1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:18,120 Speaker 1: Mmmmmm, all right. Welcome to Stay to the Lakers presented 2 00:00:18,160 --> 00:00:22,040 Speaker 1: by DASS Radio. Happy Saturday, everybody. I am glad to 3 00:00:22,120 --> 00:00:25,240 Speaker 1: be back. I missed your rogs. We haven't talked since Sunday, 4 00:00:25,840 --> 00:00:30,400 Speaker 1: played a little podcast version of phone Tag for various reasons. 5 00:00:30,960 --> 00:00:32,879 Speaker 1: But I'm excited to get to the bottom of a 6 00:00:32,920 --> 00:00:36,120 Speaker 1: bunch of stuff with you tonight because the Lakers uh 7 00:00:36,280 --> 00:00:39,400 Speaker 1: did something that I think we're not entirely shocked by, 8 00:00:39,560 --> 00:00:42,280 Speaker 1: but continues to stick with a bunch of the themes 9 00:00:42,479 --> 00:00:45,599 Speaker 1: that I've been meaning to talk with you about since Sunday, 10 00:00:45,640 --> 00:00:48,000 Speaker 1: which is good because we have a lot of topics 11 00:00:48,000 --> 00:00:49,640 Speaker 1: to get to. But first of all, how are you doing, buddy? 12 00:00:49,640 --> 00:00:54,760 Speaker 1: How is your week? It's going well. The Lakers obviously 13 00:00:54,760 --> 00:00:56,440 Speaker 1: aren't helping any of it, but you know, I'm having 14 00:00:56,440 --> 00:00:58,800 Speaker 1: a nice little get together at my house here. Friends 15 00:00:58,800 --> 00:01:01,920 Speaker 1: brought over some flukin stuff, so it's nice. I'm enjoying myself, 16 00:01:01,800 --> 00:01:04,040 Speaker 1: if you know. The Lakers don't want me to, so 17 00:01:04,120 --> 00:01:05,560 Speaker 1: I'm joining mouth. How are you though, man? How is 18 00:01:05,560 --> 00:01:07,679 Speaker 1: your ski trip? How was the vacation? I'm doing good. 19 00:01:07,760 --> 00:01:10,200 Speaker 1: Skiing was fun. Um that family trip that I do 20 00:01:10,280 --> 00:01:11,640 Speaker 1: with my wife's family we go in a couple of 21 00:01:11,680 --> 00:01:13,640 Speaker 1: ski trips every year, but the one with my wife's 22 00:01:13,640 --> 00:01:16,160 Speaker 1: family is always a ton of fun um, not too 23 00:01:16,200 --> 00:01:19,840 Speaker 1: much travel, not too much drama traveling, which is something 24 00:01:19,840 --> 00:01:21,800 Speaker 1: I'm thankful for because I know that a lot of 25 00:01:21,840 --> 00:01:25,520 Speaker 1: people are dealing with a bunch of uh inconveniences on 26 00:01:25,600 --> 00:01:28,600 Speaker 1: that front. But the snow conditions are amazing. Skiing is 27 00:01:28,640 --> 00:01:30,760 Speaker 1: my second favorite thing to do in the world, behind basketball, 28 00:01:30,760 --> 00:01:32,520 Speaker 1: and I had a good time doing it. But anyway, 29 00:01:32,560 --> 00:01:36,600 Speaker 1: let's get to the game, because you know this team 30 00:01:36,680 --> 00:01:40,080 Speaker 1: is fundamentally broken. This is you know, there's a thing 31 00:01:40,080 --> 00:01:43,560 Speaker 1: that you keep tweeting that you've tweeted throughout the season, 32 00:01:43,720 --> 00:01:46,440 Speaker 1: something that I've reiterated on the podcast. I'm not calling 33 00:01:46,480 --> 00:01:48,960 Speaker 1: you out by any stretch of the imagination, but you 34 00:01:49,000 --> 00:01:53,240 Speaker 1: say there's a good team in there, somewhere somewhere there is. 35 00:01:53,400 --> 00:01:56,360 Speaker 1: I think you're right. But the good team that's in 36 00:01:56,400 --> 00:02:00,360 Speaker 1: there is Lebron and they d it's not anything else. 37 00:02:01,600 --> 00:02:05,240 Speaker 1: And one of the themes of my podcast that I 38 00:02:05,320 --> 00:02:10,280 Speaker 1: did on Thursday was this idea that the Lakers made 39 00:02:10,280 --> 00:02:15,919 Speaker 1: an identity change through personnel that has backfired and is 40 00:02:15,960 --> 00:02:19,320 Speaker 1: backfired miserably and the Lakers have had a couple of 41 00:02:19,360 --> 00:02:24,359 Speaker 1: different options moving forward. They can either say, hey, Kendrick 42 00:02:24,400 --> 00:02:27,880 Speaker 1: Nunn was out, Hey Anthony Davis has been out of one, 43 00:02:28,080 --> 00:02:32,360 Speaker 1: Lebron has missed time, we're integrating new pieces. You know, 44 00:02:32,480 --> 00:02:34,079 Speaker 1: this guy has been hurt. That guy has been hurt. 45 00:02:34,720 --> 00:02:38,440 Speaker 1: We can blame it on all these issues, or we 46 00:02:38,639 --> 00:02:42,360 Speaker 1: can acknowledge the reality of the situation, which is, we 47 00:02:42,440 --> 00:02:44,880 Speaker 1: brought in a bunch of guys who may be on 48 00:02:44,919 --> 00:02:47,959 Speaker 1: their own volition, bring a certain amount of stuff to 49 00:02:48,000 --> 00:02:51,360 Speaker 1: the table as basketball players. But this concoction of basketball players, 50 00:02:51,400 --> 00:02:55,160 Speaker 1: all these guys put together, they can't win in this league. 51 00:02:55,919 --> 00:02:58,799 Speaker 1: It's a problem. And so I wonder if the Lakers 52 00:02:58,800 --> 00:03:00,959 Speaker 1: are going to ever come to terms with that fact. 53 00:03:01,040 --> 00:03:02,880 Speaker 1: But it's like, I mean, here's the thing, Rogers, and 54 00:03:02,960 --> 00:03:04,320 Speaker 1: is the last thing I'll say for kick it over 55 00:03:04,320 --> 00:03:08,600 Speaker 1: to you. They had a spirited film session after getting 56 00:03:08,639 --> 00:03:13,160 Speaker 1: lit on fire by a terrible Sacramento Kings team. All 57 00:03:13,240 --> 00:03:17,200 Speaker 1: the things they did wrong, all the missed opportunities, all 58 00:03:17,240 --> 00:03:20,120 Speaker 1: the mistakes, the defensive mistakes, and the little details that 59 00:03:20,160 --> 00:03:24,800 Speaker 1: they dropped, and then from the opening tip tonight, none 60 00:03:24,800 --> 00:03:27,799 Speaker 1: of that stuff was put into practice. None of it right, 61 00:03:28,280 --> 00:03:32,919 Speaker 1: and so they don't like, don't burden yourself with caring 62 00:03:32,960 --> 00:03:35,280 Speaker 1: more than they do, because for whatever reason, this group 63 00:03:35,320 --> 00:03:40,400 Speaker 1: of guys doesn't care, you know. But that's where I'm at. Yeah, 64 00:03:40,440 --> 00:03:42,680 Speaker 1: none of that's wrong. And I also got killed at halftime. 65 00:03:42,720 --> 00:03:45,240 Speaker 1: You know, I said, I thought they played hard to 66 00:03:45,480 --> 00:03:47,920 Speaker 1: an extent, and I would have loved to be a 67 00:03:48,120 --> 00:03:49,920 Speaker 1: fly on the wall right in that film session. I 68 00:03:49,960 --> 00:03:52,120 Speaker 1: would of love too went down, I would of love 69 00:03:52,160 --> 00:03:53,960 Speaker 1: because we all watched the same tape. You know, the 70 00:03:54,000 --> 00:03:55,680 Speaker 1: film is the same weather I watch it here, you 71 00:03:55,680 --> 00:03:57,960 Speaker 1: watch it in a you know, a fancy film room. 72 00:03:58,000 --> 00:03:59,640 Speaker 1: Like the tape. The tape is the same. We gave 73 00:03:59,720 --> 00:04:03,040 Speaker 1: up points tonight Denver. You know, hit everything. They were 74 00:04:03,040 --> 00:04:06,800 Speaker 1: super hot from three I think they were fifteen ours. 75 00:04:06,920 --> 00:04:09,040 Speaker 1: You know, Jameson, I know how to like. Our schemes 76 00:04:09,080 --> 00:04:12,920 Speaker 1: don't really have any rhyme or reason right Like, there's 77 00:04:12,960 --> 00:04:16,000 Speaker 1: there's no like, there's no end goal to what we're doing. 78 00:04:16,120 --> 00:04:18,359 Speaker 1: I feel like, and we just double team for no reason. 79 00:04:18,720 --> 00:04:20,640 Speaker 1: I thought early on, I thought Dwight on your kitch 80 00:04:20,760 --> 00:04:22,440 Speaker 1: was good. I thought that was a smart way to 81 00:04:22,440 --> 00:04:24,200 Speaker 1: start the game. And I thought Dwight was good. He 82 00:04:24,240 --> 00:04:26,880 Speaker 1: had a bunch of offensive rebounds. Russell Westbrook for the 83 00:04:26,920 --> 00:04:28,840 Speaker 1: first five minutes the game was getting to the basket. 84 00:04:28,839 --> 00:04:30,360 Speaker 1: I think they had Will Barton on him, or they 85 00:04:30,400 --> 00:04:33,039 Speaker 1: had another guard on him. And then immediately that what 86 00:04:33,080 --> 00:04:35,440 Speaker 1: we've talked about all season, Teams are going to eventually 87 00:04:35,480 --> 00:04:38,640 Speaker 1: just switch their big wing onto him or break forward. 88 00:04:38,640 --> 00:04:41,440 Speaker 1: They switched Aaron Gordon onto him, and Russell Westbrook just 89 00:04:41,480 --> 00:04:44,440 Speaker 1: continue to drive through him, right and Eron Gordon is 90 00:04:44,440 --> 00:04:46,839 Speaker 1: not a guy you can drive through him. And you 91 00:04:46,839 --> 00:04:48,840 Speaker 1: know that if you want to look at glass alf fool, 92 00:04:49,080 --> 00:04:51,640 Speaker 1: maybe Aaron Gordon has to take Anthony Davis when they're playing. 93 00:04:51,640 --> 00:04:54,640 Speaker 1: But most good teams might have three, you know, big 94 00:04:54,680 --> 00:04:56,760 Speaker 1: wing guys they can throw on Lebron Russe and a 95 00:04:56,839 --> 00:04:58,480 Speaker 1: d And that's what they did tonight. And again Russ 96 00:04:58,520 --> 00:05:00,760 Speaker 1: put his head down, went to the basket, missed a 97 00:05:00,760 --> 00:05:02,880 Speaker 1: bunch of layups at the rim, Aaron Gordon was on 98 00:05:02,960 --> 00:05:05,880 Speaker 1: and decided to take some you know, questionable jump shots. 99 00:05:05,880 --> 00:05:07,520 Speaker 1: This this is not on Russ. I think our problem 100 00:05:07,560 --> 00:05:10,520 Speaker 1: tonight was defensively, but it's a team wide issue that 101 00:05:10,560 --> 00:05:12,479 Speaker 1: we're seeing. And my point on there's a good team 102 00:05:12,600 --> 00:05:15,360 Speaker 1: in here. There's a ladder, and I keep saying there's 103 00:05:15,400 --> 00:05:16,960 Speaker 1: like a step by step process. We have to go 104 00:05:17,040 --> 00:05:19,520 Speaker 1: through that, but we can't go there if we quit 105 00:05:19,560 --> 00:05:22,840 Speaker 1: along the way, right, And that's kind of what I'm saying. 106 00:05:22,839 --> 00:05:25,080 Speaker 1: There's a like, there's a breaking point. I think also 107 00:05:25,120 --> 00:05:27,599 Speaker 1: the small ball. I think when you start Malik Monk 108 00:05:27,680 --> 00:05:30,200 Speaker 1: and Avery Bradley like and there, it's not their fault 109 00:05:30,400 --> 00:05:32,840 Speaker 1: in terms of like personally and it's not personal for them, 110 00:05:32,880 --> 00:05:34,720 Speaker 1: it's just you spart two guys who are like six 111 00:05:34,800 --> 00:05:36,760 Speaker 1: one Like, there's a breaking point to that. And then 112 00:05:36,839 --> 00:05:39,200 Speaker 1: Lebron James is not going to be you know, the 113 00:05:39,279 --> 00:05:42,720 Speaker 1: engaged Draymond while also having the offensive load that he is. 114 00:05:42,839 --> 00:05:45,800 Speaker 1: Like that's and you said tonight he has to be better, absolutely, 115 00:05:45,880 --> 00:05:48,240 Speaker 1: but that's just the Lebron that we're getting. I thought 116 00:05:48,320 --> 00:05:50,200 Speaker 1: White again starting helped with that, but there was a 117 00:05:50,279 --> 00:05:53,279 Speaker 1: quit there. Denver went up like ten to twelve points, 118 00:05:53,279 --> 00:05:56,559 Speaker 1: and the body language just shifted between the whole team. 119 00:05:56,640 --> 00:05:59,200 Speaker 1: I thought our only real, you know, fire that we 120 00:05:59,240 --> 00:06:01,719 Speaker 1: showed was when Russ took it personal against Aaron Gordon. 