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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, dude, thanks for taking time out of your

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Speaker 1: night to hang out. Absolutely, that was quite the roller

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Speaker 1: coaster the game. It's it's extremely hard for a bunch

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Speaker 1: of gifted basketball players to play hard against a bunch

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Speaker 1: of guys who are at any given moment they're capable

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Speaker 1: just gonna be like that. Fortunately. You know, I watched

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Speaker 1: I was a big a broad fan when he was

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Speaker 1: so literally like two out of every three, if not

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Speaker 1: three out of every four games was like this. Literally,

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Speaker 1: it's awful every year. And now in the West, for

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Speaker 1: the most part, they have enough decent competition to kind

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Speaker 1: of keep them focused. It makes it a lot more

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Speaker 1: fun to watch him. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, me too. I

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Speaker 1: I remember watching those games in Cleveland and they were

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Speaker 1: just a slugfest. Oh yeah, there was. There was a

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Speaker 1: funny stretch at two thou eighteen. Uh. You know, it's funny.

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Speaker 1: I make a lot of comparisons between the two thousand

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Speaker 1: It's funny to me because like that two eighteen Calves team,

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Speaker 1: they were just it was like they were so like

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Speaker 1: They were losing often to bad teams. Whereas like with Steph,

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Speaker 1: it's like he's absolutely had to be amazing every night

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Speaker 1: because they've just been playing these unbelievably good teams and

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Speaker 1: But I mean that Orlando team, they're deliberately just like, um,

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Speaker 1: what's his name, the little guard I'm linking Brandy co Anthony. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: co Anthony is okay, I guess, but he they're basically

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Speaker 1: just letting him do stuff to see if he can play.

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Speaker 1: That's basically what's happening. Right. They play hard though, man,

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Speaker 1: they play really hard. Uh. It feels like every night

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Speaker 1: and the Lakers went up big, they went up like sixteen,

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Speaker 1: but when they put it, when they took the foot

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Speaker 1: So because we can kind of get into the game

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Speaker 1: if you want to let a couple more people I

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Speaker 1: guess get in here. Um, so, what are you guys

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Speaker 1: like first, thoughts on the game. I guess just as

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Speaker 1: a whole. Um, I guess I can start with with you, Omar,

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Speaker 1: would you what do you think of the game today? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean, like I said earlier, it was a total uh.

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Speaker 1: Like we saw we saw them come out right after

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Speaker 1: that disappointing loss with the maps. They came out, the

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Speaker 1: Lakers came out, played really well. Uh. Then we kind

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Speaker 1: And you know, one thing is that we couldn't it

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Speaker 1: seemed like we couldn't hold onto the ball. We went

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Speaker 1: from the first quarter we had one turnover and then

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Speaker 1: the second quarter we had seven uh. And that led

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Speaker 1: to I think like thirteen and fourteen easy transition buckets

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Speaker 1: for Orlando, and it really got them in a rhythm,

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Speaker 1: like like they had a nice looking jumper like moving

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Speaker 1: forward in the game. Um. And then you know talent

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Speaker 1: the game. Dennis kind of just went berserk with that

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Speaker 1: interesting to me about that closing stretch there is they

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Speaker 1: was talking with somebody from Warriors Twitter during the game

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Speaker 1: in a weird way, you know, McLamore gives them flexibility

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Speaker 1: I think if you watch down the stretch of that game,

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Speaker 1: You want to make the game easy for your players,

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Speaker 1: and you make the game easy by creating space, and

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Speaker 1: you create space by having really skilled players on the

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Speaker 1: totally changed, like the geometry of the court. Yeah, and

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Speaker 1: it was nice to see a d get his mid

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Speaker 1: it was good to see him moving, hitting jumpers and

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Speaker 1: kind of yeah, finally hit the three off that play

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Speaker 1: that Jason you were talking about, right, Shooter drove off

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Speaker 1: to kind of, um, I iced the game. And I'm

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Speaker 1: not worried about Anthony Davis. I mean, there's a lot

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Speaker 1: they had all these defensive mistakes, right and Orlando was

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Speaker 1: Did you see that as well. Drummond and a D

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Speaker 1: it definitely led to like easy dunks and easy lanness

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Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know, I saw some of that.

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Speaker 1: doesn't look like it's what it's supposed to right now,

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Speaker 1: and uh, coming into tonight, it's like, you're what you

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Speaker 1: after they went up I think sixteen Orlanto went on

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Speaker 1: a lot of just lack of days ago effort, really

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Speaker 1: So like I was, I was thinking what you guys

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Speaker 1: do you think like Tred's kind of will stay Because

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Speaker 1: I thought Tres played really well tonight. I think this

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Speaker 1: So him sitting out that last House game definitely helped

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Speaker 1: you know, as low expectation as possible. I think that's

430
00:20:42,680 --> 00:20:44,720
Speaker 1: his job as a coach, is trying to not to

431
00:20:44,720 --> 00:20:47,760
Speaker 1: try not to put some timetable on Lebron, but hopefully

432
00:20:47,800 --> 00:20:49,760
Speaker 1: can come back next week. I mean, Lebron posted like

433
00:20:49,800 --> 00:20:52,520
Speaker 1: a video of himself I think doing a suicide or

434
00:20:52,560 --> 00:20:56,280
Speaker 1: running back and forth or something like. So I think

435
00:20:56,280 --> 00:20:58,160
Speaker 1: he's kind of like he's you could see him itching

436
00:20:58,200 --> 00:20:59,720
Speaker 1: to play. I think there was also a video of

437
00:20:59,760 --> 00:21:02,359
Speaker 1: like him shooting around without the ball or something like that,

438
00:21:02,440 --> 00:21:05,240
Speaker 1: pretending to like shoot around. So, um, yeah, I think

439
00:21:05,280 --> 00:21:07,080
Speaker 1: that's Vogo's kind of job there is to make it

440
00:21:07,160 --> 00:21:09,680
Speaker 1: kind of low expectation. Let let Lebron kind of come

441
00:21:09,680 --> 00:21:12,600
Speaker 1: out or let the medical staff say when when he'll

442
00:21:12,640 --> 00:21:16,439
Speaker 1: be ready, but hopefully he'll be here soon. It's super

443
00:21:16,480 --> 00:21:19,560
Speaker 1: strange to me that we'll go ahead, go ahead. No,

444
00:21:19,680 --> 00:21:23,760
Speaker 1: I was just gonna, I was just gonna what you're

445
00:21:23,960 --> 00:21:28,320
Speaker 1: saying about that. And and also to add to that, Um,

446
00:21:28,520 --> 00:21:30,680
Speaker 1: Vogel is super transparent with this, you know, with his

447
00:21:30,800 --> 00:21:34,960
Speaker 1: players and this staff, and UM, you know, I appreciate

448
00:21:35,080 --> 00:21:37,840
Speaker 1: that Vogel also steps up, you know, for his players,

449
00:21:37,880 --> 00:21:40,600
Speaker 1: and he's not applying pressure to you know, Lebron or

450
00:21:40,640 --> 00:21:43,639
Speaker 1: a Dye, whoever's out and injured whatnot. Um could come

451
00:21:43,680 --> 00:21:47,080
Speaker 1: back sooner than later. So that's that's all I was

452
00:21:47,080 --> 00:21:50,600
Speaker 1: gonna say, so, you know, but it's interesting to me

453
00:21:50,840 --> 00:21:55,520
Speaker 1: that like, uh, this whole process for him coming back

454
00:21:55,560 --> 00:22:00,800
Speaker 1: from this ankle has been weirdly not transparent. Um. Lebron

455
00:22:00,920 --> 00:22:05,359
Speaker 1: is usually very showy and very um you know, uh

456
00:22:05,680 --> 00:22:08,240
Speaker 1: like forthcoming with his workouts and all that kind of stuff,

457
00:22:08,280 --> 00:22:11,840
Speaker 1: and like he's not even posting as many workout videos

458
00:22:11,840 --> 00:22:14,800
Speaker 1: and stuff. And I I haven't seen any video of

459
00:22:14,880 --> 00:22:17,720
Speaker 1: him doing anything with the basketball. I've heard reports of

460
00:22:17,800 --> 00:22:20,080
Speaker 1: him doing like shooting, and I've seen the video of

461
00:22:20,119 --> 00:22:22,399
Speaker 1: him jogging up and down the floor, but it is

462
00:22:22,440 --> 00:22:25,800
Speaker 1: like weirdly kept close to the chest, and I don't

463
00:22:25,800 --> 00:22:27,240
Speaker 1: I don't know what's going on with that. I don't

464
00:22:27,240 --> 00:22:30,119
Speaker 1: know if that's for theatrical purposes or if that means

465
00:22:30,200 --> 00:22:32,720
Speaker 1: that he's a little bit further behind. And we all

466
00:22:32,760 --> 00:22:36,320
Speaker 1: thought I saw people micro analyzing the jogging thing. I

467
00:22:36,359 --> 00:22:40,639
Speaker 1: didn't think. I didn't think that was released to be

468
00:22:40,720 --> 00:22:42,399
Speaker 1: the jogging. I thought it was like because there was

469
00:22:42,440 --> 00:22:44,200
Speaker 1: like a prayer going on in the background. I thought

470
00:22:44,200 --> 00:22:47,000
Speaker 1: it was like kind of all of the theatrical stuff.

471
00:22:47,000 --> 00:22:50,560
Speaker 1: But it's also a lot of trainers use jogging as

472
00:22:50,600 --> 00:22:53,560
Speaker 1: a warm up because it really gets your calves and

473
00:22:53,560 --> 00:22:55,479
Speaker 1: your achilles loose, because it's like a little bit more

474
00:22:55,480 --> 00:22:57,840
Speaker 1: intense than running. It's less on your heels and more

475
00:22:57,840 --> 00:23:02,240
Speaker 1: on your toes. UM. But yeah, I tend to think

476
00:23:02,320 --> 00:23:05,600
Speaker 1: that if if we've heard from somebody that he's gonna

477
00:23:05,640 --> 00:23:08,359
Speaker 1: come back during um these next you know, three or

478
00:23:08,400 --> 00:23:11,080
Speaker 1: four games, that that's probably what we'll see. My thing, too,

479
00:23:11,200 --> 00:23:14,240
Speaker 1: is if you look at the schedule, it's relatively easy

480
00:23:14,320 --> 00:23:17,400
Speaker 1: in this next three or four games and the game

481
00:23:17,520 --> 00:23:19,760
Speaker 1: the games are there's no back to backs, at least,

482
00:23:19,800 --> 00:23:23,240
Speaker 1: I don't think in the next three. Um. So from

483
00:23:23,240 --> 00:23:25,159
Speaker 1: that standpoint, like that kind of seems like a perfect

484
00:23:25,160 --> 00:23:28,440
Speaker 1: time to do it. But at the end of the day, um,

485
00:23:28,480 --> 00:23:30,439
Speaker 1: you know, I think, like as it was during this

486
00:23:30,480 --> 00:23:33,040
Speaker 1: whole stretch, will come down to the standings. It's very,

487
00:23:33,160 --> 00:23:35,359
Speaker 1: very important if the Lakers get the five seed in

488
00:23:35,359 --> 00:23:37,200
Speaker 1: my opinion, because the five seed is what gives them

489
00:23:37,240 --> 00:23:39,760
Speaker 1: the easiest path to the finals to go through that

490
00:23:39,840 --> 00:23:43,560
Speaker 1: injured Denver team and then to go through either Phoenix

491
00:23:43,640 --> 00:23:46,240
Speaker 1: or Utah, and then to go through the Clippers in

492
00:23:46,240 --> 00:23:48,879
Speaker 1: the Western Conference finals. So my guess is, you know,

493
00:23:49,040 --> 00:23:52,719
Speaker 1: Dallas has a game tonight in Sacramento. If if Dallas

494
00:23:52,800 --> 00:23:55,920
Speaker 1: drops a game the Sacramento tonight, um, you know, there's

495
00:23:55,920 --> 00:23:58,720
Speaker 1: a decent chance that Lebron might be even taking an

496
00:23:58,720 --> 00:24:01,480
Speaker 1: extra game or two because then at that point you're

497
00:24:01,520 --> 00:24:03,560
Speaker 1: two and a half games up and it just gets

498
00:24:03,560 --> 00:24:08,480
Speaker 1: a little bit more comfortable with the seating, right and

499
00:24:08,480 --> 00:24:09,960
Speaker 1: and when he when he comes back, Like, did you

500
00:24:09,960 --> 00:24:11,520
Speaker 1: guys watch that. I don't know if you guys heard

501
00:24:11,520 --> 00:24:15,360
Speaker 1: the Boars the kind of interview on the Ringer podcast,

502
00:24:15,359 --> 00:24:16,840
Speaker 1: have you heard that? I know this hasn't really do

503
00:24:16,920 --> 00:24:19,119
Speaker 1: with the game. I heard it was really good that

504
00:24:19,160 --> 00:24:20,680
Speaker 1: I haven't I heard. It was really good at playing.

505
00:24:20,720 --> 00:24:22,240
Speaker 1: I'm listening to it, I just haven't heard it yet.

506
00:24:22,800 --> 00:24:24,640
Speaker 1: It was good. But like my favorite part was bores

507
00:24:24,880 --> 00:24:27,399
Speaker 1: House saying like it was easier to guard Lebron then,

508
00:24:27,760 --> 00:24:30,359
Speaker 1: which is Miami eat Lebron, you know, like in peak

509
00:24:30,920 --> 00:24:33,320
Speaker 1: Lebron and his peak physical form than today, which is

510
00:24:33,400 --> 00:24:35,640
Speaker 1: Lebron at what thirty five years old? So I thought

511
00:24:35,640 --> 00:24:37,119
Speaker 1: that was kind of funny and it kind of shows

512
00:24:37,119 --> 00:24:39,119
Speaker 1: again like what the Lakers are missing right this This

513
00:24:39,160 --> 00:24:42,119
Speaker 1: whole team is still built around Lebron James. Like I know,

514
00:24:42,320 --> 00:24:44,000
Speaker 1: Anthony Davis is a huge part of it, but still

515
00:24:44,040 --> 00:24:46,800
Speaker 1: the whole identity is still built around Lebron and his

516
00:24:46,840 --> 00:24:48,879
Speaker 1: shock creation ability, and it's really easy to try kind

517
00:24:48,880 --> 00:24:51,119
Speaker 1: of lose that. I think a shoutout pick up Whop

518
00:24:51,160 --> 00:24:54,000
Speaker 1: on Twitter said, um that Lebron's already missed more games

519
00:24:54,000 --> 00:24:56,880
Speaker 1: this year than you did in with the growing which

520
00:24:56,920 --> 00:25:00,200
Speaker 1: is because it feels like it hasn't been that because

521
00:25:00,200 --> 00:25:03,200
Speaker 1: I remember that season at such a health scope, especially

522
00:25:03,200 --> 00:25:06,040
Speaker 1: after Christmas Day. I just remember Lebron injury and then

523
00:25:06,040 --> 00:25:08,159
Speaker 1: all of a sudden it passed forward to like the

524
00:25:08,240 --> 00:25:10,840
Speaker 1: free agency so that that season kind of blurred out.

