Speaker 1: So kind of get your request and because be on
Speaker 1: the button, kind of get up here. But um, yeah,
Speaker 1: that was a that was a tough one. UM. I
Speaker 1: don't really want to talk too much about this game.
Speaker 1: This game didn't really have much to it. I guess
Speaker 1: it was the Sun's kind of started out hot. I
Speaker 1: thought that kind of broke the Lakers belief in this one.
Speaker 1: The Lakers had like ten points to go with like
Speaker 1: three minutes left in the first This one was over.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think all the Laker podcast kind of
Speaker 1: talked about it. We needed to get off to a
Speaker 1: fast start tonight, and that just that just didn't happen. Um,
Speaker 1: the scoring wasn't there. Lebron still wasn't able to kind
Speaker 1: of get to the rim the way he wanted to,
Speaker 1: the way I thought he would. He should have. Um,
Speaker 1: if if the Laker is gonna be any time successful,
Speaker 1: they packed the paint, they dared the Lakers to shoot it.
Speaker 1: The Lakers made that starting lineup changed, but gasoul Um
Speaker 1: put the Salt into the starting lineup and it gave
Speaker 1: him some spacing. But we still just couldn't hit shots.
Speaker 1: Man k CP still couldn't hit his shots until like
Speaker 1: the third quarter where we kind of made that run
Speaker 1: was a little too late. Um, house crew so as well. Um,
Speaker 1: he came in his his s thought, wasn't there. Dennis
Speaker 1: Shrewder had another super slow start this game. He didn't
Speaker 1: pick it up too late. Um, just going with my notes,
Speaker 1: he rout down twenty seven and the third man and
Speaker 1: and this Son's team is good. I want to give
Speaker 1: them credit, um first and foremost, Like that's a legitimately
Speaker 1: good team. I never thought this series was something that
Speaker 1: was gonna be over in like five games, even when
Speaker 1: we were healthy. Um, there are people saying like the
Speaker 1: Lakers were gonna We're gonna beat them in five games.
Speaker 1: I always thought this was a legitimately really good team.
Speaker 1: You don't win as many games as they did without
Speaker 1: without being this good. And they're legit. They're well coached.
Speaker 1: They knew exactly what their game plan was and they
Speaker 1: executed it. Chris Paul Devin Booker are held to defend
Speaker 1: for a series. They make you go through a bunch
Speaker 1: of different adjustments. Um, they come off screen and roll.
Speaker 1: They know how to shoot it, they know how to score. Um.
Speaker 1: They attacked our big eggs, whichever ones were out there.
Speaker 1: Montras hail marcusol Andre drum drumming. They knew how to
Speaker 1: go out them so giving a lot of credit Jake Crowder,
Speaker 1: those dudes did a nice job in Lebron after a
Speaker 1: D went out after Game four. Um, they really packed
Speaker 1: the paint on him and they did a great job
Speaker 1: with him. And just to quick reflect on this series,
Speaker 1: the season for a kind of bring people up here, Um,
Speaker 1: if it was just an injury riddle season, man Lebron
Speaker 1: had an m v P type year. Um. After before
Speaker 1: his ankle injury, Lebron had an m v P type year.
Speaker 1: He was going off. He had an incredible season. I
Speaker 1: just did not see coming. Um. He approached the season
Speaker 1: the way I kind of thought a d would approach it. Um.
Speaker 1: But he went after this he he saw that the
Speaker 1: m v P was for taking and it just and uh,
Speaker 1: it's disappointing what happened with Solomon Hill kind of falling
Speaker 1: into his leg. And I thought Anthony Davis just never
Speaker 1: entered this season, like he just was never himself here.
Speaker 1: Even when the Lakers started twenty one and six and
Speaker 1: we're starting marcusol had this beautiful starting line up with
Speaker 1: the spacing anthy Davis was just never himself. He had
Speaker 1: like these two thirty point games against a really bad
Speaker 1: Houston team with James harden Quid and thirty points against
Speaker 1: this tanking Oklahoma City team, But other than that, it
Speaker 1: was a really tough season for him. Was a slog
Speaker 1: I don't think he was ever in conditioning shape, and
Speaker 1: then one injesty, and then he got the achilles injury,
Speaker 1: and after that you could tell he was just never himself.
Speaker 1: He never he never got to come to the season.
Speaker 1: And that might have been the sacrifice for the Ring.
Speaker 1: You make that sacrifice every time, but that just looks
Speaker 1: like how this season kind of played out. So I'm
Speaker 1: gonna I'm gonna start bringing some people up here. I
Speaker 1: don't want to just vent, just be myself kind of
Speaker 1: venting up here. So if anyone wants to come up,
Speaker 1: please request. Um let's start with Hobby. Hobby comes up here.
Speaker 1: I appreciate everyone kind of coming in here. Again, if
Speaker 1: you're late, it's just me by myself. Jason is on
Speaker 1: a flight to a Rubo hobby. Are you there? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I do want to say, guys, hey man, this hurts
Speaker 1: only because I did not see this happening. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: know with laws, you know, game five as bad as
Speaker 1: we did by did Nazi us actually losing to the
Speaker 1: Suns in the seven game series. We have Lebron James,
Speaker 1: and I'm not gonna blame him anyone that blames Lebron
Speaker 1: the wrong. No, it's not on Lebron. He made the
Speaker 1: right place. He played hard. Hey, he doesn't have the
Speaker 1: players say oh, bo, it's true. We got Kuzma. Bro Kusma.
Speaker 1: I mean, come on, dude, we you You have been
Speaker 1: the third best player. Everyone said you're the third best player.
Speaker 1: We needed you, we needed you in the playoffs. Where
Speaker 1: was Kuzma. Yeah, it's kind of disappointing because I feel
Speaker 1: like Kuzma made a lot of how we appreciate you,
Speaker 1: um coming on here, but tiving of course. And uh,
Speaker 1: it's disappointing because I feel like Kuzma really made strides
Speaker 1: to kind of become a super winning player, become a
Speaker 1: really high level defensive wing. You know, he was a
Speaker 1: guy we were throwing on our the US wing wing
Speaker 1: scores on the other team, and we were kind of
Speaker 1: trusting and crunch time as well. Um, he shot thirty
Speaker 1: six percent from three I think on the year. But
Speaker 1: it was like fort On catching shoe or something. So
Speaker 1: it's kind of disappointing that this is the series that
Speaker 1: kind of goes out with He's another guy where like,
Speaker 1: I'm not sure how much the short offseason affected him.
