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I thought Lebron said the temple 0:05:59.040 --> 0:06:02.039 early about high. They were on some bull drive. He 0:06:02.160 --> 0:06:04.839 was on some bull drive early and his teammates followed suit. 0:06:04.880 --> 0:06:06.240 The only guy that came to play the night was 0:06:06.279 --> 0:06:09.480 d A. Yeah, this is what we've been looking for. 0:06:09.640 --> 0:06:11.880 Nin to twelve, one on one from the free throw line, 0:06:11.920 --> 0:06:15.400 ten rebounds, you only had two turnovers. This is the 0:06:15.480 --> 0:06:19.039 da we were looking for. Yeah, everybody go ahead, Joe, 0:06:19.279 --> 0:06:23.440 everybody else. Seen a bit lethargic today on Joe. You know, 0:06:23.839 --> 0:06:26.480 I don't want to say satisfied, because I think they understood, 0:06:27.080 --> 0:06:28.960 you know, what was at stake, you know, meaning if 0:06:28.960 --> 0:06:32.760 they could close close these guys out. But it's hard 0:06:32.760 --> 0:06:35.360 to close the team out, fellas, when when they back 0:06:35.400 --> 0:06:38.960 against the wall, you know, they like wild dogs out there. 0:06:38.960 --> 0:06:41.279 You hear me, Hey, yeah, give them a look, you 0:06:41.279 --> 0:06:42.159 give them a little life. 0:06:43.640 --> 0:06:46.040 Hey, they gonna play better. It's probably the best game 0:06:46.040 --> 0:06:47.080 they played all series. 0:06:47.720 --> 0:06:48.160 It is. 0:06:48.279 --> 0:06:51.000 But you said something very interesting, Joe. When you give 0:06:51.040 --> 0:06:53.240 them life, you gotta jump on them and not give 0:06:53.240 --> 0:06:55.359 them a reason to play. They gave him a reason 0:06:55.400 --> 0:06:58.119 to play. Yeah, all of a sudden, you started turning 0:06:58.120 --> 0:07:01.880 the ball over. I don't know why, Marcus, Marcus, how 0:07:01.920 --> 0:07:03.880 many times are you gonna try to jump to throw 0:07:03.920 --> 0:07:06.160 the ball out of bounds and they're gonna bring it back. 0:07:06.279 --> 0:07:07.880 Now you've done that. That's about the third of the 0:07:07.880 --> 0:07:10.160 fourth time you've done that. At some point in time, 0:07:10.240 --> 0:07:12.560 you got to come to the realization, bro, you know what, 0:07:13.040 --> 0:07:15.160 the risk is not worth The reward is not worth 0:07:15.160 --> 0:07:18.760 the risk, right Lebron. Lebron had as many turnovers as 0:07:18.800 --> 0:07:21.880 damn near points. He had nine assists, eight turnovers and 0:07:21.920 --> 0:07:23.760 ten points, and he got that late in the ball game. 0:07:23.920 --> 0:07:26.000 He probably shouldn't even played any in the fourth quarter 0:07:26.080 --> 0:07:28.560 because they weren't coming back. I can see if that 0:07:28.680 --> 0:07:31.000 you had shown some signs of life at any point 0:07:31.040 --> 0:07:31.760 in time in the game. 0:07:32.080 --> 0:07:34.240 Joe, Oh, Joe, And so you let them play. 0:07:34.240 --> 0:07:36.040 Okay, I'm gonna give you guys five minutes to try 0:07:36.040 --> 0:07:38.280 to cut this thing down to ten and then we'll 0:07:38.320 --> 0:07:40.960 go from there. But what had you seen. They couldn't 0:07:41.000 --> 0:07:43.320 make a three, They couldn't make any shots. They just 0:07:43.320 --> 0:07:45.400 constantly turned the ball over. They shot good from the 0:07:45.440 --> 0:07:48.320 floor when they weren't turning it over. When you have 0:07:48.480 --> 0:07:51.440 twenty turnovers and with five minutes still to go in 0:07:51.480 --> 0:07:53.200 the third quarter, you're not winning that game. 0:07:53.520 --> 0:07:53.960 Period. 