121 00:06:01,760 --> 00:06:03,720 Speaker 1: I think they got double technicals or something, and he 122 00:06:03,800 --> 00:06:05,960 Speaker 1: had a little fire to him there, but there's a 123 00:06:06,000 --> 00:06:08,920 Speaker 1: there's a human element to this team that's that's rough 124 00:06:08,960 --> 00:06:11,000 Speaker 1: to watch every night. I think Anthony Davis fixes a 125 00:06:11,040 --> 00:06:13,440 Speaker 1: lot of the basketball problems. I think Kendrick Nonna helps 126 00:06:13,440 --> 00:06:16,160 Speaker 1: a lot of the basketball problems from the you know 127 00:06:16,480 --> 00:06:18,560 Speaker 1: where the help is coming from. He can kind of 128 00:06:19,000 --> 00:06:21,440 Speaker 1: take over stuff. But there's like an issue where we're 129 00:06:21,440 --> 00:06:23,560 Speaker 1: not even making teams going to their second and third progression. 130 00:06:23,560 --> 00:06:26,480 Speaker 1: I thought Denver was very easy. Uh Yoki post of 131 00:06:26,640 --> 00:06:29,520 Speaker 1: double team one passed away open three? Uh one passed 132 00:06:29,520 --> 00:06:31,320 Speaker 1: away as a cut Like it's just there's no rhyme 133 00:06:31,320 --> 00:06:33,320 Speaker 1: of reason to we're doing so. I don't know, man, 134 00:06:33,320 --> 00:06:35,159 Speaker 1: that I don't have answered. This was one of the 135 00:06:35,160 --> 00:06:38,680 Speaker 1: most frustrating, one of the most like, uh, kill your 136 00:06:38,720 --> 00:06:41,760 Speaker 1: spirit type of games. I guess uh to watch and 137 00:06:42,160 --> 00:06:44,120 Speaker 1: the rust of Westwark fits going to be the conundrum 138 00:06:44,120 --> 00:06:46,160 Speaker 1: we tried to solve throughout the season. But this defense 139 00:06:46,200 --> 00:06:48,440 Speaker 1: has been getting worse and worse, and I think our 140 00:06:48,480 --> 00:06:50,320 Speaker 1: small ball has hit up breaking point to where teams 141 00:06:50,360 --> 00:06:52,320 Speaker 1: just know what to do. They go right to the 142 00:06:52,400 --> 00:06:54,960 Speaker 1: rim every time, and eventually there's a breaking point to 143 00:06:55,000 --> 00:06:57,080 Speaker 1: where the game collapses. We either give up an open 144 00:06:57,080 --> 00:06:59,400 Speaker 1: corner three or layups at the basket. And that's again 145 00:06:59,440 --> 00:07:01,560 Speaker 1: what happened to it is what happened against Sacramento is 146 00:07:01,600 --> 00:07:05,039 Speaker 1: what happens against Memphis. Like this is a consistent theme 147 00:07:05,080 --> 00:07:07,719 Speaker 1: and and I'm not sure when it really I'm glad 148 00:07:07,760 --> 00:07:09,160 Speaker 1: you brought up the stuff with the scheme because this 149 00:07:09,240 --> 00:07:11,520 Speaker 1: teame doesn't really match up with the personnel. That is 150 00:07:11,680 --> 00:07:14,920 Speaker 1: certainly the case, but like what's what's funny is just 151 00:07:15,000 --> 00:07:18,600 Speaker 1: in general, this team has departed from what made them 152 00:07:18,640 --> 00:07:20,920 Speaker 1: good and this is a this is a concept. I 153 00:07:20,960 --> 00:07:23,000 Speaker 1: feel bad for the listeners because I've been hammering this 154 00:07:23,080 --> 00:07:25,600 Speaker 1: home for the last like two weeks. But like, again, 155 00:07:25,720 --> 00:07:32,120 Speaker 1: think about the Lakers. We started KCP at point guard, five, 156 00:07:32,800 --> 00:07:37,000 Speaker 1: We started Danny Green at the two, six, We started 157 00:07:37,080 --> 00:07:41,600 Speaker 1: Lebron at the three, nine, Anthony Davis at at power forward, 158 00:07:41,600 --> 00:07:44,200 Speaker 1: and Jamal McGee at center. And even when we went small, 159 00:07:44,720 --> 00:07:49,840 Speaker 1: it was Alex Crusoe ripped six six freak athlete coming in, 160 00:07:50,360 --> 00:07:53,760 Speaker 1: or it was Kyle Kuzma coming in. You know, we 161 00:07:53,960 --> 00:07:57,520 Speaker 1: are the small guy we would play would be a 162 00:07:57,720 --> 00:08:01,040 Speaker 1: Rondo or and Avery Bradley. We we were a huge 163 00:08:01,120 --> 00:08:04,680 Speaker 1: basketball team that it was incredibly athletic up and down 164 00:08:04,680 --> 00:08:09,040 Speaker 1: the roster, and we punished teams with our physicality. And 165 00:08:09,200 --> 00:08:12,480 Speaker 1: when you watch those that playoff run. The interesting part 166 00:08:12,480 --> 00:08:14,760 Speaker 1: about it, and this is a consistent theme that I've 167 00:08:14,760 --> 00:08:18,040 Speaker 1: talked about. Why I think it's so important to build 168 00:08:18,760 --> 00:08:22,760 Speaker 1: defense first and then to let the offense kind of 169 00:08:22,760 --> 00:08:27,480 Speaker 1: come from that is because defense is the ultimate energy, 170 00:08:27,560 --> 00:08:31,880 Speaker 1: effort focus, you know, behavior in all of sports. Right, 171 00:08:32,080 --> 00:08:35,040 Speaker 1: it's not fun to play. Defense doesn't get you on 172 00:08:35,160 --> 00:08:39,120 Speaker 1: highlights usually, right, So a lot of guys struggle with 173 00:08:39,200 --> 00:08:44,040 Speaker 1: effort on that end. So if you're a defensive team 174 00:08:44,080 --> 00:08:47,400 Speaker 1: and you get stops and you get out in transition 175 00:08:47,520 --> 00:08:52,600 Speaker 1: like that Lakers team did, even limited offensive players, the 176 00:08:52,720 --> 00:08:55,200 Speaker 1: same reason why we made all these trades this summer 177 00:08:55,200 --> 00:08:59,400 Speaker 1: to get better offensive players. Even those limited offensive players 178 00:08:59,640 --> 00:09:04,280 Speaker 1: had offensive success in that playoff run because they fed 179 00:09:04,320 --> 00:09:07,440 Speaker 1: off their defense. We saw Mark Kith Morris make a 180 00:09:07,480 --> 00:09:12,840 Speaker 1: ton of huge threes. We saw KCP attacking closeouts making threes. 181 00:09:13,160 --> 00:09:16,559 Speaker 1: We saw all of these players Alex Crusoe started in 182 00:09:16,600 --> 00:09:20,320 Speaker 1: the NBA Finals, had big moments. These guys they built 183 00:09:20,840 --> 00:09:23,600 Speaker 1: their offense off of the strength of their defense, and 184 00:09:23,600 --> 00:09:26,720 Speaker 1: it was a proven formula. And what was so funny 185 00:09:26,880 --> 00:09:29,439 Speaker 1: is we saw, you know, the team really fall apart 186 00:09:29,440 --> 00:09:32,920 Speaker 1: against Phoenix in the playoffs last year, and it kind 187 00:09:32,920 --> 00:09:37,040 Speaker 1: of it changed the tone of this entire era, which 188 00:09:37,040 --> 00:09:39,840 Speaker 1: is strange because what really happened in that Phoenix series 189 00:09:40,040 --> 00:09:43,160 Speaker 1: was we didn't shoot the ball well. Yeah, but we 190 00:09:43,200 --> 00:09:45,040 Speaker 1: didn't shoot the ball well even when we were winning. 191 00:09:45,200 --> 00:09:47,160 Speaker 1: If you remember, guys, when we were doing the State 192 00:09:47,160 --> 00:09:49,920 Speaker 1: of the Lakers postgame shows in the playoff run, we 193 00:09:49,920 --> 00:09:52,480 Speaker 1: were up to one in the series, and Roger and 194 00:09:52,520 --> 00:09:55,160 Speaker 1: I were talking about how we felt really good about 195 00:09:55,200 --> 00:09:58,880 Speaker 1: our chances because we hadn't made any shots yet, you know, 196 00:09:59,400 --> 00:10:03,240 Speaker 1: and like, and we knew from the team that KCP 197 00:10:03,520 --> 00:10:05,320 Speaker 1: was a better shooter than he was showing that Kyle, 198 00:10:05,320 --> 00:10:07,199 Speaker 1: BECAUSEMA was a better shooter than he was showing. Alex 199 00:10:07,200 --> 00:10:09,840 Speaker 1: Cruso was a better shooter than he was showing. We 200 00:10:09,960 --> 00:10:12,920 Speaker 1: knew that eventually shots would going and things would be fine. 201 00:10:13,240 --> 00:10:16,160 Speaker 1: But instead, Anthony Davis goes down and so as a result, 202 00:10:16,200 --> 00:10:19,920 Speaker 1: the offensive Britain becomes even greater. Guys continue to struggle, 203 00:10:20,240 --> 00:10:23,839 Speaker 1: we lose, and then everybody in the front office and 204 00:10:23,880 --> 00:10:26,679 Speaker 1: including Lebron and A D apparently look at each other 205 00:10:26,720 --> 00:10:29,560 Speaker 1: and go, Nope, this whole thing is broken. We need 206 00:10:29,559 --> 00:10:33,720 Speaker 1: to fundamentally change what made us who we were. And 207 00:10:33,800 --> 00:10:38,040 Speaker 1: that's ridiculous to me because again, you had a proven 208 00:10:38,120 --> 00:10:42,120 Speaker 1: method to win basketball games at this level. And now, 209 00:10:42,320 --> 00:10:45,360 Speaker 1: even what's crazy about it is even when we have 210 00:10:45,480 --> 00:10:48,000 Speaker 1: guys on the floor who have that identity, when we 211 00:10:48,040 --> 00:10:51,400 Speaker 1: have Stanley Johnson out there, when we have Austin Reeves 212 00:10:51,440 --> 00:10:55,280 Speaker 1: out there, the problem is is there always playing alongside 213 00:10:55,800 --> 00:10:58,800 Speaker 1: guys like Malik Monk, guys like Carmelo Anthony, Avery Bradley, 214 00:10:58,840 --> 00:11:01,320 Speaker 1: who's been struggling a little bit with his lack of 215 00:11:01,360 --> 00:11:05,640 Speaker 1: size lately. The totality of the lineups just don't possess 216 00:11:05,760 --> 00:11:10,640 Speaker 1: the same imposing physical nature that earlier versions of our 217 00:11:10,679 --> 00:11:13,640 Speaker 1: team had. And so this is why, like I tweeted earlier, 218 00:11:13,679 --> 00:11:15,920 Speaker 1: like this needs to be the two thousand eighteen Calves 219 00:11:16,000 --> 00:11:20,160 Speaker 1: trade deadline. You can if this team this is you 220 00:11:20,240 --> 00:11:21,959 Speaker 1: texted me after the pot on Thursday, you go, I 221 00:11:22,000 --> 00:11:24,440 Speaker 1: want to talk about the concept of going down with 222 00:11:24,480 --> 00:11:27,960 Speaker 1: the ship because I've seen a couple of people and 223 00:11:28,400 --> 00:11:30,679 Speaker 1: not calling them out or anything, I'm just saying I disagree. 224 00:11:31,320 --> 00:11:34,160 Speaker 1: I've seen people say like all we need is this 225 00:11:34,200 --> 00:11:38,240 Speaker 1: little trade here and Kendrick Nunn coming back, and I 226 00:11:38,320 --> 00:11:41,959 Speaker 1: thoroughly disagree with that. This is a team that needs 227 00:11:41,960 --> 00:11:46,640 Speaker 1: wholesale changes. And to me, pretending is though Kendrick Nunn 228 00:11:46,640 --> 00:11:48,960 Speaker 1: is going to fix the problem, pretending as though even 229 00:11:49,000 --> 00:11:52,080 Speaker 1: Anthony Davis is going to fix the problem. To me, 230 00:11:52,760 --> 00:11:56,920 Speaker 1: that's not acknowledging the reality of the situation, which is 231 00:11:56,960 --> 00:12:00,079 Speaker 1: that even when Lebron and Anthony Davis or hell me 232 00:12:00,200 --> 00:12:02,800 Speaker 1: this season and on the floor together, they didn't win 233 00:12:02,880 --> 00:12:05,240 Speaker 1: at the same pace, not even nearly the same pace 234 00:12:05,760 --> 00:12:09,319 Speaker 1: that they did in previous seasons. So something is wrong 235 00:12:09,360 --> 00:12:14,960 Speaker 1: here and at the deadline. I think everybody needs to 236 00:12:15,000 --> 00:12:18,520 Speaker 1: be available, They need they need to do whatever they can, 237 00:12:18,880 --> 00:12:22,280 Speaker 1: like the Warriors did this past offseason, to try to 238 00:12:22,480 --> 00:12:28,080 Speaker 1: recreate what they had in season, bring back as much 239 00:12:28,200 --> 00:12:31,959 Speaker 1: size and athleticism as they can't Guys who enjoy and 240 00:12:32,040 --> 00:12:35,920 Speaker 1: appreciate and embrace the dirty work, because then you might 241 00:12:36,000 --> 00:12:38,880 Speaker 1: be able to get and recapture some of that flame. 