Speaker 1: I'm not really sure. Um, And he's a guy that
Speaker 1: like we've kind of developed, right and we were kind
Speaker 1: of happy and proud exactly, and we were proud of it.
Speaker 1: And honestly, none of the role players showed up like
Speaker 1: Lebron I think wasn't himself either, but none of the
Speaker 1: role players kind of showed up to this series, which
Speaker 1: is kind of disappointing. Lebron didn't score thirty in the
Speaker 1: series once, which kind of shows where he's at. I think,
Speaker 1: I think I think Phoenix is a big part of that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think Phoenix is a big part of that too.
Speaker 1: But yeah, man, that was a tough series. And uh,
Speaker 1: we'll hopefully we can get him next year. We'll see
Speaker 1: how the team kind of rebounds from the late Lakers
Speaker 1: for life. Man, we we got faith, we got hope.
Speaker 1: Next year will be better, hopefully, Hopefully it will be
Speaker 1: better next year, hopefully. Thank you, How I appreciate you.
Speaker 1: Let SR Joe are you there. Yeah, man, I'm here. Um,
Speaker 1: hey man, first of all, before before I get started, UM,
Speaker 1: just appreciate you guys bringing all the content. Man um
Speaker 1: you guys. Yeah, y'all bring your perspective to the Lakers
Speaker 1: that you know all us Lakers fans really appreciate and um,
Speaker 1: so look forward to you know, continuing to listen to
Speaker 1: you all. But man, I for me, you know, like
Speaker 1: you said, it was just a disjoin it injury plague season,
Speaker 1: no rhythm, no cohesion. So I'm not surprised. I'm hurt
Speaker 1: as a Lakers fan. But you know, the one thing
Speaker 1: I know about Lebron and I was so happy that
Speaker 1: he did not shake hands with the sons. I was
Speaker 1: just glad that, you know, I piste off Lebron or
Speaker 1: Lebron that's got gonna stew He's gonna come back. Just
Speaker 1: I feel like he's gonna come back ready to just
Speaker 1: you know, unleashed from the league. But they gotta have
Speaker 1: a conversation with a D about I just feel like
Speaker 1: a D I don't know if he loves basketball. That's
Speaker 1: just me. I could be overreacting, you know. I'm I'm
Speaker 1: hurt that we lost, but they've got I'll never forget Rods.
Speaker 1: When when Lebron uh called him and Ad was playing
Speaker 1: Call of Duty, Lebron wanted to talk basketball. A D
Speaker 1: want to talk about reaching the next level on Call
Speaker 1: of Duty. I know it sounds like I know that
Speaker 1: sounds crazy, but it's just something in that guy that
Speaker 1: does not seem like he loves basketball. But I'm I'm
Speaker 1: gonna stop rambling. Man. You know, I still love and
Speaker 1: support the Lakers, and I want the Clippers to lose tomorrow. Later, man,
Speaker 1: I appreciate you, Joe. Well, just to reflect on the
Speaker 1: A D point, like, I think this was a tough
Speaker 1: year for him, and it's tough for me to say
Speaker 1: he doesn't like basketball. Like a guy you don't get
Speaker 1: that good get to the level he's gotten at m
Speaker 1: v P, you know, Olympic, Olympian Champion, all his accolades,
Speaker 1: you know, all those all star teams, Like you don't
Speaker 1: get there without loving basketball in some kind of format.
Speaker 1: I think this was a tough season for him, and
Speaker 1: I never thought he really entered the year like he
Speaker 1: never really played to himself. He was never himself and
Speaker 1: you know he has the injury but kind of stuck
Speaker 1: on him I think he's more just hurt a lot.
Speaker 1: He's not out as much as people think he is. UM.
Speaker 1: This season is kind of the uh arbitrary one of those,
Speaker 1: but like for the most part, he plays like the
Speaker 1: last three seasons he's played. UM. I think the only
Speaker 1: one it wasn't where he was held out in New Orleans,
Speaker 1: So I think that's kind of tough. But he got
Speaker 1: the injury but kind of labeled on him, And I
Speaker 1: think that's part of what he tried to play tonight.
Speaker 1: He tried to give it a go and uh, it
Speaker 1: just wasn't there UM. And I think it was a
Speaker 1: mistake for him to go out probably, but I respect
Speaker 1: his hustle to try to play through that. And you know,
Speaker 1: guys like Snoop Dogg and those guys calling it putting
Speaker 1: pictures of him on a wheelchair, like, you don't do
Speaker 1: what he did in the playoffs last year without having
Speaker 1: hard or having you know, all the things that make
Speaker 1: a champion. He was the second best player and sometimes
Speaker 1: the first. We forget after Game two we thought he
Speaker 1: was the finals MVP. Like that's the kind of way
Speaker 1: we were kind of talking about him. So UM that
Speaker 1: that's my thing on a d. He's a superstar. He's
Speaker 1: worth every penny that he's getting. He's also worth every
Speaker 1: bit of that trade. So I appreciate you, joeld Up
Speaker 1: for all the calls throughout the spaces, Man, it means
Speaker 1: a lot to us. I appreciate you. Let's see, uh Walt,
Speaker 1: it's I'm trying to connect a few people and then
Speaker 1: have it so I don't have to wait for the connecting.
Speaker 1: And again, if you if you just kind of join
Speaker 1: in here. Um, Jason is on a vacation trip out
Speaker 1: to Aruba. Jay, are you there? Yeah? Man, thanks you
Speaker 1: taking me? Of course? What's going on? Bro? But cool.
Speaker 1: The beginning of the year, I feel like we're trying
Speaker 1: to corner he was rebounding playing these things. I had
Speaker 1: a couple of games, we had five or six six
Speaker 1: is then it's just like he fellow for Cliff and
Speaker 1: it's just like he just played his way out of
Speaker 1: l A this whole city like fifteen percent from the
Speaker 1: fifth what what? What? What are we gonna do with that?
Speaker 1: And he's supposed to be the third guy. Even tonight,
Speaker 1: Ta Taylor showed more hard than he think who's did
Speaker 1: tonight And he only played like fifteen twenty minutes and
Speaker 1: who's played almost like thirty minutes. It's sad this roster,
Speaker 1: Like I see people talking about trading a D and
Speaker 1: all of this. Why would you trade a D when
Speaker 1: he's one of the best best bigs in the league.
