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Speaker 1: this as that my dad for readio. Thank you guys

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Speaker 1: for coming to hang out on a Sunday disappointing loss.

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Speaker 1: I get it. We're gonna break it down. We're gonna

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Speaker 1: been so far, buddy? I've been pretty good at least

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Speaker 1: probably on the doctor's side. But I'm doing a little man.

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Speaker 1: How's your weekend. It's good, man. I'm getting ready to

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Speaker 1: crazy prepping for that. But I I'm annoyed because I mean, look, man,

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Speaker 1: a lot of our guys played poorly tonight, and Anthony

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Speaker 1: Like I get the fact that like through adjusted expectations.

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Speaker 1: There's a little bit of a silver lining here. I

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Speaker 1: also get that the scoreboard wasn't really indicative, and I

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Speaker 1: should say the scoreboard before the late Austin Reaves fueled

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Speaker 1: as indicative of the of the gap between the two teams.

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Speaker 1: I think the Laker I think the Lakers employed a

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Speaker 1: school level. When you're teaching a high school team some

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Speaker 1: like you'd see throughout the game, even when Jaw wasn't um,

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Speaker 1: can say they shot really well, and definitely they did,

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Speaker 1: so there's fundamentally when you adopt that strategy of of

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Speaker 1: the second half guys were making tougher shots. But hey man,

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Speaker 1: Like they came in tonight with an eight game win streak.

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Speaker 1: I think Memphis went up like fifteen or something during

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Speaker 1: It has to be more Reeves, it has to be

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Speaker 1: is gonna be lower, lowered, like we're gonna have the

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Speaker 1: ball in Leek Monk's hands. We're gonna be have the

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Speaker 1: ball in lebronze hands, We're gonna have the ball in

431
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Speaker 1: Anthony Davis's hands, and he's probably he's probably being outstretched

432
00:20:37,760 --> 00:20:40,160
Speaker 1: still right now with this role, and it isn't great.

433
00:20:40,200 --> 00:20:42,359
Speaker 1: He has to play better. He has to have better

434
00:20:42,600 --> 00:20:44,840
Speaker 1: decision making for sure. I just think like we have

435
00:20:45,000 --> 00:20:48,160
Speaker 1: guys with roles that are defined now. So Rust's role

436
00:20:48,240 --> 00:20:50,240
Speaker 1: is not to me have to be a score on

437
00:20:50,280 --> 00:20:52,760
Speaker 1: this team. We've put guys in the starting lineup to

438
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Speaker 1: help with that. That's what That's why I'm link Monk

439
00:20:54,520 --> 00:20:56,359
Speaker 1: is starting so he can have a scoring role. If

440
00:20:56,359 --> 00:20:59,639
Speaker 1: he doesn't shoot well, we're not going to win. Blaming

441
00:20:59,680 --> 00:21:01,600
Speaker 1: that all so on Russ to me just doesn't like

442
00:21:01,680 --> 00:21:03,960
Speaker 1: that doesn't really make sense. We've defined the roles for

443
00:21:04,000 --> 00:21:06,399
Speaker 1: this team and putting like why we didn't win tonight

444
00:21:06,440 --> 00:21:09,000
Speaker 1: because like, if all our guards don't pull it well,

445
00:21:09,040 --> 00:21:11,360
Speaker 1: obviously you would like Russ to kind of contribute to there.

446
00:21:11,680 --> 00:21:13,240
Speaker 1: But that's just not the role he's in right now.

447
00:21:13,240 --> 00:21:14,880
Speaker 1: He's in a like he needs to create, he needs

448
00:21:14,880 --> 00:21:16,960
Speaker 1: to shock create. I think this team needs to live

449
00:21:16,960 --> 00:21:18,800
Speaker 1: in transition. I feel like we are not a half

450
00:21:18,800 --> 00:21:21,520
Speaker 1: court scoring team. And putting Russ in the half court

451
00:21:21,560 --> 00:21:24,400
Speaker 1: again just opens up all what he's deficients at right now.

452
00:21:24,440 --> 00:21:26,320
Speaker 1: He's not a good half court scorer. Now, he's not

453
00:21:26,359 --> 00:21:28,399
Speaker 1: a half court playmaker. He's a guy that pushes the

454
00:21:28,400 --> 00:21:30,760
Speaker 1: ball in transition and when we don't get stops. That's

455
00:21:30,800 --> 00:21:33,080
Speaker 1: why tonight's gonna look like what it is. And Russ

456
00:21:33,119 --> 00:21:35,760
Speaker 1: has definitely struggled against the good teams. He's also he's

457
00:21:35,760 --> 00:21:37,320
Speaker 1: had a few games where I feel like he saved

458
00:21:37,400 --> 00:21:38,479
Speaker 1: us in a lot of those. I think the game

459
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Speaker 1: against Indiana he played well. A few others he's played well.

460
00:21:41,600 --> 00:21:43,679
Speaker 1: But yeah, man, he's struggling against good teams. I just

461
00:21:43,720 --> 00:21:45,640
Speaker 1: don't like. I feel like his role is going to be,

462
00:21:46,760 --> 00:21:48,679
Speaker 1: I don't know, put to the correct spot when we

463
00:21:48,680 --> 00:21:51,400
Speaker 1: play the better teams. If does that make sense? So

464
00:21:51,680 --> 00:21:55,520
Speaker 1: I get that and ida, in an ideal situation, that

465
00:21:55,560 --> 00:21:57,760
Speaker 1: will be the case. And that's why if the Lakers

466
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Speaker 1: do make a trade around the deadline and get someone

467
00:22:00,440 --> 00:22:03,239
Speaker 1: like Jeremy Grant and have lineups out there that like

468
00:22:03,400 --> 00:22:07,320
Speaker 1: Reeves or Monk with you know, Jeremy Grant, Lebron and

469
00:22:07,320 --> 00:22:10,680
Speaker 1: Anthony Davis, like, I'll still believe in the team's chances,

470
00:22:10,800 --> 00:22:13,920
Speaker 1: of course, but like what you just said to me

471
00:22:14,080 --> 00:22:16,880
Speaker 1: is the scary part in all of this because you go,

472
00:22:17,200 --> 00:22:19,040
Speaker 1: you know, he's he's a transition player, is not a

473
00:22:19,040 --> 00:22:21,760
Speaker 1: half court player, Like he's actually not a great player

474
00:22:21,800 --> 00:22:25,480
Speaker 1: in the half court offensively, and there there's truth to that.

475
00:22:25,520 --> 00:22:28,360
Speaker 1: And here's the reason why rogs. Like when you're watching

476
00:22:28,520 --> 00:22:32,399
Speaker 1: Lebron initiate a possession from the perimeter, you can feel

477
00:22:32,440 --> 00:22:35,840
Speaker 1: all of these like good potential outcomes that are about

478
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Speaker 1: to happen, Like they're like, oh, if if he goes

479
00:22:37,720 --> 00:22:40,520
Speaker 1: under this ball screen, Lebron is gonna have a comfortable

480
00:22:40,520 --> 00:22:42,680
Speaker 1: three point shot. He's just gonna make that thing. Or like, oh,

481
00:22:42,720 --> 00:22:45,560
Speaker 1: if they switch that, he's got a good post, Mitch Matcher, Mismatcher,

482
00:22:45,840 --> 00:22:48,119
Speaker 1: Oh if he you know, if they trap him, he's

483
00:22:48,119 --> 00:22:49,680
Speaker 1: gonna be able to hit this part. Like you think

484
00:22:49,720 --> 00:22:52,400
Speaker 1: and see all these obvious positive outcomes, And the same

485
00:22:52,440 --> 00:22:54,560
Speaker 1: thing goes with a lot of players on the Laker roster,

486
00:22:54,680 --> 00:22:57,240
Speaker 1: like Malik Monk. Same thing, like you give that dude

487
00:22:57,240 --> 00:22:59,679
Speaker 1: a bit of breathing room, that things going up and

488
00:22:59,680 --> 00:23:02,800
Speaker 1: it's probably going in. There's all these like positive outcomes.