242 00:12:39,640 --> 00:12:41,920 Speaker 1: But right but right now, man, like, I'm sorry, but 243 00:12:42,360 --> 00:12:44,760 Speaker 1: you can't have a film session about all your defensive 244 00:12:44,760 --> 00:12:47,520 Speaker 1: breakdowns and then come back and give seventy seventy three 245 00:12:47,640 --> 00:12:49,960 Speaker 1: up and a half and then tell me, Okay, well, 246 00:12:50,120 --> 00:12:52,040 Speaker 1: Kendrick None will do a better job chasing over that 247 00:12:52,080 --> 00:12:54,880 Speaker 1: screen and everything will be fine. You know. I just 248 00:12:54,960 --> 00:12:59,640 Speaker 1: I just think that that's delusional in my opinions. You 249 00:12:59,720 --> 00:13:02,800 Speaker 1: might right, like this time, this team might need wholesale changes. 250 00:13:02,880 --> 00:13:05,360 Speaker 1: I just don't see them coming right in. And you 251 00:13:05,400 --> 00:13:08,800 Speaker 1: said going down with the ship. You know you've heard 252 00:13:08,840 --> 00:13:10,640 Speaker 1: the term like you made your bed, you laid and 253 00:13:10,679 --> 00:13:12,560 Speaker 1: you've heard that right before, Like, and I feel like 254 00:13:12,600 --> 00:13:14,880 Speaker 1: that's kind of what this is. Except this bed is 255 00:13:14,920 --> 00:13:17,480 Speaker 1: like tied to the floor and right now there's like 256 00:13:17,559 --> 00:13:20,160 Speaker 1: springs coming out of it, right And like for a 257 00:13:20,160 --> 00:13:21,760 Speaker 1: lot of the season we had none of our wings, 258 00:13:21,960 --> 00:13:24,120 Speaker 1: and then once our wings came back, Andy Davis went 259 00:13:24,120 --> 00:13:28,120 Speaker 1: out like and again, like Jason, we've already seen wholesale changes. 260 00:13:28,120 --> 00:13:31,920 Speaker 1: Stanley Johnson is starting like it's starting basketball games. Austin 261 00:13:31,960 --> 00:13:34,679 Speaker 1: Reeves was undrafted. He was not. You can tell me 262 00:13:34,720 --> 00:13:36,760 Speaker 1: the Lakers loved Austin Reeves, and I would believe you. 263 00:13:36,800 --> 00:13:38,880 Speaker 1: Obviously they went and made sure they got him. There 264 00:13:38,920 --> 00:13:40,400 Speaker 1: was no way they thought he would be a sixth 265 00:13:40,440 --> 00:13:42,720 Speaker 1: seventh man, which is what he is. His talent level 266 00:13:42,800 --> 00:13:45,040 Speaker 1: is showing that he's a sixth seventh man on this team. 267 00:13:45,040 --> 00:13:47,760 Speaker 1: We've already seen that. Kept Baysmore, who was slotted probably 268 00:13:47,800 --> 00:13:49,520 Speaker 1: by a lot of fans to be the starter, right, 269 00:13:49,520 --> 00:13:51,520 Speaker 1: to be that to guard who defends at the point 270 00:13:51,520 --> 00:13:54,480 Speaker 1: of the tech. He can't even play. He's playing garbage 271 00:13:54,480 --> 00:13:56,800 Speaker 1: time minutes and he's still struggling in those type of 272 00:13:56,960 --> 00:13:59,400 Speaker 1: in those type of environments. DeAndre Jordan's started for twenty 273 00:13:59,440 --> 00:14:01,880 Speaker 1: three games this season. He's now out of the rotation. 274 00:14:01,960 --> 00:14:05,040 Speaker 1: We've already seen these small wholesale changes here. I just like, 275 00:14:05,520 --> 00:14:07,600 Speaker 1: I think the trade stuff is, you know, up pie 276 00:14:07,600 --> 00:14:11,280 Speaker 1: in the sky type of dream. Right, are our guys 277 00:14:11,280 --> 00:14:13,440 Speaker 1: who can move our THHD Kendrew Donne and at first 278 00:14:13,480 --> 00:14:15,360 Speaker 1: whatever that can get you? Fine, but this is the 279 00:14:15,360 --> 00:14:17,600 Speaker 1: team to me, Russell Westbrook's not going anywhere it makes 280 00:14:17,960 --> 00:14:19,560 Speaker 1: I don't like to bring up the contract. I think 281 00:14:19,560 --> 00:14:22,320 Speaker 1: that's been you know, talked to at nausea. But like 282 00:14:22,360 --> 00:14:24,240 Speaker 1: he makes forty four million dollars, you're not moving him 283 00:14:24,240 --> 00:14:26,440 Speaker 1: for anything tangible that's gonna help you this season, in 284 00:14:26,440 --> 00:14:28,360 Speaker 1: my opinion, So that fit has to be figured out. 285 00:14:28,360 --> 00:14:30,760 Speaker 1: You can bring a Jeremy Grant in, but there's basketball stuff, 286 00:14:30,800 --> 00:14:33,560 Speaker 1: Jason that's that's wrong, and there's human elements stuff that's 287 00:14:33,560 --> 00:14:36,160 Speaker 1: been wrong. Anthony Davis and Lebron and Russell Westbrook played 288 00:14:36,160 --> 00:14:39,600 Speaker 1: fifteen games together this year, and in those games, Anthony 289 00:14:39,640 --> 00:14:41,080 Speaker 1: Davis took off a lot of those you know what 290 00:14:41,120 --> 00:14:43,080 Speaker 1: I mean. Lebron was a game offensively, but I think 291 00:14:43,120 --> 00:14:45,680 Speaker 1: the defense still wasn't there. Russell Westbrook was still lost 292 00:14:45,680 --> 00:14:47,520 Speaker 1: on a lot of possessions. We started them next to 293 00:14:47,560 --> 00:14:50,360 Speaker 1: DeAndre Jordan's. I twoted the staff the other day, Russ, 294 00:14:50,440 --> 00:14:52,480 Speaker 1: Lebron and A D have played a hundred and ninety 295 00:14:52,520 --> 00:14:55,680 Speaker 1: minutes together where eighties at center, that's close to nothing. 296 00:14:56,000 --> 00:14:58,080 Speaker 1: Stanley Johnson has already played. Now be leave if you 297 00:14:58,160 --> 00:15:00,480 Speaker 1: clue tonight, like a hundred minutes next to Braun and 298 00:15:00,520 --> 00:15:02,920 Speaker 1: a D. Just think about that, like he's already played 299 00:15:02,920 --> 00:15:04,680 Speaker 1: almost as much as you know those three have played. 300 00:15:04,680 --> 00:15:08,040 Speaker 1: Where eighties at is optimal lineup. Like, there's basketball stuff 301 00:15:08,040 --> 00:15:09,520 Speaker 1: I think we have to get to and I think 302 00:15:09,640 --> 00:15:11,440 Speaker 1: we're now at the point where we have to find 303 00:15:11,440 --> 00:15:14,400 Speaker 1: solutions that are in house before we bring anyone else. 304 00:15:14,400 --> 00:15:16,600 Speaker 1: And you can bring Jeremy Grant in, Jason, and if 305 00:15:16,600 --> 00:15:19,560 Speaker 1: the rest fits still isn't pretty. If Russ still isn't 306 00:15:19,560 --> 00:15:22,280 Speaker 1: aligned to I believe the role that he needs to 307 00:15:22,280 --> 00:15:24,480 Speaker 1: be to where his skill level is, this team's gonna fail. 308 00:15:24,560 --> 00:15:26,560 Speaker 1: Like it's that's just what it is. If Anthony Davis 309 00:15:26,560 --> 00:15:29,400 Speaker 1: comes back and isn't the defensive monster two way guy, 310 00:15:29,480 --> 00:15:32,120 Speaker 1: this team is going to fail. There's no outside force 311 00:15:32,400 --> 00:15:34,320 Speaker 1: that can come in. And I see tonight the fire 312 00:15:34,400 --> 00:15:37,080 Speaker 1: frame Vogel stuff is back, you know, on the on 313 00:15:37,120 --> 00:15:39,560 Speaker 1: the timeline, and I've I've I've said my piece on that. 314 00:15:39,800 --> 00:15:42,440 Speaker 1: Who knows the locker room kind of politics there, But 315 00:15:42,880 --> 00:15:44,680 Speaker 1: I just think there's inside stuff we have to fix. Man, 316 00:15:44,760 --> 00:15:46,720 Speaker 1: Lebron's body language. We can get into that as well. 317 00:15:46,760 --> 00:15:49,760 Speaker 1: I thought that was pretty poor tonight, like from from 318 00:15:49,760 --> 00:15:52,400 Speaker 1: the get go. Uh And that's I don't know how 319 00:15:52,400 --> 00:15:54,640 Speaker 1: where to place blame on that, because when you're down 320 00:15:54,640 --> 00:15:57,280 Speaker 1: twenty and the other teams sating everything again, the human 321 00:15:57,280 --> 00:15:59,360 Speaker 1: element like he's not gonna be all engaged. It's just 322 00:15:59,640 --> 00:16:01,600 Speaker 1: stuff I'm seeing. Man. I think Malik Monks are real 323 00:16:01,760 --> 00:16:03,680 Speaker 1: bright spot. I think that's something we found. I think 324 00:16:03,680 --> 00:16:06,120 Speaker 1: there's defensive issues though. You start Milik Monk and Avery 325 00:16:06,160 --> 00:16:08,160 Speaker 1: Badley with a small ball lineup, and tonight we started 326 00:16:08,200 --> 00:16:10,200 Speaker 1: Dwight Howard. But there's a breaking point to that. Too 327 00:16:10,200 --> 00:16:11,960 Speaker 1: many teams to have over six six guys are just 328 00:16:11,960 --> 00:16:14,480 Speaker 1: gonna take advantage. And we've been seeing that in the past, 329 00:16:14,520 --> 00:16:16,080 Speaker 1: and that, you know, small ball thing was fun. I 330 00:16:16,080 --> 00:16:18,440 Speaker 1: think it's something we can go to in ten twelve 331 00:16:18,440 --> 00:16:20,480 Speaker 1: minutes for it's playing that thirty five minutes to night. 332 00:16:20,840 --> 00:16:24,640 Speaker 1: It's probably not feasible against teams with competent UH competition 333 00:16:24,680 --> 00:16:27,360 Speaker 1: on the other side, but you're not wrong. Wholesale changes 334 00:16:27,440 --> 00:16:29,960 Speaker 1: might be needed. I just don't think that's happening mid season. 335 00:16:30,000 --> 00:16:32,520 Speaker 1: I think that's a that's a dream. I don't think 336 00:16:32,560 --> 00:16:35,640 Speaker 1: they have the pieces to move like the eighteen. You 337 00:16:35,720 --> 00:16:39,120 Speaker 1: know how people compare Lebron throwing, you know, Dwyane Wade 338 00:16:39,120 --> 00:16:42,000 Speaker 1: to UH trading Dwyane Wade. I think that was that year, right, 339 00:16:42,120 --> 00:16:49,560 Speaker 1: I think, yeah, But let me like how Dwyane Wade 340 00:16:49,760 --> 00:16:51,560 Speaker 1: Lebron are closed. But I mean Dwyane Wade was on 341 00:16:51,600 --> 00:16:53,360 Speaker 1: a minimum deal and he sent it back to Miami, 342 00:16:53,560 --> 00:16:56,840 Speaker 1: So like there's I think that totally different circumsense here. 343 00:16:56,920 --> 00:16:58,680 Speaker 1: I think Russell Westborok's here to stay and we have 344 00:16:58,760 --> 00:17:02,000 Speaker 1: to kind of uh try to work. So, I mean, 345 00:17:02,640 --> 00:17:04,480 Speaker 1: here's the thing, rog if they're not going to make 346 00:17:04,480 --> 00:17:07,000 Speaker 1: any changes, let's just call it what it is, guys, 347 00:17:07,040 --> 00:17:09,760 Speaker 1: I'm here to tell you. If they don't make any changes, 348 00:17:10,280 --> 00:17:14,040 Speaker 1: this team is losing in the first round guarantee. Like 349 00:17:14,240 --> 00:17:16,560 Speaker 1: that's just going to happen, because we're probably going to 350 00:17:16,600 --> 00:17:19,919 Speaker 1: catch either Utah or Memphis in the first round and 351 00:17:20,040 --> 00:17:24,280 Speaker 1: both of the if we slip even further, and every 352 00:17:24,320 --> 00:17:26,720 Speaker 1: single one of those teams is beating us like they're 353 00:17:26,760 --> 00:17:30,480 Speaker 1: they're beating us, like even if Lebron, like even with 354 00:17:30,560 --> 00:17:33,720 Speaker 1: Lebron playing as well as he is, unless Anthony Davis 355 00:17:33,920 --> 00:17:36,800 Speaker 1: literally gets back to the top five player that he 356 00:17:36,880 --> 00:17:39,480 Speaker 1: was in the bubble, and who knows, let's let's even 357 00:17:39,520 --> 00:17:43,520 Speaker 1: in that circumstance. If Lebron and they d are playing that, well, 358 00:17:44,160 --> 00:17:46,840 Speaker 1: are we good enough anywhere else on the floor? Like 359 00:17:46,960 --> 00:17:52,000 Speaker 1: I personally, here's my question, Jason, if they're playing forty 360 00:17:52,000 --> 00:17:55,399 Speaker 1: minutes a game against Phoenix, in them Lebron, you get 361 00:17:55,480 --> 00:17:57,400 Speaker 1: Bubble a D and you get Lebron at this level, 362 00:17:57,640 --> 00:18:01,640 Speaker 1: it's that's right that I would I would like our chance, 363 00:18:01,720 --> 00:18:04,600 Speaker 1: I would like our chances A little bit better if 364 00:18:04,640 --> 00:18:07,919 Speaker 1: Anthony Davis looked like that. But I haven't seen Anthony 365 00:18:08,000 --> 00:18:09,960 Speaker 1: Davis looked like that since the bubble, even when he's 366 00:18:09,960 --> 00:18:14,720 Speaker 1: been healthy. The reality, you're right, and so the reality 367 00:18:14,840 --> 00:18:19,040 Speaker 1: is is he's declined for whatever reason and confidence and 368 00:18:19,040 --> 00:18:23,199 Speaker 1: skill set whatever you wanna call it, motor, whatever it is, 369 00:18:23,240 --> 00:18:25,639 Speaker 1: he's declined to the extent that, like the whole Lebron 370 00:18:25,680 --> 00:18:27,560 Speaker 1: and a d are going to trump everything hard just 371 00:18:27,680 --> 00:18:31,840 Speaker 1: isn't the same that it that it was now now 372 00:18:32,400 --> 00:18:34,960 Speaker 1: Frank is a separate thing. Like you know me, guys, 373 00:18:35,000 --> 00:18:37,159 Speaker 1: Like my whole thing with Frank from the beginning has 374 00:18:37,200 --> 00:18:40,000 Speaker 1: not been what he brings to the table schematically or 375 00:18:40,040 --> 00:18:42,800 Speaker 1: with the rotation, although I have bones to pick there. 