525
00:25:10,880 --> 00:25:12,760
Speaker 1: But yeah, he's already missed more games than that, which

526
00:25:12,800 --> 00:25:14,480
Speaker 1: is which again I think is why they're going to

527
00:25:14,520 --> 00:25:17,320
Speaker 1: be really careful with this with this high ankle's brain

528
00:25:17,400 --> 00:25:20,240
Speaker 1: and and uh and I think as long as Dallas

529
00:25:20,240 --> 00:25:22,320
Speaker 1: still stays a game behind, I think they'll still take

530
00:25:22,359 --> 00:25:24,919
Speaker 1: it slow. That's why that loss was so huge the

531
00:25:24,960 --> 00:25:28,280
Speaker 1: other day. But yeah, we'll see if Dallas. Dallas has

532
00:25:28,280 --> 00:25:29,760
Speaker 1: been playing up and down as well, right, I mean,

533
00:25:29,760 --> 00:25:31,439
Speaker 1: they beat the Lakers twice, but they haven't been They

534
00:25:31,440 --> 00:25:34,960
Speaker 1: have some bad losses recently. Yeah, exactly, so you can

535
00:25:34,960 --> 00:25:37,440
Speaker 1: see how that can, I guess, persuade them to continue

536
00:25:37,440 --> 00:25:39,560
Speaker 1: to keep kind of Lebron in a in a rest

537
00:25:39,600 --> 00:25:44,080
Speaker 1: mode here going forward. You know, it's interesting with with

538
00:25:44,119 --> 00:25:47,480
Speaker 1: what you were saying about Lebron, we we get so

539
00:25:47,600 --> 00:25:50,560
Speaker 1: caught up because we've been watching this team for so long,

540
00:25:50,680 --> 00:25:53,359
Speaker 1: this version of the team with Dennis Shruder being the

541
00:25:53,359 --> 00:25:57,240
Speaker 1: primary ball handler, that we forget that, like this entire

542
00:25:57,359 --> 00:26:01,720
Speaker 1: roster design was predicated on Lebron James setting up dudes

543
00:26:01,720 --> 00:26:04,480
Speaker 1: for shots. And you know, it's the one thing that

544
00:26:04,480 --> 00:26:06,200
Speaker 1: gives me a little bit of peace of mind as

545
00:26:06,240 --> 00:26:08,920
Speaker 1: it pertains to his athleticism, Like if you go watch

546
00:26:09,000 --> 00:26:11,959
Speaker 1: Lebron in the bubble, he was absolute peeking, Like if

547
00:26:11,960 --> 00:26:14,760
Speaker 1: you watch him against Denver creating shots, like he's just

548
00:26:14,800 --> 00:26:17,840
Speaker 1: a step ahead everybody and and peaking athletically, And obviously

549
00:26:18,119 --> 00:26:22,760
Speaker 1: we prefer that. But he's he's smart enough, and he's

550
00:26:22,760 --> 00:26:25,560
Speaker 1: big enough, and he's strong enough that like he can

551
00:26:25,600 --> 00:26:28,320
Speaker 1: still kind of ease his way into things and almost

552
00:26:28,359 --> 00:26:30,760
Speaker 1: like a the backdel point guard type of role where

553
00:26:30,760 --> 00:26:32,280
Speaker 1: he can put his back to the basket and use

554
00:26:32,320 --> 00:26:34,199
Speaker 1: a lot of screens to just try to get the

555
00:26:34,200 --> 00:26:36,080
Speaker 1: defense to commit one way or the other and just

556
00:26:36,119 --> 00:26:38,720
Speaker 1: create open shots first teammates that way. So I think

557
00:26:38,760 --> 00:26:40,840
Speaker 1: it will actually be a pretty easy transition getting back

558
00:26:40,880 --> 00:26:43,399
Speaker 1: in and like you said, like I don't think I

559
00:26:43,400 --> 00:26:45,400
Speaker 1: think people are going to be kind of jarred by

560
00:26:45,440 --> 00:26:48,840
Speaker 1: how how much how much the shot quality for the

561
00:26:48,960 --> 00:26:51,199
Speaker 1: entire team improves when they go back to the way

562
00:26:51,240 --> 00:26:57,840
Speaker 1: they were originally structured and to play right and then

563
00:26:57,880 --> 00:26:59,920
Speaker 1: like I just want to see him get at least

564
00:27:00,040 --> 00:27:01,920
Speaker 1: seeding game and like I think we got what eight

565
00:27:01,920 --> 00:27:05,280
Speaker 1: seeding games right before before the playoffs started. Um, I

566
00:27:05,280 --> 00:27:06,920
Speaker 1: just want him to get back for at least eight games,

567
00:27:06,960 --> 00:27:09,240
Speaker 1: which would give at least I think tonight was their

568
00:27:09,280 --> 00:27:13,320
Speaker 1: thirteenth game, but left, if I'm remembering correctly, I think

569
00:27:13,320 --> 00:27:16,000
Speaker 1: they have. I think I think I think it's eleven

570
00:27:16,080 --> 00:27:18,560
Speaker 1: after tonight, so I think it is. I think I

571
00:27:18,560 --> 00:27:22,359
Speaker 1: think I heard that in the broadcast. Okay, eleven games,

572
00:27:22,520 --> 00:27:24,200
Speaker 1: so I guess three more games. I guess he can

573
00:27:24,280 --> 00:27:25,600
Speaker 1: take off. For me, I would like him to get

574
00:27:25,600 --> 00:27:27,880
Speaker 1: at least the amount he got for the seeding games

575
00:27:27,880 --> 00:27:30,000
Speaker 1: where he was able to ramp up. And remember how

576
00:27:30,080 --> 00:27:33,399
Speaker 1: terrible the Lakers looked during that time and everyone was saying, oh,

577
00:27:33,480 --> 00:27:36,200
Speaker 1: man Ken, Lebron turn it back on during the playoffs,

578
00:27:36,200 --> 00:27:38,159
Speaker 1: and then he obviously did, so that's that's where I

579
00:27:38,160 --> 00:27:39,800
Speaker 1: would like to see him get back. I'm not really

580
00:27:39,800 --> 00:27:41,800
Speaker 1: too worried, um. I think the seating will take care

581
00:27:41,800 --> 00:27:44,879
Speaker 1: of itself. They should win enough now that Anthony Davis

582
00:27:44,920 --> 00:27:47,239
Speaker 1: is off the minutes restriction, and you can see him

583
00:27:47,280 --> 00:27:49,760
Speaker 1: get like more and more rhythm as the game goes on. Right,

584
00:27:49,760 --> 00:27:52,360
Speaker 1: every game goes on, it felt like his defensive kind

585
00:27:52,400 --> 00:27:56,160
Speaker 1: of communication and all that with his teammates really picked up.

586
00:27:56,480 --> 00:27:58,720
Speaker 1: But the one with Drummond will He's gonna have to

587
00:27:58,760 --> 00:28:02,280
Speaker 1: work on that because the ad squared like defensive coverage

588
00:28:02,280 --> 00:28:06,320
Speaker 1: are really confusing. It's I can see a d being lost,

589
00:28:06,480 --> 00:28:08,400
Speaker 1: like on the phone, like what are we doing here?

590
00:28:08,400 --> 00:28:10,480
Speaker 1: Like why is he here? And why are you not?

591
00:28:10,600 --> 00:28:12,960
Speaker 1: You know, like I could see those communications, and I

592
00:28:12,960 --> 00:28:15,679
Speaker 1: think that's where they should build uh as as we

593
00:28:15,720 --> 00:28:19,120
Speaker 1: move on here. Yeah, and I think that's go ahead.

594
00:28:19,880 --> 00:28:22,000
Speaker 1: I was just saying, I think that's the point of

595
00:28:22,000 --> 00:28:24,440
Speaker 1: of Drummond getting so many minutes, Like I think we

596
00:28:24,560 --> 00:28:27,520
Speaker 1: just got to kind of see how he fits and

597
00:28:27,520 --> 00:28:31,240
Speaker 1: and how fits and then eventually when Leron gets back,

598
00:28:31,440 --> 00:28:35,000
Speaker 1: hopefully it is soon, because I'd like to see from

599
00:28:35,040 --> 00:28:37,560
Speaker 1: my own sanity too to see how they look before

600
00:28:38,000 --> 00:28:41,480
Speaker 1: the playoffs, but how they all look and how you know,

601
00:28:41,520 --> 00:28:46,360
Speaker 1: the entire team will integrate together. We joked about in

602
00:28:46,440 --> 00:28:50,960
Speaker 1: the last pot about like how how crappy the Laker

603
00:28:51,040 --> 00:28:53,040
Speaker 1: passing has been out of pick and roll and Dennis

604
00:28:53,080 --> 00:28:55,920
Speaker 1: is Dennis, through his credit, has been has had some

605
00:28:56,000 --> 00:28:58,440
Speaker 1: flashes where he's looked pretty good, but it's just like

606
00:28:58,560 --> 00:29:01,280
Speaker 1: stops a little off target. It, you know, it's nothing's

607
00:29:01,280 --> 00:29:05,000
Speaker 1: in a shooting pocket. Everything's a little sloppy, Like we're

608
00:29:05,080 --> 00:29:07,360
Speaker 1: just used to watching Lebron just put those on the

609
00:29:07,440 --> 00:29:10,360
Speaker 1: on a dime to the right spot every single time.

610
00:29:10,440 --> 00:29:13,040
Speaker 1: And and I think it's like, you know, I I

611
00:29:13,400 --> 00:29:16,520
Speaker 1: actually expected Ben McLamore shot quality to get a little

612
00:29:16,520 --> 00:29:19,000
Speaker 1: bit better with Anthony Davis, but it really hasn't. Like

613
00:29:19,080 --> 00:29:21,920
Speaker 1: he's still not getting great looks, you know what I mean?

614
00:29:22,600 --> 00:29:28,120
Speaker 1: And I think I think that will get better in time. Yeah,

615
00:29:28,120 --> 00:29:29,880
Speaker 1: I feels like part of that, part of that is

616
00:29:29,880 --> 00:29:31,800
Speaker 1: like he's part of that. For Ben McLamore, he's still

617
00:29:31,840 --> 00:29:34,320
Speaker 1: not getting a lot of spot up opportunities, Like it's

618
00:29:34,320 --> 00:29:37,720
Speaker 1: still handoffs and um, I mean, he takes tough shots,

619
00:29:37,760 --> 00:29:40,040
Speaker 1: but I think it's like a good and a bad

620
00:29:40,040 --> 00:29:42,440
Speaker 1: thing for him, Like I like that he's an unconscious shooter,

621
00:29:42,480 --> 00:29:44,160
Speaker 1: like he doesn't need to be wide open to take

622
00:29:44,160 --> 00:29:46,400
Speaker 1: the shot. But I think that also creates more variance

623
00:29:46,640 --> 00:29:49,239
Speaker 1: like when he makes them so and it's still like

624
00:29:49,280 --> 00:29:51,280
Speaker 1: it's it's a lot of looks that aren't He's not

625
00:29:51,320 --> 00:29:54,240
Speaker 1: like standing in the corner after someone cheats on him, right,

626
00:29:54,240 --> 00:29:56,120
Speaker 1: Like it's it's a lot of like he's because that's

627
00:29:56,160 --> 00:29:57,840
Speaker 1: the one shooter that they're not going to help off of.

628
00:29:57,920 --> 00:29:59,760
Speaker 1: It feels like, like, that's that's kind of what I

629
00:29:59,800 --> 00:30:01,720
Speaker 1: saw tonight. So most of his lips are coming off

630
00:30:01,720 --> 00:30:04,800
Speaker 1: screens or getting off handoffs or you know, tough shots

631
00:30:04,800 --> 00:30:06,440
Speaker 1: for him that are off the move. And he's still

632
00:30:06,440 --> 00:30:09,240
Speaker 1: shot two for five tonight. But again, like it, it

633
00:30:09,320 --> 00:30:11,600
Speaker 1: just felt like his shots are aren't coming easy. I

634
00:30:11,640 --> 00:30:14,360
Speaker 1: agree with that you just said the most important thing

635
00:30:14,760 --> 00:30:17,640
Speaker 1: a shooter, a shooter never being open is actually a

636
00:30:17,640 --> 00:30:19,880
Speaker 1: good thing, even if he's not making shots. It's just

637
00:30:20,320 --> 00:30:23,040
Speaker 1: it's just organic spacing. And again I touched on this

638
00:30:23,080 --> 00:30:26,000
Speaker 1: at the beginning of the show, but like, it's crazy

639
00:30:26,120 --> 00:30:28,880
Speaker 1: to see how the geometry of the floor has changed

640
00:30:28,880 --> 00:30:31,520
Speaker 1: just with Lebron or excuse me, with a d coming back,

641
00:30:31,800 --> 00:30:34,680
Speaker 1: and if if you watch it, just getting you know,

642
00:30:34,960 --> 00:30:38,840
Speaker 1: seeing Dennis Shooter have all that space to navigate pick

643
00:30:38,880 --> 00:30:41,520
Speaker 1: and roll with Drummond, You're gonna see Lebron be doing

644
00:30:41,560 --> 00:30:44,240
Speaker 1: the same thing. And it's it's gonna be really cool

645
00:30:44,280 --> 00:30:47,280
Speaker 1: to see. And uh again, like I think you know

646
00:30:47,320 --> 00:30:51,120
Speaker 1: I mentioned earlier that uh actually said it on Twitter

647
00:30:51,560 --> 00:30:55,520
Speaker 1: that Anthony Davis was some crazy cold streak from three

648
00:30:55,640 --> 00:30:58,520
Speaker 1: was like four out of thirty six dating back to

649
00:30:59,400 --> 00:31:05,480
Speaker 1: January thirteen, UM, I think that that he's gonna start

650
00:31:05,520 --> 00:31:08,080
Speaker 1: to see a little bit of teams leave him open

651
00:31:08,120 --> 00:31:10,200
Speaker 1: a little bit, and I think that might help him

652
00:31:10,240 --> 00:31:12,520
Speaker 1: get going, at which point things will continue to even

653
00:31:12,680 --> 00:31:19,240
Speaker 1: further open up for everybody. Does anybody want to hop

654
00:31:19,320 --> 00:31:22,000
Speaker 1: up on here and speak with us? Um, I'll be

655
00:31:22,080 --> 00:31:24,480
Speaker 1: checking the speaker requests here in a minute, Rose, do

656
00:31:24,480 --> 00:31:26,680
Speaker 1: you want to start going through the comments? Yeah? Sure,

657
00:31:27,200 --> 00:31:33,120
Speaker 1: Uh let's see here, Um, Dennis only two Jeremiah Neyonda,

658
00:31:33,240 --> 00:31:35,120
Speaker 1: But I said that right, Dennis with two turnovers in

659
00:31:35,160 --> 00:31:37,560
Speaker 1: thirty eight minutes. It feels like he's really like got

660
00:31:37,600 --> 00:31:39,680
Speaker 1: to turnovers down all right. As we have kind of

661
00:31:39,680 --> 00:31:41,480
Speaker 1: moved moved over here, I forgot what game it was

662
00:31:41,520 --> 00:31:43,320
Speaker 1: that he had like a whole bunch of turnovers, but

663
00:31:43,360 --> 00:31:45,320
Speaker 1: it feels like he's really controlled that since then, and

664
00:31:45,680 --> 00:31:48,080
Speaker 1: he's been like the real Like I love that he's

665
00:31:48,080 --> 00:31:51,000
Speaker 1: shown as like the leader on offense still I talked

666
00:31:51,000 --> 00:31:53,040
Speaker 1: about this earlier, or even with eight back, you can

667
00:31:53,120 --> 00:31:55,720
Speaker 1: just see him kind of still controlling the game, picking

668
00:31:55,720 --> 00:31:58,200
Speaker 1: his spots at the right time, staying aggressive the whole time.

669
00:31:58,240 --> 00:32:00,320
Speaker 1: But like, do you guys see that as well? His

670
00:32:00,320 --> 00:32:02,400
Speaker 1: turnovers have really dipped it feels like his passes are

671
00:32:02,440 --> 00:32:05,200
Speaker 1: a lot smarter. Um, he doesn't really he doesn't really

672
00:32:05,240 --> 00:32:07,840
Speaker 1: try all those like wild kind of pace to the

673
00:32:07,920 --> 00:32:10,320
Speaker 1: rim and you're just throwing it out. Yeah. I think

674
00:32:10,320 --> 00:32:12,600
Speaker 1: it was the Miami game, which was kind of U

675
00:32:13,280 --> 00:32:16,280
Speaker 1: they're like the perfect roster to trap. They're like the

676
00:32:16,320 --> 00:32:18,320
Speaker 1: Lakers where they can just you know, they can throw

677
00:32:18,400 --> 00:32:21,640
Speaker 1: like a kitchen sink at you and trapped especially smaller

678
00:32:21,640 --> 00:32:25,320
Speaker 1: guards like Dennis Shooter uh and for so many turnovers,

679
00:32:25,320 --> 00:32:27,520
Speaker 1: and that's what they did. And I think ever since then,

680
00:32:27,840 --> 00:32:30,600
Speaker 1: you know, he's really ratcheted that up and you know,

681
00:32:30,800 --> 00:32:34,200
Speaker 1: just been super smart with the ball um and not

682
00:32:34,320 --> 00:32:38,200
Speaker 1: be careless. And at the same time, um, he's just

683
00:32:38,320 --> 00:32:42,240
Speaker 1: kind of learned, you know, uh to be effective as

684
00:32:42,320 --> 00:32:44,560
Speaker 1: as the games have gone by, so in a way,

685
00:32:44,640 --> 00:32:47,440
Speaker 1: you know with Lebron and maybe been out like Dennis

686
00:32:47,480 --> 00:32:53,760
Speaker 1: has been super super effective. Yeah, and he is exuding

687
00:32:53,800 --> 00:32:57,160
Speaker 1: a confidence as of late that is ridiculous, Like he's

688
00:32:57,760 --> 00:33:00,960
Speaker 1: he's trash talking these other guards to you. And that

689
00:33:01,040 --> 00:33:03,400
Speaker 1: kind of started a little bit with the Kyrie game.