0:07:54.200 --> 0:07:56.160 It's gonna be tough. It's gonna be tough. You put 0:07:56.240 --> 0:07:59.560 so much pressure on yourself. Man, I thought the Lakers 0:07:59.600 --> 0:08:02.360 would have, you know, came out on and really tried 0:08:02.360 --> 0:08:05.560 to put these boys away. But obviously, like like I said, man, 0:08:05.600 --> 0:08:07.920 you hey, you give a young team like this who 0:08:07.960 --> 0:08:11.920 hadn't made shots this whole series, Ojo, Now they started 0:08:11.960 --> 0:08:12.800 to make a few shots. 0:08:12.840 --> 0:08:16.440 What's gonna happen? Get excited, get confident, you go. 0:08:16.840 --> 0:08:19.840 But also also, Uncle Joe, you know, we can't discredit 0:08:19.880 --> 0:08:22.520 God damn the Rockets now, especially defensively. We're talking about 0:08:22.520 --> 0:08:25.480 all the turnovers that the Lakers had, some on their own, 0:08:25.520 --> 0:08:30.040 but hell, crashing, the crashing, the goddamn boards. The defense 0:08:30.320 --> 0:08:33.360 that the Rockets played made the Lakers turn the ball 0:08:33.400 --> 0:08:35.839 over most of the time. There were there a few, 0:08:35.880 --> 0:08:37.680 there are a few casions Lebron turned over. There a 0:08:37.679 --> 0:08:40.160 few Cadses and Marcus Smart turned over. But the defense 0:08:40.200 --> 0:08:42.600 that they was playing, hell, they God damn, I forgot 0:08:42.679 --> 0:08:47.600 young boy name nigga picking Lebron up ninety five feet, Hey, 0:08:47.600 --> 0:08:49.320 but ninety four feet, Man, let me get that. Let 0:08:49.320 --> 0:08:50.040 me get them cookies. 0:08:50.200 --> 0:08:52.600 Yeah, I mean, let me let me have that. Yeah. 0:08:52.840 --> 0:08:56.199 I feel you on that, Ojo. You definitely got to 0:08:56.200 --> 0:08:58.840 get a rockets, credit bro. They came and they competed. 0:08:58.960 --> 0:09:01.680 I mean, at some point they was gonna have a 0:09:01.679 --> 0:09:03.600 pretty decent game, and tonight was the night. 0:09:03.920 --> 0:09:04.240 Yeah. 0:09:04.440 --> 0:09:08.280 Matter of fact, I think the Lakers was chilling you 0:09:08.280 --> 0:09:15.000 hear me, Joe Welling, Hey, corporations, sponsors, they had bills 0:09:15.000 --> 0:09:15.360 to pay. 0:09:15.960 --> 0:09:16.960 So we don't we don't. 0:09:16.960 --> 0:09:18.000 We don't want to sweep this thing. 0:09:18.000 --> 0:09:20.000 We don't want to Let's get let's get the boards 0:09:20.000 --> 0:09:21.560 a game and extended a little bit so we can 0:09:21.600 --> 0:09:24.240 keep making his money. I understand that I'm not listening. 0:09:24.280 --> 0:09:28.160 I'm not a conspiracy theorist. Conspiracy theorists. I'm just I'm 0:09:28.200 --> 0:09:29.480 just come on that. 0:09:31.200 --> 0:09:35.600 Hey, listen, I agree with you on the bottle lebron 0:09:35.640 --> 0:09:37.880 and them turnovers and eight turnovers. You know that The 0:09:37.960 --> 0:09:41.679 disheartening thing is it's because you know, he know better. Yes, 0:09:41.840 --> 0:09:43.880 you know what I'm saying, Like, yeah, I'm sure if 0:09:43.880 --> 0:09:46.200 he looked, if he sees the stat sheet, he gonna 0:09:46.200 --> 0:09:47.840 tell him say, he gonna man, ain't no wearing here. 0:09:47.920 --> 0:09:49.920 I could be out here getting no eight turnovers. I 0:09:49.960 --> 0:09:53.520 gotta be better because we put the ball in your hands. 0:09:54.240 --> 0:09:55.840 He that just can't happen for them to. 0:09:55.840 --> 0:10:00.360 Win, No, Joe, he tried to damn a three quarter 0:10:00.480 --> 0:10:03.760 court bounce pass between two defenders and try to hit 0:10:03.840 --> 0:10:04.840 Ruy on a dead sprint. 