376 00:18:43,800 --> 00:18:47,400 Speaker 1: My my, my concerns with Frank were always buy in. 377 00:18:48,200 --> 00:18:52,520 Speaker 1: And guess what if you look at everybody in your 378 00:18:52,560 --> 00:18:55,280 Speaker 1: team and have a spirited film session and then they 379 00:18:55,320 --> 00:18:57,159 Speaker 1: all go out on the court and give you the finger, 380 00:18:58,280 --> 00:19:02,360 Speaker 1: that's buying, okay. And so sometimes, and this is a 381 00:19:02,400 --> 00:19:06,639 Speaker 1: phenomenon that happens in sports, sometimes players just get sick 382 00:19:07,280 --> 00:19:11,439 Speaker 1: of listening to a coach. It happens, it's it is 383 00:19:11,440 --> 00:19:14,000 Speaker 1: a consistent thing to happen now I'm not I'm not 384 00:19:14,119 --> 00:19:16,800 Speaker 1: there yet with with with Frank, like I said, Like 385 00:19:16,840 --> 00:19:19,399 Speaker 1: I said, my whole thing with Frank is buy in. 386 00:19:19,520 --> 00:19:23,719 Speaker 1: Like I get worried when Lebron James, after looking like 387 00:19:23,800 --> 00:19:27,719 Speaker 1: Draymond freaking Green for two weeks all of a sudden, 388 00:19:27,840 --> 00:19:31,520 Speaker 1: is just not offering help on drives. That concerns me. 389 00:19:32,240 --> 00:19:36,280 Speaker 1: But but can you expect can you expect him to that? 390 00:19:36,440 --> 00:19:38,800 Speaker 1: We'll get into that, but before we move on to 391 00:19:39,000 --> 00:19:40,679 Speaker 1: the Lebron thing, because like I want to look at 392 00:19:40,680 --> 00:19:42,800 Speaker 1: this trade deadline thing for just a second longer, because 393 00:19:43,080 --> 00:19:46,560 Speaker 1: the Russ thing, in my opinion, is separate from the 394 00:19:46,600 --> 00:19:49,560 Speaker 1: rest of the roster thing. Okay, because like the Russ 395 00:19:49,680 --> 00:19:53,120 Speaker 1: question for me, as you know, Raj has always been 396 00:19:53,160 --> 00:19:57,879 Speaker 1: about the playoffs in the ceiling. Because I knew going 397 00:19:57,920 --> 00:20:01,400 Speaker 1: into this trade Russ wasn't the guy everybody thought he was. 398 00:20:01,760 --> 00:20:04,600 Speaker 1: I knew why because I've watched basketball over the last 399 00:20:04,600 --> 00:20:07,720 Speaker 1: five years, and apparently I'm not the only one. Because 400 00:20:07,720 --> 00:20:08,920 Speaker 1: I read a story the other day that there was 401 00:20:08,920 --> 00:20:11,680 Speaker 1: a bunch of internal conflicts surrounding the Rush trade within 402 00:20:11,720 --> 00:20:14,280 Speaker 1: the Lakers front office at the time. And then I 403 00:20:14,320 --> 00:20:18,400 Speaker 1: guess Rob Polinka decided to pull the trigger. But regardless, 404 00:20:18,480 --> 00:20:21,600 Speaker 1: my concerns with Russ are not about this kind of stuff. 405 00:20:21,680 --> 00:20:26,399 Speaker 1: My concerns with Russ entirely center around this team. This 406 00:20:26,480 --> 00:20:29,400 Speaker 1: team figures it out. Lebron looks great, a D looks great, 407 00:20:29,440 --> 00:20:32,879 Speaker 1: they make a trade, everything's great, huge key moment. Rust 408 00:20:32,920 --> 00:20:34,840 Speaker 1: becomes a matchup issue on both ends of the floor, 409 00:20:34,840 --> 00:20:38,040 Speaker 1: losing his man and actually, actually it turns out he 410 00:20:38,080 --> 00:20:41,879 Speaker 1: can't score against good basketball defenses anymore. That's where I 411 00:20:41,920 --> 00:20:46,640 Speaker 1: worry about Russ going down the roster though. That's where 412 00:20:46,680 --> 00:20:49,919 Speaker 1: I look at it as like something has to be 413 00:20:50,000 --> 00:20:53,199 Speaker 1: done to try to replicate what happened in This is 414 00:20:53,200 --> 00:20:55,800 Speaker 1: where it gets a little more complicated because it could 415 00:20:55,800 --> 00:20:59,840 Speaker 1: be the buyout market, It could be swapping a veteran minimum. 416 00:20:59,840 --> 00:21:03,080 Speaker 1: This would cause an absolute, you know, freak out from 417 00:21:03,080 --> 00:21:06,080 Speaker 1: the Laker fan base. But Malik Monk probably can't play 418 00:21:06,080 --> 00:21:10,080 Speaker 1: for us in key moments. He is horrible defensively in 419 00:21:10,119 --> 00:21:12,240 Speaker 1: the sect. I could make a highlight reel from the 420 00:21:12,280 --> 00:21:14,879 Speaker 1: Sacramento and Nuggets game that would freak people out with 421 00:21:14,920 --> 00:21:17,520 Speaker 1: how bad he was defensively, like like in both of 422 00:21:17,560 --> 00:21:21,160 Speaker 1: those games, he cannot hold his own against bigger players. 423 00:21:21,720 --> 00:21:25,040 Speaker 1: Offensively frequently gets lost. He's high energy. It's not even 424 00:21:25,040 --> 00:21:27,880 Speaker 1: really an energy problem. He's just he's just all over 425 00:21:27,920 --> 00:21:30,960 Speaker 1: the place. Yeah, he tries, he tries, and says he 426 00:21:31,000 --> 00:21:36,000 Speaker 1: has really bad defensive discipline and really bad defensive instincts. 427 00:21:36,000 --> 00:21:38,840 Speaker 1: So he's bad at sticking to his responsibility in the scheme, 428 00:21:39,440 --> 00:21:42,840 Speaker 1: and then he doesn't anticipate things very well. So his 429 00:21:43,040 --> 00:21:46,800 Speaker 1: defensive problems will continue to be a problem throughout the 430 00:21:46,840 --> 00:21:48,600 Speaker 1: end of the season in my opinion. So what the 431 00:21:48,680 --> 00:21:52,720 Speaker 1: question becomes, like, what if you could flock a flip 432 00:21:52,840 --> 00:21:56,919 Speaker 1: Molik Monk for a six eight try hard guy buried 433 00:21:56,960 --> 00:21:58,800 Speaker 1: in the rotation somewhere else in the league that's not 434 00:21:58,800 --> 00:22:00,920 Speaker 1: playing hard or that's not in enough minutes. I mean 435 00:22:01,480 --> 00:22:04,199 Speaker 1: like that that that's the kind of trade that the 436 00:22:04,280 --> 00:22:06,440 Speaker 1: Lakers are going to have to consider at this deadline. 437 00:22:06,600 --> 00:22:10,000 Speaker 1: And again, you would have complete freak gap because everyone 438 00:22:10,119 --> 00:22:12,960 Speaker 1: be like, oh, Malik has been so good offensively, But 439 00:22:13,359 --> 00:22:18,679 Speaker 1: that shift going from a Crusoe type to a Malik 440 00:22:18,760 --> 00:22:21,359 Speaker 1: Monk type, as that first guard off the bench or 441 00:22:21,359 --> 00:22:24,440 Speaker 1: starting guard, whatever you wanna call it, going from even 442 00:22:24,480 --> 00:22:26,359 Speaker 1: if you just want to call it Casey p to 443 00:22:26,480 --> 00:22:30,280 Speaker 1: Malik Monk making that shift from a guy who does 444 00:22:30,480 --> 00:22:35,440 Speaker 1: his job defensively on every possession two a gunner off 445 00:22:35,440 --> 00:22:39,119 Speaker 1: the bench who probably hemorrhages as much defensively as he 446 00:22:39,240 --> 00:22:43,480 Speaker 1: brings offensively. That shift is why we are where we 447 00:22:43,520 --> 00:22:48,320 Speaker 1: are because dirty little secret guys. The Laker team last 448 00:22:48,400 --> 00:22:50,800 Speaker 1: year that had no Lebron and Anthony Davis was probably 449 00:22:50,840 --> 00:22:53,760 Speaker 1: every bit as good as this one right now with 450 00:22:53,880 --> 00:22:58,439 Speaker 1: no Anthony Davis because they competed because they were just 451 00:22:58,480 --> 00:23:02,359 Speaker 1: a continuation of that lake or identity. We remember, remember 452 00:23:02,440 --> 00:23:04,600 Speaker 1: last year how nobody made the all the defense team 453 00:23:04,600 --> 00:23:08,000 Speaker 1: for the Lakers because that was the whole team. That's 454 00:23:08,000 --> 00:23:11,439 Speaker 1: what the entire team did. It was baked into the roster, 455 00:23:11,520 --> 00:23:15,480 Speaker 1: it was baked into their character. That's no longer the case, 456 00:23:16,560 --> 00:23:18,760 Speaker 1: and so down the roster. Those are the kinds of 457 00:23:18,760 --> 00:23:20,760 Speaker 1: shifts that the Lakers are gonna have to consider making. 458 00:23:21,640 --> 00:23:25,560 Speaker 1: Would you flip Molik Monk for a good veteran forward 459 00:23:25,720 --> 00:23:28,000 Speaker 1: that solves a lot of your defensive and hustle problems, 460 00:23:28,119 --> 00:23:31,280 Speaker 1: you know, would you be willing to cut a guy 461 00:23:31,640 --> 00:23:34,640 Speaker 1: and sign you know, cut a Wayne Ellington for instance, 462 00:23:34,720 --> 00:23:39,600 Speaker 1: and sign an like a buyout candidate guy who's six 463 00:23:39,680 --> 00:23:42,119 Speaker 1: eight and can guard multiple positions, you know, like but 464 00:23:42,240 --> 00:23:45,239 Speaker 1: has some offensive limitations, you know what I mean, Like, 465 00:23:45,359 --> 00:23:47,640 Speaker 1: would are the Lakers willing to go down that road? 466 00:23:47,680 --> 00:23:50,840 Speaker 1: Because that's gonna be the interesting question because again, and 467 00:23:50,880 --> 00:23:52,560 Speaker 1: this is the lasting I'll say, kick it over you Rush, 468 00:23:53,080 --> 00:23:55,760 Speaker 1: that's that core question that you texted me about after 469 00:23:55,800 --> 00:23:58,480 Speaker 1: that Thursday Pod. Do they go down with the ship 470 00:23:59,560 --> 00:24:03,040 Speaker 1: or do they acknowledge where they screwed up that? And 471 00:24:03,040 --> 00:24:05,640 Speaker 1: and and I'm curious to see. This deadline is gonna 472 00:24:05,640 --> 00:24:09,560 Speaker 1: be very indicative of where everyone at, where the front 473 00:24:09,600 --> 00:24:12,480 Speaker 1: office is at with that because they have the ability 474 00:24:12,600 --> 00:24:18,160 Speaker 1: to make some changes and make this work again. I think, 475 00:24:18,280 --> 00:24:20,199 Speaker 1: you know, I think they do have an ability to 476 00:24:20,480 --> 00:24:23,240 Speaker 1: shift a little bit. And it's funny. We got the 477 00:24:23,280 --> 00:24:25,320 Speaker 1: breaking news right I think it was from Brian win 478 00:24:25,359 --> 00:24:27,480 Speaker 1: Horse said the Lakers are looking to move DeAnda Gtroitdan 479 00:24:27,480 --> 00:24:29,400 Speaker 1: and a camp bays Moore. I'm like, yeah, breaking these 480 00:24:29,400 --> 00:24:31,040 Speaker 1: two guys who don't play at all right there, they're 481 00:24:31,080 --> 00:24:33,160 Speaker 1: looking to move him. I think it's gonna be tough. 