Speaker 1: And we we it's obvious with the roster needs. It
Speaker 1: needs an overhaul and get shooters in defense and a
Speaker 1: mixture of young guys in that. Yeah, for sure, And
Speaker 1: like Kuzma had a really tough series, and again, like
Speaker 1: not to blabor the point on Kuzma again, but it's
Speaker 1: kind of disappointing that this is the way it goes
Speaker 1: out because he's really developed in to a winning type
Speaker 1: of player, man. And I don't think I don't think
Speaker 1: six games kind of throws away what a player has
Speaker 1: turned into. Especially last year. I thought he had a
Speaker 1: good playoff run as well. So this was just a
Speaker 1: tough year, man. And I don't know if this is
Speaker 1: the last game he's played as a Laker, but I
Speaker 1: think he's like past expectations, you know, he's just late
Speaker 1: first round pick. Um got to a second contract with
Speaker 1: l A and uh he was a part of a
Speaker 1: championship team. Man, So he had a bad series, but
Speaker 1: a lot of role players had really bad series, and
Speaker 1: and that's something they're gonna have to address. They had
Speaker 1: terrible shooting, historic level bad shooting in this series. He
Speaker 1: missed all his open threes, as did everyone else, So
Speaker 1: it's kind of hard for me to just kind of
Speaker 1: blame him. He definitely had a bad series, but there
Speaker 1: were a bunch of players who really struggle with their shooting. Well,
Speaker 1: one last thing, man, all let's talk about needs to
Speaker 1: be five. I like vog because without him, defense wouldn't
Speaker 1: have been half as good because of the schemes he
Speaker 1: put in. But I think we need like an offensive assist,
Speaker 1: the one that just works on the offense making it
Speaker 1: better so we get shooters better looks and their spots
Speaker 1: and stuff. But we'll see who happens in the all season.
Speaker 1: And Rob, we trust thanks for taking of course they
Speaker 1: I appreciate you, man. And yeah, Vogel was going to
Speaker 1: be the coach next year. Let's talk about him not
Speaker 1: being the coach is ridiculous. Ridiculous. He's he's going to
Speaker 1: be the coach, Jair. I appreciate you man, Thank you. Walters,
Speaker 1: are you there? My god, what's up? Riding on you. Man,
Speaker 1: How are you doing good? How are you man? I'm
Speaker 1: good man, thank you for bringing me up? Of course,
Speaker 1: what's up? Man? Man that much? Man? Um, of course
Speaker 1: it hurts a little bit because I love my team.
Speaker 1: I don't like to see my team lose, especially not
Speaker 1: to the Suns because of the trash they were talking
Speaker 1: and you know, all the stuff that we're doing. But um,
Speaker 1: you know, I just want you all to keep in mind, man, uh,
Speaker 1: six before we had all the injuries, the protocols, you know,
Speaker 1: and six second in the West playing some of, if
Speaker 1: not the best basketball in the league. Um, keep in mind,
Speaker 1: this was like an unprecedented season with like a quick turnaround.
Speaker 1: We only had seventy one days of rest. Um, not
Speaker 1: a lot of practices. So when you add in the
Speaker 1: injuries with not a lot of practice time, with bringing
Speaker 1: in drumming and working in new pieces, you're not gonna
Speaker 1: get that chemistry you need to to make another long
Speaker 1: run after playing in the bubble and playing but then
Speaker 1: that time frame that they had the playoffs, and yeah,
Speaker 1: I definitely believe you know, next year number one priority
Speaker 1: should be health and then and you really can't control that,
Speaker 1: so you really can't call that a priority, um, but
Speaker 1: just you know, making sure we get chemistry, we know
Speaker 1: what we capablow. We're healthy as far as like having
Speaker 1: great defense and being able to hold teams, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: under a certain amount points. And then we kind of
Speaker 1: you know, our superstars do the heavy lifting and do
Speaker 1: we need to do to win the game. But man, y'all,
Speaker 1: keep your heads up. Man, we'll be all right. We
Speaker 1: just gotta get healthy. Next year should be a better
Speaker 1: year as far as navigating season and more, you know,
Speaker 1: time to rest and whatnot. And then Rob Rob do
Speaker 1: what he do. Man, He's shown he willing to take
Speaker 1: swings and he can get the team bet on the margin.
Speaker 1: So yea, I'll keep your heads up. Yeah. I like
Speaker 1: that you brought up that six numbers, So I thought
Speaker 1: that was with the whole line up playing. But the
Speaker 1: starting lineup that went tonight only played twenty one games together.
Speaker 1: They went fifteen and six, um, So it was actually
Speaker 1: a little bit a little bit less games that they
Speaker 1: even got together. So it's kind of sad that we
Speaker 1: never got to see that, right, got to see the
Speaker 1: whole you know all something. Well, it wasn't a long summer.
Speaker 1: It was like two months between October and December. But
Speaker 1: the whole time we kind of theorized what the Lakers
Speaker 1: would look like with a you know, a spacing big
Speaker 1: man and with Lebron and a d kind of having
Speaker 1: another two more playmakers in the starting lineup, and we
Speaker 1: just never got that. That team never got a chance
Speaker 1: with injuries, and then we brought in Andre Drummond, who
Speaker 1: got a DMP tonight, which is kind of funny that
Speaker 1: he didn't play after all the minutes handwringing we did
Speaker 1: over Andre Drummond, Dre Drummond minutes that he didn't even
Speaker 1: play tonight, But um, yeah, so we never really got
Speaker 1: a chance, man, And you saw tonight that those guys
Speaker 1: look like they were still learning each other. Gasol is like, well,
Speaker 1: I'm standing here, Shrewder, you're supposed to be there, and
Speaker 1: Lebron's like, you're supposed to be there. And then all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, you know, they missed and the Sun's
Speaker 1: come down and hit it. Three year down seventeen. So
Speaker 1: that's my only disappointed with this season is we never
Speaker 1: got a chance to see the potential of this team.