690
00:33:04,000 --> 00:33:07,240
Speaker 1: But like you know, we we the intel on Sugar

691
00:33:07,360 --> 00:33:10,680
Speaker 1: coming out and I actually was someone who was not

692
00:33:10,760 --> 00:33:12,959
Speaker 1: anti shooter. I just preferred someone in the in the

693
00:33:13,000 --> 00:33:16,200
Speaker 1: Spencer Dinuity type of role, because I thought the Lakers

694
00:33:16,200 --> 00:33:19,000
Speaker 1: were missing a little bit of a kind of like

695
00:33:19,040 --> 00:33:23,080
Speaker 1: a more like detailed shot creator, like someone who was

696
00:33:23,080 --> 00:33:26,560
Speaker 1: a little bit more polished out on the wing. And

697
00:33:26,640 --> 00:33:29,600
Speaker 1: they went for Dennis Shrewder. And you know, after I

698
00:33:29,680 --> 00:33:31,760
Speaker 1: kind of got on board with that and you start talking,

699
00:33:31,800 --> 00:33:34,520
Speaker 1: everybody rooted for him last year. It was like Dennis

700
00:33:34,560 --> 00:33:38,160
Speaker 1: as a freak competitor. You know, Chris Paul loved this guy.

701
00:33:38,680 --> 00:33:41,880
Speaker 1: He defends like crazy, like you can count on him

702
00:33:42,000 --> 00:33:43,680
Speaker 1: to go to war with you, all that kind of

703
00:33:43,720 --> 00:33:48,000
Speaker 1: like cliche stuff, and honestly, like it's been great, and

704
00:33:48,080 --> 00:33:51,520
Speaker 1: that's every dada that has been true. And for the record,

705
00:33:51,600 --> 00:33:54,560
Speaker 1: like you know, he really struggled with this first stretch

706
00:33:55,080 --> 00:33:57,400
Speaker 1: when Leron and Ad got out and and rog and

707
00:33:57,440 --> 00:34:00,320
Speaker 1: I from the beginning, we were saying to everybody, like

708
00:34:00,480 --> 00:34:04,200
Speaker 1: this is normal. He's adjusting to new levels of defensive attention.

709
00:34:04,680 --> 00:34:07,680
Speaker 1: He's still creating quality shots for his teammates just by

710
00:34:07,720 --> 00:34:11,280
Speaker 1: diverting this attention. Don't pay too much attention to the stats.

711
00:34:11,320 --> 00:34:15,239
Speaker 1: And ironically, like he's actually kind of superseded that even

712
00:34:15,280 --> 00:34:17,520
Speaker 1: a little bit, and he's been very effective in his

713
00:34:17,600 --> 00:34:20,800
Speaker 1: box score numbers while being the guy who has faced

714
00:34:21,520 --> 00:34:25,200
Speaker 1: the lion's share of the defensive attention. And uh and

715
00:34:25,239 --> 00:34:27,600
Speaker 1: you write rogs like he just even with a D back,

716
00:34:27,680 --> 00:34:30,200
Speaker 1: it's like, yeah, dude, you're you're one of the top

717
00:34:30,200 --> 00:34:31,839
Speaker 1: five players in the world, but we're you know, I'm

718
00:34:31,920 --> 00:34:35,360
Speaker 1: running this thing, which is kind of but he's but

719
00:34:35,440 --> 00:34:37,879
Speaker 1: I mean like like he's been that good, Like he's

720
00:34:37,920 --> 00:34:40,520
Speaker 1: been that good for for a while now. And and

721
00:34:40,560 --> 00:34:43,960
Speaker 1: he's shown a willingness to pass that he didn't even

722
00:34:43,960 --> 00:34:47,279
Speaker 1: really have last year. If you if you dove into

723
00:34:47,280 --> 00:34:49,399
Speaker 1: a lot of his playmaking stuff with okay, see and

724
00:34:49,640 --> 00:34:54,720
Speaker 1: know he was okay, wasn't necessarily a strength. Um he's

725
00:34:54,719 --> 00:34:57,120
Speaker 1: been he's taken a leap as a pastor this year

726
00:34:57,280 --> 00:34:58,880
Speaker 1: and that's been really cool to see and that that

727
00:34:59,080 --> 00:35:01,879
Speaker 1: could be some Lebron's too, like just helping to learn

728
00:35:01,880 --> 00:35:03,960
Speaker 1: how to see the pick and roll a little bit

729
00:35:03,960 --> 00:35:06,640
Speaker 1: more as a passer as opposed to just a dribble

730
00:35:06,719 --> 00:35:10,600
Speaker 1: drive attacker. Yeah, and and with even with a D

731
00:35:10,719 --> 00:35:13,120
Speaker 1: back like that, the shock creation is still going to

732
00:35:13,200 --> 00:35:15,480
Speaker 1: come from him, right, other than like giving the ball

733
00:35:15,520 --> 00:35:17,520
Speaker 1: to a D in the post, it's pretty much gonna

734
00:35:17,520 --> 00:35:20,440
Speaker 1: be ball screen action with him or in KCP off screens,

735
00:35:20,440 --> 00:35:23,040
Speaker 1: and he got eighteen shots up tonight, which I think

736
00:35:23,040 --> 00:35:24,959
Speaker 1: it's because when you run a screen roll with Drum

737
00:35:24,960 --> 00:35:27,200
Speaker 1: and most big they're gonna drop coverage that right, because

738
00:35:27,280 --> 00:35:29,960
Speaker 1: Drum is not a threat from the mid range. It's

739
00:35:29,960 --> 00:35:31,879
Speaker 1: pretty much at the rim, so it kind of opens

740
00:35:31,920 --> 00:35:33,520
Speaker 1: up to the shot he wants, which is that little

741
00:35:33,600 --> 00:35:35,640
Speaker 1: dribble mid range pull up. And I like that he's

742
00:35:35,640 --> 00:35:37,719
Speaker 1: starting to take that even more. I feel like that's

743
00:35:37,719 --> 00:35:39,560
Speaker 1: been there for a while, he just wasn't taking it

744
00:35:39,640 --> 00:35:41,879
Speaker 1: for some reason. So um, it's good to see him,

745
00:35:42,080 --> 00:35:44,400
Speaker 1: uh stay aggressive and I hope this days went well.

746
00:35:44,400 --> 00:35:46,640
Speaker 1: Obviously it can't be the same when Lebron comes back

747
00:35:46,680 --> 00:35:49,040
Speaker 1: because Lebron is going to take the majority of that

748
00:35:49,120 --> 00:35:52,279
Speaker 1: ball handler kind of responsibilities. But again, he's gonna be

749
00:35:52,280 --> 00:35:56,880
Speaker 1: able to attack a already um compromise defense, which I

750
00:35:56,880 --> 00:35:59,080
Speaker 1: think will make him even more dangerous. And it's why

751
00:35:59,120 --> 00:36:01,279
Speaker 1: I like those lineups. SHREWD Lebron and a D line

752
00:36:01,360 --> 00:36:03,000
Speaker 1: was We're killing in the beginning of the season even

753
00:36:03,080 --> 00:36:05,920
Speaker 1: with a D kind of walking through the regular season,

754
00:36:06,000 --> 00:36:09,000
Speaker 1: so yeah, if anyone wants to come up here, um,

755
00:36:09,040 --> 00:36:11,319
Speaker 1: please don't be shy. Uh come up you don't. You

756
00:36:11,320 --> 00:36:14,560
Speaker 1: can just bring give your opinion on the game, give

757
00:36:14,600 --> 00:36:17,520
Speaker 1: an idea, anything that you're thinking of. You didn't ask

758
00:36:17,600 --> 00:36:20,080
Speaker 1: literally anything about anything. That's the whole point of us

759
00:36:20,120 --> 00:36:21,880
Speaker 1: doing this locker room thing. We want you guys to

760
00:36:21,880 --> 00:36:24,439
Speaker 1: hop up here and talk with us. So, like Rod said,

761
00:36:24,480 --> 00:36:28,880
Speaker 1: don't be shy. Okay, let's I'll keep going to the

762
00:36:28,960 --> 00:36:33,280
Speaker 1: chat as uh as while we wait for that. Um.

763
00:36:33,400 --> 00:36:35,480
Speaker 1: Evans says Lebron did a layoup at the end of

764
00:36:35,480 --> 00:36:38,080
Speaker 1: the jogging video, which I guess I missed that far,

765
00:36:38,239 --> 00:36:45,480
Speaker 1: but version of it out there somewhere. Alex says, uh,

766
00:36:45,640 --> 00:36:48,520
Speaker 1: March should start and then Andre should play based on

767
00:36:48,560 --> 00:36:51,799
Speaker 1: the matchup. Um yeah, I guess we kind of discussed this,

768
00:36:51,840 --> 00:36:53,359
Speaker 1: but it feels like that's what it's going to be

769
00:36:53,440 --> 00:36:56,279
Speaker 1: for the playoffs, right, Probably all three of those are

770
00:36:56,280 --> 00:36:58,800
Speaker 1: gonna be matchup dependent. You guys agree, Like, going to

771
00:36:58,840 --> 00:37:00,839
Speaker 1: the playoffs is probably gonna be a d at the five,

772
00:37:00,920 --> 00:37:03,200
Speaker 1: and then whatever five they think matches up with the

773
00:37:03,719 --> 00:37:06,000
Speaker 1: like if it's your kid is probably the sl or

774
00:37:06,080 --> 00:37:08,200
Speaker 1: you know, Like, you guys agree, with that going to

775
00:37:08,280 --> 00:37:15,360
Speaker 1: the playoffs there, yeah, like, uh, go ahead on pretty

776
00:37:15,440 --> 00:37:19,320
Speaker 1: much match a dependent. I think Vocals pretty much confirmed

777
00:37:19,320 --> 00:37:21,440
Speaker 1: that that they're going to use three of their centers

778
00:37:21,480 --> 00:37:24,960
Speaker 1: depending on you know, matchups and and rotations and all that.

779
00:37:25,200 --> 00:37:28,560
Speaker 1: Um go ahead. Just every team has their like go

780
00:37:28,719 --> 00:37:31,000
Speaker 1: to playoff adjustment. I remember with the Warriors that used

781
00:37:31,040 --> 00:37:33,480
Speaker 1: to always be Andrea Gudala is gonna start like they

782
00:37:33,480 --> 00:37:36,120
Speaker 1: would always do it halfway through the series or whatever

783
00:37:36,120 --> 00:37:37,279
Speaker 1: it was. It was kind of like they're ace in

784
00:37:37,320 --> 00:37:39,319
Speaker 1: the hole. And the Lakers have kind of already had

785
00:37:39,360 --> 00:37:41,040
Speaker 1: that with an a D at the five, But I

786
00:37:41,080 --> 00:37:45,719
Speaker 1: think starting marcusol and or playing marcusol more is going

787
00:37:45,760 --> 00:37:47,239
Speaker 1: to be one of their big ones to go to,

788
00:37:47,440 --> 00:37:50,000
Speaker 1: just because you know, when you get into these playoffs series,

789
00:37:50,080 --> 00:37:53,400
Speaker 1: they become such a chess match and for whatever it's worth,

790
00:37:53,520 --> 00:37:56,960
Speaker 1: like Drummond, he brings value, but he's not really a

791
00:37:57,040 --> 00:38:02,040
Speaker 1: chess match type of player, and uh uh, having marcusol

792
00:38:02,520 --> 00:38:05,479
Speaker 1: as an option to throw in as a wrinkle into

793
00:38:05,520 --> 00:38:08,040
Speaker 1: a playoff series when you need to get something going,

794
00:38:08,040 --> 00:38:10,200
Speaker 1: whether you're down to one or you just lost Game

795
00:38:10,239 --> 00:38:12,120
Speaker 1: three and you're up to one or whatever it is,

796
00:38:12,480 --> 00:38:14,719
Speaker 1: and you just need to get a different look from

797
00:38:14,719 --> 00:38:17,319
Speaker 1: a position that's been hurting you in a series like

798
00:38:17,400 --> 00:38:20,120
Speaker 1: that's where Marcusol is just a huge weapon. And like

799
00:38:20,200 --> 00:38:23,160
Speaker 1: I have to believe that even with him kind of

800
00:38:23,200 --> 00:38:25,960
Speaker 1: mostly falling out of the rotation, that that's been the

801
00:38:26,000 --> 00:38:29,120
Speaker 1: type of conversations that Lebron and frank An Idea have

802
00:38:29,160 --> 00:38:31,440
Speaker 1: been having with him, just like, hey, dude, like we

803
00:38:31,560 --> 00:38:35,439
Speaker 1: are literally going to need you. So I like, yes,

804
00:38:35,800 --> 00:38:37,560
Speaker 1: you're getting the short end of the stick right now,

805
00:38:37,640 --> 00:38:41,439
Speaker 1: but like we're gonna need you. Stay ready, Like where

806
00:38:41,480 --> 00:38:43,399
Speaker 1: when we get this trophy, it's gonna be because you've

807
00:38:43,440 --> 00:38:45,520
Speaker 1: stepped in and helped us big time in a big moment.

808
00:38:45,560 --> 00:38:50,920
Speaker 1: You know what I mean, right for sure? Yeah, I

809
00:38:51,000 --> 00:38:53,080
Speaker 1: was actually say more pointantly, we're gonna need you when

810
00:38:53,080 --> 00:38:56,600
Speaker 1: it matters. Right right now, it's not as important. And

811
00:38:57,120 --> 00:38:59,440
Speaker 1: I think for the most part, you know from what

812
00:38:59,719 --> 00:39:01,560
Speaker 1: you're and Jason, I think Lebron and A d and

813
00:39:01,719 --> 00:39:03,640
Speaker 1: the rest of the team kind of they know what

814
00:39:03,760 --> 00:39:07,000
Speaker 1: we have in Gasol. You know, he's high in i Q.

815
00:39:07,440 --> 00:39:12,080
Speaker 1: He's an excellent ceiling razor um for the team and

816
00:39:12,160 --> 00:39:13,799
Speaker 1: he's just gonna, you know, go out there and play

817
00:39:13,840 --> 00:39:17,200
Speaker 1: smart and that's what you want in the playoffs m

818
00:39:18,400 --> 00:39:20,520
Speaker 1: for sure. And I really like this question. I want

819
00:39:20,520 --> 00:39:22,000
Speaker 1: to hear what you guys have to thing. Shout out

820
00:39:22,000 --> 00:39:25,680
Speaker 1: hermo Sally bows delay. I hope I didn't butcher that

821
00:39:25,719 --> 00:39:30,080
Speaker 1: too bad? Which which have been which I'm kissing? It's

822
00:39:30,120 --> 00:39:32,720
Speaker 1: McLamore th h T And West gets more playoff minutes

823
00:39:32,920 --> 00:39:35,399
Speaker 1: because we know the backup guard in playoffs is going

824
00:39:35,440 --> 00:39:37,600
Speaker 1: to be crusal. So would you guys think, I guess

825
00:39:37,640 --> 00:39:39,680
Speaker 1: I'll start with you are Malcolm Moore, t h T

826
00:39:39,800 --> 00:39:41,960
Speaker 1: or West? Who do you think gets more minutes in

827
00:39:42,000 --> 00:39:47,400
Speaker 1: the playoffs? So? I think West would get more playoff minutes?