482 00:24:33,200 --> 00:24:35,800 Speaker 1: And you brought up trading monk, Like, isn't that kind 483 00:24:35,800 --> 00:24:38,880 Speaker 1: of Stanley Johnson? Right, Like that's kind of who he 484 00:24:39,080 --> 00:24:41,760 Speaker 1: is and Lake Monk is out playing his contract and 485 00:24:41,800 --> 00:24:43,919 Speaker 1: he makes like very little money, So you have to 486 00:24:43,920 --> 00:24:46,320 Speaker 1: find a wing that doesn't make much. You know that 487 00:24:46,359 --> 00:24:49,520 Speaker 1: you're trading all the offensive stuff that you're getting from 488 00:24:49,560 --> 00:24:51,760 Speaker 1: League mon because I think believe you know, he's played well, 489 00:24:51,840 --> 00:24:53,960 Speaker 1: like he's played up to what he's going to be. 490 00:24:54,280 --> 00:24:57,159 Speaker 1: Expecting him to be good defensively, like isn't fair. And 491 00:24:57,200 --> 00:24:58,600 Speaker 1: we have a lot of guys like that, And that's 492 00:24:58,640 --> 00:25:00,640 Speaker 1: probably the issue, right we have you have to cover 493 00:25:00,680 --> 00:25:02,840 Speaker 1: for Meliks, a guy you have to cover for defensively, 494 00:25:03,000 --> 00:25:05,480 Speaker 1: Carmelo Anthony another guy you have to cover for defensively, 495 00:25:05,560 --> 00:25:07,920 Speaker 1: Wayne Ellington, another guy you have to cover for defensively, 496 00:25:08,000 --> 00:25:09,760 Speaker 1: and eventually there's a breaking point because you can't cover 497 00:25:09,840 --> 00:25:11,520 Speaker 1: for three guys on the floor. Right, And I think 498 00:25:11,520 --> 00:25:13,199 Speaker 1: that's the stuff you saw with a D as well, right, 499 00:25:13,400 --> 00:25:15,760 Speaker 1: he got uh A D was very frustrated. You could 500 00:25:15,760 --> 00:25:17,840 Speaker 1: see the beginning of this year where he has to 501 00:25:17,880 --> 00:25:19,920 Speaker 1: cover for a lot. He has to switch and somehow 502 00:25:19,960 --> 00:25:22,439 Speaker 1: get back to the role man. Even tonight, I'm watching 503 00:25:22,520 --> 00:25:25,280 Speaker 1: you know Denver run simple screen role where it's like 504 00:25:25,320 --> 00:25:28,200 Speaker 1: Jeff Green going down the lane and it's like Malik 505 00:25:28,320 --> 00:25:30,960 Speaker 1: Monk or Avery Bradley tagging Jeff Green and he's just 506 00:25:31,080 --> 00:25:33,400 Speaker 1: dunking all over them. Like that's that's what I mean 507 00:25:33,480 --> 00:25:35,560 Speaker 1: by breaking point. And for sure they have to try 508 00:25:35,560 --> 00:25:37,480 Speaker 1: to add wing dev And that's why I think I 509 00:25:37,520 --> 00:25:39,880 Speaker 1: think Austin Reeves should start just to give some size, 510 00:25:39,920 --> 00:25:43,199 Speaker 1: get some you know, hustle on that end and and 511 00:25:43,240 --> 00:25:45,800 Speaker 1: try to trying to bridge that gap. But I don't 512 00:25:45,840 --> 00:25:48,440 Speaker 1: think that trade is out there, Jason, Like, I honestly don't. 513 00:25:48,440 --> 00:25:50,560 Speaker 1: I don't think you can move minimums for other minimums 514 00:25:50,760 --> 00:25:52,919 Speaker 1: and then get the type of players you're looking for. 515 00:25:53,119 --> 00:25:55,399 Speaker 1: Cam Reddish was a guy we were kind of thinking of, right, 516 00:25:55,440 --> 00:25:58,040 Speaker 1: and he went for a protected first and Kevin Knox 517 00:25:58,119 --> 00:26:01,200 Speaker 1: and the Lakers off for two seconds reportedly like that's 518 00:26:01,240 --> 00:26:02,800 Speaker 1: the type of players you would, I guess wanted to 519 00:26:02,800 --> 00:26:05,919 Speaker 1: have upside, But like to me, Jeremy Grants the like 520 00:26:07,040 --> 00:26:10,120 Speaker 1: the only real guy available to me that you could help. 521 00:26:10,160 --> 00:26:12,080 Speaker 1: But this team has inner issues that it has to fix. 522 00:26:12,160 --> 00:26:14,640 Speaker 1: You talked about the identity not there and last year 523 00:26:14,720 --> 00:26:16,800 Speaker 1: being there, they had the players to match it, you know, 524 00:26:16,880 --> 00:26:21,679 Speaker 1: and they had a core from returning from right, So 525 00:26:21,760 --> 00:26:24,440 Speaker 1: you had Caruser coming back, PCP coming back, Kyle Kuzman 526 00:26:24,600 --> 00:26:26,800 Speaker 1: coming back. All those guys that were your core guys 527 00:26:27,000 --> 00:26:29,680 Speaker 1: in the championship run came back and played when Lebron 528 00:26:29,720 --> 00:26:31,159 Speaker 1: and a d you were out and held up the 529 00:26:31,200 --> 00:26:33,480 Speaker 1: defensive ant. Dennis shrewder All, for all his faults, is 530 00:26:33,520 --> 00:26:36,400 Speaker 1: a good point of attack defensive guard. I think that's 531 00:26:36,560 --> 00:26:38,399 Speaker 1: you know, been lost in kind of his conversation, Like 532 00:26:38,400 --> 00:26:40,280 Speaker 1: I thought he was good defensively last year and he 533 00:26:40,359 --> 00:26:43,640 Speaker 1: traded that obviously for offensive pole and for the hope 534 00:26:43,640 --> 00:26:45,440 Speaker 1: that Russell Westbrook can kind of pushed the ball a 535 00:26:45,480 --> 00:26:47,880 Speaker 1: little bit more and get Lebron off the ball, which 536 00:26:48,200 --> 00:26:50,199 Speaker 1: Lebron has been more off the ball. I guess it 537 00:26:50,240 --> 00:26:52,320 Speaker 1: just hasn't been in the way that we'd hope. It's 538 00:26:52,359 --> 00:26:54,359 Speaker 1: kind of been through the hands of th HD, the 539 00:26:54,400 --> 00:26:57,000 Speaker 1: hands of Leak Monk and all those guys. So it's 540 00:26:57,359 --> 00:26:59,840 Speaker 1: it's interesting. I just don't see a move coming. I 541 00:27:00,000 --> 00:27:03,240 Speaker 1: think this is more has to be inner development. This 542 00:27:03,320 --> 00:27:07,359 Speaker 1: team has to kind of push through the the ceiling 543 00:27:07,359 --> 00:27:09,439 Speaker 1: that Anthony Davis and Lebron James can get to, and 544 00:27:09,480 --> 00:27:11,480 Speaker 1: that's where it is. You're gonna play Lebron James, Anthony 545 00:27:11,520 --> 00:27:14,080 Speaker 1: Davids forty some minutes. You hope that rust And can 546 00:27:14,160 --> 00:27:15,760 Speaker 1: fit in that and then fit some three D guys 547 00:27:15,800 --> 00:27:17,680 Speaker 1: around that. We've already seen that a three and D 548 00:27:17,880 --> 00:27:20,800 Speaker 1: kind of combination around those two is a successful formula. 549 00:27:20,840 --> 00:27:22,639 Speaker 1: We're gonna learn if you can fit Russ into that. 550 00:27:22,640 --> 00:27:25,480 Speaker 1: That's a calling new combination. And you know, maybe we've 551 00:27:25,520 --> 00:27:27,119 Speaker 1: already seen that it won't work, but that's what we 552 00:27:27,160 --> 00:27:29,280 Speaker 1: have to do, man. And I think you know, Russell 553 00:27:29,280 --> 00:27:31,719 Speaker 1: Westbrook starting getting no turnover games and stuff like that 554 00:27:31,880 --> 00:27:35,080 Speaker 1: is a push towards that. That's this process was never 555 00:27:35,080 --> 00:27:37,520 Speaker 1: gonna look pretty, and it shouldn't look this ugly maybe, 556 00:27:37,520 --> 00:27:40,320 Speaker 1: but it's never gonna look pretty. Russell Westbrook already pushing back, right, 557 00:27:40,320 --> 00:27:41,720 Speaker 1: And I think both of us talked about it on 558 00:27:41,760 --> 00:27:44,439 Speaker 1: the pods the I'm a point guard laughing when Davi 559 00:27:44,520 --> 00:27:46,520 Speaker 1: mcmanimum asked him about that, right, Because you can see 560 00:27:46,520 --> 00:27:48,240 Speaker 1: the push to push him more and more off fall. 561 00:27:48,480 --> 00:27:50,520 Speaker 1: We're lowering him even when he's on the floor. We're 562 00:27:50,560 --> 00:27:52,720 Speaker 1: lowering his usage. We're putting the ball in th HD's 563 00:27:52,720 --> 00:27:54,239 Speaker 1: hands when he's on the ball throwing and putting him 564 00:27:54,240 --> 00:27:55,760 Speaker 1: in the dunker spot, putting him in on the weak 565 00:27:55,800 --> 00:27:57,720 Speaker 1: side corner to just stand while where it's harder to 566 00:27:57,720 --> 00:28:00,920 Speaker 1: help from. We are starting to move towards basketball that's 567 00:28:00,960 --> 00:28:03,440 Speaker 1: away from where Russell Westbrook has been in his career. 568 00:28:03,480 --> 00:28:04,960 Speaker 1: And if you want to put in the forty four 569 00:28:04,960 --> 00:28:07,320 Speaker 1: million dollars, does that make sense. No, you don't want 570 00:28:07,320 --> 00:28:09,120 Speaker 1: to be you don't have a role player in that position, 571 00:28:09,119 --> 00:28:10,960 Speaker 1: in that contract spot. But it's what we have. And 572 00:28:10,960 --> 00:28:13,040 Speaker 1: I don't think he's going anywhere. And I think you know, 573 00:28:13,080 --> 00:28:15,000 Speaker 1: expecting us to trade it for wings, like, I just 574 00:28:15,040 --> 00:28:17,320 Speaker 1: don't see it happening. Man. Wings are the most valued 575 00:28:17,320 --> 00:28:20,040 Speaker 1: position in the league. And you know, teams like Phoenix 576 00:28:20,080 --> 00:28:22,359 Speaker 1: have a bunch of Utah has a bunch, like the 577 00:28:22,400 --> 00:28:24,920 Speaker 1: Warriors have a ship ton like it's gonna be tough 578 00:28:24,920 --> 00:28:27,840 Speaker 1: to kind of to grab that. I guess this trade landline, 579 00:28:27,840 --> 00:28:29,720 Speaker 1: but I don't know, man, I don't I don't see 580 00:28:29,720 --> 00:28:31,440 Speaker 1: a player that brings you back that you trade a 581 00:28:31,480 --> 00:28:33,480 Speaker 1: minimum guy for and you get that back. I just 582 00:28:33,520 --> 00:28:35,200 Speaker 1: don't see it. That's why I think Jeremy Grant is 583 00:28:35,240 --> 00:28:37,440 Speaker 1: the you know, hope here and who knows that the 584 00:28:37,480 --> 00:28:39,720 Speaker 1: Lakers want to trade PhD for him? So that's that's 585 00:28:39,720 --> 00:28:42,240 Speaker 1: where we're at and if this team is gonna This 586 00:28:42,320 --> 00:28:46,400 Speaker 1: is why I appreciate the having you as a partner, Rogs, 587 00:28:46,480 --> 00:28:49,840 Speaker 1: because you and I have such conflicting viewpoints on this stuff, 588 00:28:49,880 --> 00:28:53,440 Speaker 1: and it's I think it's it's it's informative because I 589 00:28:53,440 --> 00:28:55,360 Speaker 1: think you are way too high in the sky to 590 00:28:55,400 --> 00:28:59,600 Speaker 1: think they're going to make internal changes. And you think 591 00:28:59,640 --> 00:29:02,000 Speaker 1: I'm too pie in this guy to think that they're 592 00:29:02,000 --> 00:29:03,840 Speaker 1: going to be able to find somebody to come in 593 00:29:03,840 --> 00:29:05,720 Speaker 1: and fix the problem. So I I get that. It's 594 00:29:05,720 --> 00:29:08,440 Speaker 1: just and that's that's just the reality of the predicament 595 00:29:08,520 --> 00:29:16,160 Speaker 1: that we're in, right, like every right, right, It's just 596 00:29:16,360 --> 00:29:19,320 Speaker 1: the team has a boatload of issues and any available 597 00:29:19,360 --> 00:29:22,800 Speaker 1: solution seems unrealistic. That's just that that's the reality that 598 00:29:22,840 --> 00:29:24,960 Speaker 1: we're in now. I mean, as far as the trade goes, 599 00:29:25,000 --> 00:29:29,000 Speaker 1: like remember what I'm saying here, Like the guys you 600 00:29:29,040 --> 00:29:32,640 Speaker 1: get are flawed. When you're talking about veteran minimums, buyouts, 601 00:29:32,760 --> 00:29:35,880 Speaker 1: trades where teams are dumping guys, you're gonna get flawed players, right. 