489
00:23:02,800 --> 00:23:05,240
Speaker 1: But like when I watched Russ like initiate the offensive

490
00:23:05,240 --> 00:23:08,800
Speaker 1: possession I'm looking and the defenders immediately giving ground and

491
00:23:08,880 --> 00:23:11,919
Speaker 1: backpedaling to about ten feet from the rim, like putting

492
00:23:12,000 --> 00:23:13,960
Speaker 1: Russ already from the start of the possession in that

493
00:23:14,000 --> 00:23:16,719
Speaker 1: awkward position where he has to decide whether or not

494
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Speaker 1: he wants to take a jump shot, which he has

495
00:23:19,359 --> 00:23:22,200
Speaker 1: been taking lately, but like they're not going in and

496
00:23:22,320 --> 00:23:24,280
Speaker 1: some other nights he just won't even take them, so

497
00:23:24,320 --> 00:23:26,480
Speaker 1: it just turns into this awkward situation where get like

498
00:23:26,520 --> 00:23:29,720
Speaker 1: turn and post them up like five ft from the rim,

499
00:23:29,760 --> 00:23:32,280
Speaker 1: but he initiated the possession at thirty feet and there's

500
00:23:32,320 --> 00:23:35,359
Speaker 1: no contact. It's like the most bizarre sequence there. And

501
00:23:35,359 --> 00:23:37,720
Speaker 1: then like when he gets to the rim, he's finishing

502
00:23:37,720 --> 00:23:39,760
Speaker 1: at such a low rate, Like that doesn't feel like

503
00:23:39,760 --> 00:23:43,119
Speaker 1: a good outcome. Really, the only good outcomes we're getting

504
00:23:43,119 --> 00:23:46,840
Speaker 1: from Russ offensively is like these bizarre plays where he

505
00:23:46,880 --> 00:23:48,879
Speaker 1: just puts his head down and goes into like four

506
00:23:48,920 --> 00:23:51,400
Speaker 1: bodies and just hurls the ball out somewhere and hopes

507
00:23:51,440 --> 00:23:53,840
Speaker 1: that someone's there. And don't get me wrong, there are

508
00:23:53,880 --> 00:23:57,000
Speaker 1: games where that has worked, but it's primarily been against

509
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Speaker 1: bad teams, and that style of play, Like if are

510
00:24:00,200 --> 00:24:04,119
Speaker 1: walking down a playoff level really good defense that is

511
00:24:04,160 --> 00:24:07,720
Speaker 1: set in the half court, he just doesn't have a threat.

512
00:24:08,000 --> 00:24:10,960
Speaker 1: He's not a threat. He can't shoot over the top,

513
00:24:11,440 --> 00:24:14,760
Speaker 1: he can't beat people off the dribble because they play

514
00:24:14,840 --> 00:24:17,800
Speaker 1: so far off of him. And then the really good

515
00:24:17,840 --> 00:24:21,560
Speaker 1: teams take away his chaos ball, which is Russ's m

516
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Speaker 1: O that I'm just putting my head down and going

517
00:24:23,840 --> 00:24:26,320
Speaker 1: to the rim and hoping for the best. But the

518
00:24:26,720 --> 00:24:29,720
Speaker 1: best teams just sit on all that stuff and it

519
00:24:29,760 --> 00:24:33,720
Speaker 1: doesn't work. And so it's concerned, Like that's that's that's

520
00:24:33,720 --> 00:24:37,879
Speaker 1: where the concern comes from. And again, like it is,

521
00:24:38,320 --> 00:24:40,800
Speaker 1: it is what it is at this point. But like

522
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Speaker 1: the reason why it's worth talking about and I get it,

523
00:24:44,440 --> 00:24:46,959
Speaker 1: Like I know, particularly you Rog you get annoyed by

524
00:24:46,960 --> 00:24:49,119
Speaker 1: this sometimes because we talked about it so much. But

525
00:24:49,200 --> 00:24:53,080
Speaker 1: it's like the reason why it's relevant is because this

526
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Speaker 1: is the ultimate test. The ultimate test is can this

527
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Speaker 1: team get to the point where they can con peat

528
00:25:00,440 --> 00:25:05,440
Speaker 1: with and defeat the top tier teams, And these problems

529
00:25:05,480 --> 00:25:08,920
Speaker 1: that I'm discussing with Russ will inevitably rear their ugly

530
00:25:08,920 --> 00:25:11,600
Speaker 1: head in those games. The same way they have in

531
00:25:11,640 --> 00:25:14,879
Speaker 1: the previous six games that we've played against teams that

532
00:25:14,960 --> 00:25:18,679
Speaker 1: belong on that tier. And so it's just I don't

533
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Speaker 1: see how it doesn't ever cease being a topic as

534
00:25:22,800 --> 00:25:25,720
Speaker 1: long as that's the situation. And you know, that's where,

535
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Speaker 1: like like Rager, when I look at it, I think,

536
00:25:28,440 --> 00:25:30,800
Speaker 1: you know, the all the chaos that would come from

537
00:25:30,840 --> 00:25:33,960
Speaker 1: a russ trade and the idea of bringing back pointless

538
00:25:33,960 --> 00:25:37,119
Speaker 1: salary filler and all the wasted assets and not to

539
00:25:37,160 --> 00:25:39,239
Speaker 1: mention the burn bridges that come from that and how

540
00:25:39,359 --> 00:25:42,800
Speaker 1: ugly it would be. But then I think, in terms

541
00:25:42,800 --> 00:25:46,280
Speaker 1: of diminishing returns, what if I had Monk and Reeves

542
00:25:46,320 --> 00:25:49,760
Speaker 1: out there with a really good with a really good wing,

543
00:25:49,880 --> 00:25:53,280
Speaker 1: like like Jeremy Grant and Lebron and Anthony Davis, what

544
00:25:53,400 --> 00:25:56,160
Speaker 1: I like my chances more? And you know what, raj

545
00:25:56,280 --> 00:26:01,520
Speaker 1: I might, I might And that that that that's concerning

546
00:26:01,560 --> 00:26:03,720
Speaker 1: to me, man, Like that's concerning to me. I don't

547
00:26:03,720 --> 00:26:06,400
Speaker 1: know how that could not just be like like, I'm

548
00:26:06,440 --> 00:26:10,360
Speaker 1: not just being a hater, I'm not being I'm trying

549
00:26:10,359 --> 00:26:13,359
Speaker 1: to be objective here, but like that's where my brain goes,

550
00:26:13,440 --> 00:26:16,200
Speaker 1: and I don't know how. I don't know how that

551
00:26:16,240 --> 00:26:19,280
Speaker 1: can that can I can't be in the minority there

552
00:26:19,280 --> 00:26:21,960
Speaker 1: there alone and that there's got to be people not

553
00:26:22,040 --> 00:26:24,560
Speaker 1: at all. No, no no, no, of course, of course you're

554
00:26:24,560 --> 00:26:26,480
Speaker 1: not alone in that. I mean both of us. And

555
00:26:26,480 --> 00:26:28,360
Speaker 1: I'm sure a lot of people get you know, Russ

556
00:26:28,359 --> 00:26:30,360
Speaker 1: Trader because that people send me, you know, they work

557
00:26:30,400 --> 00:26:32,040
Speaker 1: on their trade machine and be like what do you

558
00:26:32,040 --> 00:26:34,080
Speaker 1: think of this rush trade? And my response pretty much

559
00:26:34,119 --> 00:26:36,600
Speaker 1: every time is like, he's not going anywhere like That's

560
00:26:36,600 --> 00:26:38,280
Speaker 1: why it's hard for me to entertain it. Like I

561
00:26:38,320 --> 00:26:40,600
Speaker 1: don't get annoyed at the conversation. It's just like I

562
00:26:40,640 --> 00:26:43,320
Speaker 1: just know that's not changing. So I'm trying to figure

563
00:26:43,320 --> 00:26:45,480
Speaker 1: out what can we do. I guess because he's here right,

564
00:26:45,520 --> 00:26:47,200
Speaker 1: Like you would agree with that, right, Jason, Like he's

565
00:26:47,240 --> 00:26:51,280
Speaker 1: not going anywhere like this, It's very be extremely unlikely

