'll try to call

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Speaker 1: it just because it's already eleven o'clock. Um, but we

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Speaker 1: really appreciate you guys supporting us as always. Um My

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Speaker 1: guesses we'll do another one of these on Thursday after

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Speaker 1: the Lakers hopefully beat the Clippers, and I'm going to

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Speaker 1: do my best. Oh, David, we get you. Yeah, you

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Speaker 1: can hear what we can hear you. What's going on?

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Speaker 1: What's going on with fellas well? I think you kind

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Speaker 1: of touched on it, uh in the last one. But

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Speaker 1: I was just wondering with Lebron coming back from the

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Speaker 1: ankle injury and then Schroulder possibly being out to like

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Speaker 1: maybe the first round, like you guys said, are you

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Speaker 1: guys worried about like the ball handling like in the

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Speaker 1: first round the playoffs, especially like after what happened with

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Speaker 1: like Tatum, how he said he has to have like

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Speaker 1: an inhaler and stuff. I feel like shoulder is not

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Speaker 1: to be like going into the first round. Yeah, and

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Speaker 1: I feel like th ht s are only option behind

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Speaker 1: Lebron If that's the case, Yeah, that's a that's a

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Speaker 1: scary thought. I think that really depends on the team.

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Speaker 1: Like if we're playing the Clippers in the first round,

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Speaker 1: that's a big worry of mine because they're the ball

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Speaker 1: pressure a law and and Lebron's gonna need another ball handler, especially,

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Speaker 1: but against a team like Denver, I think Shrewder can

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Speaker 1: kind of work his way back, and you know what

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Speaker 1: covid that that's scary, Like we don't know how he's

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Speaker 1: going to come back. Hopefully he comes back, but he's

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Speaker 1: gonna get a lot of time. He's gonna get two

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Speaker 1: weeks here for sure out and hopefully he can kind

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Speaker 1: of build back slowly while the Lakers get some wins.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, that's definitely a concern. We saw tonight. I

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Speaker 1: mean t ht was running that second unit for a while.

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Speaker 1: It did not look good. But I think that's what

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Speaker 1: I think that's where gasol comes in, right, Like you

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Speaker 1: have another laymaker that that you can give the ball to. Again,

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Speaker 1: I call him like a release vout because give him

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Speaker 1: the ball at the top of the key. They're not

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Speaker 1: going to ball pressure him out there because he's Marcus

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Speaker 1: al so he can kind of playmate from there. But yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'm definitely concerned though with the ball handler and give

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Speaker 1: shrewders out and not himself. I think shrewder is absolutely

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Speaker 1: necessary to be the corp person whoever comes out of

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Speaker 1: the East. But the Lakers have an ability to win

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Speaker 1: basketball games with Lebron being their only really good primary

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Speaker 1: ball handler. I mean, depending on how you felt about

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Speaker 1: Rondo last year. Uh. The point being like, I think

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Speaker 1: they can beat Denver, for instance, without without Schroeder. They

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Speaker 1: just need to get him healthy in time for whenever

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Speaker 1: the Clippers come around. But yeah, as far as you know,

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Speaker 1: the high ankle spring goes for Lebron, just like we

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Speaker 1: were saying earlier, like you just he I would rather

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Speaker 1: have Anthony Davis at his peak physical form because of

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Speaker 1: what they need from him defensively, and let Lebron play

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Speaker 1: old man ball, like if he needs to post up

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Speaker 1: all the time and and do whatever it would use

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Speaker 1: his strength as opposed to his mobility to gain an advantage,

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Speaker 1: then that's what they gotta do. Um. But at the

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Speaker 1: end of the day, like uh he, whenever you're listing

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Speaker 1: worries for the Lakers, I think Lebron should be pretty

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Speaker 1: low towards the bottom of that list for sure, right right, right, Well,

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Speaker 1: I appreciate you guys. Thanks, all right, alright, guys, So yeah,

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Speaker 1: the stay tuned for Thursday, and I'm gonna try to

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Speaker 1: throw this thing together and get it on the podcast

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Speaker 1: either here in a little bit tonight or first thing

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Speaker 1: tomorrow morning. Thanks as always for your support. Rise. I

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Speaker 1: appreciate you as well, man, and I will see you

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Speaker 1: guys soon. Thanks everyone, I appreciate it. B Bye.