Speaker 1: But you're right, man, well we have another year. We
Speaker 1: got a ring last year, and Bog and Pelinka, those
Speaker 1: dudes will will get in the get in the office
Speaker 1: and get to work. I appreciate you all. Thank you. Man. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'll be safe and and stay stay above water. Man,
Speaker 1: my guy appreciate you. Let's see. IMNA keep trying to
Speaker 1: bring people up here. It's keep saying connecting. Will are
Speaker 1: you there? Hey, Roj? How's it going? But I know
Speaker 1: how bad? If you remember the last time we talked
Speaker 1: to was like after the Pacers game, and I was
Speaker 1: just so excited because Lebron you know, looked great. But
Speaker 1: it seems like after you know, the Pelicans game where
Speaker 1: he tweaked it like he couldn't just like the ramp
Speaker 1: up just got ruined by that, you know. I think
Speaker 1: that's why he never scored thirty. And that's why like
Speaker 1: he didn't look you know, like playoff Lebron really like
Speaker 1: and besides a few instances, but it just you know,
Speaker 1: it comes down to health. Obviously eight he got hurt.
Speaker 1: That's the reason. But like, I what do you what
Speaker 1: do you think about Dennis? I'm asking, like, do you
Speaker 1: do you think like obviously we don't have a lot
Speaker 1: of options, but like he showed a lot of heart
Speaker 1: in the second half, but like, what do you think
Speaker 1: about him as a fit with Lebron for the next
Speaker 1: like two years. Yeah, So it's kind of interesting. I
Speaker 1: thought he had a pretty good season, like and I
Speaker 1: thought his bit Lebron was be good when we had
Speaker 1: everybody healthy, right when it was like a d Lebron
Speaker 1: the Saul and him just being able to attack and
Speaker 1: being being a ball handler, shot creator off the ball,
Speaker 1: where Lebron can't just get ball pressure the whole time.
Speaker 1: And it's kind of sucks because like his whole game
Speaker 1: is like off of fire and off of like intensity
Speaker 1: ride and like you know, not backing down, and like,
Speaker 1: I know those are kind of intangible things, but they
Speaker 1: go hand in hand with his game. Like that's where
Speaker 1: he gets going. He hits a jump shot and kind
Speaker 1: of you know, starts to pick up full chord on
Speaker 1: Chris Paul Devin Booker, and you saw him kind of
Speaker 1: get going in the second half, and uh, you know,
Speaker 1: it's kind of funny that people are going to totally
Speaker 1: forget that he had a huge game too, and a
Speaker 1: huge Game three like he had and and we don't
Speaker 1: win both of those games without him even with a
Speaker 1: D playing Lebron playing, we don't want either of those
Speaker 1: games without his scoring there and people are going to
Speaker 1: totally forget that, and that's understandable. It's a playoffs. So
Speaker 1: I'm not really sure. I don't think I got enough
Speaker 1: time to watch him and look if we can, if
Speaker 1: we can resign him at a good number, I think
Speaker 1: I think that's something they should do. He's not to
Speaker 1: touch that number that he was asking for, or that
Speaker 1: the Lakers even extending him for the four years eighty something.
Speaker 1: I don't think he's getting close to that. I mean,
Speaker 1: I just just looking at the situation. But maybe I
Speaker 1: don't know. I don't want to go into people's pockets.
Speaker 1: But that's like where I'm at with him. I agree,
Speaker 1: I think you know what, that's actually that might end
Speaker 1: up being a good thing for us. It's like, you know,
Speaker 1: he kind of underperformed in a couple of games that
Speaker 1: could drop the value on his contract. And I haven't
Speaker 1: looked at our cap situation really much because I was just,
Speaker 1: you know, I was pretty excited about the playoff. For sure.
Speaker 1: I would really love to see, like us add a
Speaker 1: little bit of shooting. Obviously, I heard you talking about
Speaker 1: it earlier, like historically bad, like I was, I was
Speaker 1: looking at the NBA shot chart, like I don't know
Speaker 1: if you ever um seen that before. I'm sure you
Speaker 1: have access to so for sure, But like the NBA
Speaker 1: shot chart for the series, and like before tonight, I
Speaker 1: don't know how much better we got tonight, but we
Speaker 1: were two for twenty two in the right corner, you know,
Speaker 1: in the in the meanwhile the sun's right corner three
Speaker 1: and meanwhile the suns are from both warners. And it's
Speaker 1: just like you can't be two for twenty two in
Speaker 1: a corner and like you know, win the series such
Speaker 1: just that you gotta be you gotta be drilling the corner.
Speaker 1: So I hope we can have some shooting. And also
Speaker 1: like I guess this would be my last thing because
Speaker 1: I could ramble on forever. But like I thought, it
Speaker 1: was kind of like not to be met anyone. But
Speaker 1: I thought it was kind of low for Joe to
Speaker 1: try to say that A D doesn't love basketball, like
Speaker 1: he the fact that he went out there tonight, like really,
Speaker 1: you know, like I can't believe he did that, Like
Speaker 1: he could have really he could have tours growing like Lebron,
Speaker 1: did you know like that was I thought that was
Speaker 1: actually kind of a bad decision for our medical staff
Speaker 1: to clear him, you know, like he could have he
Speaker 1: could have worse than that, But I thought that showed
Speaker 1: like a lot of heart for him to go out there,
Speaker 1: and like, you know, he knew he wasn't under present,
Speaker 1: he could only play five minutes, but he still went
Speaker 1: out there. Yeah, for sure, And these are competitors, and
Speaker 1: like people are saying the Lakers, um should have held
Speaker 1: him out. He's a going man who the medical staff
Speaker 1: told him that he's he can't make it worse, right,
Speaker 1: so he's gonna try to pay through through and I
Speaker 1: respect him for trying, and obviously it didn't work out. Um.
Speaker 1: And another thing, like you brought up that corner shooting,
Speaker 1: which is a lot worse not even thought it would be.