0:10:05.760 --> 0:10:07.280 Hey, hey, hey, you know he think he got a 0:10:07.280 --> 0:10:09.560 little magic get him now, Yeah, I know he think 0:10:09.559 --> 0:10:11.120 he got a little magic getting But at. 0:10:11.040 --> 0:10:13.200 That point in the game, was it what's the reward? 0:10:13.360 --> 0:10:15.520 Oh yeah, you're like, oh, you see that pass, but 0:10:15.559 --> 0:10:18.200 you turn it over and the thing and and and 0:10:18.200 --> 0:10:21.920 and look you think you shoot fifty percent. You shot 0:10:21.960 --> 0:10:24.160 eighty one percent from the free throw line, which isn't bad. 0:10:24.200 --> 0:10:28.319 You rebounded the team, but you turned the ball over 0:10:28.400 --> 0:10:33.079 twenty three times. The uh the Rockets had seventeen steals. 0:10:33.280 --> 0:10:35.439 Yeah, seventeen steals. 0:10:35.600 --> 0:10:38.000 Yeah, that's crazy. 0:10:39.000 --> 0:10:40.959 They were competing. They were competing today. 0:10:42.520 --> 0:10:45.520 And this is not to take anything, but the Lakers 0:10:45.559 --> 0:10:49.680 weren't competing. You can't tell me you saw you've we've 0:10:49.679 --> 0:10:51.960 seen the Lakers over the last week, the last week. 0:10:52.040 --> 0:10:56.080 The society lived last week. So it's eight days. Yeah, 0:10:56.160 --> 0:10:58.719 you tell me, at what point game did you see them? 0:10:58.760 --> 0:11:01.319 And you're like, oh, man, they didn't compete like they 0:11:01.320 --> 0:11:03.760 did Game one, Game two, they damn sure didn't compete 0:11:03.800 --> 0:11:06.360 like they did Game three, because Game three, they they 0:11:06.400 --> 0:11:08.679 were down six with under thirty and they came back. 0:11:08.720 --> 0:11:09.000 You won. 0:11:09.360 --> 0:11:12.280 That is competing. That what that performance that they put 0:11:12.320 --> 0:11:15.760 on today? Yeah, I don't know what that was. All 0:11:15.800 --> 0:11:17.680 you did was give this team confidence. Not this team 0:11:17.679 --> 0:11:18.480 believed they can beat. 0:11:18.360 --> 0:11:22.079 Your assay, you gonna have you, Hey, Joe, Oh Joe, 0:11:22.080 --> 0:11:24.200 they're gonna catch Hell close them if they try to close, 0:11:24.200 --> 0:11:26.839 they're gonna catch Hill on Wednesday night, you think so? 0:11:27.000 --> 0:11:28.359 Oh yeah? Yeah? 0:11:28.880 --> 0:11:30.920 And kt KT playing Wednesday. 0:11:30.640 --> 0:11:33.600 Hungh, he probably should be yeah yeah, hey. 0:11:33.400 --> 0:11:36.440 Hey, Lebron was probably tired, Uncle Joe, you think you 0:11:36.440 --> 0:11:37.240 think you were signed? 0:11:37.480 --> 0:11:40.040 Of course, because he came out trying to facilitate. He 0:11:40.120 --> 0:11:42.240 was trying to get everybody else going first, and then 0:11:42.240 --> 0:11:44.200 he's like, okay, when y'all need me a little late, 0:11:44.360 --> 0:11:47.120 but then it's too late. You're already down fifteen, you 0:11:47.200 --> 0:11:48.559 down seventeen, it's too late now. 0:11:48.720 --> 0:11:52.040 Yeah, you out of rhythm? Yeah, hey, Lebron is a 0:11:52.120 --> 0:11:52.600 rhythm guy. 0:11:52.640 --> 0:11:55.800 If you notice Lebron games, when he's going good, he'll 0:11:55.840 --> 0:11:57.800 be able to keep it going. But he's not one 0:11:57.800 --> 0:12:00.320 of those guys that cannot that that doesn't get it 0:12:00.320 --> 0:12:02.800 good going early and then be able to pick it up. 0:12:02.800 --> 0:12:05.200 That's not what he is, nah, hey, and that's why 0:12:05.320 --> 0:12:07.079 that's why he