566
00:26:51,320 --> 00:26:55,000
Speaker 1: that he would not even right and even if you

567
00:26:55,080 --> 00:26:58,959
Speaker 1: saw really quick, real quick ross before you answer, pickup

568
00:26:58,960 --> 00:27:01,440
Speaker 1: who have just tweeted out against the top four teams

569
00:27:01,440 --> 00:27:04,520
Speaker 1: in both conferences. Twelve games total, fifteen point nine points,

570
00:27:04,520 --> 00:27:07,160
Speaker 1: eight point three rebounds, nine point three assists, four point

571
00:27:07,240 --> 00:27:10,600
Speaker 1: nine turnovers percent from the field twenty three from three

572
00:27:10,640 --> 00:27:13,480
Speaker 1: sixty two from the line. Yeah, that's you know, that's

573
00:27:13,480 --> 00:27:15,919
Speaker 1: not great, Like there's no way to like sugar you know,

574
00:27:16,000 --> 00:27:18,320
Speaker 1: like there's no way to sugarcoat, Like how it is

575
00:27:18,359 --> 00:27:20,480
Speaker 1: like that that just isn't great. And then I guess

576
00:27:20,480 --> 00:27:22,359
Speaker 1: my only like caveat if you want to look at

577
00:27:22,359 --> 00:27:24,399
Speaker 1: glass half full. Stuff is like some of that is

578
00:27:24,640 --> 00:27:26,879
Speaker 1: without Lebron, some of that probably is without Anthony Davis.

579
00:27:26,920 --> 00:27:28,719
Speaker 1: Some of that is without any of our wings. Right.

580
00:27:28,760 --> 00:27:31,360
Speaker 1: We just started to get We just started to get

581
00:27:31,359 --> 00:27:33,680
Speaker 1: our wings back. Russ has had something like I don't

582
00:27:33,680 --> 00:27:35,760
Speaker 1: think the zero turnover game you throw away because he

583
00:27:35,800 --> 00:27:37,959
Speaker 1: had a bad game against Memphis, Like I think there

584
00:27:38,000 --> 00:27:40,480
Speaker 1: are stuff that he just sometimes goes into, like a

585
00:27:40,960 --> 00:27:42,959
Speaker 1: I need to make a shot right now, like tonight

586
00:27:43,040 --> 00:27:44,840
Speaker 1: like he hit I think he took like four strade

587
00:27:44,880 --> 00:27:46,959
Speaker 1: mid range pull ups just because he felt like I

588
00:27:47,000 --> 00:27:48,640
Speaker 1: have to hit a shot right now. And he gets

589
00:27:48,800 --> 00:27:51,280
Speaker 1: into this mode, and like, my hopeful thing is that

590
00:27:51,320 --> 00:27:53,360
Speaker 1: this changes a little bit when the A D gets back,

591
00:27:53,400 --> 00:27:55,280
Speaker 1: maybe like you put more of the ball in his hands,

592
00:27:55,400 --> 00:27:58,160
Speaker 1: eighty can eat more possessions in that way. You brought

593
00:27:58,240 --> 00:27:59,639
Speaker 1: up fifth, what do you what do you say? Fifteen?

594
00:27:59,640 --> 00:28:01,439
Speaker 1: Oh you shared it in the thing. Okay, fifteen not

595
00:28:01,640 --> 00:28:04,560
Speaker 1: eight and nine. That's kind of like sixteen eight and

596
00:28:04,640 --> 00:28:06,119
Speaker 1: nine is like I would kind of live with that

597
00:28:06,160 --> 00:28:08,159
Speaker 1: after percent if the efficiency was a little bit more

598
00:28:08,240 --> 00:28:09,960
Speaker 1: up the turnovers were down, Like I would kind of

599
00:28:09,960 --> 00:28:12,199
Speaker 1: live with that with a fully healthy team, right like

600
00:28:12,240 --> 00:28:14,560
Speaker 1: if we have scores around that like that's but he

601
00:28:14,600 --> 00:28:16,879
Speaker 1: hasn't been great like that. There's no way to sugarcoat it.

602
00:28:17,240 --> 00:28:19,960
Speaker 1: Um he's not the you know, the shock trader that

603
00:28:20,440 --> 00:28:23,040
Speaker 1: we probably need right now, and he just hasn't played well.

604
00:28:23,080 --> 00:28:25,040
Speaker 1: And against those good teams, You're right, they scheme him out.

605
00:28:25,080 --> 00:28:27,520
Speaker 1: They know exactly what they're gonna do. They don't they

606
00:28:27,520 --> 00:28:29,280
Speaker 1: don't close out to him, right Like, he's not able

607
00:28:29,320 --> 00:28:32,560
Speaker 1: to attack closeouts. We talked about last game Atlanta was

608
00:28:32,600 --> 00:28:34,680
Speaker 1: going over screens on him, that stuff that Phoenix will

609
00:28:34,720 --> 00:28:36,919
Speaker 1: never do, that stuff Lea Memphis will never do. Like,

610
00:28:36,960 --> 00:28:39,040
Speaker 1: that's the stuff that won't happen. They'll go under and

611
00:28:39,080 --> 00:28:41,520
Speaker 1: he has to be able to make the right decision.

612
00:28:41,760 --> 00:28:43,560
Speaker 1: I think putting him in the Duncker spot is something

613
00:28:43,600 --> 00:28:46,040
Speaker 1: we've built on these last four games, and that's something

614
00:28:46,080 --> 00:28:47,720
Speaker 1: I think also that doesn't go away just because we

615
00:28:47,840 --> 00:28:50,160
Speaker 1: lost to a really good team. Like I'm seeing little things,

616
00:28:50,160 --> 00:28:53,240
Speaker 1: but like there's no sugar corny, there's no like pretty

617
00:28:53,280 --> 00:28:55,000
Speaker 1: answered to be like, yeah, this is why they will

618
00:28:55,040 --> 00:28:57,400
Speaker 1: work because we don't know. I've said that we are

619
00:28:57,520 --> 00:29:00,360
Speaker 1: in no position to even compare to Phoenix and and

620
00:29:00,600 --> 00:29:02,760
Speaker 1: and the Warriors right now, like the Warriors who got

621
00:29:02,760 --> 00:29:06,280
Speaker 1: Clay back hilariously tonight, Like I think they're adding Clay

622
00:29:06,280 --> 00:29:08,760
Speaker 1: freaking Thompson to that team. But that's another conversation. But

623
00:29:08,840 --> 00:29:10,959
Speaker 1: like to me, we're like we're on a ladder up

624
00:29:11,000 --> 00:29:13,440
Speaker 1: to those teams like we are, Like being in Atlanta

625
00:29:13,600 --> 00:29:16,120
Speaker 1: to me was a stepping stone to getting up there,

626
00:29:16,160 --> 00:29:18,640
Speaker 1: and Memphis to me, is showing more and more that

627
00:29:18,680 --> 00:29:22,200
Speaker 1: they're closer to that Warriors Phoenix instead of like the

628
00:29:22,320 --> 00:29:24,520
Speaker 1: Dallas US and all these other teams that are mixed

629
00:29:24,520 --> 00:29:26,880
Speaker 1: in right now. Um, And that's kind of where we're at.

630
00:29:26,960 --> 00:29:28,640
Speaker 1: Memphis is a damn good team. They scheme the hell

631
00:29:28,680 --> 00:29:31,480
Speaker 1: out of us. They also played harder. They also kicked

632
00:29:31,480 --> 00:29:34,520
Speaker 1: our ass physically outremounded us, um. And they just beat

633
00:29:34,600 --> 00:29:37,440
Speaker 1: us in all levels. So that's kind of the rest conversation. Man,

634
00:29:37,440 --> 00:29:39,720
Speaker 1: It's interesting, that's not going away for sure. I'm not

635
00:29:39,760 --> 00:29:41,880
Speaker 1: saying it should go away. I just think like we're

636
00:29:41,920 --> 00:29:43,560
Speaker 1: in a position now where he's on the team, so

637
00:29:43,600 --> 00:29:45,640
Speaker 1: we have to kind of find tangible solutions to that.