602 00:29:36,240 --> 00:29:40,480 Speaker 1: But that's why I point to the Warriors because Namania 603 00:29:40,520 --> 00:29:42,960 Speaker 1: be Elitesa is a is a small ball center who 604 00:29:43,000 --> 00:29:46,400 Speaker 1: can't guard, you know, he can't guard. That's why he's 605 00:29:46,560 --> 00:29:51,000 Speaker 1: not highly desired around the league. Andre Guddala is really old, 606 00:29:51,200 --> 00:29:54,600 Speaker 1: struggles to shoot, misses a lot of games because he 607 00:29:54,640 --> 00:29:57,440 Speaker 1: has to maintain his body, you know, he so he 608 00:29:58,000 --> 00:30:01,280 Speaker 1: ends up becoming a I who doesn't bring a ton 609 00:30:01,320 --> 00:30:04,600 Speaker 1: of value to teams except for teams that can use 610 00:30:04,680 --> 00:30:07,240 Speaker 1: him the way that the Warriors using right and then 611 00:30:07,720 --> 00:30:13,040 Speaker 1: out of Porter Jr. Like really really uh, but again 612 00:30:13,080 --> 00:30:17,760 Speaker 1: on a Porter Jr. Injury issues, buried on a bad 613 00:30:17,760 --> 00:30:20,720 Speaker 1: team for a few years, questions about his motor and 614 00:30:20,720 --> 00:30:23,040 Speaker 1: ship like that. Like there's a bunch of those kinds 615 00:30:23,080 --> 00:30:27,240 Speaker 1: of questions with veteran minimum guys. But why are all 616 00:30:27,320 --> 00:30:30,040 Speaker 1: those guys knocking it out of the park in Golden 617 00:30:30,080 --> 00:30:35,920 Speaker 1: State Because on that team with Stephan Draymond doing what 618 00:30:35,960 --> 00:30:40,280 Speaker 1: they do, there's a very small ask for the role 619 00:30:40,320 --> 00:30:46,200 Speaker 1: players and those guys, they're small skill sets fit into 620 00:30:46,240 --> 00:30:49,400 Speaker 1: those small asks. And that's what I'm talking about here, 621 00:30:49,480 --> 00:30:52,880 Speaker 1: because we're only going to get squad players back. We're 622 00:30:52,880 --> 00:30:54,360 Speaker 1: gonna like I don't know if we'll have time to 623 00:30:54,360 --> 00:30:56,000 Speaker 1: get to it tonight. Maybe we can make some time 624 00:30:56,000 --> 00:30:58,080 Speaker 1: for tomorrow, ROJ. But like we do need to dive 625 00:30:58,080 --> 00:31:02,200 Speaker 1: deeper into this rust thing. And my case for trading 626 00:31:02,280 --> 00:31:06,440 Speaker 1: Russ is you're gonna get crap back. You're gonna get crap, 627 00:31:06,800 --> 00:31:09,320 Speaker 1: you're gonna get salary filler, You're gonna get a whole 628 00:31:09,320 --> 00:31:14,560 Speaker 1: lot of crap back. But if Russ is objectively a 629 00:31:14,640 --> 00:31:18,560 Speaker 1: bad fit for the Lebron and a D core, but 630 00:31:18,880 --> 00:31:22,080 Speaker 1: some limited basketball players that you get in return are 631 00:31:22,120 --> 00:31:27,640 Speaker 1: a better fit just strictly with what you need from 632 00:31:27,680 --> 00:31:30,280 Speaker 1: a player playing off of Lebron and a D at 633 00:31:30,280 --> 00:31:33,040 Speaker 1: the top of their powers, then it could end up 634 00:31:33,040 --> 00:31:35,680 Speaker 1: becoming in that positive. Now we're not going to dive 635 00:31:35,680 --> 00:31:37,240 Speaker 1: into that because we'll get into it later, but that's 636 00:31:37,360 --> 00:31:38,880 Speaker 1: kind of the kind of concept that wants you to 637 00:31:38,880 --> 00:31:43,160 Speaker 1: transmit to the betteran minimum thing. Because Molik Monk, even 638 00:31:43,160 --> 00:31:46,360 Speaker 1: though he's vastly outperformed as veteran minimum, let's call him 639 00:31:46,400 --> 00:31:48,760 Speaker 1: a five to ten million dollar a year type of 640 00:31:48,800 --> 00:31:52,360 Speaker 1: player in terms of value right if he's if he's at, 641 00:31:53,280 --> 00:31:57,160 Speaker 1: but his defensive issues are part of a cultural problem 642 00:31:57,240 --> 00:32:01,800 Speaker 1: that is holding the team back, and they limited veteran 643 00:32:01,800 --> 00:32:07,480 Speaker 1: minimum forward who somewhat replicates what Danny Green did or 644 00:32:07,520 --> 00:32:10,080 Speaker 1: what Casey p did, or Kyle Kuzman did. Even if 645 00:32:10,080 --> 00:32:14,000 Speaker 1: it's just of what those guys did, they could theoretically 646 00:32:14,520 --> 00:32:17,280 Speaker 1: be part of that value shift. Now, the one other 647 00:32:17,320 --> 00:32:19,840 Speaker 1: concern I have about that, and this is something you 648 00:32:19,920 --> 00:32:21,960 Speaker 1: brought up, and it's something that I think is super 649 00:32:22,000 --> 00:32:25,840 Speaker 1: interesting here and it points us back to Frank, is 650 00:32:25,880 --> 00:32:27,959 Speaker 1: we do have some of these guys on the roster 651 00:32:28,400 --> 00:32:32,040 Speaker 1: and they're just not on the floor enough. Why aren't 652 00:32:32,040 --> 00:32:35,800 Speaker 1: Stanley and Austin playing high twenties a game, you know, 653 00:32:35,880 --> 00:32:38,440 Speaker 1: when we desperately need what they bring to the table. 654 00:32:39,200 --> 00:32:42,160 Speaker 1: You know, I've heard concerns about the reasons conditioning. Well 655 00:32:42,200 --> 00:32:44,120 Speaker 1: maybe you know, maybe because the reason has been really 656 00:32:44,160 --> 00:32:47,480 Speaker 1: bad too lately, especially on the defensive end. And it's like, well, 657 00:32:47,520 --> 00:32:51,120 Speaker 1: if a reason is gonna when a reason gets to 658 00:32:51,160 --> 00:32:53,320 Speaker 1: the point where he can play more minutes than maybe 659 00:32:53,360 --> 00:32:57,600 Speaker 1: that's the way we need to go rotationally. But you're right, like, 660 00:32:57,640 --> 00:33:03,280 Speaker 1: we can't play too six three guards or below six three. 661 00:33:03,320 --> 00:33:05,600 Speaker 1: We can't play three of them. Actually a lot of 662 00:33:05,600 --> 00:33:08,040 Speaker 1: a lot of times we're playing Bradley, Monk and Russ. 663 00:33:08,920 --> 00:33:14,000 Speaker 1: We can't play three tiny guards and expect to be 664 00:33:14,080 --> 00:33:17,400 Speaker 1: able to compete in the modern NBA where everybody's position 665 00:33:17,480 --> 00:33:20,640 Speaker 1: list and every wing that the other team is thrown 666 00:33:20,640 --> 00:33:24,080 Speaker 1: out is freaky athletic and six six, you know, like that, 667 00:33:24,400 --> 00:33:28,640 Speaker 1: they're just fundamentally, either through the trades or through the rotation, 668 00:33:29,240 --> 00:33:32,360 Speaker 1: the Lakers need to lean back into what they know 669 00:33:32,520 --> 00:33:35,840 Speaker 1: works with their core, and that has to happen soon. 670 00:33:35,960 --> 00:33:39,440 Speaker 1: That that, to me, is a realistic change. Like suddenly 671 00:33:39,480 --> 00:33:44,320 Speaker 1: convincing mo Leakue Monk and Carmelo Anthony to start playing 672 00:33:44,320 --> 00:33:49,040 Speaker 1: defense isn't gonna happen. Suddenly convincing Lebron and Russ to 673 00:33:49,240 --> 00:33:51,320 Speaker 1: buy back in on the defensive end after both of 674 00:33:51,360 --> 00:33:53,280 Speaker 1: them have let go of that rope. I don't know 675 00:33:53,360 --> 00:33:57,600 Speaker 1: that that's going to happen, but maybe it maybe through 676 00:33:58,200 --> 00:34:02,640 Speaker 1: personnel around those guys, by shifting back to the Lakers 677 00:34:02,640 --> 00:34:05,480 Speaker 1: type of identity, you might be able to reinvigorate that 678 00:34:05,520 --> 00:34:09,719 Speaker 1: a little bit. That's what I'm saying. So you brought 679 00:34:09,920 --> 00:34:11,879 Speaker 1: you brought up to get eight percent of I believe 680 00:34:11,920 --> 00:34:15,439 Speaker 1: you brought up Danny Green, Kyle Kuzman, KCP. I believe 681 00:34:15,440 --> 00:34:18,800 Speaker 1: you wrought those three those three may fifteen millions a 682 00:34:18,880 --> 00:34:21,319 Speaker 1: year pretty much, right, you know what? Like that's my 683 00:34:21,360 --> 00:34:23,600 Speaker 1: point here, like, there's those guys aren't coming to save 684 00:34:23,680 --> 00:34:26,160 Speaker 1: and you said bringing in guys to kind of, you know, 685 00:34:26,239 --> 00:34:28,600 Speaker 1: push Rust and Lebron to defend better. It starts at 686 00:34:28,600 --> 00:34:31,800 Speaker 1: the top, Jason, what did we here twenty before the 687 00:34:31,800 --> 00:34:34,279 Speaker 1: season started, right, I'll quotes Anthony Davis. I want to 688 00:34:34,280 --> 00:34:36,200 Speaker 1: get Lebron James to become And again, this is off 689 00:34:36,200 --> 00:34:38,560 Speaker 1: the court stuff. This is stuff that's hard to you know, 690 00:34:38,640 --> 00:34:41,319 Speaker 1: translate in terms of you know, to quantify, but and 691 00:34:41,480 --> 00:34:43,040 Speaker 1: this is stuff that came out. Anthony Davis is like, 692 00:34:43,080 --> 00:34:44,920 Speaker 1: I want to Lebron to be first team All Defense. Right. 693 00:34:44,920 --> 00:34:46,560 Speaker 1: He's like, that's when I'm here. I want to push 694 00:34:46,560 --> 00:34:48,320 Speaker 1: the guy to be first team All defense when in 695 00:34:48,360 --> 00:34:50,520 Speaker 1: past seasons Lebron has it been right and his calvs teams, 696 00:34:50,520 --> 00:34:52,200 Speaker 1: he was a guy that wasn't playing, you know, to 697 00:34:52,239 --> 00:34:54,960 Speaker 1: the defensive uh skill that he could, but Anthony Davis 698 00:34:55,000 --> 00:34:56,160 Speaker 1: kind of pushed that out of him. He had a 699 00:34:56,160 --> 00:34:58,880 Speaker 1: defensive player, he had all defense type of year. Anthony 700 00:34:58,920 --> 00:35:01,480 Speaker 1: Davis had a defensive player the your type of year. 701 00:35:01,520 --> 00:35:03,520 Speaker 1: And that's it starts from the top, you know, and 702 00:35:03,560 --> 00:35:05,000 Speaker 1: it goes down. And that's where I think you have 703 00:35:05,040 --> 00:35:07,640 Speaker 1: to see Russell Westbrook is a different type of defender. 704 00:35:07,680 --> 00:35:10,759 Speaker 1: He's a turnover, try to creating. He's a chaos ball 705 00:35:10,760 --> 00:35:13,200 Speaker 1: watching type a defender and another guy you have to 706 00:35:13,440 --> 00:35:15,600 Speaker 1: you know, kind of look out for on that end. 707 00:35:15,640 --> 00:35:17,480 Speaker 1: He's a guy that's going to try to get steals 708 00:35:17,480 --> 00:35:19,640 Speaker 1: and stuff like that. And it's not gonna work to 709 00:35:19,719 --> 00:35:21,440 Speaker 1: me in a scheme type of effort. But I just 710 00:35:21,480 --> 00:35:24,279 Speaker 1: don't see a savior coming here. Like the savior to 711 00:35:24,320 --> 00:35:26,960 Speaker 1: me is Anthony Davis coming back and being world beater. 712 00:35:27,080 --> 00:35:29,600 Speaker 1: Anthony David was being the top five two way guy 713 00:35:29,680 --> 00:35:31,960 Speaker 1: that you can get. You can get a bunch of 714 00:35:31,960 --> 00:35:34,960 Speaker 1: offense from in terms of isolation, scoring and get the 715 00:35:34,960 --> 00:35:38,640 Speaker 1: all world switch ability. Um putting out fires defender, because 716 00:35:38,640 --> 00:35:40,040 Speaker 1: we're gonna have a lot of fires to put out. 717 00:35:40,160 --> 00:35:41,680 Speaker 1: You put all these guards out there, You're gonna have 718 00:35:41,719 --> 00:35:44,080 Speaker 1: fires to put out. The Carmelo Anthony Mo League Monk. 719 00:35:44,160 --> 00:35:47,160 Speaker 1: I think they try defensively right there, just limited. Karl 720 00:35:47,280 --> 00:35:49,239 Speaker 1: Anthy is old and slow. He can't move his feet. 721 00:35:49,320 --> 00:35:51,600 Speaker 1: Link Monk is six one and skinny with zero physical 722 00:35:51,840 --> 00:35:53,840 Speaker 1: kind of he's he's super athletic, but he's not physical. 723 00:35:53,960 --> 00:35:56,279 Speaker 1: Teams can attack him on the offensive boards. They can 724 00:35:56,480 --> 00:35:58,520 Speaker 1: attack him in isolation. He's a guy that we have 725 00:35:58,560 --> 00:36:01,040 Speaker 1: to help on and so there's a lot of issues here, 726 00:36:01,080 --> 00:36:03,960 Speaker 1: but like that's the only way for me. I don't 727 00:36:04,000 --> 00:36:05,920 Speaker 1: see Wings coming in and giving eighty percent of those 728 00:36:05,960 --> 00:36:08,880 Speaker 1: three guys. Those two guys were paid as you know, 729 00:36:08,960 --> 00:36:11,520 Speaker 1: their production. BCP was a guy who made who got 730 00:36:11,560 --> 00:36:13,600 Speaker 1: his you know, four years sixty months or something or 731 00:36:13,760 --> 00:36:16,200 Speaker 1: whatever contrary he got, Kuzma got the four year extension, 732 00:36:16,440 --> 00:36:18,480 Speaker 1: um Danny Green got two years thirty from us. Like, 733 00:36:18,520 --> 00:36:21,160 Speaker 1: these are wings that are valued around around the league. 