828
00:39:47,680 --> 00:39:49,600
Speaker 1: Uh and of course it would depend on the match

829
00:39:49,680 --> 00:39:53,160
Speaker 1: up two. But I think West just brings tremendous amount

830
00:39:53,200 --> 00:39:56,239
Speaker 1: of impact to the defensive ent uh t HD. I

831
00:39:56,280 --> 00:39:58,799
Speaker 1: think you know he can be sprinkled in here and

832
00:39:58,840 --> 00:40:02,520
Speaker 1: there U depending on you know, if there's minutes to

833
00:40:02,600 --> 00:40:06,080
Speaker 1: go by, um and then then it's definitely gonna be

834
00:40:06,480 --> 00:40:08,960
Speaker 1: a special tool tool to use, like if we need,

835
00:40:09,040 --> 00:40:11,960
Speaker 1: you know, additional spacing or if you know KCPS shooting

836
00:40:12,040 --> 00:40:13,879
Speaker 1: is not going too well. But I could definitely see

837
00:40:14,000 --> 00:40:17,560
Speaker 1: West being used more just because you know, he brings

838
00:40:17,560 --> 00:40:20,560
Speaker 1: that unique skill set, especially if we're you know, defending

839
00:40:20,560 --> 00:40:23,960
Speaker 1: those wings that we may be facing in the postseason. Um,

840
00:40:23,960 --> 00:40:28,279
Speaker 1: so I'd go with West. Yeah, I think a big

841
00:40:28,280 --> 00:40:30,719
Speaker 1: part of that's gonna be, uh, you know, how well

842
00:40:30,760 --> 00:40:34,520
Speaker 1: Ben shooting and whether or not there's anything to be

843
00:40:34,600 --> 00:40:37,160
Speaker 1: had with th ht because I mean, look like if

844
00:40:37,160 --> 00:40:40,480
Speaker 1: he like t she had another like absolute superstar play

845
00:40:40,520 --> 00:40:41,640
Speaker 1: at night, that one where he had it in the

846
00:40:41,719 --> 00:40:43,440
Speaker 1: corner and he kind of did the in and out

847
00:40:43,480 --> 00:40:46,520
Speaker 1: cross and then did the quick split and then finished

848
00:40:46,560 --> 00:40:49,160
Speaker 1: the reverse layup on the other side like he if

849
00:40:49,160 --> 00:40:51,640
Speaker 1: he continues to show this like flash kind of like

850
00:40:51,680 --> 00:40:56,480
Speaker 1: star type potential, if he continues to show value as

851
00:40:56,480 --> 00:40:58,719
Speaker 1: they get into higher leverage moments, he's gonna play. And

852
00:40:58,760 --> 00:41:01,760
Speaker 1: if he does in that complicate everything. But my guess

853
00:41:01,800 --> 00:41:05,520
Speaker 1: is that if if Ben's shooting is inconsistent, and if

854
00:41:05,960 --> 00:41:09,480
Speaker 1: th ht uh continues to make a lot of mistakes

855
00:41:09,560 --> 00:41:11,560
Speaker 1: kind of like young guy mistakes, I think you're just

856
00:41:11,560 --> 00:41:14,360
Speaker 1: gonna see a whole lot of West and KCP and

857
00:41:14,360 --> 00:41:17,279
Speaker 1: Dennis and Alex Caruso just because they're you know what

858
00:41:17,320 --> 00:41:20,960
Speaker 1: they are, you know, they're they're dependable, they're predictable and

859
00:41:20,960 --> 00:41:24,520
Speaker 1: and like Omar said, it's matchup specific, Like West just

860
00:41:24,560 --> 00:41:27,320
Speaker 1: gives you another weapon to throw at the bigger, stronger

861
00:41:27,360 --> 00:41:29,200
Speaker 1: wings that we have in the league right now, which

862
00:41:29,280 --> 00:41:33,800
Speaker 1: they're very well might have to go through like like

863
00:41:33,800 --> 00:41:36,280
Speaker 1: like two straight rounds at the end with the Western

864
00:41:36,280 --> 00:41:38,719
Speaker 1: Conference finals in the finals, where that's going to be

865
00:41:38,760 --> 00:41:41,800
Speaker 1: such an important piece. And so i'd like everything is

866
00:41:41,840 --> 00:41:45,200
Speaker 1: about having these chess pieces, and we talked a lot

867
00:41:45,200 --> 00:41:48,120
Speaker 1: about that in the last pot, But like the Lakers

868
00:41:48,160 --> 00:41:50,440
Speaker 1: just have all these chess pieces that they can play,

869
00:41:51,080 --> 00:41:55,040
Speaker 1: and they have all these different you know, attack angles

870
00:41:55,040 --> 00:41:57,359
Speaker 1: they can go with, and they can audible a lot

871
00:41:57,400 --> 00:41:59,200
Speaker 1: of stuff, and a lot of teams don't have that.

872
00:41:59,640 --> 00:42:01,879
Speaker 1: A lot of teams it's like they are one trick pony,

873
00:42:02,040 --> 00:42:03,880
Speaker 1: and if you solve that trick, they're in big trouble.

874
00:42:04,280 --> 00:42:07,440
Speaker 1: If you figure out how to you know, make Donovan

875
00:42:07,480 --> 00:42:10,000
Speaker 1: Mitchell make a ton of bad decisions and all of

876
00:42:10,040 --> 00:42:12,440
Speaker 1: a sudden there's three point shot quality goes down. They

877
00:42:12,440 --> 00:42:15,279
Speaker 1: don't really necessarily have another option. I mean, what are

878
00:42:15,280 --> 00:42:18,120
Speaker 1: you gonna do? Four speed? Bogdanovitch in the post like

879
00:42:18,200 --> 00:42:21,279
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, but the other the other Wings in the

880
00:42:21,320 --> 00:42:23,520
Speaker 1: West are just better than him at that. So it's

881
00:42:23,560 --> 00:42:26,400
Speaker 1: like that there's just not as many options for some

882
00:42:26,480 --> 00:42:28,319
Speaker 1: of these other teams in the West. The Lakers have

883
00:42:28,360 --> 00:42:30,920
Speaker 1: all these wrinkles that they can throw at you and

884
00:42:30,760 --> 00:42:34,080
Speaker 1: h and kind of keep you off balance. Yeah, I

885
00:42:34,080 --> 00:42:36,279
Speaker 1: think it's gonna be key to if like mclamarre can

886
00:42:36,280 --> 00:42:38,840
Speaker 1: defend enough. I think he's a specialist as a shooter,

887
00:42:39,560 --> 00:42:42,040
Speaker 1: but his off ball defense is really kind of troubling

888
00:42:42,040 --> 00:42:44,839
Speaker 1: for right now. But with like th HD, I always

889
00:42:44,880 --> 00:42:47,480
Speaker 1: say he's kind of playing Lebron's role right now, right

890
00:42:47,480 --> 00:42:49,479
Speaker 1: like he's kind of being that backup kind of shot

891
00:42:49,520 --> 00:42:53,080
Speaker 1: creator with the second unit or even like taking shooters role. Um.

892
00:42:53,080 --> 00:42:55,399
Speaker 1: I think of the playoffs that we obviously a lot

893
00:42:55,440 --> 00:42:57,480
Speaker 1: less with Lebron and shooter taking most of the ball

894
00:42:57,520 --> 00:43:00,239
Speaker 1: handling responsibilities. So but his minutes a little, I mean,

895
00:43:00,280 --> 00:43:02,600
Speaker 1: he he has he has the potential to to to

896
00:43:02,680 --> 00:43:04,560
Speaker 1: play more. I mean, if he's if he has it going,

897
00:43:04,600 --> 00:43:06,919
Speaker 1: he's able to attack the rim and his jumper is going.

898
00:43:06,960 --> 00:43:08,160
Speaker 1: But I think he'll be the one with the most

899
00:43:08,280 --> 00:43:11,400
Speaker 1: variants in minutes. I think Weston and Malcramar would definitely

900
00:43:11,719 --> 00:43:15,400
Speaker 1: eat up the majority of those backup, backup guardments, and

901
00:43:15,440 --> 00:43:16,960
Speaker 1: like you said, Jason, they just have a bunch of

902
00:43:17,000 --> 00:43:20,080
Speaker 1: players they can pull in. UM. Everyone's kind of going

903
00:43:20,120 --> 00:43:22,680
Speaker 1: to play their role, So whoever's going at that night,

904
00:43:22,760 --> 00:43:25,239
Speaker 1: he both kind of pick, kind of choose the right

905
00:43:25,280 --> 00:43:28,760
Speaker 1: buttons to play M on a nightly basis. You could

906
00:43:28,960 --> 00:43:31,840
Speaker 1: you could choose a rotation that has no Kyle Kusma

907
00:43:31,920 --> 00:43:33,960
Speaker 1: and they'd be every bit as good. You could choose

908
00:43:33,960 --> 00:43:37,480
Speaker 1: the rotation that have no centers or doesn't play Markis

909
00:43:37,560 --> 00:43:39,279
Speaker 1: and they'd be every bit as good. I mean, even

910
00:43:39,280 --> 00:43:42,560
Speaker 1: if you took like Shrewder is probably the only one

911
00:43:42,640 --> 00:43:45,520
Speaker 1: that like because of his ability to defend and create

912
00:43:45,560 --> 00:43:48,400
Speaker 1: shots out of switches that like the Shrewder and a

913
00:43:48,520 --> 00:43:50,640
Speaker 1: D and Lebron are the core three guys that need

914
00:43:50,680 --> 00:43:53,640
Speaker 1: to be engaged in whatever rotation in order for the

915
00:43:54,520 --> 00:43:56,800
Speaker 1: team to have the same ceiling. But everyone else is

916
00:43:56,800 --> 00:44:00,000
Speaker 1: pretty interchangeable, and I think I think that's just a huge,

917
00:44:00,040 --> 00:44:03,239
Speaker 1: a huge asset to have UM in the long run

918
00:44:03,400 --> 00:44:08,239
Speaker 1: of a playoff run, for sure. Rob Jr. Says, do

919
00:44:08,239 --> 00:44:10,680
Speaker 1: you guys think this injury for Lebron was a blessing

920
00:44:11,080 --> 00:44:14,560
Speaker 1: in disguise since he didn he doesn't like to miss games,

921
00:44:14,560 --> 00:44:16,600
Speaker 1: and he would have had to carry so much for

922
00:44:16,640 --> 00:44:18,719
Speaker 1: two months while a D was out. He says, I

923
00:44:18,760 --> 00:44:21,240
Speaker 1: know he's superman, but carrying a heavy load all regular

924
00:44:21,280 --> 00:44:23,520
Speaker 1: season and trying to be what he is in the

925
00:44:23,520 --> 00:44:26,440
Speaker 1: playoffs might not have been ideal. I've kind of started

926
00:44:26,480 --> 00:44:28,480
Speaker 1: to feel that way. I mean, last year people are

927
00:44:28,480 --> 00:44:30,879
Speaker 1: saying that it's been Lebron has never had the chance

928
00:44:30,920 --> 00:44:33,520
Speaker 1: to get you know, that many months off, but that

929
00:44:33,600 --> 00:44:35,839
Speaker 1: was due to kind of covid um that many months

930
00:44:35,840 --> 00:44:38,520
Speaker 1: off and then be able to start the playoffs all fresh. Um,

931
00:44:38,560 --> 00:44:40,640
Speaker 1: do you guys see that same kind of thing happening

932
00:44:40,680 --> 00:44:42,480
Speaker 1: this year? I know, high ankle sprain is not the

933
00:44:42,480 --> 00:44:44,520
Speaker 1: way you want to miss games, but kind of that

934
00:44:44,880 --> 00:44:47,720
Speaker 1: forced off season, right the seventy one day off season

935
00:44:47,719 --> 00:44:51,560
Speaker 1: that everyone brings up. Um, A D got his off season, Lebron,

936
00:44:51,600 --> 00:44:53,680
Speaker 1: I guess, is getting his now. Um do you see

937
00:44:53,719 --> 00:44:56,920
Speaker 1: that kind of being a blessing in disguise, um for

938
00:44:56,920 --> 00:45:03,319
Speaker 1: for the team? Omar I start, Yeah, yeah, I kind

939
00:45:03,320 --> 00:45:04,920
Speaker 1: of I kind of think that. I mean, he kind

940
00:45:04,920 --> 00:45:07,640
Speaker 1: of brought up, you know, some positives. Right if you

941
00:45:07,680 --> 00:45:10,520
Speaker 1: look at the flat past few weeks, Um, you know,

942
00:45:10,560 --> 00:45:13,120
Speaker 1: the one true calling card that we've been able to

943
00:45:13,200 --> 00:45:15,400
Speaker 1: hang our hats on has has our has been our

944
00:45:15,480 --> 00:45:18,840
Speaker 1: defense and we've been like top five without Lebron and

945
00:45:18,880 --> 00:45:22,280
Speaker 1: Needy and that's something that's credit to the players, uh

946
00:45:22,560 --> 00:45:25,400
Speaker 1: in Bogo and the coaching staff. And then in addition,

947
00:45:25,440 --> 00:45:27,319
Speaker 1: we've talked a lot about the shooter, but I think

948
00:45:27,320 --> 00:45:30,120
Speaker 1: he's really uh stepped up in this unique, you know

949
00:45:30,160 --> 00:45:34,400
Speaker 1: situation where he's kind of um, you know, catapulted himself

950
00:45:34,440 --> 00:45:38,440
Speaker 1: as a better playmaker. He's super confident, you know, because

951
00:45:38,440 --> 00:45:41,439
Speaker 1: of that you know stretch that we're seeing that now.

952
00:45:41,920 --> 00:45:43,480
Speaker 1: So in a way, it is and I think we

953
00:45:43,560 --> 00:45:47,560
Speaker 1: will get a you know, pretty well rested Lebron because

954
00:45:47,680 --> 00:45:49,239
Speaker 1: I think Jason, I think you might have said in

955
00:45:49,239 --> 00:45:52,160
Speaker 1: the last locker room, I think you had some there's

956
00:45:52,160 --> 00:45:54,399
Speaker 1: a guest or a theory of yours. But Lebron, if

957
00:45:54,440 --> 00:45:56,960
Speaker 1: if it was like more of a desperate situation, I

958
00:45:57,000 --> 00:46:00,880
Speaker 1: think he would have been back by now already. But um,

959
00:46:00,920 --> 00:46:02,279
Speaker 1: and I think I kind of agree with that. I

960
00:46:02,320 --> 00:46:04,319
Speaker 1: think if if it was if we needed, I think

961
00:46:04,400 --> 00:46:06,799
Speaker 1: Lebron would have been back. But I think it's kind

962
00:46:06,800 --> 00:46:11,480
Speaker 1: of beneficial that he's been just resting and and um,

963
00:46:11,520 --> 00:46:14,879
Speaker 1: you know, that's definitely helpful. But I think we'll we'll

964
00:46:14,920 --> 00:46:18,319
Speaker 1: see how he comes in with his rhythm, um and those,

965
00:46:18,440 --> 00:46:22,840
Speaker 1: you know, when he joins an active team. You know,

966
00:46:22,880 --> 00:46:24,680
Speaker 1: the only one who knows the answer to this question

967
00:46:24,680 --> 00:46:28,279
Speaker 1: is Lebron. And yeah, like, I have my theories that

968
00:46:28,520 --> 00:46:31,040
Speaker 1: that he's find more or less the high ankle sprain

969
00:46:31,160 --> 00:46:34,040
Speaker 1: is is is a tricky injury in the sense that

970
00:46:34,080 --> 00:46:36,279
Speaker 1: it's kind of a pain tolerance thing. And there are

971
00:46:36,320 --> 00:46:38,279
Speaker 1: a lot of examples of guys coming back from high

972
00:46:38,280 --> 00:46:41,640
Speaker 1: ankle sprain is pretty fast, although we don't necessarily know

973
00:46:42,800 --> 00:46:45,640
Speaker 1: the way his severity compares to some of those. However,

974
00:46:45,719 --> 00:46:48,000
Speaker 1: Lebron's Wanta knows. Lebron's either sitting on his couch right

975
00:46:48,000 --> 00:46:51,560
Speaker 1: now literally thinking like like, you know, this is awesome.

976
00:46:51,640 --> 00:46:54,399
Speaker 1: I get some time off, this is great. I feel

977
00:46:55,080 --> 00:46:58,000
Speaker 1: confident that I'm gonna be you know, peaking. It's very

978
00:46:58,040 --> 00:47:00,600
Speaker 1: possible that that's one of the reasons why he's been

979
00:47:00,640 --> 00:47:03,600
Speaker 1: so behind the scenes with his recovery. Here is maybe

980
00:47:03,640 --> 00:47:07,080
Speaker 1: he's athletically an amazing shape, and maybe he's trolling us

981
00:47:07,120 --> 00:47:09,440
Speaker 1: by jogging up and down a basketball court, you know,

982
00:47:09,560 --> 00:47:11,360
Speaker 1: and and then he plans on coming back, you know,

983
00:47:11,480 --> 00:47:14,200
Speaker 1: rested and just ready to go, or maybe it's worse

984
00:47:14,239 --> 00:47:16,080
Speaker 1: than it looks like. That's the tricky thing is we

985
00:47:16,160 --> 00:47:18,360
Speaker 1: just don't know, and I think we'll know pretty quickly

986
00:47:18,400 --> 00:47:22,200
Speaker 1: when he comes back. Not about the uh uh, you know,

987
00:47:22,239 --> 00:47:24,359
Speaker 1: the way he looks in terms of his polish, because

988
00:47:24,400 --> 00:47:27,480
Speaker 1: I expect him to be extremely unpolished, to start a

989
00:47:27,560 --> 00:47:30,359
Speaker 1: lot of turnovers, a little bit funky with the hand,

990
00:47:30,360 --> 00:47:34,120
Speaker 1: a little bit funky with the jumper, but I expect him. Uh.

991
00:47:34,840 --> 00:47:36,640
Speaker 1: The biggest thing for us to keep an eye on,

992
00:47:36,719 --> 00:47:39,960
Speaker 1: it's just the way he looks physically. You just know.