Speaker 1: But um, some more numbers. They're like the Lakers are
Speaker 1: shooting on their open threes, and it's like on their
Speaker 1: wide open ones, Phoenix is hitting like almost half of
Speaker 1: their wide open threes. And that's the series in my opinion,
Speaker 1: like us not being when to hit open threes. That's
Speaker 1: such a like dynamo kind of feeling to it because
Speaker 1: once we don't hit open threes, they can pack the
Speaker 1: pain on Lebron and then also they start to attack
Speaker 1: our offensive rebounding, and you know, it just has a
Speaker 1: you know, a dynamic, dynamic effect for that. But yeah, man,
Speaker 1: sometimes it's just a maker miss league, and we missed
Speaker 1: a bunch of I thought tonight, man, we we kept
Speaker 1: making a run and then Devin Booker would hit some
Speaker 1: to dribble, pull up, you know, double pump in the air,
Speaker 1: jumper and just and just just push that lead back
Speaker 1: and sometimes that's how it goes. He went, He went
Speaker 1: up in my estimation like this series. Like I I
Speaker 1: always thought he was good, but like you know, I
Speaker 1: thought he might have a few more playoff games like
Speaker 1: the I think he went five or eighteen. You know
Speaker 1: in game three, I thought I thought he might do
Speaker 1: that a couple more times with the amen and job
Speaker 1: forty seven tonight really really shows a lot a lot
Speaker 1: about Booker. But yeah, like you, like you said, maker
Speaker 1: mis league, like the jump segment exactly. I also just
Speaker 1: want to say, like I really appreciate, like the guy
Speaker 1: said before, like you guys is content and like you know,
Speaker 1: like your video showing how clogged. The pain is when
Speaker 1: like Lebron drives in there, you know, it's by five
Speaker 1: people in there. It's like, you know, it's nice to
Speaker 1: see people addressing that online, you know, And I appreciate
Speaker 1: you will. Thanks for coming on, man, and uh come
Speaker 1: on any time with us for sure. Hopefully you know,
Speaker 1: I think next season will be better. But yeah, hope
Speaker 1: believe man, appreciate you. Bro. Jay are you there? What's up? Fellows?
Speaker 1: How you doing? Man? Honestly, Man, I'm chilling. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: tell you guys. I'm gonna tell you guys wanted chewing
Speaker 1: this whole this whole season. I know we want to
Speaker 1: bring up the twenty one and six. I know what
Speaker 1: points in the season. Um, the Lakers look dominant in
Speaker 1: some quarters personally just watching it compared to last year. Um,
Speaker 1: I mean, I think this comes down to point Lebron
Speaker 1: Verse splitting the playmaking responsibilities because he's thirty six. The
Speaker 1: biggest thing this year that fell off, like the entire season.
Speaker 1: Part of this is injuries and continuity. It's just I
Speaker 1: don't want to say basketball i Q, but it's more
Speaker 1: of just the execution of the basketball plays right, Like
Speaker 1: there's very few times I reflect on this season and
Speaker 1: I'm like, wow, that the Lakers actually executed you know,
Speaker 1: ten straight players in our own offense and and they
Speaker 1: won the game. It was just blown lead after blown lead. Um.
Speaker 1: Really weird defensive mistakes. Um. The turnovers drove me crazy
Speaker 1: all year. So as as much as it sucks to
Speaker 1: losing this way where it's like both our stars are out, um,
Speaker 1: I think you know, as long as we have those
Speaker 1: two guys next here will be straight. So the one
Speaker 1: question I wanted to ask you is, though, what what
Speaker 1: do you do? What do you think it takes for
Speaker 1: a D two commit to a full season of playing center?
Speaker 1: Like what gets into that stage? Like? I know, right,
Speaker 1: I know this year we we we can't really we
Speaker 1: couldn't ask him to do that because he was injured
Speaker 1: from the finals, shortest offseason. He didn't look right all season.
Speaker 1: I think we all can agree on that. But I
Speaker 1: think when I think back of last season, right, like,
Speaker 1: we played two big so much the season and we
Speaker 1: have to table that in the playoffs because the best
Speaker 1: liners were a D at the five, and I feel
Speaker 1: like we were robbed that this season. So honestly, we
Speaker 1: could talk about getting a third playmaker. We can talk
Speaker 1: about getting some shooters, some defenders. This team is going
Speaker 1: to run off Lebron James and a D and they
Speaker 1: obviously have a lot of the team. But I think
Speaker 1: a D has to play the five, right, No, that's
Speaker 1: a great question, And like I think A D is
Speaker 1: kind of addressed it, right, He's kind of said, Um,
Speaker 1: he doesn't want to play the five. He doesn't like
Speaker 1: the physicality, and like Jason always talks about, like how
Speaker 1: that's kind of counterintuitive because it kind of it's more
Speaker 1: physical to kind of play the power forward the way
Speaker 1: that we kind of use it. Um. But yeah, I
Speaker 1: think that's where he's that kind of with that, and
Speaker 1: I don't see that changing anytime soon. And I'm not
Speaker 1: sure like it really has to. Um, I think there
Speaker 1: are enough fives out there that are serviceable during the
Speaker 1: regular season, and I think A D will play the
Speaker 1: five when it matters. Um, he did this year. At
Speaker 1: least he should have, um if if he played meaningful minutes.
Speaker 1: But he obviously doesn't want to play that position. And
Speaker 1: you know, you kind of have to go as your
Speaker 1: superstars kind of want to there. And and he's a
Speaker 1: crazy force at the four. As well, and you know
Speaker 1: he can be an insane health defender. And I think
Speaker 1: you're right. Him at center is his most his best
Speaker 1: sent his best position to be utilized. That it's just
Speaker 1: he does not want to play that position. So I
Speaker 1: don't know what we'll get him there. Um, maybe next
Speaker 1: year if the roster is kind of really down with
Speaker 1: fives and maybe he'll start at center. But it's very
Speaker 1: clear that he doesn't want to and and I think
Speaker 1: there's still a chance that he doesn't have to, Like
Speaker 1: do you have Marcus s al that's a center that
Speaker 1: should be able to play now. Andre Drummond was an
Speaker 1: experiment that obviously they were trying and they really believed in. Um,
Speaker 1: and I think the Andrew Drummond thing might have worked
Speaker 1: with a healthy on an A D will never will
Speaker 1: never know, Like we'll just never know that that never
Speaker 1: got the chance to to get off the ground where
Speaker 1: the ground room floor. So that's where I'm at with that. Man,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I would love for a D to
Speaker 1: play center a full season. That's just not something he
Speaker 1: wants to do. And and I think the Lakers have
Speaker 1: to work around at That's just how it is. Yeah,
Speaker 1: just one just one quick thing. Like I think personally,
Speaker 1: I do think it's a little overboard to say that
Speaker 1: we need him to play the center at the whole,
Speaker 1: you know, the whole season, right, But what he needs
Speaker 1: to do, in my opinion, is he needs to come
Speaker 1: out from the from the gates. Just come out scorching, right.