got off to that slow start when 0:12:07.080 --> 0:12:08.440 he came back early in the year. 0:12:09.040 --> 0:12:09.360 Uh. 0:12:09.400 --> 0:12:11.480 You know, obviously the Lakers have been playing great. You 0:12:11.520 --> 0:12:14.199 got Luca and Ar leading away, and he didn't want 0:12:14.200 --> 0:12:15.640 to get in the way of that. And that's what 0:12:15.720 --> 0:12:17.440 I was telling you. I'm like, Man, he come out 0:12:17.480 --> 0:12:20.400 with this facilitating mode early. It's hard for him to 0:12:20.480 --> 0:12:22.800 kind of get in rhythm and get going when when 0:12:22.800 --> 0:12:26.319 he needed to. That's why the first what the first 0:12:26.400 --> 0:12:29.800 twenty some games, he was asking like eighteen to twenty points, 0:12:29.880 --> 0:12:32.120 you know, when it could have been it could have 0:12:32.120 --> 0:12:35.240 been a lot better. But I think I think the 0:12:35.320 --> 0:12:37.079 Rockets really feel like they can come back and win 0:12:37.160 --> 0:12:37.600 this series. 0:12:37.640 --> 0:12:38.080 Fellas. 0:12:38.440 --> 0:12:41.280 Yeah, I think I said, I'm telling you what I 0:12:41.320 --> 0:12:46.080 think they think. Oh, I think I'm saying if they 0:12:46.120 --> 0:12:49.480 feel like KD gonna be ready by Wednesday, man, that's 0:12:49.559 --> 0:12:51.600 that's that's that's a few days KD. 0:12:51.480 --> 0:12:52.160 Gonna be ready. 0:12:53.080 --> 0:12:54.760 I think they really feel like if they can go 0:12:54.800 --> 0:12:56.760 to LA and get one just to bring it back 0:12:56.800 --> 0:12:57.319 to Houston. 0:12:57.600 --> 0:13:02.440 Yeah, hey, un you said something interesting too, man, you 0:13:02.520 --> 0:13:04.840 said something interesting. You think about Lebron when he came 0:13:04.880 --> 0:13:07.400 out of high school and where his game was high, 0:13:07.400 --> 0:13:09.840 his game has evolved to this point, And you just 0:13:09.880 --> 0:13:12.400 said something that I would think because he's so good 0:13:12.400 --> 0:13:14.640 at what he's what he's done, being able to evolve, 0:13:14.679 --> 0:13:17.120 being able to adapt, you know, to to change, and 0:13:17.160 --> 0:13:19.200 the way the game has changed, and as he's gotten older, 0:13:19.480 --> 0:13:21.600 his game has had to change along the way as well. 0:13:21.880 --> 0:13:24.080 And you said he's a rhythm guy. 0:13:24.240 --> 0:13:26.839 That he can't he can't facilitate and just pick up 0:13:27.040 --> 0:13:28.800 and just pick it up right away. That he has 0:13:28.840 --> 0:13:30.760 to have himself in the rhythm just to get going. 0:13:30.920 --> 0:13:33.440 You would think someone like him doesn't need that. 0:13:34.400 --> 0:13:36.280 Nah, it's hard, it's hard, O Choe. 0:13:36.640 --> 0:13:39.800 He needed to see a couple of shots go down early, yeah, 0:13:39.840 --> 0:13:42.600 and then you know he got I mean, I think 0:13:42.640 --> 0:13:45.240 he had a couple of assists before he even took 0:13:45.240 --> 0:13:47.560 any shots. Yeah, and then he got a couple of shots, 0:13:47.559 --> 0:13:50.120 and then he went back to facilitated. He smoked another 0:13:50.200 --> 0:13:52.079 layup kind of got him out of rhythm. He smoked 0:13:52.120 --> 0:13:56.719 two layups got him out of rhythm. As a guy, 0:13:56.760 --> 0:13:58.320 if you kind of like out of rhythm, you just 0:13:58.360 --> 0:14:00.840 need to see the ball go in. Yeah, And once 0:14:00.840 --> 0:14:01.800 he sees the ball. 0:14:01.679 --> 0:14:03.800 Go in, I was like okay, because I was like, 0:14:03.840 --> 0:14:05.320 okay making his free throws tonight. 