734 00:36:21,280 --> 00:36:24,480 Speaker 1: So I don't see a savior coming and just we 735 00:36:24,520 --> 00:36:28,160 Speaker 1: won't get deep into the you know, trade Russ or 736 00:36:28,600 --> 00:36:32,080 Speaker 1: just you know, uh, cut your losses with Russ conversation. 737 00:36:32,640 --> 00:36:35,120 Speaker 1: But I just don't think that's a road we're going 738 00:36:35,160 --> 00:36:37,120 Speaker 1: to go down. I think that's that burned the house 739 00:36:37,160 --> 00:36:44,840 Speaker 1: down type of say. Like I think the house is 740 00:36:44,880 --> 00:36:47,840 Speaker 1: like still waiting for the roof, Like Andy Davis is 741 00:36:47,920 --> 00:36:50,520 Speaker 1: like the roof right, like where there's a bunch of 742 00:36:50,600 --> 00:36:52,640 Speaker 1: rain and hail coming in and we're like, yeah, let's 743 00:36:52,640 --> 00:36:54,640 Speaker 1: just wait, just wait till the roof gets on there. 744 00:36:54,760 --> 00:36:57,200 Speaker 1: Let's see if the house can function. You know and 745 00:36:57,239 --> 00:36:59,200 Speaker 1: before we just burn it all down. But you know, 746 00:36:59,600 --> 00:37:02,120 Speaker 1: no one's wrong here, like they've all played poorly, way 747 00:37:02,239 --> 00:37:07,160 Speaker 1: under expectation, definitely, and even with it's so tough because 748 00:37:07,200 --> 00:37:09,520 Speaker 1: you you played both of these lines right, You played 749 00:37:09,560 --> 00:37:11,400 Speaker 1: like the rust has employed next le Bron and e 750 00:37:11,520 --> 00:37:13,279 Speaker 1: Dy so much. And you also play the like we 751 00:37:13,320 --> 00:37:16,120 Speaker 1: got beat by Oklahoma City twice, and we got in Sacramento, 752 00:37:16,160 --> 00:37:18,320 Speaker 1: we got our ask kick in Sacramento and Denver without 753 00:37:18,480 --> 00:37:20,440 Speaker 1: you know, they're too out of their three best players 754 00:37:20,520 --> 00:37:22,960 Speaker 1: kicked kicked our ask by forty tonight. Like those are 755 00:37:22,960 --> 00:37:25,799 Speaker 1: the inexcusable stuff that I'm seeing. But I don't know. Man, 756 00:37:25,840 --> 00:37:28,480 Speaker 1: the body language looks bad and we can't falter here either. 757 00:37:28,520 --> 00:37:30,000 Speaker 1: I think the West is too good to just go 758 00:37:30,080 --> 00:37:32,279 Speaker 1: through a nose dive. I think we played some even 759 00:37:32,320 --> 00:37:34,480 Speaker 1: better teams going forward. I think we play Utah soon, 760 00:37:34,600 --> 00:37:36,920 Speaker 1: so they have to switch it up. Man, Anthy Davison 761 00:37:36,960 --> 00:37:38,799 Speaker 1: is going to come back. I don't think he's gonna 762 00:37:38,840 --> 00:37:41,160 Speaker 1: be a d right away. That's gonna take time for 763 00:37:41,239 --> 00:37:43,440 Speaker 1: him to get his conditioning. Kendrick Nunn, I have no 764 00:37:43,560 --> 00:37:47,040 Speaker 1: clue on. We just keep hearing he's close. Um, But 765 00:37:47,080 --> 00:37:49,399 Speaker 1: again looking as those guys as savers isn't fair either. 766 00:37:49,400 --> 00:37:51,759 Speaker 1: There's the stuff that has to be better. Vogel has 767 00:37:51,760 --> 00:37:53,920 Speaker 1: to be better. I'm a guy that's no not fire Vogo, 768 00:37:54,000 --> 00:37:55,960 Speaker 1: but I think our line ups can't be as rigid. 769 00:37:56,440 --> 00:37:58,680 Speaker 1: I don't think you can just decide to play small 770 00:37:58,680 --> 00:38:00,360 Speaker 1: ball and then when it's getting you're asked kick like 771 00:38:00,719 --> 00:38:02,560 Speaker 1: you have to adjust. We were not in position to 772 00:38:02,600 --> 00:38:05,400 Speaker 1: pro games either. But I don't know, man, this was 773 00:38:05,400 --> 00:38:08,319 Speaker 1: one of the most unspirited one that this is one 774 00:38:08,360 --> 00:38:10,800 Speaker 1: of the most like kill your spirit game. Sacramento was 775 00:38:10,840 --> 00:38:12,640 Speaker 1: close to it for me. This one was definitely like 776 00:38:12,680 --> 00:38:15,319 Speaker 1: a man like this. This was tough to watch. You've 777 00:38:15,360 --> 00:38:19,600 Speaker 1: gotten rolled in back to back nights by bad Western 778 00:38:19,600 --> 00:38:23,759 Speaker 1: Conference teams, teams that are every bid is bad, if 779 00:38:23,760 --> 00:38:25,840 Speaker 1: not worse than we are. We got rolled back to 780 00:38:25,840 --> 00:38:28,800 Speaker 1: back nights, and you know and that you know, you 781 00:38:28,880 --> 00:38:32,880 Speaker 1: brought up some of the limitations you know, with defensively 782 00:38:32,960 --> 00:38:36,279 Speaker 1: with um with guys as it pertains to their physical tools. 783 00:38:36,320 --> 00:38:37,480 Speaker 1: And I'm glad you got up because I did a 784 00:38:37,480 --> 00:38:40,520 Speaker 1: bad job of emphasizing that with guys like Malik and Carmelo, 785 00:38:40,600 --> 00:38:43,840 Speaker 1: it's not just effort. They lack, they lacked the physical 786 00:38:43,880 --> 00:38:46,440 Speaker 1: tools to do the job. That goes without saying, um, 787 00:38:46,880 --> 00:38:48,120 Speaker 1: I know, I know you had to get out of 788 00:38:48,120 --> 00:38:49,680 Speaker 1: here soon because you got some friends over. So we're 789 00:38:49,680 --> 00:38:51,600 Speaker 1: gonna hit one last really quick topic and then we'll 790 00:38:51,600 --> 00:38:55,080 Speaker 1: get out of here. So Lebron, I get in trouble 791 00:38:55,120 --> 00:38:58,000 Speaker 1: with this all the time because you know, I'm aware 792 00:38:58,320 --> 00:39:01,560 Speaker 1: of all of the Lebron qualifiers. I know he's in 793 00:39:01,560 --> 00:39:04,520 Speaker 1: a really tough spot right now. I know he's he's 794 00:39:04,560 --> 00:39:07,719 Speaker 1: being asked to do a lot. I also know that 795 00:39:07,760 --> 00:39:10,120 Speaker 1: he's old. I also know that he has a lot 796 00:39:10,120 --> 00:39:13,040 Speaker 1: of mileage on his body. None of that changes the 797 00:39:13,080 --> 00:39:15,279 Speaker 1: fact that I'm a huge fan of Lebron. As all 798 00:39:15,320 --> 00:39:19,560 Speaker 1: of you guys know, I literally cover the Lakers because 799 00:39:19,600 --> 00:39:21,960 Speaker 1: I followed him here. Now I've since then become attached 800 00:39:22,000 --> 00:39:24,040 Speaker 1: to the team and attached to you, RGE, and I'm 801 00:39:24,080 --> 00:39:26,480 Speaker 1: loving my time here and I'm loving covering the team. 802 00:39:26,520 --> 00:39:29,000 Speaker 1: But I never shot away from the fact that Lebron 803 00:39:29,120 --> 00:39:32,960 Speaker 1: is the reason why I originally started following this team, 804 00:39:33,000 --> 00:39:35,640 Speaker 1: and I am I am. You are not going to 805 00:39:35,680 --> 00:39:38,640 Speaker 1: get me to manufacture stuff to say negative about the 806 00:39:38,680 --> 00:39:41,400 Speaker 1: guy that's not I'm not capable of that. I'm a 807 00:39:41,400 --> 00:39:44,120 Speaker 1: fan of his. When I when I create, I'm just 808 00:39:44,360 --> 00:39:46,800 Speaker 1: calling the things out that I see with my eyes. 809 00:39:46,840 --> 00:39:51,520 Speaker 1: When I watched the television, which has been my which 810 00:39:51,560 --> 00:39:54,040 Speaker 1: I've been doing in varying capacities at various levels of 811 00:39:54,040 --> 00:39:56,480 Speaker 1: basketball for decades, it's it's just what I do. I 812 00:39:56,480 --> 00:39:58,279 Speaker 1: watched the game, I followed the game, I coached the game, 813 00:39:58,320 --> 00:40:00,160 Speaker 1: I teach the game. I do all of it. And 814 00:40:00,160 --> 00:40:05,520 Speaker 1: when I'm watching the game, I see Lebron. After Anthony 815 00:40:05,600 --> 00:40:09,120 Speaker 1: Davis goes down put together about him, like what three 816 00:40:09,200 --> 00:40:12,360 Speaker 1: weeks or so, rog where where he looked like Draymond 817 00:40:12,360 --> 00:40:19,680 Speaker 1: Green defensively just and guess what I was saying during 818 00:40:19,680 --> 00:40:21,360 Speaker 1: that time, rog, I was saying, he looked like he 819 00:40:21,440 --> 00:40:23,360 Speaker 1: might be the best player in the world. That's what 820 00:40:23,400 --> 00:40:25,920 Speaker 1: I was saying, because because guess what, I'm a fan 821 00:40:25,920 --> 00:40:27,480 Speaker 1: of Lebron, and when he does good stuff, I'm gonna 822 00:40:27,520 --> 00:40:30,719 Speaker 1: call it out. But every single time this happens, for 823 00:40:31,600 --> 00:40:33,480 Speaker 1: all the time, I get pushed back. My mentions are 824 00:40:33,480 --> 00:40:37,600 Speaker 1: a total disaster area today because I'm pointing out the 825 00:40:37,600 --> 00:40:40,520 Speaker 1: fact that basically right around the time of that Sacramento game, 826 00:40:40,560 --> 00:40:42,399 Speaker 1: it was the two games the Sacramento game, and then 827 00:40:42,440 --> 00:40:45,280 Speaker 1: I think it was at Lanta right after it those 828 00:40:45,280 --> 00:40:47,200 Speaker 1: two games, which I think we're four or five games ago, 829 00:40:48,640 --> 00:40:51,560 Speaker 1: he randomly after having remember when we were talking too 830 00:40:51,640 --> 00:40:54,000 Speaker 1: how great his energy looked. It was like it was 831 00:40:54,040 --> 00:40:56,080 Speaker 1: like the broadcasters were talking about it too, Like he 832 00:40:56,160 --> 00:40:57,880 Speaker 1: was just flying around on both ends of the floor. 833 00:40:58,239 --> 00:41:00,239 Speaker 1: And that was in a stretch where we had five 834 00:41:00,280 --> 00:41:03,320 Speaker 1: games in eight dates, like and he was just bawling 835 00:41:03,320 --> 00:41:05,360 Speaker 1: out on both ends of the floor. And then suddenly 836 00:41:05,360 --> 00:41:07,600 Speaker 1: in that Sacramento game where you and I just after 837 00:41:07,640 --> 00:41:09,480 Speaker 1: the show we're like, or after the game, we're talking 838 00:41:09,480 --> 00:41:11,120 Speaker 1: to the show, We're like, yeah, Lebron kind of took 839 00:41:11,120 --> 00:41:13,320 Speaker 1: this one off, ton't me. And then all of a sudden, 840 00:41:13,360 --> 00:41:15,480 Speaker 1: like we're watching the Atlanta game and we're like, huh, 841 00:41:15,760 --> 00:41:18,719 Speaker 1: he's doing it again, you know, like he's not. He's 842 00:41:18,800 --> 00:41:22,080 Speaker 1: kind of the textbook thing is like the instead of 843 00:41:22,160 --> 00:41:26,319 Speaker 1: stepping over and either swiping down or or verticality trying 844 00:41:26,360 --> 00:41:28,040 Speaker 1: to disrupt the guy at the ram, he just kind 845 00:41:28,040 --> 00:41:31,080 Speaker 1: of stands there and watches, you know, and just lets 846 00:41:31,120 --> 00:41:33,440 Speaker 1: the guy laid in. That's the tell tell sign that 847 00:41:33,480 --> 00:41:36,799 Speaker 1: has been basically the story of Lebron defensively for the 848 00:41:36,800 --> 00:41:39,520 Speaker 1: past four or five games. Now. Ever, since that Sacramento game, 849 00:41:39,560 --> 00:41:42,920 Speaker 1: the one we won, um, Lebron has let go with 850 00:41:42,920 --> 00:41:46,960 Speaker 1: the rope defensively, and in a stretch where we've played 851 00:41:46,960 --> 00:41:49,759 Speaker 1: five games in thirteen nights. So I have all these 852 00:41:49,760 --> 00:41:52,319 Speaker 1: people telling me, like, man, it's fatigue, he's got too 853 00:41:52,360 --> 00:41:56,600 Speaker 1: much on his plate. And I'm watching him early first 854 00:41:56,680 --> 00:41:59,160 Speaker 1: quarter after two nights off, just letting guys coast into 855 00:41:59,160 --> 00:42:02,680 Speaker 1: the lane for layup. And so some point recently, probably 856 00:42:02,760 --> 00:42:04,640 Speaker 1: right around the time of the Sacramento game, Lebron made 857 00:42:04,640 --> 00:42:07,879 Speaker 1: a conscious decision to lay off the gas defensively. Now. 858 00:42:07,960 --> 00:42:10,799 Speaker 1: I don't know why. It