638
00:29:45,840 --> 00:29:48,520
Speaker 1: I don't think he's going anywhere, Like, no trade is

639
00:29:48,560 --> 00:29:51,480
Speaker 1: happening for me. I got one last question about Russell

640
00:29:51,480 --> 00:29:55,480
Speaker 1: and then we'll move on. If the Lakers were to

641
00:29:55,760 --> 00:29:59,320
Speaker 1: remove us from the roster and do absolutely nothing else,

642
00:29:59,640 --> 00:30:01,520
Speaker 1: so now thing in return, no nothing, Like if they

643
00:30:01,560 --> 00:30:06,600
Speaker 1: were to literally waive him and distribute his minutes amongst

644
00:30:06,760 --> 00:30:09,200
Speaker 1: the guards and wings that we have on the roster,

645
00:30:09,640 --> 00:30:14,960
Speaker 1: would the Lakers? Would the Lakers be significantly worse, slightly worse,

646
00:30:15,160 --> 00:30:18,960
Speaker 1: the same, slightly better, or significantly better. If you just

647
00:30:19,000 --> 00:30:22,280
Speaker 1: removed Russ from the roster and just and just distributed

648
00:30:22,320 --> 00:30:25,240
Speaker 1: his minutes among shooters and guards and forwards better on

649
00:30:25,280 --> 00:30:28,600
Speaker 1: the roster, I think we'd be worse. So how much worse,

650
00:30:28,600 --> 00:30:33,560
Speaker 1: slightly worse, or significantly worse. I'm going to lead more significantly,

651
00:30:33,640 --> 00:30:35,760
Speaker 1: Like I think that what Russ does is something we

652
00:30:35,800 --> 00:30:38,480
Speaker 1: do need, Like he's our only other ball handler in

653
00:30:38,520 --> 00:30:41,240
Speaker 1: that starting lineup, even though the like I also Malik Monk,

654
00:30:41,280 --> 00:30:43,280
Speaker 1: I guesses are scoring ball handler. But I do think

655
00:30:43,280 --> 00:30:45,360
Speaker 1: he does stuff that we need. I think him pushing

656
00:30:45,400 --> 00:30:47,680
Speaker 1: in the base and stuff like, I think he adds

657
00:30:47,680 --> 00:30:49,680
Speaker 1: stuff to the team that we can't just throw away.

658
00:30:49,920 --> 00:30:52,040
Speaker 1: You know, if you just took him off the team,

659
00:30:51,600 --> 00:30:54,560
Speaker 1: I feel like that's not a solution here at all.

660
00:30:54,600 --> 00:30:57,520
Speaker 1: Like you're losing, that would hurt that, you would limit

661
00:30:57,520 --> 00:31:00,400
Speaker 1: the roster, You would again have to you know, reach

662
00:31:00,440 --> 00:31:02,720
Speaker 1: out into the four fift Like, I don't think that's

663
00:31:02,720 --> 00:31:04,840
Speaker 1: a social How about you? What do you think about So? Okay,

664
00:31:04,920 --> 00:31:07,120
Speaker 1: so that's fair And I thought you would say that,

665
00:31:07,160 --> 00:31:10,120
Speaker 1: and I don't. I'm not saying you're wrong. However, my

666
00:31:10,200 --> 00:31:13,080
Speaker 1: opinion is, with as well as th HD has been

667
00:31:13,120 --> 00:31:16,480
Speaker 1: creating over the last couple of games, and has as

668
00:31:16,480 --> 00:31:19,520
Speaker 1: well as Molique Monk has been playing with, how inconsistent

669
00:31:19,600 --> 00:31:21,600
Speaker 1: Russ is with the amount of bad that he brings

670
00:31:21,600 --> 00:31:24,000
Speaker 1: with as good and with as well as Lebron has

671
00:31:24,000 --> 00:31:26,200
Speaker 1: been playing, I think they would be somewhere between the

672
00:31:26,320 --> 00:31:30,960
Speaker 1: same two, very slightly worse. That's and to me, that's

673
00:31:31,000 --> 00:31:34,480
Speaker 1: the freaky part of all of this when you really

674
00:31:34,520 --> 00:31:36,560
Speaker 1: really think about what all went into that. But we

675
00:31:36,600 --> 00:31:38,720
Speaker 1: can move on from Russ. That was just that was

676
00:31:38,800 --> 00:31:43,080
Speaker 1: just my Like I I told you after the last

677
00:31:43,120 --> 00:31:45,360
Speaker 1: game that I had just a little bit of a

678
00:31:45,400 --> 00:31:48,800
Speaker 1: weird feeling, like it seemed as though he was playing

679
00:31:48,840 --> 00:31:52,000
Speaker 1: poorly against the good teams. And I said he needed

680
00:31:52,040 --> 00:31:55,000
Speaker 1: to research it and and kind of dig into that

681
00:31:55,040 --> 00:31:57,120
Speaker 1: and kind of see. And so I did that tonight,

682
00:31:57,680 --> 00:32:00,320
Speaker 1: and it was concerning what I found, you know, But

683
00:32:00,400 --> 00:32:02,920
Speaker 1: I mean, look, lebron A D plus you know, shooting

684
00:32:03,040 --> 00:32:06,160
Speaker 1: is a successful formula, Like that's we we know that.

685
00:32:06,360 --> 00:32:09,640
Speaker 1: So this rustling is new, like it's a new process.

686
00:32:09,640 --> 00:32:12,160
Speaker 1: Like you could probably put leron a d um Leak

687
00:32:12,240 --> 00:32:14,480
Speaker 1: monk and you know, Austin Reeves and Trevor reason this

688
00:32:14,520 --> 00:32:16,360
Speaker 1: two would probably still win a ship ton of games

689
00:32:16,360 --> 00:32:18,440
Speaker 1: if Ad was healthy. Like it's just like that's a

690
00:32:18,600 --> 00:32:21,000
Speaker 1: successful formula. To me, this is Brandon. You're throwing a

691
00:32:21,000 --> 00:32:23,000
Speaker 1: full shot creator into this that needs the ball in

692
00:32:23,040 --> 00:32:25,280
Speaker 1: his hands. Uh. And it's interesting. I think it's similar

693
00:32:25,280 --> 00:32:26,840
Speaker 1: to y th h D has its tough time in

694
00:32:26,880 --> 00:32:29,160
Speaker 1: those lineups two because he couldn't space the floor. So

695
00:32:29,920 --> 00:32:32,000
Speaker 1: I don't think you're like off there, Like I don't

696
00:32:32,000 --> 00:32:33,560
Speaker 1: I don't know if there's a right, right I guess

697
00:32:33,640 --> 00:32:37,320
Speaker 1: answer to that to that question. Yeah, um, but you know,

698
00:32:37,360 --> 00:32:39,920
Speaker 1: as far as as far as like the totality of

699
00:32:39,920 --> 00:32:41,240
Speaker 1: the game, like, I do want to give a lot

700
00:32:41,240 --> 00:32:46,680
Speaker 1: of credit to Memphis. They and just played a fantastic game.

701
00:32:47,320 --> 00:32:51,520
Speaker 1: They handled Now here's the thing, they're they're World coach

702
00:32:51,600 --> 00:32:56,800
Speaker 1: team and um Jaw has faced traps on occasion this season,

703
00:32:56,920 --> 00:32:59,400
Speaker 1: not from l A, but from other teams this season.

