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Speaker 1: is just what they are. They're a good team, but

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Speaker 1: they're a flawed team. I had a lot of fans

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Speaker 1: in my Twitter mentions being like, oh, they're maybe the

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Speaker 1: Lakers are just bad. No, they're not. They They're what

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Speaker 1: twelve and six in their last eighteen games, that's, you know,

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Speaker 1: two wins for every loss. They're what nineteen and twelve

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Speaker 1: in their last thirty one games They've started the season

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Speaker 1: fifteen and nine counting the n season tournament win. Like,

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Speaker 1: they're not a bad team, They're just a flawed team.

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Speaker 1: They're exactly what they were last year. If they catch

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Speaker 1: the right matchups, they can beat teams. They catch bad matchups,

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Speaker 1: they can lose the teams. That puts them in that

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Speaker 1: tier with the rest of the teams down there. But

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Speaker 1: the problem is is because they let their foot off

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Speaker 1: the gas and went three to ten for a thirteen

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Speaker 1: game stretch. After the n season tournament, they don't have

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Speaker 1: the luxury of being in a situation where they can

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Speaker 1: have a home playing game to win one to get in,

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Speaker 1: let alone, maybe even a secured in a playoff spot

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Speaker 1: there in the four to five to six range, which

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Speaker 1: they very well might have had if they didn't let

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Speaker 1: their foot off the gas in such a big way

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Speaker 1: in the middle of the season. And so they've now

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Speaker 1: put themselves in a situation they were already flawed, they

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Speaker 1: were already matchup dependent, but now they put themselves in

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Speaker 1: a situation where they might not even have an opportunity

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Speaker 1: to beat a team four times out of seven because

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Speaker 1: they mailed in so many games during the middle of

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Speaker 1: the season. Now they're in the playing tournament, you know.

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Speaker 1: And like, as we look at their kind of personnel situation,

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Speaker 1: like Lebron is old and he's not as consistent as

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Speaker 1: the younger stars in the league because he's old, and

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Speaker 1: because he's dealing with the nagging ankle injury, and like

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Speaker 1: the legs just aren't there like they usually are. I mean, hell,

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Speaker 1: I'm thirty two and I feel like, my legs are

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Speaker 1: not as consistently good as they were when I was

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Speaker 1: in my mid twenties. I can't even imagine how that

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Speaker 1: dude's feeling at thirty nine with all the minutes that

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Speaker 1: he has on his body. Right, So, like that's just

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Speaker 1: something that comes with the territory, right, Anthony Davis, he is,

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Speaker 1: in my opinion, firmly one of the ten best basketball

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Speaker 1: players in the world, but he has a significant matchup

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Speaker 1: weakness against big bodied centers that can withstand his physical

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Speaker 1: approach while also sliding their feet well enough to make

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Speaker 1: him into a shot maker and that can bury him

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Speaker 1: under the rim on the other end of the floor.

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Speaker 1: And then their role players. They all have abilities, but

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Speaker 1: they've got some redundancies, right, Like Ruey's more or less

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Speaker 1: the same type of player as Lebron Delo is more

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Speaker 1: or less the same type of player as Austin Delo

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Speaker 1: in particular, really really struggles with ball pressure and physicality.

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Speaker 1: Ruey straight up can't play him in certain matchups defensively

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Speaker 1: because of his inability to navigate screens and defend on

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Speaker 1: the perimeter. And again, everything for this team comes down

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Speaker 1: to what kind of path lays in front of them,

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Speaker 1: and at this point there's so much luck that they

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Speaker 1: need to get in terms of the team they place

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Speaker 1: a face in the play in the team they face

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Speaker 1: in the first round. It just like with each passing day,

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Speaker 1: it just seems like that window gets narrow or and narrow.

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Speaker 1: There's still a path there. But like I in a

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Speaker 1: lot of ways, I looked at this particular game against

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Speaker 1: Sacramento is a certain gateway test, like if you're gonna

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Speaker 1: do something in the playoffs, this is the game you win.

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Speaker 1: They each have three times already, Like you have the

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Speaker 1: motivational advantage, you need the game more than Sacramento does.

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Speaker 1: You have the embarrassment like sort of thing going on

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Speaker 1: after everything that's happened to you against them this season,

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Speaker 1: and you go on the road and your two best

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Speaker 1: players play like crap and you get your butt kicked,

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Speaker 1: Like that's that to me is one of those things

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Speaker 1: where like if you look back at a team that

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Speaker 1: makes a deep playoff run, they typically pass tests like

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Speaker 1: this in the regular season, and the Lakers more often

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Speaker 1: than not have failed these kinds of tests. And I'm

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Speaker 1: a big believer, and like a basketball team will tell

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Speaker 1: you who they are and you know, even early in

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Speaker 1: the season, when they started fourteen fifteen to nine counting

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Speaker 1: the N Season Tournament win, even at that point they

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Speaker 1: were winning kind of ugly games. They would bs for

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Speaker 1: three quarters and then lock in and win at the end.

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Speaker 1: That was how they were winning early. They would play

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Speaker 1: bad for three quarters and then come back and win.

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Speaker 1: Like they were an inconsistent effort team from the start.

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Speaker 1: So are we surprised that they went three to ten

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Speaker 1: after the N Season Tournament and immediately relaxed once they

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Speaker 1: had a little bit of success. I'm not surprised. Are

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Speaker 1: we surprised that they've been not very sharp off ball defensively,

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Speaker 1: which is what killed them tonight getting you know, we

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Speaker 1: talked about the bracket coverages, like they constantly were just

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Speaker 1: in predicaments where like they had to bring that third

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Speaker 1: defender over and then they get burned on a skip pass,

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Speaker 1: or Lebron would have to come down to box out

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Speaker 1: some bonus and then he'd get burned on a skip pass,

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Speaker 1: and like they just this has It's been a consistent

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Speaker 1: issue all year, and so again when teams try to

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Speaker 1: tell us who they are, we got to listen to them,

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Speaker 1: all right, I'm off my soapbox for tonight. Big win

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Speaker 1: for the Kings kind of just feels like that kind

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Speaker 1: of season for the Lakers, and I feel like all

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Speaker 1: Lakers fans should adjust their expectations accordingly. But I do

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Speaker 1: want to just say before we get out of here

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Speaker 1: that I sincerely appreciate all of you guys for supporting

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Speaker 1: the show. Tomorrow morning, we'll be back with Heat Nuggets

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Speaker 1: in probably one other game, and then just a typical

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Speaker 1: game breakdown mail bag type of day on Friday, so

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Speaker 1: I will see you guys tomorrow morning. I appreciate you

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Speaker 1: see that the volume