Speaker 1: He takes so long to find his rhythm in season.
Speaker 1: And I get that he's six ft eighteen in his
Speaker 1: arms are are longer than anybody you've ever seen. So
Speaker 1: it's like it's probably just hard for him to get
Speaker 1: in rhythm. If he comes out and stops with the
Speaker 1: posting up for ten seconds every possession to start, you know,
Speaker 1: the first three weeks of the season, and gets out
Speaker 1: with the ball in the perimeter and increases his ball
Speaker 1: hidling and driving to the rim. I think that's gonna
Speaker 1: that that takes so much pressure off with broad one,
Speaker 1: but I think it will help him just be more
Speaker 1: durable um in the long term. And I know it's
Speaker 1: kind of intuitive, but my thinking is he goes from
Speaker 1: from playing to playing slower than a lot of players
Speaker 1: in the league. I don't know if that makes sense, No,
Speaker 1: for sure, yeah, man, he does. He has a he
Speaker 1: has a really he hasn't like the knack to kind
Speaker 1: of be passive a lot right, like like he would
Speaker 1: like give Dennis Shrew the ball like on a lot
Speaker 1: of possessions. And and you know, he had these quotes
Speaker 1: about I'm trying to fit in, right, I'm like, you know,
Speaker 1: you're Anthony Davis. You don't fit in like you. They
Speaker 1: fit in around you. So he has he has those
Speaker 1: kind of tendencies that happens a lot um. And you know,
Speaker 1: I don't think it's a motor problem. It's just that's
Speaker 1: just who he is sometimes. But you know, on the
Speaker 1: biggest stage in the playoffs, um, he had great games
Speaker 1: and even this series, man, people will forget his Game
Speaker 1: two and Game three performances. Um, but you know he
Speaker 1: thirty four points, thirty five points, I think, going to
Speaker 1: the line seventeen times. And those are the real barometers
Speaker 1: for me when you can tell where Anthony Davis is
Speaker 1: having an engaged in Anthony Davis game, his free throw
Speaker 1: attempts and his offensive rebounding, that really tells me that
Speaker 1: the story for him and and I think that would
Speaker 1: be the same for next year. So we'll see. Hopefully
Speaker 1: he can be healthy all year next year, and obviously
Speaker 1: think the injury concerns are kind of overblown and all
Speaker 1: that stuff. I also think like the center powerful ward
Speaker 1: thing is also a little bit more overblown than it
Speaker 1: than it needs to be. Um. If he's playing next
Speaker 1: to Lebron James Um, those two are a terror that
Speaker 1: if they're healthy, they'll be a terror and in very
Speaker 1: many lineups. And I think the Lakers will be able
Speaker 1: to find the right the right people to put around them.
Speaker 1: J I appreciate you, man. Let's see if I can
Speaker 1: bring some people up here. Yep, thanks See Chris, are
Speaker 1: you there? N what's going on? Yeah? I don't know.
Speaker 1: I'm contemplating the Lakers right now. I just I knew
Speaker 1: things weren't gonna be good from the jump when we
Speaker 1: didn't sign with gen Rondo because we needed that leadership
Speaker 1: for the team. But I still have faith in Lebron.
Speaker 1: So the Sun's games come, he cuts Crowder. I respect
Speaker 1: that disrespecting people on the court, but when it's prime
Speaker 1: time ready to go, you're letting the fans the fans matter,
Speaker 1: but you're letting your teammates down like you're on the ground.
Speaker 1: You're not getting back on defense Taylor, Horn and Tucker
Speaker 1: and the fourth quarter goes on a little run. You're
Speaker 1: down by only ten points, thirteen points, and you're not
Speaker 1: even getting back on defense. You leave h you leave Chris,
Speaker 1: Paul Open and Jake Crowder Like, I just think Brian
Speaker 1: bron might need to call it and in like maybe
Speaker 1: a year if you don't make another, if he loses
Speaker 1: in the first round again, you gotta retury. That's like,
Speaker 1: oh man, Like, I know that's the reach, but I'm
Speaker 1: just saying for him to save his legacy. Like go
Speaker 1: on to ech stream, bro play a war zone and
Speaker 1: you're good, Like, stop taking l if you won't send
Speaker 1: a handle the business. Oh Man, Chris, I I appreciate
Speaker 1: you calling up well. First of all, with lebron Man,
Speaker 1: we got an m v P type season before the
Speaker 1: Solomon Hill kind of injury to his thakle. Um, he
Speaker 1: was playing at m v P level. He was playing
Speaker 1: at the top of his game. Um, he was actually
Speaker 1: better than he was last year in my opinion, like
Speaker 1: just in the regular season. Um, he was having a fantastic,
Speaker 1: fantastic year. And it will never know how he killed
Speaker 1: he felt from that right, Like, will never actually know. Um,
Speaker 1: he'll never kind of say it, but he's talked about
Speaker 1: it how he's not, and it just never looked like
Speaker 1: he was. But even even with that, like in health,
Speaker 1: when he got his healthy team, like the Lakers were
Speaker 1: up to one in this series, within eleven point lead
Speaker 1: in Game four, like that's that's legitimately what happened, and
Speaker 1: then a d went out at halftime, they Rochelle shocked.
Speaker 1: Um went for Game five. That crowd wasn't absolutely in
Speaker 1: their head. The Lakers could not. The Lakers shooters were scared.
Speaker 1: You could see it. And then and then tonight. Man,
Speaker 1: you're right though a lot of players where Lebron let
Speaker 1: the referees get in his head. Um where you know
Speaker 1: he would drive, didn't get the call and would just
Speaker 1: stay on the offensive end, wouldn't run back and Phoenix
Speaker 1: will get a three, and a lot of those the
Speaker 1: game was already over, to be honest, like that th
Speaker 1: HD run. They were still down I think thirteen after
Speaker 1: his after his tip Dunkum. But you're right, man, some
Speaker 1: of that body language wasn't great from Lebron. You could
Speaker 1: tell he thought it was over. Um and and him
Speaker 1: right there real quick, what's up? I just wanted to say,
Speaker 1: like on that point, like the referees getting in his head.
Speaker 1: I also didn't like a shot selection once, like things
Speaker 1: were getting like a little physical for him, Like, Lebron,
Speaker 1: you've been playing in the league for almost fifteen years now,
Speaker 1: Like these dudes were like going to your basketball camps,
Speaker 1: Like you gotta dominate these dudes. You're letting these You're
Speaker 1: letting these dudes plunk you right now on the core.