993
00:47:40,040 --> 00:47:43,080
Speaker 1: It's like when we watched that Clippers game, the first

994
00:47:43,080 --> 00:47:46,239
Speaker 1: game in the bubble, if you remember Lebrama sloppy. It

995
00:47:46,320 --> 00:47:48,920
Speaker 1: was an absolute nightmare of a game in terms of

996
00:47:49,239 --> 00:47:52,520
Speaker 1: the aesthetics. But he had that crazy driving dunk in

997
00:47:52,520 --> 00:47:54,960
Speaker 1: the first half, or Kai just kind of ripped down

998
00:47:54,960 --> 00:47:56,360
Speaker 1: on his arms and he just went up through it

999
00:47:56,400 --> 00:47:58,799
Speaker 1: and dunked it. And then he beat everybody to a

1000
00:47:58,840 --> 00:48:00,520
Speaker 1: loose ball at the end of the game and made

1001
00:48:00,520 --> 00:48:03,200
Speaker 1: a game winner, and it was kind of like, okay,

1002
00:48:03,280 --> 00:48:07,000
Speaker 1: like Lebron Ron, Lebron still Lebron physically, which is all

1003
00:48:07,040 --> 00:48:09,120
Speaker 1: we needed to keep an eye on. So I have

1004
00:48:09,239 --> 00:48:13,120
Speaker 1: my theories. You know, we have all these different potential outcomes,

1005
00:48:13,120 --> 00:48:14,880
Speaker 1: but I think we're gonna find out pretty quick just

1006
00:48:14,920 --> 00:48:17,120
Speaker 1: based on how he looks athletically when he comes back,

1007
00:48:18,560 --> 00:48:21,200
Speaker 1: for sure. And I'm gonna I'm gonna bring Michael up

1008
00:48:21,800 --> 00:48:26,799
Speaker 1: uh here. I think you requested what's going on? Michael? Hey?

1009
00:48:26,800 --> 00:48:29,840
Speaker 1: What's going on? Guys? How y'all doing good? Hey Michael,

1010
00:48:29,840 --> 00:48:32,920
Speaker 1: thanks for hopping on with this man. No problem, no problem.

1011
00:48:32,960 --> 00:48:36,160
Speaker 1: So I have a question. Um, Ellen Prefaces was saying

1012
00:48:36,160 --> 00:48:38,759
Speaker 1: that he's going to be important in both series, like

1013
00:48:38,840 --> 00:48:42,920
Speaker 1: highly important in my opinion, But um, I've been thinking

1014
00:48:42,960 --> 00:48:45,800
Speaker 1: on this. What do y'all? What is your you guys

1015
00:48:45,800 --> 00:48:50,359
Speaker 1: opinions on Shrewder is important? Do you think it's gonna

1016
00:48:50,360 --> 00:48:54,240
Speaker 1: be more important in a series against Brooklyn or against

1017
00:48:54,239 --> 00:48:59,440
Speaker 1: the Clippers? And I lean Brooklyn mainly because of, like,

1018
00:48:59,520 --> 00:49:04,719
Speaker 1: you know, defensively against Kyrie and attacking switches. But I

1019
00:49:04,719 --> 00:49:07,920
Speaker 1: can see a situation or you know, a scenario in

1020
00:49:07,920 --> 00:49:12,440
Speaker 1: which he is absolutely vital even offensively against the Clippers,

1021
00:49:12,560 --> 00:49:15,800
Speaker 1: especially in the non Lebron minutes, attacking you know, drop

1022
00:49:15,840 --> 00:49:21,000
Speaker 1: coverages with against Zoo Box and Uh Surge. So I

1023
00:49:21,080 --> 00:49:23,879
Speaker 1: just I was just wondering what y'all. Y'all's thoughts were

1024
00:49:23,920 --> 00:49:27,319
Speaker 1: on that. I think he I think he's making his

1025
00:49:27,320 --> 00:49:30,120
Speaker 1: paycheck against Brooklyn. That's not to say he's not gonna

1026
00:49:30,120 --> 00:49:32,560
Speaker 1: be important against the Clippers. Like I said earlier, he's

1027
00:49:32,600 --> 00:49:35,000
Speaker 1: gonna be, you know, the third most important piece in

1028
00:49:35,000 --> 00:49:37,839
Speaker 1: their rotation behind Lebron and na d. But the thing

1029
00:49:37,880 --> 00:49:41,719
Speaker 1: with Brooklyn is he's uniquely capable of making Kyrie work hard,

1030
00:49:42,040 --> 00:49:45,560
Speaker 1: and he's uniquely capable of attacking and switching defense against

1031
00:49:45,560 --> 00:49:48,000
Speaker 1: the Clippers. Yeah, like they have Zo Botch and they're

1032
00:49:48,000 --> 00:49:50,000
Speaker 1: gonna they're gonna play him to some extent. There's gonna

1033
00:49:50,000 --> 00:49:52,279
Speaker 1: be some drop coverage, there's gonna be some picking roll,

1034
00:49:52,320 --> 00:49:53,840
Speaker 1: but they're also gonna be doing a lot of switching,

1035
00:49:54,440 --> 00:49:56,520
Speaker 1: and they're gonna be doing a lot of switching with

1036
00:49:56,560 --> 00:49:59,360
Speaker 1: a lot of wings. And then there's also the problem

1037
00:49:59,440 --> 00:50:02,400
Speaker 1: with him getting attacked on the other end and switches

1038
00:50:02,760 --> 00:50:05,080
Speaker 1: against Paul George and Kauai, which is something that I've

1039
00:50:05,080 --> 00:50:08,560
Speaker 1: been you know, not complaining about, but being wary about

1040
00:50:08,600 --> 00:50:11,959
Speaker 1: all season long. Just how do you do uh and there.

1041
00:50:11,960 --> 00:50:14,600
Speaker 1: There have been some examples this year where teams have

1042
00:50:14,640 --> 00:50:19,239
Speaker 1: attacked Dennis in switches with bigger, stronger wings, and that's

1043
00:50:19,320 --> 00:50:20,960
Speaker 1: just a much bigger problem with the Clippers, and it

1044
00:50:20,960 --> 00:50:22,960
Speaker 1: is against Brooklyn, Like Brooklyn is going to be that

1045
00:50:23,000 --> 00:50:25,640
Speaker 1: series where if the Lakers win, Dennis is going to

1046
00:50:25,680 --> 00:50:33,359
Speaker 1: be incredible. In my opinion, yeah, I think the same

1047
00:50:33,400 --> 00:50:35,759
Speaker 1: thing Jason. I think in that in that series, and

1048
00:50:35,760 --> 00:50:39,920
Speaker 1: we saw it in the previous game this season. But

1049
00:50:40,080 --> 00:50:43,680
Speaker 1: he has that unique ability to with his foot speed

1050
00:50:43,719 --> 00:50:46,520
Speaker 1: to stay in front of Kyrie, be a constant pest,

1051
00:50:47,080 --> 00:50:51,600
Speaker 1: to come up full cork um and be a defensive menace.

1052
00:50:51,719 --> 00:50:54,440
Speaker 1: And at the same time, you know, they they run

1053
00:50:54,480 --> 00:50:59,560
Speaker 1: that Mike D'Antoni defensive switching uh scheme where he's just

1054
00:50:59,560 --> 00:51:03,920
Speaker 1: gonna the ball, bring up DeAndre Jordan or Clackson, and

1055
00:51:04,000 --> 00:51:06,000
Speaker 1: he has that foot speed to get to the basket

1056
00:51:06,360 --> 00:51:09,319
Speaker 1: and if they if the paint collapses, there's gonna be

1057
00:51:09,480 --> 00:51:12,040
Speaker 1: plenty of players to uh, you know, kick it or

1058
00:51:12,080 --> 00:51:14,440
Speaker 1: dup it off too. So I think he's gonna definitely

1059
00:51:14,440 --> 00:51:16,960
Speaker 1: make his money's worth in that in that series. So

1060
00:51:17,440 --> 00:51:19,239
Speaker 1: I think he'll be important in the next series. But

1061
00:51:19,280 --> 00:51:22,319
Speaker 1: the reason I would lean into the Clippers because we

1062
00:51:22,320 --> 00:51:24,480
Speaker 1: didn't get I don't even think we got one healthy

1063
00:51:24,520 --> 00:51:26,840
Speaker 1: matchup right this year, but I think it was that

1064
00:51:26,920 --> 00:51:28,880
Speaker 1: was Ring night and le Bron e d e kind of.

1065
00:51:28,920 --> 00:51:31,040
Speaker 1: I don't think they're really going that hard, but remember

1066
00:51:31,080 --> 00:51:33,680
Speaker 1: last year, the Clippers ball pressure a lot, and the

1067
00:51:33,800 --> 00:51:36,360
Speaker 1: ball pressure Lebron all game because they have the wings

1068
00:51:36,360 --> 00:51:38,920
Speaker 1: to do it, Kauai, Paul George, even Pat Beverley, and

1069
00:51:38,960 --> 00:51:42,480
Speaker 1: then last year exactly so and the end of the game,

1070
00:51:42,560 --> 00:51:44,520
Speaker 1: Lebron is tired, right, And that's where I think Shrewder

1071
00:51:44,560 --> 00:51:46,920
Speaker 1: will really help. You can't just ball pressure Dennis Shrewder

1072
00:51:46,920 --> 00:51:49,440
Speaker 1: for every night the whole time, right, So it kind

1073
00:51:49,440 --> 00:51:50,959
Speaker 1: of gives Lebron a break, and I think that would

1074
00:51:50,960 --> 00:51:52,560
Speaker 1: be huge for him. And then you add in the

1075
00:51:52,600 --> 00:51:54,839
Speaker 1: defense and what he could do on the offenses event

1076
00:51:54,880 --> 00:51:57,160
Speaker 1: against a big like uh Box on all that. But

1077
00:51:57,200 --> 00:51:58,799
Speaker 1: that's why I think he'll be more key against the

1078
00:51:58,800 --> 00:52:00,840
Speaker 1: Clippers in my opinion, because the Nets aren't going to

1079
00:52:00,920 --> 00:52:02,640
Speaker 1: do that. Nets are just gonna switch everything. They kind

1080
00:52:02,640 --> 00:52:04,960
Speaker 1: of play straight up defense. Kyrie is not going to

1081
00:52:05,000 --> 00:52:07,879
Speaker 1: be a ball pressuring Dennis shooter for ther feed all game.

1082
00:52:07,960 --> 00:52:10,040
Speaker 1: That's where I get, I get kind of the where

1083
00:52:10,080 --> 00:52:12,600
Speaker 1: I would think his biggest UM contribution will be is

1084
00:52:12,640 --> 00:52:15,040
Speaker 1: giving Lebron a break on the ball, right, because in

1085
00:52:15,040 --> 00:52:16,960
Speaker 1: the playoffs, you want Lebron kind of creating every shot,

1086
00:52:17,040 --> 00:52:18,960
Speaker 1: but he has to bring it up every time against

1087
00:52:19,000 --> 00:52:21,959
Speaker 1: ball pressure. That's that's really tiring against. Like you said, Jason,

1088
00:52:22,000 --> 00:52:25,759
Speaker 1: the wings that they have Um on the Clippers, that's

1089
00:52:25,760 --> 00:52:29,359
Speaker 1: a really good point. Rogers, Like they used Rondo as

1090
00:52:29,360 --> 00:52:32,799
Speaker 1: the pressure release valve last year, right, and he was

1091
00:52:32,840 --> 00:52:38,440
Speaker 1: just so inconsistent and kind of maddening to root for Um,

1092
00:52:38,560 --> 00:52:42,319
Speaker 1: but having having Dennis, which is just far more Uh.

1093
00:52:42,320 --> 00:52:44,359
Speaker 1: And I think it's I think it was Rondo's like

1094
00:52:44,560 --> 00:52:47,719
Speaker 1: unpredictability that made it hard. You know, because one day

1095
00:52:47,760 --> 00:52:51,200
Speaker 1: he was this ultra aggressive three point shooter who you know,

1096
00:52:51,280 --> 00:52:54,000
Speaker 1: would you know, take six or seven threes in the game,

1097
00:52:54,040 --> 00:52:56,000
Speaker 1: and then the next day he's like staring at him

1098
00:52:56,000 --> 00:52:58,640
Speaker 1: and just refusing to even take him and uh, and

1099
00:52:58,680 --> 00:53:01,200
Speaker 1: then you know they're the games where he was picking

1100
00:53:01,239 --> 00:53:03,560
Speaker 1: defense as apart like a high level point guard, and

1101
00:53:03,560 --> 00:53:07,600
Speaker 1: then another game where he's overdriving and overpassing and refusing

1102
00:53:07,640 --> 00:53:09,960
Speaker 1: to shoot at the rim and all of these other things, Well,

1103
00:53:09,960 --> 00:53:12,879
Speaker 1: Dennis just gives you a much more consistent, predictable option there.

1104
00:53:13,320 --> 00:53:16,880
Speaker 1: Uh and and then also like Rondo was arguably the

1105
00:53:16,960 --> 00:53:18,719
Speaker 1: worst defender on a lot of nights, and then there

1106
00:53:18,719 --> 00:53:21,560
Speaker 1: were other games where he was great. But uh, having

1107
00:53:21,600 --> 00:53:25,360
Speaker 1: Dennis there just a massive two way upgrade over Rondo

1108
00:53:25,400 --> 00:53:27,840
Speaker 1: as a pressure release valve. It's just it's just a

1109
00:53:27,920 --> 00:53:33,360
Speaker 1: huge asset to have. I think that was an interesting point. Yeah, sure, Michael.

1110
00:53:35,320 --> 00:53:37,279
Speaker 1: I was just gonna say, I think the dynamic that's

1111
00:53:37,280 --> 00:53:40,319
Speaker 1: gonna if we get to that series between the two

1112
00:53:40,440 --> 00:53:43,920
Speaker 1: is just gonna be really interesting. Um, you know in

1113
00:53:44,000 --> 00:53:45,680
Speaker 1: terms of, you know, Rondo has been the guy that's

1114
00:53:45,719 --> 00:53:47,960
Speaker 1: been there and he's done that, and but Shrouders is

1115
00:53:48,000 --> 00:53:51,760
Speaker 1: just hyper competitive and gets under your skin. And um,

1116
00:53:51,760 --> 00:53:54,200
Speaker 1: I might be wrong, but didn't Rondo get thrown out

1117
00:53:54,200 --> 00:53:59,160
Speaker 1: of a game against the Lakers? Um he was on

1118
00:53:59,200 --> 00:54:03,920
Speaker 1: the whenever he got into it shrewder didn't he a right? Yeah?

1119
00:54:03,960 --> 00:54:06,400
Speaker 1: So I just think the dynamic between them and that series,

1120
00:54:06,480 --> 00:54:08,960
Speaker 1: I think he's the Clippers are gonna, you know, really

1121
00:54:09,000 --> 00:54:11,120
Speaker 1: rely on Rondo for better or for worse, kind of

1122
00:54:11,160 --> 00:54:13,680
Speaker 1: like we did last year and let the Chips fall.

1123
00:54:13,920 --> 00:54:17,960
Speaker 1: They lie but you know, I just it's just an interesting,

1124
00:54:18,239 --> 00:54:21,239
Speaker 1: interesting dynamic I think, and I Shrewder is obviously the

1125
00:54:21,280 --> 00:54:24,239
Speaker 1: better player, but um, I think it'll be fun to

1126
00:54:24,239 --> 00:54:27,759
Speaker 1: watch just on the level. I gotta eat some crow

1127
00:54:27,800 --> 00:54:30,239
Speaker 1: on the Rondo stuff. He looks good with with the Clippers,

1128
00:54:30,320 --> 00:54:33,080
Speaker 1: And I think, I think it's just a simple, you know,

1129
00:54:33,200 --> 00:54:36,960
Speaker 1: age old basketball proposition having to do with meshing different

1130
00:54:36,960 --> 00:54:40,240
Speaker 1: skill sets. And and Rondo is just really redundant with Lebron.

1131
00:54:40,320 --> 00:54:42,920
Speaker 1: And part of that was Frank's vault fault because he

1132
00:54:43,000 --> 00:54:45,520
Speaker 1: never staggered them the way they were supposed to. Remember,

1133
00:54:45,520 --> 00:54:47,600
Speaker 1: at the beginning of the season, they would start Rondo

1134
00:54:47,920 --> 00:54:49,799
Speaker 1: and it was like Rondo and Lebron and everything was

1135
00:54:49,840 --> 00:54:54,080
Speaker 1: like super like clunky. Um. So there's some of that

1136
00:54:54,200 --> 00:54:57,080
Speaker 1: was Frank's fault for not staggering them, But it just

1137
00:54:57,120 --> 00:54:58,600
Speaker 1: he was never a great thing with Lebron because there

1138
00:54:58,640 --> 00:55:00,839
Speaker 1: was a redundancy there. And and Rondo is just a

1139
00:55:00,960 --> 00:55:05,160
Speaker 1: terrible off ball player, um. And so given although he

1140
00:55:05,280 --> 00:55:07,280
Speaker 1: had some moments in the playoffs as a cutter, and

1141
00:55:07,280 --> 00:55:09,320
Speaker 1: and and I'm not gonna you know, he's a smart player.