704
00:32:59,640 --> 00:33:02,800
Speaker 1: He's all the face traps that have been far more

705
00:33:02,800 --> 00:33:06,720
Speaker 1: well executed than ours, which begs which leads to the

706
00:33:06,760 --> 00:33:09,200
Speaker 1: result that you saw tonight, the pointless gambling off the

707
00:33:09,200 --> 00:33:14,560
Speaker 1: ball that the excuse me the uh um, well, it

708
00:33:14,680 --> 00:33:16,280
Speaker 1: was kind of gambling in a lot of ways. That

709
00:33:16,280 --> 00:33:18,840
Speaker 1: guy at that week side corner, which is kind of

710
00:33:18,880 --> 00:33:22,840
Speaker 1: over help into the into that romance situation, and it

711
00:33:22,920 --> 00:33:25,160
Speaker 1: just became a really really easy bread But anyway, I

712
00:33:25,160 --> 00:33:30,120
Speaker 1: gotta give Memphis credit. They shot incredibly well and executed

713
00:33:30,120 --> 00:33:32,000
Speaker 1: really well out of those traps. And then in the

714
00:33:32,040 --> 00:33:34,400
Speaker 1: second half when the Lakers did try to tighten some

715
00:33:34,440 --> 00:33:37,880
Speaker 1: of that stuff up, they had a swagger to them,

716
00:33:37,960 --> 00:33:41,479
Speaker 1: they had a confidence to them, and they just walked

717
00:33:41,560 --> 00:33:43,200
Speaker 1: us down a bunch of times. They made a bunch

718
00:33:43,240 --> 00:33:45,240
Speaker 1: of shots. One of the recurring themes in the second

719
00:33:45,240 --> 00:33:47,960
Speaker 1: half was k Anderson being able to just put his

720
00:33:48,000 --> 00:33:52,040
Speaker 1: head down, take that long, lumbering dribble that like that

721
00:33:52,200 --> 00:33:54,760
Speaker 1: that last dribble that initiates contact into the chest, and

722
00:33:54,800 --> 00:33:57,400
Speaker 1: then shoot floaters over the top. And then you saw

723
00:33:57,480 --> 00:34:00,240
Speaker 1: John Ranch to start putting his head down and ending

724
00:34:00,280 --> 00:34:04,200
Speaker 1: and jumping and and you know, ripping to the rim

725
00:34:04,200 --> 00:34:07,400
Speaker 1: and just drawing fouls every time. And that was it was.

726
00:34:07,440 --> 00:34:08,920
Speaker 1: It was kind of like a four. It was like

727
00:34:08,960 --> 00:34:11,840
Speaker 1: a force that we were incapable of stopping. And you know,

728
00:34:11,920 --> 00:34:15,160
Speaker 1: I tweeted during the right around a half time, right

729
00:34:15,160 --> 00:34:18,160
Speaker 1: around the beginning and second half, I tweeted that, you know,

730
00:34:18,200 --> 00:34:19,960
Speaker 1: this might just be a team that we can't beat

731
00:34:20,040 --> 00:34:24,880
Speaker 1: without Anthony Davis. That's that's that's very possible. Like if

732
00:34:24,880 --> 00:34:27,320
Speaker 1: we were to play a series against them and A

733
00:34:27,440 --> 00:34:30,120
Speaker 1: d was unavailable, I wouldn't like our chances. That's just

734
00:34:30,160 --> 00:34:34,400
Speaker 1: the reality. However, like we're better than we showed tonight.

735
00:34:35,000 --> 00:34:37,600
Speaker 1: The this to your point, we were on a four

736
00:34:37,640 --> 00:34:41,480
Speaker 1: game winning streak. We're probably a few points worse than

737
00:34:41,520 --> 00:34:46,240
Speaker 1: Memphis in a typical matchup. We had a nightmarish outcome

738
00:34:46,880 --> 00:34:50,560
Speaker 1: where while Lebron had a good game offensively. Literally everyone

739
00:34:50,600 --> 00:34:54,640
Speaker 1: else had a nightmarish game offensively, and that's just how

740
00:34:54,640 --> 00:34:58,239
Speaker 1: it goes sometimes. And meanwhile, on the other end, the

741
00:34:58,280 --> 00:35:00,799
Speaker 1: same looks that we were missing, Memphis was knocking down

742
00:35:01,480 --> 00:35:03,359
Speaker 1: and that's all she wrote. Next thing. You know, you're down,

743
00:35:07,120 --> 00:35:10,640
Speaker 1: but you have to you have to acknowledge that there

744
00:35:10,680 --> 00:35:13,799
Speaker 1: there is some positive progress here. I don't agree with

745
00:35:13,920 --> 00:35:16,799
Speaker 1: everything that we did strategically tonight, but we're not as

746
00:35:16,840 --> 00:35:20,480
Speaker 1: bad as we look tonight as well. Yeah, and we're like,

747
00:35:20,640 --> 00:35:23,719
Speaker 1: you know, moving to a new identity and you know,

748
00:35:23,800 --> 00:35:26,160
Speaker 1: moving to this new small ball. Like we've been saying

749
00:35:26,160 --> 00:35:27,920
Speaker 1: like we're a new team in like a good way, right.

750
00:35:27,960 --> 00:35:29,640
Speaker 1: A lot of the times, like these last four games

751
00:35:29,680 --> 00:35:31,359
Speaker 1: are like we're a whole new team and that's all

752
00:35:31,520 --> 00:35:34,319
Speaker 1: that's mostly been in like a positive connotation. But then

753
00:35:34,400 --> 00:35:36,000
Speaker 1: you can kind of see the bat of that tonight

754
00:35:36,000 --> 00:35:38,360
Speaker 1: as well. Memphis looks like a team that's been executing,

755
00:35:38,400 --> 00:35:40,279
Speaker 1: you know, for the whole season, as a squad that

756
00:35:40,320 --> 00:35:42,520
Speaker 1: knows exactly what they're gonna do. And tonight we met

757
00:35:42,560 --> 00:35:44,200
Speaker 1: a team that you know, just beat us in in

758
00:35:44,239 --> 00:35:46,600
Speaker 1: every way, and like Russ has to be better not

759
00:35:46,640 --> 00:35:47,960
Speaker 1: to move back to him, but like he has to

760
00:35:47,960 --> 00:35:50,000
Speaker 1: be able to finish layups and all that, Like that's

761
00:35:50,000 --> 00:35:51,799
Speaker 1: all true. I just don't know how much that's like

762
00:35:52,160 --> 00:35:55,080
Speaker 1: because Memphis are just just Russ missing layups, you know.

763
00:35:55,120 --> 00:35:57,040
Speaker 1: Like that's where like I have a hard time like

764
00:35:57,120 --> 00:36:00,440
Speaker 1: putting those I guess together. But Memphis is good. They

765
00:36:00,440 --> 00:36:03,040
Speaker 1: definitely you know, they have good shot shot blocking at

766
00:36:03,040 --> 00:36:04,600
Speaker 1: the RAM. But like we're a new team, we're trying

767
00:36:04,600 --> 00:36:07,239
Speaker 1: to figure stuff out. The camalo about the five stuff.

768
00:36:07,280 --> 00:36:08,920
Speaker 1: I feel like I've seen enough film to where that

769
00:36:08,960 --> 00:36:11,720
Speaker 1: should probably no longer be a thing, but we're obviously

770
00:36:11,800 --> 00:36:13,920
Speaker 1: still going to that um and I talked about. I

771
00:36:13,960 --> 00:36:16,000
Speaker 1: hope Dwight Howard kind of plays a little bit more

772
00:36:16,000 --> 00:36:17,920
Speaker 1: both of us. I think want Dwight Howard at least

773
00:36:17,960 --> 00:36:20,359
Speaker 1: to be in the rotation and somewhat in some form.

774
00:36:20,960 --> 00:36:25,800
Speaker 1: Just want yeah, yeah, yeah, a b Our backup center.

775
00:36:25,840 --> 00:36:28,160
Speaker 1: I think that's something that you know that we can do.

776
00:36:28,200 --> 00:36:30,359
Speaker 1: But we're obviously trying to lean all the way into

777
00:36:30,400 --> 00:36:32,320
Speaker 1: the small ball and you're gonna see stuff like tonight,

778
00:36:32,520 --> 00:36:34,319
Speaker 1: Frank has talked about he wants to get data on

779
00:36:34,400 --> 00:36:36,520
Speaker 1: some lineups and even if you know we're getting killed

780
00:36:36,560 --> 00:36:38,840
Speaker 1: on some stuff. He'll stick with it. I think tracking

781
00:36:38,920 --> 00:36:41,440
Speaker 1: job probably was some part of that as well, just

782
00:36:41,480 --> 00:36:43,560
Speaker 1: trapping him every single time, even though we got the

783
00:36:43,680 --> 00:36:46,200
Speaker 1: same wide open corner three. They just wanted to see

784
00:36:46,200 --> 00:36:48,239
Speaker 1: what that looked like a little bit. But I don't

785
00:36:48,360 --> 00:36:50,480
Speaker 1: like to me, I just agree with just the approach

786
00:36:50,480 --> 00:36:52,600
Speaker 1: in terms of I think we're in win collection mode

787
00:36:52,840 --> 00:36:54,880
Speaker 1: right now, like we can't give up, you know, games

788
00:36:54,880 --> 00:36:56,880
Speaker 1: that you know, should at least like we should have

789
00:36:56,880 --> 00:36:58,920
Speaker 1: had at least somewhat of a chance tonight, but obviously

790
00:36:58,960 --> 00:37:01,279
Speaker 1: Memphis ended that. But it Yeah, so I was tough.