Speaker 1: And then once Lebron takes starts taking crazy shots, I
Speaker 1: think all his teammates start to conform and take crazy shots. Yeah. Man,
Speaker 1: well he tried to hit some like transition threes, and
Speaker 1: I thought there were sometimes where his teammates didn't find
Speaker 1: him to when he was in the post um they
Speaker 1: were being really physical with the man. Credit to Phoenix Um.
Speaker 1: They really packed the paint um, they pinched all the nails.
Speaker 1: They went, they pinched the nails so he couldn't drive
Speaker 1: and just dared our shooters to make shots. And Wes
Speaker 1: Matthews hit a few tonight, but still Lebron would try
Speaker 1: to get in the paint, try to get some contact.
Speaker 1: They weren't giving him those those and ones, those calls,
Speaker 1: and he missed a few at the rim um, but
Speaker 1: you know, credit to Phoenix man, they did a great
Speaker 1: job being really physical with him, um getting frustrated and uh,
Speaker 1: this was one of his lower series. Man, he didn't
Speaker 1: even score thirty. I don't think in this series one time,
Speaker 1: and um that I don't think that's Lebron. I don't
Speaker 1: think that's playoff Lebron. So hopefully next year he'll be
Speaker 1: a little more healthy in these series. And what do
Speaker 1: you think? What do you think about Vogan personally? I
Speaker 1: don't like Vogel because when Paul George and those Indiana
Speaker 1: Pacers they started getting smoked, it was a good series.
Speaker 1: But Vogel has never been a good coach. Like he
Speaker 1: always loses in the first round like all the time.
Speaker 1: So like I just don't understand like the point of
Speaker 1: that signing, Like there's so many other coaches you guys
Speaker 1: could have got. I just feel like they just get
Speaker 1: whichever coach just were like right Lebron, like right Lebron,
Speaker 1: Like Lebron can do anything. That's what it looks like.
Speaker 1: When you say the shooters are scared, I think they
Speaker 1: like scared Lebron kind of because they they're Fenna go
Speaker 1: work at McDonald's if they ain't playing for the Lakers.
Speaker 1: So so Vogel, Man, he's he had us as the
Speaker 1: number one defense all year, even without Lebron and a
Speaker 1: D missing a ton of time. Is he the best
Speaker 1: offensive coach? No? Is he really slow making counters? Yeah,
Speaker 1: he takes his time with that, but he didn't get
Speaker 1: the chance this year. Man, he coached the hell of
Speaker 1: the playoff series last year. Coach this team which had
Speaker 1: people in and out of the lineup all year, and
Speaker 1: he's gonna be the coach next year. He's a good coach, um.
Speaker 1: If you if you remember, they signed Vogel before they
Speaker 1: even got Anthony Davis, So they had Lebron, James, they
Speaker 1: had all the kids, um and and that's when they
Speaker 1: got Vogel. And and you know, he wouldn't have been
Speaker 1: the coach if Lebron wasn't you know, if Lebron wasn't
Speaker 1: accepting of it as well. So I think both of
Speaker 1: them have a great relationship. They're both really basketball minded people.
Speaker 1: And I think he's a good coach. I don't think
Speaker 1: he was the issue this season. Chris. I appreciate you,
Speaker 1: manum get some more. I appreciate you. Bro Okay, bro Basilio,
Speaker 1: are ei there? Oy? My guy? Are you I can
Speaker 1: hear you? What'sever? Bro Old? Well? You know no, then
Speaker 1: I we were spid, but you know I joined. I
Speaker 1: want to tell you, I know, in the mood to
Speaker 1: talk about the game. You know, I'm pretty sad. I
Speaker 1: know you you may may be sat too. Well. Can
Speaker 1: you tell me your hopes for next season? What will
Speaker 1: you do with you? What's next for us? Yeah? Sure, so,
Speaker 1: I mean just looking at it now. Um, the Lakers
Speaker 1: have some decisions to make. Um, they have you know,
Speaker 1: Alex Caruso, which I think is a free agent himself.
Speaker 1: They're gonna try to bring him back for sure. Dennis
Speaker 1: Shrewder obviously is the big famous one. They're gonna try
Speaker 1: to bring him back. Um, I think I think you've
Speaker 1: got to try to bring Cruso back. But KCP is
Speaker 1: still signed for next year, Kuzma signed for next year.
Speaker 1: Gasol also I think signed for next year, And so
Speaker 1: you can kind of build with this core man and
Speaker 1: you'll have vets who want to come U. The Lakers
Speaker 1: are the Lakers, and there's still a championship level team
Speaker 1: with a D and Lebron and I think Polinco will
Speaker 1: do his job there. I'm not worried about the team
Speaker 1: next year. I think they'll get a really good offseason. Um,
Speaker 1: they have a first round pick coming as well, the twenty.
Speaker 1: I think they scond pick um. But yeah, I think
Speaker 1: that's the most important thing. Getting some more vets, getting
Speaker 1: some shooting. I think shooting is important, and I would
Speaker 1: love to keept. I would love for West Matthews to
Speaker 1: kind of to uh come back as well. I think
Speaker 1: he'd be a good addition to stay in. And from
Speaker 1: there they have decisions to make. Dennis Shrewder. I think
Speaker 1: they'll see what he gets on the open market and
Speaker 1: uh and try to bring him back at a at
Speaker 1: a number that makes sense for both sides. But that's
Speaker 1: makes it the main thing. And then getting Caruso to
Speaker 1: come back as well. I think those two will be
Speaker 1: their main priorities this offseason, and then from their kind
Speaker 1: of fill in. But it's crazy that the off seasons
Speaker 1: already here, but yet those are the kind of things
Speaker 1: that go with Yeah, you know, you know, Kyle Lowry
Speaker 1: and CP three are looking for a ten million conflicts.
Speaker 1: Will you give one of them? Tom William to join
Speaker 1: the Lakers. They're gonna get a lot more than ten million.