0:14:05.360 --> 0:14:07.240 I was like, okay, that's a good side there. You're 0:14:07.280 --> 0:14:09.480 not you're not clanking the free throws. And then for 0:14:09.520 --> 0:14:11.959 whatever reason, he just couldn't get anything to fall. U 0:14:12.520 --> 0:14:15.480 turn around, his turnaround wasn't going. Then he get it 0:14:15.520 --> 0:14:17.480 back again and he hit the side of the backboard. 0:14:17.679 --> 0:14:20.800 The three ball didn't fall for him. It was just 0:14:20.920 --> 0:14:24.080 they were just out of source tonight. And there's yeah, 0:14:24.120 --> 0:14:26.640 he should have been tired. Forty one having to play 0:14:26.680 --> 0:14:30.120 forty four, forty five minutes now, that's that's that's more 0:14:30.160 --> 0:14:32.720 than any forty one nobody's playing that kind of those 0:14:32.800 --> 0:14:35.440 kind of minutes. And what was expected of him because 0:14:35.480 --> 0:14:37.200 at the end, late in the ball game, you're gonna 0:14:37.200 --> 0:14:38.240 have the ball in his hands. 0:14:38.480 --> 0:14:40.920 So it's a lot on his plate. But give the 0:14:41.000 --> 0:14:41.680 Rockets credit. 0:14:41.800 --> 0:14:44.160 The Rockets like, we're not getting swept, We're not going 0:14:44.200 --> 0:14:46.640 down without a fight. This is what I may have 0:14:46.720 --> 0:14:52.960 been trying to compete. Whatever happens happens, Just compete and 0:14:53.040 --> 0:14:55.640 let the chips fall where they may. You see guys 0:14:55.640 --> 0:14:57.240 getting on the floor. You see guys getting in the 0:14:57.280 --> 0:14:59.880 passing lane. You see a lot of deflections. That means 0:14:59.880 --> 0:15:01.000 that they were competing tonight. 0:15:01.280 --> 0:15:03.680 Yeah, and you don't see guy, you don't see the 0:15:03.760 --> 0:15:06.440 rockets out there with too much indecision on what it 0:15:06.520 --> 0:15:09.640 is they're trying to do. They're very decisive on their 0:15:09.720 --> 0:15:13.240 shot taking, you know what I mean, being aggressive, attacking, 0:15:13.360 --> 0:15:16.920 attacking the guys on the offensive end and defensively, they 0:15:17.080 --> 0:15:20.280 just more physical on the picking rolls, on the switches. 0:15:20.600 --> 0:15:23.360 You know, they just trying to cause havoc man and 0:15:23.440 --> 0:15:25.720 to to kind of go back to Lebron. 0:15:26.080 --> 0:15:26.960 He don't. 0:15:27.440 --> 0:15:29.320 It's like when he started the game, you can kind 0:15:29.320 --> 0:15:31.080 of tell what kind of night is gonna be for him, 0:15:31.120 --> 0:15:34.240 because if he's not assertive right away in the first 0:15:34.280 --> 0:15:37.400 five to six minutes, Ojo, you can tell like he's 0:15:37.440 --> 0:15:39.680 just coming out picking rolls just to pass. He ain't 0:15:39.720 --> 0:15:42.360 coming out yes, be aggressive or none of that. He 0:15:42.480 --> 0:15:44.400 just coming off to make a play, make a pass. 0:15:44.760 --> 0:15:47.320 And it's kind of maybe it was fatigue that that 0:15:47.320 --> 0:15:49.000 that's kind of got him. I think these couple of 0:15:49.040 --> 0:15:52.680 days of rest, you know, a guy like that, obviously 0:15:52.800 --> 0:15:57.520 arguably the greatest ever played the game. You know, the 0:15:57.560 --> 0:16:00.400 next game five? He don't, he don't. He don't want 0:16:00.440 --> 0:16:02.960 to go back to Houston. He knows the importance of it. Yeah, 0:16:03.080 --> 0:16:05.680 he knows, he knows. He's been in this situation. Remember 0:16:05.680 --> 0:16:08.840 what he said, Let's go get one. They got one 0:16:09.000 --> 0:16:11.560 and say, hey, let's bring it back home game five. Hey, 0:16:11.640 --> 0:16:14.120 let's go to go to their place. We're gonna win 0:16:14.200 --> 0:16:16.560 game five at our place. We're gonna go back to 0:16:16.600 --> 0:16:19.000 their place, I mean coming well. They won game five. 0:16:18.800 --> 0:16:21.800 And and and uh and and debate in Golden State. 