791
00:37:01,360 --> 00:37:03,279
Speaker 1: I just don't think that throws away everything we did

792
00:37:03,280 --> 00:37:05,800
Speaker 1: the last four games as well. You obviously this is

793
00:37:05,800 --> 00:37:08,520
Speaker 1: obviously a barometer game and and we didn't, you know,

794
00:37:08,600 --> 00:37:11,920
Speaker 1: we didn't come close to reaching their measure. But I

795
00:37:11,960 --> 00:37:14,439
Speaker 1: don't think that throws everything away from from what we've

796
00:37:14,640 --> 00:37:17,200
Speaker 1: at least somewhat built these last few games. Getting guys

797
00:37:17,239 --> 00:37:19,400
Speaker 1: back a d and Kendrick Nun should be back in

798
00:37:19,440 --> 00:37:21,920
Speaker 1: the next few weeks here. So that that's why I'm

799
00:37:21,920 --> 00:37:23,640
Speaker 1: like a little bit more positive. But you know, it's

800
00:37:23,680 --> 00:37:26,080
Speaker 1: never great to get your butt kicked by thirty at home.

801
00:37:26,120 --> 00:37:28,479
Speaker 1: For sure. Yeah, and there's it's not a let's pack

802
00:37:28,560 --> 00:37:32,320
Speaker 1: everything in and and and surrender the season. It's just okay,

803
00:37:32,680 --> 00:37:35,000
Speaker 1: you know, we're not as good as we looked over

804
00:37:35,040 --> 00:37:37,160
Speaker 1: the last couple of weeks. There's a lot still to

805
00:37:37,160 --> 00:37:40,800
Speaker 1: get better at, but you know we've made progress. We

806
00:37:40,880 --> 00:37:42,960
Speaker 1: do there. I had one last thing on my list

807
00:37:43,200 --> 00:37:45,759
Speaker 1: that's a mini just a miniature soapbox having to do

808
00:37:45,800 --> 00:37:48,160
Speaker 1: with officiating. And for the record, when it comes to

809
00:37:48,320 --> 00:37:52,000
Speaker 1: when it comes to uh uh free throw attenpts, what

810
00:37:52,040 --> 00:37:54,080
Speaker 1: do I always say? Ros I say, the team that's

811
00:37:54,080 --> 00:37:56,960
Speaker 1: more physically aggressive actually gets to the figure line more.

812
00:37:57,000 --> 00:38:00,279
Speaker 1: That's just a basic basketball philosophy that everyone should be

813
00:38:00,320 --> 00:38:02,960
Speaker 1: aware of. But I just I wanted to nip pick

814
00:38:03,040 --> 00:38:05,359
Speaker 1: a handful of calls tonight. There were two or three

815
00:38:05,480 --> 00:38:08,919
Speaker 1: with John Morant floating around the lane, and then there

816
00:38:09,120 --> 00:38:13,600
Speaker 1: was um the one where Desmond Bank kicked out his foot,

817
00:38:13,960 --> 00:38:17,279
Speaker 1: and on all three of them they were calls that

818
00:38:17,320 --> 00:38:19,760
Speaker 1: went against the Lakers, two of which went went against Lebron.

819
00:38:19,880 --> 00:38:21,640
Speaker 1: The one on Bane was against Lebron. One of the

820
00:38:21,680 --> 00:38:28,080
Speaker 1: floating John Morant ones um uh jaw jumped into Lebron's airspace.

821
00:38:28,160 --> 00:38:31,440
Speaker 1: Lebron basically turned intod a textbook box out where he

822
00:38:31,480 --> 00:38:33,759
Speaker 1: didn't even shove jaw. He just was defending his own

823
00:38:33,800 --> 00:38:38,360
Speaker 1: position and jah, nothing happened. Basically, he just screamed and

824
00:38:38,440 --> 00:38:40,799
Speaker 1: yelled and the ref called a foul. And then there

825
00:38:40,880 --> 00:38:42,399
Speaker 1: was the one at the end of the game when

826
00:38:42,480 --> 00:38:45,800
Speaker 1: the Lakers made their run to get within seven where

827
00:38:46,120 --> 00:38:51,160
Speaker 1: uh um got to uh you drove along the left

828
00:38:51,239 --> 00:38:53,640
Speaker 1: side he was going against sucerries, but it was Baysmore

829
00:38:54,120 --> 00:38:57,160
Speaker 1: was guarding in and Baysmore just didn't even touch him,

830
00:38:57,360 --> 00:39:01,239
Speaker 1: and that really didn't even touch him, and and the

831
00:39:01,239 --> 00:39:04,040
Speaker 1: guy just screamed and yelled at and and and flopped

832
00:39:04,120 --> 00:39:06,360
Speaker 1: and threw shut up and got a foul. So again,

833
00:39:06,440 --> 00:39:10,000
Speaker 1: not I'm not talking about the game itself being poorly officiated,

834
00:39:10,000 --> 00:39:12,839
Speaker 1: because that kind of thing is just an epidemic around

835
00:39:12,920 --> 00:39:15,840
Speaker 1: the entire league. But like it bothers me because like

836
00:39:15,880 --> 00:39:19,680
Speaker 1: if you were with fifteen guys, your buddies at the court,

837
00:39:20,000 --> 00:39:22,480
Speaker 1: you know, playing some pickup, or if you walked into

838
00:39:22,480 --> 00:39:24,719
Speaker 1: a high school practice, or if you walked into a

839
00:39:24,760 --> 00:39:27,120
Speaker 1: college practice, or if you walked into an NBA game

840
00:39:27,360 --> 00:39:29,560
Speaker 1: and you pulled all of the players and you said, hey,

841
00:39:29,880 --> 00:39:31,960
Speaker 1: if you wanted the rest to error on the side

842
00:39:32,040 --> 00:39:35,640
Speaker 1: of calling fouls just because they think one might have happened,

843
00:39:36,080 --> 00:39:38,560
Speaker 1: or erring on the side of only calling a foul

844
00:39:38,560 --> 00:39:41,279
Speaker 1: when they're absolutely certain that it happened. What would you want?

845
00:39:41,760 --> 00:39:44,000
Speaker 1: Every single one of them would say they want the ladder.

846
00:39:45,000 --> 00:39:47,120
Speaker 1: Every single one of them would say that, except for

847
00:39:47,120 --> 00:39:50,160
Speaker 1: maybe day Lillard, who complained about how the officiating was

848
00:39:50,200 --> 00:39:53,560
Speaker 1: bad this year but at the beginning, But for the

849
00:39:53,640 --> 00:39:56,879
Speaker 1: vast majority of basketball players want to play on They

850
00:39:56,880 --> 00:39:59,719
Speaker 1: want flow to the game. They want you to error

851
00:39:59,719 --> 00:40:02,239
Speaker 1: on this out of not calling stuff. They're okay, they'd

852
00:40:02,360 --> 00:40:04,400
Speaker 1: rather be in a game like that where they're complaining

853
00:40:04,440 --> 00:40:07,520
Speaker 1: to the refs about not getting calls, then being in

854
00:40:07,520 --> 00:40:11,000
Speaker 1: a game like that where they are complaining about constantly

855
00:40:11,000 --> 00:40:13,840
Speaker 1: getting called for fouls. That's just the basketball character of

856
00:40:13,880 --> 00:40:17,000
Speaker 1: every single person. And it drives me nuts how many

857
00:40:17,000 --> 00:40:21,720
Speaker 1: of these NBA officials are literally bated by this crap.