1142
00:55:09,440 --> 00:55:11,319
Speaker 1: I'm not I'm not trying to undersell him. Too much here.

1143
00:55:11,360 --> 00:55:15,480
Speaker 1: But he very much has proven me wrong with the Clippers,

1144
00:55:15,520 --> 00:55:17,359
Speaker 1: just in the sense that he has been a nice

1145
00:55:17,880 --> 00:55:22,000
Speaker 1: slide and fit. That said, in a playoff series with

1146
00:55:22,040 --> 00:55:26,279
Speaker 1: the Lakers or really anybody for that matter, I'm not

1147
00:55:26,640 --> 00:55:29,320
Speaker 1: terribly concerned if the offense is being run through Ronda.

1148
00:55:29,840 --> 00:55:31,640
Speaker 1: I think he helps them a little bit. He's an

1149
00:55:31,680 --> 00:55:33,960
Speaker 1: upgrade over what they've had. It's better than Reggie Jackson.

1150
00:55:34,640 --> 00:55:38,440
Speaker 1: But like, I like my chances if Rondo at his

1151
00:55:38,520 --> 00:55:41,319
Speaker 1: age and with his inconsistency is the guy that's making

1152
00:55:41,320 --> 00:55:45,960
Speaker 1: all your decisions and they're getting playoff, They're getting playoff. Rondo, Man,

1153
00:55:46,000 --> 00:55:50,840
Speaker 1: this is ridiculous. I'm watching these He's like, he's like

1154
00:55:50,920 --> 00:55:55,360
Speaker 1: defending well and he's he's like paying attention off ball

1155
00:55:55,440 --> 00:55:58,200
Speaker 1: and getting steals. I'm like, bro, where was this last year?

1156
00:55:58,280 --> 00:56:03,680
Speaker 1: Like I know, Yeah, he was the most tradditing player

1157
00:56:03,719 --> 00:56:06,320
Speaker 1: I've ever rooted for my life. Like it was awful.

1158
00:56:06,600 --> 00:56:09,400
Speaker 1: It was it was. It was unbelievable having to watch

1159
00:56:09,400 --> 00:56:12,880
Speaker 1: a team with championship aspirations just willingly shoot themselves in

1160
00:56:12,880 --> 00:56:14,759
Speaker 1: the foot every night by playing him as much as

1161
00:56:14,760 --> 00:56:18,760
Speaker 1: they did. In the weirdest lineups. He ruined Kyle Kuzma

1162
00:56:18,840 --> 00:56:23,759
Speaker 1: last year, Troy or Trey Young and Lloyd Pierce are

1163
00:56:23,800 --> 00:56:25,640
Speaker 1: sitting on the couch at home wondering where where the

1164
00:56:25,680 --> 00:56:30,920
Speaker 1: hell this guy was. That's true too, That's true. I

1165
00:56:30,920 --> 00:56:33,799
Speaker 1: appreciate you, Michael. Probably I'll have a good one man.

1166
00:56:34,040 --> 00:56:41,920
Speaker 1: I really appreciate coming to hang out. Man, appreciate it. Alright,

1167
00:56:42,000 --> 00:56:50,440
Speaker 1: let's see, uh he hear me? Yes, what's going on? So, guys, um,

1168
00:56:51,120 --> 00:56:54,439
Speaker 1: I have a question as far as like, because it's roster,

1169
00:56:54,560 --> 00:56:57,239
Speaker 1: it's such a pretty big turnover from last year, and

1170
00:56:57,360 --> 00:57:01,000
Speaker 1: let's assume that was Lebron, nats healthy and everyone pretty healthy.

1171
00:57:01,480 --> 00:57:04,600
Speaker 1: What do you guys see his potential closing lineups? We're

1172
00:57:04,640 --> 00:57:06,920
Speaker 1: talking about like the lineup of death sort of like

1173
00:57:06,960 --> 00:57:09,560
Speaker 1: the go two's and then like the big version like

1174
00:57:09,560 --> 00:57:12,080
Speaker 1: where there we're going big with it, and the smaller version.

1175
00:57:13,200 --> 00:57:17,520
Speaker 1: So yeah, that's the question. I think. I think you're

1176
00:57:17,520 --> 00:57:20,920
Speaker 1: going to see a lot of in high leverage moments,

1177
00:57:21,040 --> 00:57:24,120
Speaker 1: a lot of eighty at the five with Lebron and

1178
00:57:24,160 --> 00:57:27,600
Speaker 1: then Trigger and KCP, and then based on who's playing

1179
00:57:27,680 --> 00:57:30,360
Speaker 1: the best, you'll slide someone in there in that five spot.

1180
00:57:30,400 --> 00:57:33,280
Speaker 1: If Kuzma has been uh, he made a few more

1181
00:57:33,280 --> 00:57:35,440
Speaker 1: threes today. When he makes four threes tonight, like he's

1182
00:57:35,480 --> 00:57:37,880
Speaker 1: he's back, he's back up. I think he's around like

1183
00:57:37,920 --> 00:57:41,640
Speaker 1: thirty six from three with his release and with how

1184
00:57:41,720 --> 00:57:45,680
Speaker 1: tall he is, that's that's pretty consistent, are pretty valuable

1185
00:57:45,760 --> 00:57:48,000
Speaker 1: with their spacing, and so my guess is it would

1186
00:57:48,080 --> 00:57:50,080
Speaker 1: end up being Kuzma. But there are a bunch of

1187
00:57:50,080 --> 00:57:52,400
Speaker 1: different options you could throw in there. You could go

1188
00:57:52,600 --> 00:57:55,080
Speaker 1: crazy with shooting with Ben McLamore, you could go with

1189
00:57:55,440 --> 00:57:58,760
Speaker 1: a great wing defender and Wesley Matthews. They'll have options there.

1190
00:57:58,800 --> 00:58:02,160
Speaker 1: But with as well as Kuzma has been shooting the ball, uh,

1191
00:58:02,200 --> 00:58:04,800
Speaker 1: and just with the crazy length of that front line

1192
00:58:04,840 --> 00:58:07,640
Speaker 1: of having a six nine Kuzma, six nine Lebron and

1193
00:58:07,640 --> 00:58:09,880
Speaker 1: and then Anthony Davis at the five, I think I

1194
00:58:09,920 --> 00:58:12,760
Speaker 1: think that would be like their best closing line up

1195
00:58:12,800 --> 00:58:17,960
Speaker 1: in my opinion. How about you? Yeah, I kinda, I kinda,

1196
00:58:18,040 --> 00:58:20,800
Speaker 1: I kind of agree with that. Um, that's that was

1197
00:58:21,280 --> 00:58:24,080
Speaker 1: the only player I would probably toss in is maybe

1198
00:58:24,160 --> 00:58:28,200
Speaker 1: Mark Keith Morris. Uh. He's been playing pretty well this

1199
00:58:28,280 --> 00:58:31,960
Speaker 1: season and he was excellent in the bubble. UM, So

1200
00:58:32,040 --> 00:58:35,640
Speaker 1: I think I would just interchange possibly Mark Keith and Cruise,

1201
00:58:35,840 --> 00:58:39,080
Speaker 1: but I like Dennis and Cruise so as the guards,

1202
00:58:39,080 --> 00:58:43,000
Speaker 1: and then a D and Braun at the five and four. Yeah,

1203
00:58:43,200 --> 00:58:44,840
Speaker 1: I would agree with that. I guess for me, like

1204
00:58:44,880 --> 00:58:48,160
Speaker 1: it's Lebron a D and maybe Caruso like and then

1205
00:58:48,200 --> 00:58:51,360
Speaker 1: from there, I feel like everyone else is kind of interchangeable,

1206
00:58:51,440 --> 00:58:53,720
Speaker 1: Like with the matchups and size of Dennis has it going,

1207
00:58:53,720 --> 00:58:56,120
Speaker 1: then he'll close, but lebron a D and like one

1208
00:58:56,360 --> 00:58:59,160
Speaker 1: really good defensive guard, whether that's Shoot or Crusoe, and

1209
00:58:59,200 --> 00:59:02,560
Speaker 1: then from you just plug and fill whatever you need. Um,

1210
00:59:03,000 --> 00:59:04,920
Speaker 1: I don't think this team will get like like a

1211
00:59:04,920 --> 00:59:07,200
Speaker 1: lot of teams have their closing five that have hundreds

1212
00:59:07,240 --> 00:59:09,440
Speaker 1: of minutes together. I don't think this team will have that.

1213
00:59:09,480 --> 00:59:12,400
Speaker 1: They just didn't get the chance. Um. But like even

1214
00:59:12,480 --> 00:59:14,480
Speaker 1: last year though they didn't get very many minutes at

1215
00:59:14,480 --> 00:59:16,600
Speaker 1: the five right with a D and then that's pretty

1216
00:59:16,680 --> 00:59:18,760
Speaker 1: much what they went to with the closing lineups and

1217
00:59:19,000 --> 00:59:21,600
Speaker 1: even starting games with in the playoffs. So I think

1218
00:59:21,720 --> 00:59:23,480
Speaker 1: I think that's the main thing in Bolo again, he's

1219
00:59:23,640 --> 00:59:26,080
Speaker 1: gained like the trust to kind of pick and choose

1220
00:59:26,520 --> 00:59:28,480
Speaker 1: players from there and not have to stick with one

1221
00:59:29,200 --> 00:59:31,720
Speaker 1: closing lineups that a lot of teams will have to

1222
00:59:32,040 --> 00:59:35,880
Speaker 1: in the playoffs. Like we said earlier, like we've been

1223
00:59:36,120 --> 00:59:41,120
Speaker 1: pounding all night long. The Lakers have a spacing uh

1224
00:59:41,400 --> 00:59:43,040
Speaker 1: you know, repertoire that they can go to that they

1225
00:59:43,080 --> 00:59:45,600
Speaker 1: just didn't used to have. That was the biggest flaw

1226
00:59:45,720 --> 00:59:48,760
Speaker 1: last year. UM, they had a lot of inconsistent shooters

1227
00:59:49,040 --> 00:59:52,000
Speaker 1: playing at the guard position and basically KCP was their

1228
00:59:52,000 --> 00:59:55,560
Speaker 1: only decent shooting guard. UM, and then they had two

1229
00:59:55,640 --> 00:59:58,040
Speaker 1: centers that couldn't shoot. This year, they just have all

1230
00:59:58,080 --> 00:59:59,960
Speaker 1: these options they can go to. And is a long

1231
01:00:00,000 --> 01:00:02,640
Speaker 1: long as you stick you know, someone of k CPS

1232
01:00:02,680 --> 01:00:06,040
Speaker 1: caliber in the opposite corner and KCP in the strong

1233
01:00:06,080 --> 01:00:08,400
Speaker 1: side corner or whatever it is, and as long as

1234
01:00:08,440 --> 01:00:09,800
Speaker 1: you can put someone on the other wing that can

1235
01:00:09,880 --> 01:00:12,160
Speaker 1: knock a shot down, that Lebron a D pick and

1236
01:00:12,280 --> 01:00:15,240
Speaker 1: roll or any sort of Lebron or a D isolation

1237
01:00:15,320 --> 01:00:18,320
Speaker 1: out of pick and roll and switches just becomes fifty

1238
01:00:18,360 --> 01:00:21,600
Speaker 1: times more effective. Spacing is the is the greatest weapon

1239
01:00:21,640 --> 01:00:25,280
Speaker 1: for a driving or any sort of basket attacking basketball player.

1240
01:00:25,480 --> 01:00:28,160
Speaker 1: And I think, like, you know, I like, I like

1241
01:00:28,200 --> 01:00:30,800
Speaker 1: that argument I had earlier with somebody on Twitter, uh

1242
01:00:31,360 --> 01:00:33,920
Speaker 1: talking about the drum and signing. It's like, I don't

1243
01:00:33,960 --> 01:00:37,480
Speaker 1: think this roster has a hole anymore. And they used

1244
01:00:37,480 --> 01:00:40,720
Speaker 1: to have a hole in wing defenders, but with Wesley

1245
01:00:40,760 --> 01:00:43,080
Speaker 1: Matthews and then Mark kief who's lost some weight, and

1246
01:00:43,080 --> 01:00:45,520
Speaker 1: it's just a lot more mobile and just a lot

1247
01:00:45,600 --> 01:00:48,640
Speaker 1: more serviceable as a wing defender now they have. They've

1248
01:00:48,680 --> 01:00:52,240
Speaker 1: got like five wings. You could throw up people Kuzma, Lebron, Wesley,

1249
01:00:52,680 --> 01:00:56,280
Speaker 1: Mark Keith, and Anthony Davis like that's that's that's not

1250
01:00:56,320 --> 01:00:58,560
Speaker 1: a weak point anymore on the roster. This roster is

1251
01:00:58,640 --> 01:01:01,960
Speaker 1: really really well put together, and Rock Poinken deserves a

1252
01:01:01,960 --> 01:01:05,360
Speaker 1: ton of credit for sure. There's the deepest Lakers roster

1253
01:01:05,920 --> 01:01:07,840
Speaker 1: like I've seen. I don't know if they'll win. I

1254
01:01:07,840 --> 01:01:09,800
Speaker 1: don't know if they had the chemistry and all that

1255
01:01:09,840 --> 01:01:11,560
Speaker 1: to do that, but there's just in terms of talent

1256
01:01:11,640 --> 01:01:14,520
Speaker 1: they have that That's why just getting healthy is so

1257
01:01:14,520 --> 01:01:17,280
Speaker 1: so key. But yeah, they're closing lineups. Will be probably

1258
01:01:17,280 --> 01:01:20,000
Speaker 1: a D at the five likely right, and then uh

1259
01:01:20,040 --> 01:01:22,200
Speaker 1: well maybe with Drummond, but I think most line will

1260
01:01:22,200 --> 01:01:24,760
Speaker 1: still probably carry eighty at the five when when things

1261
01:01:24,800 --> 01:01:26,600
Speaker 1: really go down, and then you have Lebron at the

1262
01:01:26,640 --> 01:01:28,720
Speaker 1: flour and then from there they can pick and pull,

1263
01:01:28,720 --> 01:01:31,960
Speaker 1: like like Jason was saying, yeah, did you guys see

1264
01:01:32,000 --> 01:01:34,120
Speaker 1: in the comments that they the Kings are blitzing the

1265
01:01:34,160 --> 01:01:40,680
Speaker 1: Mavericks to start the King By our love, they'll be

1266
01:01:40,720 --> 01:01:42,880
Speaker 1: like tied by halftime. So I'm not trying to check

1267
01:01:42,920 --> 01:01:48,280
Speaker 1: the store on that. I hate it. I hate it.

1268
01:01:48,280 --> 01:01:50,520
Speaker 1: You have to go and look for every especially when Lebron,

1269
01:01:50,520 --> 01:01:52,680
Speaker 1: any of you were out right, You're looking at almost

1270
01:01:52,720 --> 01:01:55,400
Speaker 1: every West team and having having to lose was no fun.

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Speaker 1: I still cannot overstate how watching it the Lakers would

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01:02:01,400 --> 01:02:03,760
Speaker 1: be if they ended up in that five seed, Like you,

1273
01:02:04,520 --> 01:02:07,480
Speaker 1: if you would have told us before that a d

1274
01:02:07,600 --> 01:02:10,080
Speaker 1: would have waited this long to come back and that

1275
01:02:10,160 --> 01:02:14,000
Speaker 1: with eleven games left, Lebron still wouldn't be back. What

1276
01:02:14,120 --> 01:02:15,840
Speaker 1: are the odds that you would say that the Lakers

1277
01:02:16,280 --> 01:02:18,919
Speaker 1: would have an easy not an easy, but a relatively

1278
01:02:19,000 --> 01:02:21,360
Speaker 1: easy first round opponent and then get a way to

1279
01:02:21,360 --> 01:02:24,400
Speaker 1: play the Clippers to the West Finals. Like that's that's

1280
01:02:24,560 --> 01:02:28,840
Speaker 1: just like I cannot It's gonna be so uh such

1281
01:02:28,880 --> 01:02:31,800
Speaker 1: an ideal outcome for a terrible hand of cards if

1282
01:02:31,840 --> 01:02:34,320
Speaker 1: they end up getting five seed. And I'm just not

1283
01:02:34,480 --> 01:02:37,480
Speaker 1: worried about Lebron's an amazing road playoff player, and the

1284
01:02:37,560 --> 01:02:39,640
Speaker 1: Lakers have fans that travel, it's just not as much

1285
01:02:39,680 --> 01:02:43,000
Speaker 1: of a concern for them. Yeah, that's basically home court

1286
01:02:43,080 --> 01:02:47,040
Speaker 1: in the Western Conference finals, which is hilarious. Into the five.