0:16:22.160 --> 0:16:26.960 They brought game six back. Now the pressure, all that 0:16:27.080 --> 0:16:29.640 pressure is on Golden State. They don't want to come back. 0:16:30.440 --> 0:16:31.120 No, sil. 0:16:32.640 --> 0:16:35.800 Remember no team has ever come back from O three. Now, 0:16:35.840 --> 0:16:38.120 eventually it's going to happen. We've only seen it in 0:16:38.320 --> 0:16:40.840 I think one sport. I think baseball. The Yankees was 0:16:40.920 --> 0:16:43.120 up three to zero on the Red Sox. Red Sox 0:16:43.160 --> 0:16:46.360 came all the way back because as you lose games, 0:16:46.760 --> 0:16:51.840 pressure more and more pressure starts to mount. Yeah, hey, damn, okay, 0:16:51.840 --> 0:16:54.200 they ended up getting one. Now they come back, they 0:16:54.240 --> 0:16:56.840 get another one in your place. Now you got pressure 0:16:56.840 --> 0:16:59.520 on you. They go back and get another one. At 0:16:59.520 --> 0:17:03.120 their place. Oh damn, now we got a game seven. 0:17:03.280 --> 0:17:06.560 We were just up three. Oh but guys, damn, now 0:17:06.600 --> 0:17:09.240 it's one game. It winna take off. They ain't got 0:17:09.240 --> 0:17:14.680 nothing to lose. And but yeah, I agree with you, Joe. 0:17:14.760 --> 0:17:16.600 You could tell early on he was looking, he was 0:17:16.640 --> 0:17:18.920 coming off, he wasn't looking to get downhill. And maybe 0:17:19.080 --> 0:17:22.800 maybe maybe forty five minutes took something out of his legs. Yeah, 0:17:23.160 --> 0:17:26.239 maybe maybe it took something out his legs. Yeah, but 0:17:26.400 --> 0:17:29.240 I think you'll see more of an effort next game 0:17:30.119 --> 0:17:30.880 getting his ass down. 0:17:30.920 --> 0:17:31.080 Here. 0:17:31.119 --> 0:17:34.000 He coming up that pick, looking to get downhill, and yeah, 0:17:34.040 --> 0:17:36.160 he might pass it, but it's gonna be a lobbed 0:17:36.160 --> 0:17:38.359 to d or Jackson Hayes because he's gonna look pressure, 0:17:38.400 --> 0:17:40.480 look to put pressure on the defense. 0:17:40.880 --> 0:17:42.320 He's got you, he's got you. 0:17:42.720 --> 0:17:45.119 He got and Joe, they got forty eight hours the 0:17:45.119 --> 0:17:48.800 rest right. Yes, they're gonna be fine. They gonna they're 0:17:48.800 --> 0:17:49.480 gonna close it out. 0:17:49.640 --> 0:17:52.320 Then think about it. They probably gonna have aar probably 0:17:52.320 --> 0:17:55.000 gonna come back. I was I could see a scenario 0:17:55.040 --> 0:17:58.160 where r is playing. Yeah, I think are gonna come back. 0:17:58.280 --> 0:18:00.080 Hey, Joe, I don't think that's smart though. 0:18:00.359 --> 0:18:03.879 He ain't got but a real real. 0:18:03.320 --> 0:18:04.480 I'm just saying. I'm just saying. 0:18:04.560 --> 0:18:08.320 I mean, i'd rather, you know, reserve yourself, just stay 0:18:08.359 --> 0:18:10.040 all over health to get all the way back healthy. 0:18:10.080 --> 0:18:12.480 Just wait for the next series because i mean, look, listen, 0:18:13.200 --> 0:18:16.040 you can't change that on yo. Hey the series three one. 0:18:16.080 --> 0:18:18.000 Now you know the Rockers don't have enough firepower to 0:18:18.000 --> 0:18:20.400