858
00:40:21,880 --> 00:40:24,160
Speaker 1: And when it's it's it's one thing. When it's the

859
00:40:24,280 --> 00:40:28,160
Speaker 1: James Harden thing and you're actually seeing contact, which is

860
00:40:28,160 --> 00:40:31,000
Speaker 1: a different type of bait. This is like I heard

861
00:40:31,080 --> 00:40:36,799
Speaker 1: someone yell, This is like he flailed, Like there's a

862
00:40:36,840 --> 00:40:38,640
Speaker 1: lot of this kind of stuff, and it's just I

863
00:40:38,640 --> 00:40:42,320
Speaker 1: swear it's just a horrible, horrible, horrible disease on the

864
00:40:42,400 --> 00:40:46,439
Speaker 1: league because it it ruins games like this. Because John

865
00:40:46,440 --> 00:40:51,400
Speaker 1: Marin was incredible tonight, absolutely incredible, but he one of

866
00:40:51,440 --> 00:40:55,040
Speaker 1: the most unfortunate side effects of of his play tonight

867
00:40:55,120 --> 00:40:57,200
Speaker 1: is he was moving so quick that the refs just

868
00:40:57,239 --> 00:40:59,440
Speaker 1: didn't know what they were looking at. Is almost shock

869
00:40:59,600 --> 00:41:01,200
Speaker 1: like a sense that they just didn't know how to

870
00:41:01,239 --> 00:41:03,400
Speaker 1: officiate and he would just go flying into the lane

871
00:41:03,880 --> 00:41:06,560
Speaker 1: and throw something up and they blow their whistle just

872
00:41:06,560 --> 00:41:08,239
Speaker 1: because they didn't know what to do, you know what

873
00:41:08,320 --> 00:41:10,960
Speaker 1: I mean. And that's that's unfortunately. I would rather have

874
00:41:11,080 --> 00:41:14,360
Speaker 1: officials air on the side of calling what they concretely

875
00:41:14,600 --> 00:41:19,960
Speaker 1: absolutely certainly see. Yeah, it's tough. John Rad's a tough

876
00:41:19,960 --> 00:41:21,920
Speaker 1: guy to kind officiate, and he started he's kind of

877
00:41:22,000 --> 00:41:24,520
Speaker 1: leveled into that superstar level as well, right, like he's

878
00:41:24,560 --> 00:41:27,319
Speaker 1: kind of entered the superstar phase of like he gets

879
00:41:27,320 --> 00:41:28,880
Speaker 1: he's gonna get some of the benefit of the doubt

880
00:41:28,920 --> 00:41:31,440
Speaker 1: calls as well. He goes so fast and transition though,

881
00:41:31,480 --> 00:41:33,640
Speaker 1: like it's hard to kind of know. He'll just jump

882
00:41:33,680 --> 00:41:35,759
Speaker 1: into you and then they'll call the foul even if

883
00:41:35,760 --> 00:41:37,719
Speaker 1: it's going back. I think Stanley Johnson was a little

884
00:41:37,719 --> 00:41:40,319
Speaker 1: bit frustrated with that a few times I saw. But man,

885
00:41:40,400 --> 00:41:42,799
Speaker 1: John's a tough cover with that. I thought, you know,

886
00:41:42,960 --> 00:41:46,200
Speaker 1: the refereing didn't decide tonight, obviously, and you talked about

887
00:41:46,280 --> 00:41:48,600
Speaker 1: guys like Jannice as well, get different, get get calls

888
00:41:48,640 --> 00:41:50,920
Speaker 1: like this, but it's interesting. But yeah, Job is the

889
00:41:50,920 --> 00:41:52,960
Speaker 1: guy that that's he's special man. He's gonna be a

890
00:41:52,960 --> 00:41:55,080
Speaker 1: tough guy that you have to officiate. He's a tough

891
00:41:55,080 --> 00:41:57,319
Speaker 1: guy to appreciate. He's a small guard who gets up

892
00:41:57,320 --> 00:41:59,560
Speaker 1: in the air a lot, so it's easy to kind

893
00:41:59,560 --> 00:42:02,200
Speaker 1: of mad content in that way. And I think he's

894
00:42:02,200 --> 00:42:05,040
Speaker 1: gonna up his free throw attempts memoras as he as

895
00:42:05,040 --> 00:42:07,759
Speaker 1: he goes here, as he gets more benefited. Doubt calls. Um,

896
00:42:08,000 --> 00:42:11,080
Speaker 1: he's he's a superstar man, and he is a freaking

897
00:42:11,239 --> 00:42:15,080
Speaker 1: superstar man. He is. He is so good, Like I

898
00:42:15,120 --> 00:42:17,560
Speaker 1: think he should be on the All NBA team this year,

899
00:42:17,840 --> 00:42:21,279
Speaker 1: and that for for a guy his age, he might

900
00:42:21,320 --> 00:42:24,919
Speaker 1: start in the Austar. Yeah, dude, like he's he's outrageously good.

901
00:42:25,480 --> 00:42:26,920
Speaker 1: But that's all I had on my list. Rodgers, there

902
00:42:26,960 --> 00:42:28,560
Speaker 1: anything else you add that you wanted to get it

903
00:42:28,680 --> 00:42:31,919
Speaker 1: on tonight before recalled it, really coockly just shout out

904
00:42:31,960 --> 00:42:34,839
Speaker 1: Austin Reeves, Wayne Ellington, you know, for I think it's

905
00:42:34,880 --> 00:42:37,680
Speaker 1: a nineteen oh run. Uh. You know it's crazy you

906
00:42:37,680 --> 00:42:40,080
Speaker 1: want a nineteen o run and still can't. Uh, but

907
00:42:40,400 --> 00:42:42,040
Speaker 1: you know he still can't win the game. But they

908
00:42:42,040 --> 00:42:44,919
Speaker 1: cut into like eight just credits then Wayne Ellington stayed ready,

909
00:42:45,000 --> 00:42:49,400
Speaker 1: played hard. Um. I've obviously been a proponent of Wayne Ellington.

910
00:42:49,920 --> 00:42:52,520
Speaker 1: Hasn't worked out exactly, but you know, he let it

911
00:42:52,560 --> 00:42:54,480
Speaker 1: come back. And I think Austin Reeves needs to play more.

912
00:42:54,640 --> 00:42:56,279
Speaker 1: And I think you said twenty one miss tonight for

913
00:42:56,320 --> 00:42:58,600
Speaker 1: aust And Reeves, Like that's just that's not enough to me,

914
00:42:58,680 --> 00:43:02,560
Speaker 1: Like he needs to him read uh sorry, Austin Stanley Johnson.

915
00:43:02,600 --> 00:43:05,040
Speaker 1: Those guys need more minutes and hopefully when we play

916
00:43:05,080 --> 00:43:06,239
Speaker 1: these better teams they do. But I just want to

917
00:43:06,239 --> 00:43:08,480
Speaker 1: give them a shout out, not you know, just laying

918
00:43:08,520 --> 00:43:11,359
Speaker 1: the game away, making making Memphis put their starters back,

919
00:43:11,440 --> 00:43:14,200
Speaker 1: Like that's a we don't really take. Um, you know

920
00:43:14,280 --> 00:43:16,040
Speaker 1: what was that called? We don't really take those kind

921
00:43:16,040 --> 00:43:18,760
Speaker 1: of wins. But that's something at least he forced Memphis

922
00:43:18,760 --> 00:43:20,799
Speaker 1: to kind of put their starters back, don't quit on

923
00:43:20,840 --> 00:43:23,399
Speaker 1: the game, and hopefully that leads to uh a win

924
00:43:23,520 --> 00:43:25,600
Speaker 1: on who they don't even know where they played next honestly,

925
00:43:26,000 --> 00:43:30,200
Speaker 1: but hopefully that at least today they plays Sacramento. I think,

926
00:43:30,280 --> 00:43:32,200
Speaker 1: I believe. I think we played Sacramento and then Denver