1287
01:02:47,720 --> 01:02:52,400
Speaker 1: That'd be funny. I'm gonna bring up Mascelli here, can

1288
01:02:52,400 --> 01:02:56,160
Speaker 1: you hear me? Yeah? Also, what's going on? Yeah, um,

1289
01:02:56,360 --> 01:02:59,960
Speaker 1: as as um Kuzma, are be confident about Kuzma being

1290
01:03:00,000 --> 01:03:03,360
Speaker 1: at the primary defender like sies because I remember the

1291
01:03:03,440 --> 01:03:05,800
Speaker 1: first game. I think voge Will used him as like

1292
01:03:05,880 --> 01:03:09,320
Speaker 1: a primary option on PG a lot of times. So

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01:03:09,400 --> 01:03:12,320
Speaker 1: are you guys confident about like being a good defender

1294
01:03:12,960 --> 01:03:19,200
Speaker 1: and a cliple series? Oh my yeah, I mean I'm

1295
01:03:19,280 --> 01:03:23,920
Speaker 1: comfortable with Kuzma being a primary defender as long as

1296
01:03:24,120 --> 01:03:27,000
Speaker 1: you know, this team defensively is one of the best

1297
01:03:27,120 --> 01:03:30,280
Speaker 1: helping the cover teams. So um, you know, we do

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01:03:30,400 --> 01:03:33,240
Speaker 1: a really good job not leaving our players on an island.

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Speaker 1: Uh So, if Kuzma is on a you know, one

1300
01:03:36,440 --> 01:03:40,040
Speaker 1: on one matchup with either Kauai or PG, um, I

1301
01:03:40,080 --> 01:03:41,960
Speaker 1: can see I can definitely see us you know, sending

1302
01:03:42,560 --> 01:03:45,840
Speaker 1: hard double with Crusoe or Dennis or whatnot. And then

1303
01:03:45,920 --> 01:03:49,959
Speaker 1: you know, we just rotate our asses off. So for sure,

1304
01:03:50,080 --> 01:03:52,640
Speaker 1: I think, you know, Kuzma has definitely stepped up like

1305
01:03:52,800 --> 01:03:55,840
Speaker 1: positionally and and the way he uses his length and body.

1306
01:03:56,640 --> 01:03:59,480
Speaker 1: But you know, I'd be fine with it. I'd be

1307
01:03:59,520 --> 01:04:01,920
Speaker 1: fine with about being there if that's you know, the

1308
01:04:02,000 --> 01:04:06,160
Speaker 1: given match him. I think he's his progression as a

1309
01:04:06,200 --> 01:04:08,800
Speaker 1: defender has been really interesting because like he used to

1310
01:04:08,840 --> 01:04:11,800
Speaker 1: be super susceptible to shifty players because he just had

1311
01:04:11,880 --> 01:04:14,240
Speaker 1: bad principles, like his feet were always popping off the ground,

1312
01:04:14,360 --> 01:04:16,600
Speaker 1: so he would be you know, any sort of crossover,

1313
01:04:16,640 --> 01:04:18,240
Speaker 1: any sort of shifty move would kind of catch him

1314
01:04:18,240 --> 01:04:21,240
Speaker 1: off balance. And he's what he's figured out is that

1315
01:04:21,400 --> 01:04:23,880
Speaker 1: his athleticism is not his strength on defense. It's his

1316
01:04:24,000 --> 01:04:26,840
Speaker 1: length and his size and his ability to be a

1317
01:04:26,840 --> 01:04:29,560
Speaker 1: positional defender. Like there's all these different types of defenders, right,

1318
01:04:29,640 --> 01:04:32,560
Speaker 1: Like Wesley Matthews is like this ball pressure, hands on,

1319
01:04:33,160 --> 01:04:36,080
Speaker 1: super physical defender, whereas like how Kuzma, if he's gonna

1320
01:04:36,120 --> 01:04:37,840
Speaker 1: be hands on and up in your business, he's gonna

1321
01:04:37,840 --> 01:04:41,600
Speaker 1: get toasted every time. He's just not laterally quick enough.

1322
01:04:41,680 --> 01:04:45,560
Speaker 1: And and Kuzma has identified away through trial and error

1323
01:04:45,840 --> 01:04:49,200
Speaker 1: by getting roasted and having Lakers Twitter talking a much

1324
01:04:49,240 --> 01:04:51,960
Speaker 1: trash about him, and and and all the you know,

1325
01:04:52,160 --> 01:04:56,520
Speaker 1: all of the growing pains of becoming a veteran basketball player.

1326
01:04:56,520 --> 01:04:58,560
Speaker 1: He's just turned into a guy that knows how to

1327
01:04:58,680 --> 01:05:01,240
Speaker 1: use his body to defend. And like Omar said, like

1328
01:05:01,560 --> 01:05:05,280
Speaker 1: everything is about trusting, you know, trusting the back line

1329
01:05:05,320 --> 01:05:07,320
Speaker 1: in your defense as well, and knowing that, hey, if

1330
01:05:07,360 --> 01:05:09,040
Speaker 1: you mess up and you give up a straight line drive,

1331
01:05:09,360 --> 01:05:12,120
Speaker 1: all you gotta do is stay focused and find an

1332
01:05:12,120 --> 01:05:14,440
Speaker 1: next rotation. Someone's gonna cover for you, but you do

1333
01:05:14,520 --> 01:05:16,640
Speaker 1: not have to cover for them. And that's been the

1334
01:05:16,720 --> 01:05:19,520
Speaker 1: Lakers m O all season. Yeah, I think, yeah, I

1335
01:05:19,560 --> 01:05:21,160
Speaker 1: think you guys hit it on the head. Like he's

1336
01:05:21,160 --> 01:05:24,040
Speaker 1: become a much better one on one defender, especially all wings, right,

1337
01:05:24,040 --> 01:05:26,080
Speaker 1: And I think the Clippers are a good team for that. Um,

1338
01:05:26,160 --> 01:05:28,360
Speaker 1: they don't that many guards that will kind of take

1339
01:05:28,400 --> 01:05:31,240
Speaker 1: you off. It's mostly Paul George Kauai right or Rondo

1340
01:05:31,320 --> 01:05:33,560
Speaker 1: who shouldn't really be able to check you. But Kuzma

1341
01:05:33,560 --> 01:05:35,960
Speaker 1: has become a really good like team defender. He gets

1342
01:05:36,000 --> 01:05:38,360
Speaker 1: like blocks, weak side blocks. Um, he's in the right

1343
01:05:38,400 --> 01:05:41,000
Speaker 1: place when he's helping. He knows when to help and recover. Um,

1344
01:05:41,080 --> 01:05:42,880
Speaker 1: he's part of why the Lakers are able to trap

1345
01:05:43,120 --> 01:05:45,240
Speaker 1: right and then kind of get get back to shooters

1346
01:05:45,280 --> 01:05:47,320
Speaker 1: and at the right time because he's really improved to

1347
01:05:47,360 --> 01:05:49,520
Speaker 1: that and he's talked about that as well, becoming a

1348
01:05:49,600 --> 01:05:51,120
Speaker 1: better team defender. But yeah, I like him as a

1349
01:05:51,160 --> 01:05:53,160
Speaker 1: wing defender. Um, he's not much of a He still

1350
01:05:53,200 --> 01:05:55,120
Speaker 1: gets beat off the dribble a lot against guards without

1351
01:05:55,200 --> 01:05:57,960
Speaker 1: expected but his first and his first two years, Like

1352
01:05:58,160 --> 01:06:00,720
Speaker 1: I remember watching games back when we had Luke Walton

1353
01:06:00,800 --> 01:06:02,640
Speaker 1: as the coach, and I'm not saying it was Luke's fall,

1354
01:06:02,720 --> 01:06:05,160
Speaker 1: but who's like didn't have a defensive stance, Like it

1355
01:06:05,280 --> 01:06:07,720
Speaker 1: was just like he was just hopping around, skipping. And

1356
01:06:07,760 --> 01:06:09,800
Speaker 1: now he gets in like he gets low, he moves

1357
01:06:09,840 --> 01:06:11,440
Speaker 1: his feet, he decides to see, he knows how to

1358
01:06:11,840 --> 01:06:13,720
Speaker 1: kind of he knows how to cut people off. So yeah,

1359
01:06:13,760 --> 01:06:16,120
Speaker 1: I'm comfortable him as a weeking defender. Paul George is

1360
01:06:16,120 --> 01:06:18,520
Speaker 1: gonna cook a lot of people, same with Kauai, but

1361
01:06:18,600 --> 01:06:20,440
Speaker 1: he at least makes it tough. He doesn't get and

1362
01:06:20,560 --> 01:06:22,280
Speaker 1: beat to the rim makes him shoot over the top,

1363
01:06:22,320 --> 01:06:30,760
Speaker 1: So I'm comfortable with him as a defender. Uh. Sorry, Also,

1364
01:06:31,160 --> 01:06:34,480
Speaker 1: Marquis are concering about three points because I think he's

1365
01:06:34,480 --> 01:06:37,600
Speaker 1: been like really boxed slump for like past two weeks.

1366
01:06:37,720 --> 01:06:40,000
Speaker 1: Two weeks so that we comed about he shoots in

1367
01:06:40,040 --> 01:06:44,880
Speaker 1: the wall. I'm not worried about it. I think that,

1368
01:06:45,720 --> 01:06:47,800
Speaker 1: like I've always said, the shock quality is a big

1369
01:06:47,840 --> 01:06:51,000
Speaker 1: part of slumps, and you know, Mark, you've got it

1370
01:06:51,040 --> 01:06:53,640
Speaker 1: going for a while and he's become, you know, a

1371
01:06:53,680 --> 01:06:56,320
Speaker 1: guy that you have to be attached to, and I

1372
01:06:56,360 --> 01:06:58,640
Speaker 1: think I think when you look at scouting reports from

1373
01:06:59,480 --> 01:07:01,840
Speaker 1: last year compared to this year, I think teams are

1374
01:07:01,880 --> 01:07:04,080
Speaker 1: a lot more aware of Mark Keith's shooting and it's

1375
01:07:04,080 --> 01:07:06,440
Speaker 1: a matter of respect, and his shot quality is differently

1376
01:07:06,600 --> 01:07:09,320
Speaker 1: bit and it's caused him to, uh to go into

1377
01:07:09,360 --> 01:07:11,920
Speaker 1: a little bit of cold spell. But as I've always said, um,

1378
01:07:12,240 --> 01:07:13,760
Speaker 1: you know, at the end of the day, when Lebron

1379
01:07:13,800 --> 01:07:15,480
Speaker 1: and a d are engaged with an in shooter on

1380
01:07:15,560 --> 01:07:17,880
Speaker 1: offense in a playoff series, teams are gonna have to

1381
01:07:18,160 --> 01:07:20,880
Speaker 1: divert a ton of attention to them and everyone who's

1382
01:07:20,880 --> 01:07:22,920
Speaker 1: playing in those other two spots or other three spots,

1383
01:07:23,840 --> 01:07:27,360
Speaker 1: depending on the lineup, they're gonna have incredibly high quality shots.

1384
01:07:27,600 --> 01:07:29,760
Speaker 1: And that's where we learned from last year's playoffs, and

1385
01:07:30,320 --> 01:07:35,040
Speaker 1: I think it's gonna be I trust markis to knockdown

1386
01:07:35,080 --> 01:07:36,960
Speaker 1: shots when it matters. He's not one of the guys

1387
01:07:37,000 --> 01:07:41,720
Speaker 1: I'm worried about. He's the one guy where his shot

1388
01:07:41,960 --> 01:07:43,640
Speaker 1: I think you touched on. His shot quality is going

1389
01:07:43,680 --> 01:07:45,400
Speaker 1: to go up so much next to Lebron and a

1390
01:07:45,560 --> 01:07:47,479
Speaker 1: d right like right now, a lot of his shots

1391
01:07:47,520 --> 01:07:49,720
Speaker 1: that I see are like late clock. They swing to

1392
01:07:49,840 --> 01:07:52,360
Speaker 1: him and he takes it with a hand in his face. Um.

1393
01:07:52,800 --> 01:07:54,640
Speaker 1: But man, he he really carried the team when they

1394
01:07:54,680 --> 01:07:56,919
Speaker 1: didn't have much offense like his like mid range game

1395
01:07:56,960 --> 01:07:58,840
Speaker 1: and being able to post him up. So I gave

1396
01:07:58,920 --> 01:08:00,280
Speaker 1: him a pass for right now. I think someone that

1397
01:08:00,440 --> 01:08:03,120
Speaker 1: he struggling since he missed that one game, but he

1398
01:08:03,160 --> 01:08:05,680
Speaker 1: played really well when they needed him to. And uh,

1399
01:08:05,800 --> 01:08:07,479
Speaker 1: I think right now he's going through a slump. But again,

1400
01:08:07,520 --> 01:08:10,959
Speaker 1: his shot collect sauce election and shot quality should should

1401
01:08:11,000 --> 01:08:13,680
Speaker 1: improve as as uh Lebron in eight he gets more

1402
01:08:13,760 --> 01:08:18,760
Speaker 1: comfortable here. It's a matter of spacing too. They have

1403
01:08:18,920 --> 01:08:23,920
Speaker 1: to guard him that and it's spacing and like everything is.

1404
01:08:24,439 --> 01:08:26,600
Speaker 1: Roger and I always talked about the waterfall effect, like

1405
01:08:26,720 --> 01:08:31,720
Speaker 1: there there is a a clear improvement in the way

1406
01:08:31,760 --> 01:08:34,439
Speaker 1: Dennis Shooter has been playing. And I think it's because

1407
01:08:34,600 --> 01:08:38,559
Speaker 1: there for a while, like he was, he was coming

1408
01:08:38,600 --> 01:08:41,800
Speaker 1: to defense attention that was thrown his way. And he's

1409
01:08:41,880 --> 01:08:43,760
Speaker 1: improved so much as a passer in the last couple

1410
01:08:43,760 --> 01:08:46,599
Speaker 1: of weeks that he's kind of reversed the gravity away

1411
01:08:46,640 --> 01:08:49,479
Speaker 1: from him and it's allowed it's allowed him to get

1412
01:08:49,560 --> 01:08:53,040
Speaker 1: easier shots for himself. And it's all it's all relative, right,

1413
01:08:53,120 --> 01:08:55,280
Speaker 1: Like if you're either gonna take away Dennis and give

1414
01:08:55,360 --> 01:08:56,960
Speaker 1: up a bunch of shots, or you're gonna take away

1415
01:08:56,960 --> 01:08:58,599
Speaker 1: all the shots and Dennis is going to go off,

1416
01:08:58,720 --> 01:09:01,000
Speaker 1: that's just the trade it off with a leite defense

1417
01:09:01,040 --> 01:09:03,880
Speaker 1: when you've got a guy like Dennis who's capable of

1418
01:09:03,920 --> 01:09:10,200
Speaker 1: creating his own shop. Yep, I'll bring up I think

1419
01:09:10,280 --> 01:09:12,120
Speaker 1: the last three group question was Rob, so I'll bring

1420
01:09:12,240 --> 01:09:17,240
Speaker 1: him up. What's time about up? You guys? Yeah, I

1421
01:09:17,240 --> 01:09:21,360
Speaker 1: can hear you, Okay, ask my question. I just want

1422
01:09:21,360 --> 01:09:24,360
Speaker 1: to say, the Kings, who apparently have the worst defense

1423
01:09:24,479 --> 01:09:28,320
Speaker 1: of all time, have the Mavericks to seventeen points in

1424
01:09:28,360 --> 01:09:34,080
Speaker 1: the first quarter. But um, my question was, what did

1425
01:09:34,120 --> 01:09:37,920
Speaker 1: you guys think about Genie's top five most important Lakers

1426
01:09:37,960 --> 01:09:40,920
Speaker 1: because I've seen that was like a big topic um

1427
01:09:41,240 --> 01:09:45,200
Speaker 1: on Lakers Twitter. Know what you guys thought about it? Garage?

1428
01:09:45,240 --> 01:09:47,920
Speaker 1: Where do you take this one? First? Man? Okay, so

1429
01:09:48,240 --> 01:09:50,000
Speaker 1: did you guys listen to the you know, the full

1430
01:09:50,040 --> 01:09:52,519
Speaker 1: thing is two hours and it's really good. I'd recommend

1431
01:09:52,560 --> 01:09:54,439
Speaker 1: if you guys are able to hear that full thing.

1432
01:09:54,520 --> 01:10:00,519
Speaker 1: It's all the Smoke podcast with Matt Barnes and Stephen Nate. Yeah,

1433
01:10:00,800 --> 01:10:04,320
Speaker 1: it's really good. Yeah, those two hours fly by. So

1434
01:10:04,400 --> 01:10:06,479
Speaker 1: they asked really good questions. But yeah, it was kind

1435
01:10:06,479 --> 01:10:08,040
Speaker 1: of interesting because I mean, the Lakers have such a

1436
01:10:08,120 --> 01:10:10,400
Speaker 1: long history, right, and then Genie Buss also has a

1437
01:10:10,800 --> 01:10:13,360
Speaker 1: long experience issue with the Lakers, so she was going

1438
01:10:13,439 --> 01:10:16,360
Speaker 1: to Lakers and then like I think she went like Lebron,

1439
01:10:16,880 --> 01:10:19,880
Speaker 1: Kareem and someone else, and then Matt Bonds was like magic.