could be attitude, could be 859 00:42:10,840 --> 00:42:13,840 Speaker 1: he's frustrated with the situation. Could be he doesn't believe 860 00:42:13,840 --> 00:42:16,600 Speaker 1: the team could win. Could be he's tired. I don't know. 861 00:42:16,640 --> 00:42:19,480 Speaker 1: I don't think it's the tired thing, though, because I'm 862 00:42:19,520 --> 00:42:22,239 Speaker 1: looking at the situation and I'm seeing a guy that 863 00:42:22,760 --> 00:42:24,839 Speaker 1: will take a bunch of those defensive possessions off him 864 00:42:24,840 --> 00:42:26,839 Speaker 1: and fly around like crazy on offense. And he's had 865 00:42:26,880 --> 00:42:30,239 Speaker 1: multiple time, multiple days off, So I just I just 866 00:42:30,239 --> 00:42:33,680 Speaker 1: don't buy into that excuse. And again, like every single time, 867 00:42:33,719 --> 00:42:35,520 Speaker 1: I tweet this stuff out and I go, hey, guys, 868 00:42:35,600 --> 00:42:38,560 Speaker 1: Lebron is not doing his job defensively, and yes, we're 869 00:42:38,560 --> 00:42:41,040 Speaker 1: limited with personnel, and yes we don't have a ton 870 00:42:41,080 --> 00:42:44,360 Speaker 1: of talent without Anthony Davis, but he's also not playing 871 00:42:44,400 --> 00:42:46,799 Speaker 1: well enough on the defensive end. He's also not doing 872 00:42:46,880 --> 00:42:49,160 Speaker 1: his part. And every time I do that, it's like, 873 00:42:49,920 --> 00:42:52,640 Speaker 1: here comes the guy and my mentions again the seventeen 874 00:42:52,680 --> 00:42:54,720 Speaker 1: guys and I mentions that are like, oh, he's thirty 875 00:42:54,719 --> 00:42:57,080 Speaker 1: seven out of what how outrageous it is for you 876 00:42:57,120 --> 00:42:58,759 Speaker 1: to expect him to do this kind of stuff. And 877 00:42:58,880 --> 00:43:00,719 Speaker 1: all I could say is like, man, is he the 878 00:43:00,760 --> 00:43:03,279 Speaker 1: best player in the world or not? Because you're the 879 00:43:03,320 --> 00:43:06,879 Speaker 1: same guy that's always out there talking about how great 880 00:43:06,920 --> 00:43:08,960 Speaker 1: he is and how he's still the best and how 881 00:43:08,960 --> 00:43:10,759 Speaker 1: he's better than k D and how he's better than 882 00:43:10,760 --> 00:43:13,400 Speaker 1: stef and how he's better than j Honice. But I 883 00:43:13,440 --> 00:43:16,560 Speaker 1: can't hold him to that standard, the standard that comes 884 00:43:16,560 --> 00:43:22,680 Speaker 1: associated with that status because Janice's garden like crazy. Kevin 885 00:43:22,719 --> 00:43:25,280 Speaker 1: Durant's having one of his best defensive seasons and years, 886 00:43:26,840 --> 00:43:30,240 Speaker 1: like the Steph Curry without any of the physical tools 887 00:43:30,360 --> 00:43:35,280 Speaker 1: is everywhere defensively. I can't get by with the whole 888 00:43:35,960 --> 00:43:40,040 Speaker 1: let's coddle Lebron. There's a guy. Our friend Joe, regular 889 00:43:40,120 --> 00:43:43,440 Speaker 1: of the show, tweeted out he said it perfectly. You 890 00:43:43,480 --> 00:43:46,000 Speaker 1: can't celebrate he's thirty seven when things are going well 891 00:43:46,040 --> 00:43:47,640 Speaker 1: and then use it as an excuse when things are 892 00:43:47,680 --> 00:43:53,040 Speaker 1: going poorly. Shout out to Joe, but that I'm calling 893 00:43:53,080 --> 00:43:56,160 Speaker 1: it out man like, he's like part of the issue here. 894 00:43:56,239 --> 00:43:58,200 Speaker 1: Part of the reason why we're losing two teams were 895 00:43:58,239 --> 00:44:01,960 Speaker 1: actually talented enough to beat, right know is Lebron isn't defended, 896 00:44:02,680 --> 00:44:05,760 Speaker 1: So it's it's low on the list of issues. Obviously, 897 00:44:05,800 --> 00:44:08,120 Speaker 1: there are a ton of other issues related to personnel 898 00:44:08,160 --> 00:44:12,920 Speaker 1: and talent fit. But Lebron can control that. That's an 899 00:44:12,920 --> 00:44:15,960 Speaker 1: easy fixed that can be fixed tomorrow now if he 900 00:44:16,080 --> 00:44:21,520 Speaker 1: wanted to. If that makes sense, Yeah, I mean like stuff, 901 00:44:21,560 --> 00:44:24,719 Speaker 1: I think you know, I'm not there. I guess like 902 00:44:24,960 --> 00:44:27,640 Speaker 1: I try to. I think all those issues are convoluted, right. 903 00:44:27,680 --> 00:44:29,560 Speaker 1: I think he's he might be a little bit tired. 904 00:44:29,600 --> 00:44:32,000 Speaker 1: I think he's also very frustrated both of us. You know, 905 00:44:32,040 --> 00:44:33,759 Speaker 1: go back and rewatch he's game. There's a bunch of 906 00:44:33,800 --> 00:44:36,480 Speaker 1: times like on the on the on the time he 907 00:44:36,560 --> 00:44:38,600 Speaker 1: will run back, you know, or or he'll both full 908 00:44:38,719 --> 00:44:41,719 Speaker 1: hopfull speedback and transition. He'll do his job right, He'll 909 00:44:41,719 --> 00:44:43,920 Speaker 1: he'll cover the rim and then like someone will run 910 00:44:43,920 --> 00:44:45,839 Speaker 1: to the rim with him and the other team gets 911 00:44:45,840 --> 00:44:47,399 Speaker 1: the open three and you can see him just put 912 00:44:47,400 --> 00:44:49,040 Speaker 1: his hands on his head, or he'll look at the 913 00:44:49,080 --> 00:44:51,359 Speaker 1: bench and he'll be frustrated. And you know, that's all 914 00:44:51,440 --> 00:44:54,239 Speaker 1: human elements stuff, man, And to me, like Lebron best 915 00:44:54,239 --> 00:44:55,880 Speaker 1: player in the world stuff is like you have to 916 00:44:55,880 --> 00:44:58,000 Speaker 1: win for out of seven, you know, but like all 917 00:44:58,000 --> 00:45:00,399 Speaker 1: those other guys are in their prime, man, I don't 918 00:45:00,400 --> 00:45:03,120 Speaker 1: I don't know. I can't expect Lebron to be Draymond 919 00:45:03,120 --> 00:45:06,160 Speaker 1: an average thirty Like I can't. Maybe you know, maybe 920 00:45:06,160 --> 00:45:08,360 Speaker 1: that drops him down and whatever list, but I can't 921 00:45:08,480 --> 00:45:10,880 Speaker 1: get there. And this team has issues of course that 922 00:45:11,040 --> 00:45:12,960 Speaker 1: you know, and Lebron is definitely a part of them. 923 00:45:13,000 --> 00:45:15,080 Speaker 1: If you're going to go small, I always say, then 924 00:45:15,120 --> 00:45:17,919 Speaker 1: you have to have LEBRONI gates, like there's no line there, 925 00:45:17,960 --> 00:45:20,040 Speaker 1: like you you can't go small and also not be 926 00:45:20,080 --> 00:45:22,959 Speaker 1: engaged and also have small guards, like like that's such 927 00:45:23,000 --> 00:45:25,320 Speaker 1: a that's a combination for failure, Like it's a combination 928 00:45:25,320 --> 00:45:27,319 Speaker 1: for failure, and we've hit that breaking point. Teams I've 929 00:45:27,360 --> 00:45:29,920 Speaker 1: understood how to play us. Now, teams are driving to 930 00:45:29,960 --> 00:45:32,360 Speaker 1: the rim. You know, every single time we have zero 931 00:45:32,600 --> 00:45:35,239 Speaker 1: point of attack defense that is able to stay up 932 00:45:35,239 --> 00:45:38,440 Speaker 1: to a even baseline level. Go watch that Sacramento game 933 00:45:38,560 --> 00:45:42,239 Speaker 1: man Darren Fox Halburn straight line drives every single time. 934 00:45:42,400 --> 00:45:44,400 Speaker 1: I'm not sure should Lebron be coming over every single 935 00:45:44,400 --> 00:45:50,600 Speaker 1: time like job in that spot? It? No, for sure, 936 00:45:50,760 --> 00:45:52,360 Speaker 1: but I mean can you do that? And what do 937 00:45:52,360 --> 00:45:53,759 Speaker 1: you still put up? I think what do you put 938 00:45:53,800 --> 00:45:56,040 Speaker 1: up in that game thirty Can you still do that? 939 00:45:56,640 --> 00:46:01,080 Speaker 1: I would never sure, but my question to you like, 940 00:46:01,120 --> 00:46:03,640 Speaker 1: can you put up the thirty five and also cover 941 00:46:03,760 --> 00:46:06,120 Speaker 1: you know, at the river? Can you do that for 942 00:46:06,160 --> 00:46:09,600 Speaker 1: a couple of weeks? And then he just stopped. But 943 00:46:09,960 --> 00:46:12,799 Speaker 1: maybe he doesn't need to be Raymond Green. Maybe he 944 00:46:12,840 --> 00:46:17,719 Speaker 1: doesn't need to be Draymond Green. Yeah, but he and 945 00:46:18,560 --> 00:46:20,800 Speaker 1: the scheme part is another part of this to Roge, 946 00:46:20,880 --> 00:46:25,719 Speaker 1: because maybe schematically you can't have Lebron played Draymond Green. 947 00:46:25,760 --> 00:46:27,759 Speaker 1: That maybe you need to do a ton more switching 948 00:46:28,239 --> 00:46:32,000 Speaker 1: as opposed to traditionally helping helping recover heads and recover 949 00:46:32,120 --> 00:46:34,560 Speaker 1: that kind of stuff, like we might have to shift 950 00:46:34,600 --> 00:46:38,680 Speaker 1: defensively to a defensive scheme more like what Brooklyn was 951 00:46:38,800 --> 00:46:41,880 Speaker 1: using when they would go small, but then you can't stop. 952 00:46:41,880 --> 00:46:45,240 Speaker 1: But then Jason, you can't start. You're gonna switch every 953 00:46:45,280 --> 00:46:47,640 Speaker 1: so yeah, so that's why I'm on the restart. I 954 00:46:47,640 --> 00:46:49,560 Speaker 1: think you have to switch more. I think it also 955 00:46:49,600 --> 00:46:52,040 Speaker 1: induces to what Russell Westbrook better at as well. It 956 00:46:52,080 --> 00:46:55,320 Speaker 1: keeps Russell Westbrook more in like a inline traditional switch 957 00:46:55,400 --> 00:46:57,719 Speaker 1: instead of having to chase over or chase guys on 958 00:46:57,760 --> 00:46:59,799 Speaker 1: screens or being a drop coverage, you know, like that's 959 00:46:59,800 --> 00:47:01,600 Speaker 1: all stuff that's not And he said that like you 960 00:47:01,640 --> 00:47:03,680 Speaker 1: want to do on the floor. So I'd rather way 961 00:47:03,680 --> 00:47:05,520 Speaker 1: more go switching. I think that could help Lebron to 962 00:47:05,640 --> 00:47:07,360 Speaker 1: I'm there, all right, rog, Well, we're gonna get you 963 00:47:07,360 --> 00:47:09,279 Speaker 1: out of here. See you go hang out with your friends. Uh, 964 00:47:09,560 --> 00:47:12,200 Speaker 1: we will do either we'll either squeeze one in tomorrow 965 00:47:12,280 --> 00:47:14,680 Speaker 1: or we'll do it after the next game. I'm actually 966 00:47:14,719 --> 00:47:16,879 Speaker 1: not sure when the next game is. Let me check 967 00:47:16,960 --> 00:47:19,759 Speaker 1: really quick, but we will. We will definitely on the 968 00:47:19,800 --> 00:47:24,319 Speaker 1: next show dive into the rusting because I said on 969 00:47:24,360 --> 00:47:26,759 Speaker 1: the Thursday pod that I think the Lakers should trade him, 970 00:47:26,840 --> 00:47:28,680 Speaker 1: and we haven't really had a chance to get to 971 00:47:28,719 --> 00:47:32,160 Speaker 1: the bottom of that the two of us and I'm 972 00:47:32,160 --> 00:47:36,640 Speaker 1: sure will continue. He's not going anywhere so at home 973 00:47:36,760 --> 00:47:40,600 Speaker 1: against the Jazz on Monday night. So so yeah, so 974 00:47:40,680 --> 00:47:43,239 Speaker 1: we'll depending on how that games go, that games goes, 975 00:47:43,680 --> 00:47:45,719 Speaker 1: game goes, we'll try to get to it, but you 976 00:47:45,760 --> 00:47:48,080 Speaker 1: go finish, finish, hanging out with your friends. Guys. This 977 00:47:48,120 --> 00:47:52,040 Speaker 1: is gonna be on dash Radio on Monday morning at 978 00:47:52,080 --> 00:47:54,680 Speaker 1: seven am Pacific Standard time, and we'll also be on 979 00:47:54,719 --> 00:47:57,240 Speaker 1: our podcast feed here in about twenty minutes. As always, 980 00:47:57,239 --> 00:47:59,960 Speaker 1: we appreciate your support and we'll either see you tomorrow. 981 00:48:00,000 --> 00:48:03,839 Speaker 1: We're on Monday. Thanks to everyone. Have a great night. 982 00:48:05,880 --> 00:48:05,920 Speaker 1: H