927
00:43:32,600 --> 00:43:36,160
Speaker 1: Wednesday this week. I'm not certain. On the road, I

928
00:43:36,200 --> 00:43:38,719
Speaker 1: believe on a road trip now. But yeah, no, I'm

929
00:43:38,760 --> 00:43:40,880
Speaker 1: with you. Like when it comes to the non Lebron

930
00:43:41,000 --> 00:43:44,279
Speaker 1: Westbrook guys in this group, I mean, I go away

931
00:43:44,280 --> 00:43:46,320
Speaker 1: from Westbrook too. If he's having these catastrophe nights, he

932
00:43:46,440 --> 00:43:49,000
Speaker 1: just can't do it. But like the point is is

933
00:43:49,280 --> 00:43:53,520
Speaker 1: he needs to, Like, we have options. We have a

934
00:43:53,520 --> 00:43:56,600
Speaker 1: long enough list of options on the wing, with guys

935
00:43:56,640 --> 00:43:59,919
Speaker 1: like Bays who are like bases a bona fide NBA

936
00:44:00,000 --> 00:44:02,759
Speaker 1: players outside of our outside of our rotation right now,

937
00:44:03,080 --> 00:44:06,799
Speaker 1: largely because he really struggled playing alongside DeAndre Jordan's, you know,

938
00:44:06,880 --> 00:44:10,240
Speaker 1: But like we have Bays, who's an option. We have Reeves,

939
00:44:10,280 --> 00:44:12,239
Speaker 1: we have Stanley Johnson. We have a reason we have

940
00:44:12,360 --> 00:44:15,839
Speaker 1: these wings out there. It didn't have to be just

941
00:44:16,000 --> 00:44:19,640
Speaker 1: incessantly leaning on Avery, Bradley in the league Monk, Like,

942
00:44:19,680 --> 00:44:21,960
Speaker 1: if they don't have it like you, you probably stick

943
00:44:22,040 --> 00:44:24,799
Speaker 1: with Monk because of what you need just in terms

944
00:44:24,800 --> 00:44:27,719
Speaker 1: of him as an offensive threat um in terms of

945
00:44:27,800 --> 00:44:32,400
Speaker 1: keeping the defense honest. But like you gotta Frank's gotta

946
00:44:32,440 --> 00:44:35,520
Speaker 1: be more willing to be like, hey Avery doesn't have

947
00:44:35,600 --> 00:44:39,560
Speaker 1: it tonight, let's go to Reeves. Or if Austin's having

948
00:44:39,560 --> 00:44:42,000
Speaker 1: a rough night, Hey Austin doesn't have it tonight. This

949
00:44:42,080 --> 00:44:44,239
Speaker 1: goes to a reason or vice versa, like it just

950
00:44:44,280 --> 00:44:47,880
Speaker 1: needs to be like the minutes out, especially in a

951
00:44:47,920 --> 00:44:51,239
Speaker 1: small ball concept where it's not really about positions. It's

952
00:44:51,239 --> 00:44:55,480
Speaker 1: like five perimeter players basically, and in one guy who

953
00:44:55,520 --> 00:44:58,319
Speaker 1: can run your pick and roll coverages at any given time,

954
00:44:58,719 --> 00:45:02,160
Speaker 1: like on the back Lind. At that point, it needs

955
00:45:02,200 --> 00:45:04,680
Speaker 1: to just be fair, game, interchangeable. Who has it tonight,

956
00:45:05,040 --> 00:45:08,920
Speaker 1: Like Okay, Malik's got it tonight, you know, or Austin's

957
00:45:08,960 --> 00:45:11,040
Speaker 1: got it tonight. These are the guys on riding with

958
00:45:11,120 --> 00:45:13,279
Speaker 1: because that's that's how these kind of games go. Like

959
00:45:13,800 --> 00:45:17,279
Speaker 1: the role players were just dead and energy tonight, and

960
00:45:17,360 --> 00:45:19,680
Speaker 1: it's like, man, that that you gotta lean on your

961
00:45:19,760 --> 00:45:22,520
Speaker 1: energy guys in a case like that. But anyway, that's

962
00:45:22,640 --> 00:45:25,120
Speaker 1: that's all we have for tonight. Guys. We're going to uh,

963
00:45:25,400 --> 00:45:28,160
Speaker 1: well before before, before you closefore you close out last,

964
00:45:28,200 --> 00:45:30,560
Speaker 1: just to close this out because it's been kind of gloomy.

965
00:45:31,520 --> 00:45:33,680
Speaker 1: Lebron says it's been a lot clear how we want

966
00:45:33,719 --> 00:45:35,919
Speaker 1: to play basketball over the last few weeks and said

967
00:45:35,960 --> 00:45:39,319
Speaker 1: despite the poor from poor performance tonight, he believes they've

968
00:45:39,360 --> 00:45:41,759
Speaker 1: been playing good basketball. So just a little bit of

969
00:45:41,800 --> 00:45:44,640
Speaker 1: a positivity there. We've they've been playing good basketball tonight.

970
00:45:44,640 --> 00:45:47,520
Speaker 1: Doesn't ruin that. Just let's remember that for sure. And

971
00:45:47,840 --> 00:45:51,359
Speaker 1: like the last thing really quick, like what is there

972
00:45:51,360 --> 00:45:53,040
Speaker 1: are different types of teams in the league, right that

973
00:45:53,120 --> 00:45:55,520
Speaker 1: if you're the kind of team that loses too bad teams,

974
00:45:55,560 --> 00:45:59,200
Speaker 1: then you're probably a bad team, right But if you're

975
00:45:59,200 --> 00:46:01,879
Speaker 1: the team that can beat the good teams, then you're

976
00:46:01,920 --> 00:46:05,719
Speaker 1: probably not a good team. But if you're beating all

977
00:46:05,719 --> 00:46:08,520
Speaker 1: the bad teams, which is what we're doing now, then

978
00:46:08,560 --> 00:46:12,239
Speaker 1: you're not a bad team. So so like so like

979
00:46:12,280 --> 00:46:15,840
Speaker 1: if they're like to start the season, the Lakers were bad,

980
00:46:16,680 --> 00:46:20,520
Speaker 1: you know, and we've we've leveled up without Anthony Davis

981
00:46:21,080 --> 00:46:24,920
Speaker 1: from being a bad basketball team to an extremely mediocre

982
00:46:25,000 --> 00:46:27,600
Speaker 1: basketball team, which is something that we can take as

983
00:46:27,640 --> 00:46:31,960
Speaker 1: a as a step forward in the right direction. But anyway,

984
00:46:32,000 --> 00:46:33,800
Speaker 1: thank you guys so much for hanging out on a Sunday.

985
00:46:33,840 --> 00:46:35,360
Speaker 1: I know that there's a lot going on, but I

986
00:46:35,400 --> 00:46:38,319
Speaker 1: appreciate you guys hanging with us. This is going to

987
00:46:38,400 --> 00:46:41,120
Speaker 1: air on DASH Radio tomorrow morning at seven am Pacific

988
00:46:41,160 --> 00:46:44,440
Speaker 1: Standard time, and will also be on our podcast feed

989
00:46:44,840 --> 00:46:47,280
Speaker 1: here in about twenty minutes or so. Things as always

990
00:46:47,280 --> 00:46:50,279
Speaker 1: for the support. We are back Wednesday, Raj. I am

991
00:46:50,360 --> 00:46:53,040
Speaker 1: bringing all my stuff with me to the mountain and

992
00:46:53,120 --> 00:46:55,839
Speaker 1: I'm I'm hoping to do a postgame show, but I

993
00:46:55,920 --> 00:46:58,120
Speaker 1: cannot make any promises to you, my friend, but we

994
00:46:58,160 --> 00:47:00,279
Speaker 1: will stay in touch as we get closer to game

995
00:47:00,280 --> 00:47:02,120
Speaker 1: time that night, and I'll let you know how it goes. Okay,

996
00:47:02,840 --> 00:47:05,480
Speaker 1: it sounds good. Alright, everybody, have a good night. I

997
00:47:05,560 --> 00:47:25,759
Speaker 1: appreciate everyone. Thank you. M