1440
01:10:19,960 --> 01:10:22,559
Speaker 1: She's like, yeah, I'm magic too, So obviously I don't

1441
01:10:22,640 --> 01:10:24,559
Speaker 1: she said she wasn't prepared for that question. I don't

1442
01:10:24,560 --> 01:10:26,880
Speaker 1: think she thought too much into it. I think people

1443
01:10:26,920 --> 01:10:29,439
Speaker 1: are mostly mad that she put Lebron in there, but

1444
01:10:30,240 --> 01:10:31,680
Speaker 1: I think, you know, Lebron means a lot. If you

1445
01:10:31,800 --> 01:10:34,559
Speaker 1: listen to that podcast, you can see that Lebron means

1446
01:10:34,560 --> 01:10:36,840
Speaker 1: a lot to her that he came when they were down, right.

1447
01:10:36,880 --> 01:10:38,720
Speaker 1: It's very easy to it's very easy to join a

1448
01:10:38,800 --> 01:10:41,080
Speaker 1: franchise when they're at the top. That he joined when

1449
01:10:41,080 --> 01:10:42,439
Speaker 1: they were down that really meant a lot to her,

1450
01:10:42,520 --> 01:10:43,960
Speaker 1: So that that's kind of how I saw. I don't

1451
01:10:44,000 --> 01:10:45,960
Speaker 1: think she put too much thought into it. I think

1452
01:10:46,040 --> 01:10:50,880
Speaker 1: hers was like what Kobe Lebron, Phil Phil Jackson, Kareem

1453
01:10:51,000 --> 01:10:53,479
Speaker 1: and Phil Jackson was a weird one, and I thought,

1454
01:10:53,560 --> 01:10:55,920
Speaker 1: not that he's not valuable to the franchise, but like

1455
01:10:56,320 --> 01:10:59,040
Speaker 1: jack should be there instead, I would think, and just

1456
01:11:00,120 --> 01:11:02,719
Speaker 1: go ahead, I was gonna say Phil Jackson was said

1457
01:11:02,760 --> 01:11:06,040
Speaker 1: by Matt Barns. Actually he said Jackson and then yeah,

1458
01:11:06,120 --> 01:11:09,080
Speaker 1: She's like, is he does he count? And he said absolutely,

1459
01:11:09,200 --> 01:11:11,519
Speaker 1: So yeah, I feel like the questioning there was a

1460
01:11:11,560 --> 01:11:17,800
Speaker 1: little strange too. Contact is really important. These kinds of

1461
01:11:17,920 --> 01:11:21,320
Speaker 1: lists are really hard, and it's impossible not to kiss

1462
01:11:21,320 --> 01:11:23,000
Speaker 1: somebody off, so that that would be the thing that

1463
01:11:23,040 --> 01:11:25,080
Speaker 1: I'd frame it with. As far as Lebron, the case

1464
01:11:25,240 --> 01:11:27,560
Speaker 1: is really simple, and I'm not even saying Lebron is

1465
01:11:27,600 --> 01:11:30,320
Speaker 1: one of the five most impactful Lakers ever. I don't

1466
01:11:30,360 --> 01:11:32,280
Speaker 1: think that that can really be decided for a couple

1467
01:11:32,360 --> 01:11:34,960
Speaker 1: more years. But the case for Lebron is like, like,

1468
01:11:35,880 --> 01:11:38,439
Speaker 1: there's some truth to the fact that the franchise was

1469
01:11:38,800 --> 01:11:40,880
Speaker 1: a little bit off the rails there for a while,

1470
01:11:41,080 --> 01:11:44,080
Speaker 1: Like the Magic Johnson thing was really bad. It was

1471
01:11:44,240 --> 01:11:47,000
Speaker 1: really really bad. It was so bad in fact, that

1472
01:11:47,400 --> 01:11:49,640
Speaker 1: people were wondering why Lebron went there to begin with

1473
01:11:50,200 --> 01:11:52,760
Speaker 1: under the circumstances. Now, Jeanie deserves a lot of credit

1474
01:11:52,840 --> 01:11:55,840
Speaker 1: for the Rob Polinka pick, because Rob has proven to

1475
01:11:55,960 --> 01:11:59,479
Speaker 1: be very savvy and good at his job. But the

1476
01:11:59,680 --> 01:12:02,280
Speaker 1: the initial piece that turned all of this around and

1477
01:12:02,320 --> 01:12:04,320
Speaker 1: one of the lakers of Championship and had them as

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Speaker 1: the favorite coming into the season was Lebron came to town.

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Speaker 1: And there's something to be said about Lebron facilitating the

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Speaker 1: Anthony Davis thing. It's a real thing that happened, and

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Speaker 1: uh and then and then now Anthony Davis is under

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01:12:15,840 --> 01:12:19,720
Speaker 1: contract in the long term. Um, So there's something to

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Speaker 1: be said about a franchise that was off the rails

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01:12:23,160 --> 01:12:26,560
Speaker 1: and is now very firmly on a positive trajectory for

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Speaker 1: many years to come. And Lebron is kind of a

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Speaker 1: linchpin of that. So I don't think even if you

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Speaker 1: don't want to put him on that list, I think

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Speaker 1: you have to acknowledge his importance to this franchise. Now. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: And I think, um, given that you know, this was

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Speaker 1: basically her first like run as like the governor and

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Speaker 1: owner of the Lakers, I think it's just speaks to

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Speaker 1: the bond between her and Lebron James. I mean, they

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01:12:54,560 --> 01:12:56,800
Speaker 1: she speaks so highly of him, so I can only

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Speaker 1: imagine that they have really close bond even though he's

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Speaker 1: been here for only a few years. But um, those

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Speaker 1: things matter, you know what I mean. So um, and

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Speaker 1: I'm just happy that you know, she she's running the

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Speaker 1: Lake show and and Rob's doing his thing and Lebron's players, right,

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Speaker 1: and just to like piggyback off the question Rob at

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Speaker 1: that interview was so awesome because you kind of got

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Speaker 1: a look into some of the chaos, Like you remember

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01:13:21,520 --> 01:13:24,360
Speaker 1: when the Lakers fired Mike Brown, right, and then they

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01:13:24,439 --> 01:13:27,120
Speaker 1: hired Mac Mike D'Antoni, And then she was like, I

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01:13:27,200 --> 01:13:29,400
Speaker 1: don't really know basketball, but I know that like our

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01:13:29,479 --> 01:13:32,240
Speaker 1: roster was built for a defensive team and then we

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01:13:32,360 --> 01:13:35,200
Speaker 1: hired a fully offensive coach. That it's just funny to her.

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01:13:35,880 --> 01:13:38,200
Speaker 1: Hear her kind of speak about like those those kind

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01:13:38,240 --> 01:13:41,240
Speaker 1: of decisions in the front office that happened, and from

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Speaker 1: us from the outside, we just see that chaos, like oh,

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01:13:43,439 --> 01:13:45,519
Speaker 1: they fired Mike Brown and then they hired mac Datoni.

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Speaker 1: But she was confused as well in the in the

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Speaker 1: front office. So it's it's a really good interview I had.

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Speaker 1: I'd say that everyone should go listen to that. It's

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Speaker 1: a little long, but it's worth it. Yeah, man, thanks guys,

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01:14:00,439 --> 01:14:06,000
Speaker 1: thank you. I think that's all the speakers. See if

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Speaker 1: we miss any questions in the in the chat, we're

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01:14:09,960 --> 01:14:12,280
Speaker 1: going on over an hour fifteen here, so I guess

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Speaker 1: we'll we'll wrap up. Why don't we do one more

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01:14:15,760 --> 01:14:24,760
Speaker 1: question to night? Sure, let's see here. I guess we

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Speaker 1: can kind of close with this one. Um uh, he says,

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Speaker 1: I hope he helps Andre Drummond shout out. Evan Reynolds says, uh.

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01:14:32,160 --> 01:14:33,840
Speaker 1: I think they're hoping they can coach Drummond to be

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01:14:33,920 --> 01:14:36,440
Speaker 1: a chess match type of player due to his mobility

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01:14:36,840 --> 01:14:39,000
Speaker 1: at his size on the perimeter when he choose it,

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01:14:39,040 --> 01:14:42,519
Speaker 1: so they can play small while technically staying big. Thoughts

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Speaker 1: on that, I guess we I guess we did kind

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01:14:44,160 --> 01:14:46,160
Speaker 1: of touch on that. But, um, do you see Drummond

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Speaker 1: as because I think his like, uh, I guess theoretically

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01:14:50,040 --> 01:14:52,160
Speaker 1: Drummond was a switching player right when I when I

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01:14:52,240 --> 01:14:54,800
Speaker 1: watched him on switches, it's not as again though, his

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01:14:54,920 --> 01:14:56,800
Speaker 1: mistakes are pretty loud, so I don't know, Like maybe

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01:14:56,800 --> 01:14:59,120
Speaker 1: when I'll rewatch it that it feels different. But do

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Speaker 1: you feel like he's he's a good switchable player because

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01:15:01,800 --> 01:15:03,840
Speaker 1: it feels like they're still trapping a lot with him

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01:15:04,400 --> 01:15:06,760
Speaker 1: rather than switching on the perimeter. I guess, I guess

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01:15:06,800 --> 01:15:08,120
Speaker 1: look at Joe thoughts on that. I think that was

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Speaker 1: the crux of the question there. If Drumming can kind

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Speaker 1: of switch on the perimeter against you know, against playoff

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01:15:15,200 --> 01:15:17,880
Speaker 1: level players right like against throw out of Magic it

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01:15:17,880 --> 01:15:20,120
Speaker 1: doesn't really matter, but against they're really good teams that

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01:15:20,120 --> 01:15:22,960
Speaker 1: have good perimeter players that can and hunt those kind

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01:15:22,960 --> 01:15:24,040
Speaker 1: of things. Do you do you see him as a

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Speaker 1: guy that can switch on the perimeter? Not particularly Um,

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01:15:28,800 --> 01:15:33,080
Speaker 1: he's he's I think he's every bit as capable of

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01:15:33,200 --> 01:15:35,840
Speaker 1: that type of role as a javeailor Dwight. I think

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Speaker 1: of him, it's just a slight upgrade over Dwight Howard

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Speaker 1: in my opinion, Like he's gonna have moments as a

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Speaker 1: rim protector and as a guy who's got active hands

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01:15:45,360 --> 01:15:48,360
Speaker 1: in pick and roll pocket passes and things along those lines,

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01:15:48,920 --> 01:15:52,120
Speaker 1: and uh, and as a redounder, he's gonna have his moments.

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Speaker 1: But like, at the end of the day, like I

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01:15:54,200 --> 01:15:57,719
Speaker 1: never was overly confident with Dwhite on the floor against

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01:15:57,760 --> 01:16:01,439
Speaker 1: teams that were, you know, really good dribble drive offenses

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01:16:01,479 --> 01:16:06,880
Speaker 1: that were attacking switches. And again like I like having

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Speaker 1: him instead of not having him because I thought Dwighte

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Speaker 1: had his moments um and I think I think Droman's

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01:16:11,439 --> 01:16:13,800
Speaker 1: gonna have moments in that first round series against Denver.

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Speaker 1: But at the end of the day, like we we'd

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Speaker 1: be lying if we thought that he was that we

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01:16:19,320 --> 01:16:21,759
Speaker 1: would be thrilled to watch drum And on an island

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Speaker 1: against you know, really anybody. Uh that's a decent, drible

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Speaker 1: drive guard. Yeah, I agree. And I think one more

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Speaker 1: thing to add to that is I think I don't

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Speaker 1: thing that I didn't really, I mean, I didn't watch

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Speaker 1: too much tape on Drummond, but he bites on a

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Speaker 1: lot of like pump fakes, which gets like these smaller guards,

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Speaker 1: like just enough separation to kind of get like an

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Speaker 1: easy shot or layup in and and um, you know

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Speaker 1: those kinds of things that like kind of takes him

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Speaker 1: away from using him as as a switchable type player. Yeah,

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01:16:56,280 --> 01:16:58,040
Speaker 1: that's a good point. He does that at the rim

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Speaker 1: a lot too. I feel like like, yeah, that's good,

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Speaker 1: you go ahead. No, I was just thinking, I'm always

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Speaker 1: just like why why do you do that? Just so large?

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Speaker 1: You know that, I know he has his hands up

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Speaker 1: and he still jumps and like man, and those are

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Speaker 1: things that I don't really show up on a box score,

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01:17:14,400 --> 01:17:16,120
Speaker 1: but it's just like those are some of the frustrated

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Speaker 1: things about him. But yeah, I felt like, obviously, Omar,

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Speaker 1: you said you didn't watch too much tape. I don't

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01:17:20,840 --> 01:17:23,240
Speaker 1: really blame you for not watching all those Chatz games,

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01:17:23,320 --> 01:17:26,000
Speaker 1: but like I wasn't really watching them either. But just theoretically,

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Speaker 1: I thought, like, because he's I mean, he named himself

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Speaker 1: big Penguin, you know, and you can able to move,

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01:17:30,120 --> 01:17:32,800
Speaker 1: um have the agility, it just doesn't really translate onto

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01:17:32,920 --> 01:17:35,519
Speaker 1: switches at the perimeter. It feels like teams get him

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01:17:35,560 --> 01:17:39,160
Speaker 1: backing up too easily. And then they can shoot over him. So, UM, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I feel like I think that's a good place to

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Speaker 1: kind of, uh kind of wrap it up. We went

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Speaker 1: around an hour twenty. I appreciate everyone who came up

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01:17:46,920 --> 01:17:49,360
Speaker 1: and talked or put a question in the chat. Um,

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01:17:49,520 --> 01:17:52,479
Speaker 1: this is this is really fun. Uh, Omar, appreciate you

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Speaker 1: taking the time here. Um everyone go follow Omar on Twitter.

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Speaker 1: I believe it's O S I D. Is that correct? Yeah,

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01:18:00,560 --> 01:18:04,479
Speaker 1: of course, it's just super fun. Oh you were awesome, man,

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01:18:04,560 --> 01:18:07,640
Speaker 1: I really appreciate you coming on um question. Roger and

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Speaker 1: I are planning on doing Roger is one of the

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Speaker 1: super fancy famous people that has spaces on Twitter, So

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Speaker 1: we're gonna we're gonna try to do a spaces on Wednesday.

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Speaker 1: We're kind of trouble shooting. My big issue with spaces

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01:18:21,400 --> 01:18:24,600
Speaker 1: is that there's no onboard natural option to record it.

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01:18:24,720 --> 01:18:27,679
Speaker 1: So we're gonna try to uh tinker with some things

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Speaker 1: to do, like maybe a screen recording, because at the

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Speaker 1: end of the day, like I don't know about you guys,

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01:18:31,800 --> 01:18:34,240
Speaker 1: but I I if I can't listen, I'd prefer to

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01:18:34,280 --> 01:18:35,880
Speaker 1: have a podcast that I can listen to, And so

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Speaker 1: that's what we want to provide for you guys, um,

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01:18:38,439 --> 01:18:40,880
Speaker 1: but we'll do that on Wednesday, and then as soon

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01:18:40,960 --> 01:18:43,880
Speaker 1: as Locker Room emails me the link for this one,

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01:18:43,920 --> 01:18:45,600
Speaker 1: I'll have it up as a podcast as well. And

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Speaker 1: Roger and I were just talking about some of the

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Speaker 1: numbers the other day, and we're so impressed and so

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Speaker 1: happy with all the support you guys have given us.

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01:18:54,880 --> 01:18:57,360
Speaker 1: And we're super stoked to see how this thing grows,

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01:18:57,640 --> 01:19:00,040
Speaker 1: and and we want feedback from you guys, and and

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01:19:00,360 --> 01:19:02,160
Speaker 1: we just hope you guys understand how much we appreciate

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Speaker 1: all of you. Yeah, yeah, we really do. Thanks a lot.

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01:19:05,439 --> 01:19:07,400
Speaker 1: And then again, go follow Omar on Twitter. O s

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01:19:07,479 --> 01:19:10,559
Speaker 1: I d Um does great work with the Laker Central

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01:19:10,680 --> 01:19:14,559
Speaker 1: doing videos and everything. So yeah, thanks everyone for coming out. Um, Jason,

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Speaker 1: I'll talk to you later. Omar, thanks again. Of first,

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Speaker 1: thanks sad Alli. Everybody's you, guys,