Speaker 1: Chris Paul is going to get about a hundred millions
Speaker 1: from Phoenix for three years, and Kyle Lowry is definitely
Speaker 1: get some twenty million dollar deal. So I would love
Speaker 1: for them to come for ten million, but that is
Speaker 1: not happening. There's just no there's just there's just no
Speaker 1: chances dudes come to that. Oh thirty million, Oh oh, well,
Speaker 1: I don't think we have room for them for a
Speaker 1: thirty million. Um. I just don't think that for the
Speaker 1: way the salary cap works, I just don't think we
Speaker 1: canda lists. Maybe we signed in trade for for Kyle
Speaker 1: Lowry or Chris Paul. Chris Paul I would love man,
Speaker 1: that would be amazing to get him. I don't think
Speaker 1: I would do it for for, um, Kyle Lowry thirty
Speaker 1: million dollars. I just I just don't think we have
Speaker 1: the necessary necessary things to pull that off. So I
Speaker 1: don't think either of those are coming this summer. But
Speaker 1: never know, maybe some star wants to be traded here.
Speaker 1: But I just think they're going to continue to build
Speaker 1: with Lebron and a d as there uh as the
Speaker 1: main focal points and try to build from there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you didn't mention a will you bring them back? So
Speaker 1: I think both of those dudes are gonna walk. I'm
Speaker 1: pretty sure they've talked about bringing back Drummond. Um, but
Speaker 1: I think he's gonna try to get something from the
Speaker 1: outside market. I think Harold as well, he's going to
Speaker 1: get from the outside market. So you're right, I forgot
Speaker 1: about those two mantres didn't play this series. Um, so
Speaker 1: we'll see how that how the pre agency goes, um Vassilia,
Speaker 1: I appreciate you, man, Right, thank you man. Dave are
Speaker 1: you there? Yeah? Man? What's up? What's going on? Bro? Dude?
Speaker 1: I feel like everybody has completely lost all sense of
Speaker 1: any sort of context. What's the deal? Like how they
Speaker 1: give us the context Dave gives. So let's start with this, Right,
Speaker 1: that guy was just talking about Frank Vogel. Right, we've
Speaker 1: got the number one defense. We had over eighty games
Speaker 1: missed by our starters this year and we still have
Speaker 1: the number one defense. Right, Like, we're up to games
Speaker 1: to one. When Anthony Davis goes down, KCP goes down,
Speaker 1: we lost a c tonight, Like, like, I just don't
Speaker 1: see how people don't see this was the shortest offseason
Speaker 1: in any sports history, right, Like this would have been
Speaker 1: the most difficult repeat ever. And people are like, you
Speaker 1: look at every team that was in either the conference
Speaker 1: finals or the or the finals last year, they're all
Speaker 1: playing terrible, Like Jamal Murray was hurt. Although the Nuggets
Speaker 1: did win, but they struggled to beat the sixth seed
Speaker 1: Portland's that has no defense. I just don't see how
Speaker 1: people don't see the context of what's going on. Like,
Speaker 1: obviously we played bad. We can't make shots. That that's
Speaker 1: bad news, right, But it was nice to see him
Speaker 1: play with heart tonight. And I don't know, man, I
Speaker 1: just it's frustrating. We just got to run it back, man,
Speaker 1: we'd make a few changes here and there, like Rob's
Speaker 1: done what he needs to do, Like this this all
Speaker 1: comes down to context in my opinion. No, I'm totally
Speaker 1: with you, man. I think it's just been a frustrating
Speaker 1: kind of season. Um, and the Lakers kind of had
Speaker 1: a bunch of weird losses at the end. They had
Speaker 1: a little five game win street end this season. All
Speaker 1: those games are kind of weird. To play the Knicks
Speaker 1: and then barely beat I think the Rockets. I forgot
Speaker 1: who else they played during that street stretch. I mean,
Speaker 1: D has forty two points against these exact same sons,
Speaker 1: and we killed the court like and that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: I mean, it comes down to, like we just look ghast,
Speaker 1: like the day these guys are playing playing awful because
Speaker 1: they had games of the ninety five days in the
Speaker 1: bubble and then they got to try to turn around
Speaker 1: after seventy days. It just seems like, come on, man,
Speaker 1: we gotta give him at least a little bit of grace,
Speaker 1: Like everyone's everyone's given their heart and soul, and we
Speaker 1: came away with the championship. Like I don't know, I
Speaker 1: guess I'm just not seeing. It's not doomsday, right, let's
Speaker 1: run it back, let's get healthy. No, yeah, for sure,
Speaker 1: it's not dooms. I guess the most disappointed, I think
Speaker 1: for a lot of people and for myself, it's like
Speaker 1: the role players really didn't come to play, like even
Speaker 1: without a D. Like, you know, our role players really
Speaker 1: kind of messed the bed hoping in this one. A
Speaker 1: lot of miss open jump shots that you know, stuff
Speaker 1: that's supposed to go now for NBA. But but but
Speaker 1: you're right though, like there's a lot of contexts to
Speaker 1: take from this really short off season. I never thought
Speaker 1: a d ever joined this season, like just he never
Speaker 1: Anthony Davis like he was a good player still when
Speaker 1: it was like he could do it for one night,
Speaker 1: but then he couldn't. He couldn't do it consistently because exactly, yeah, exactly,
Speaker 1: even Ron right, like Lebron can't do it either, Like
Speaker 1: he was sitting there just passing, like he wasn't even
Speaker 1: initiating offense like we've normally seen from him. I don't
Speaker 1: know it was surprising. I wouldn't be surprised to find
Speaker 1: out that he came back way too early too and
Speaker 1: should have stayed out for a couple more weeks. Like
Speaker 1: he just did not play like the guy like that
Speaker 1: before he got hurt. This year. We didn't have Anthony
Speaker 1: Davis for a ton of those games, and he was
Speaker 1: super dominant, like we looked, we looked really good early
Speaker 1: in the season before Lebron got hurt, even without Anthony Davis, right,
Speaker 1: but that wasn't the case here at the end. And again,
Speaker 1: he's not in great shape because he was out. He
Speaker 1: missed more games in a row than any other time
Speaker 1: in his career. It just seems like me in that
Speaker 1: context has got to at least be part of the
Speaker 1: conversation for sure. Oh no, absolutely, And Lebron was never
Speaker 1: himself I think after that ankle sprain. Rather he just
Speaker 1: never got into his conditioning that he needed to um.
Speaker 1: He never scored thirty points after that ankle sprain that
Speaker 1: he had, just was never himself. He came back one
Speaker 1: game I think against Sacramento, and he had to rest
Speaker 1: in another couple of games because it wasn't right. So
Speaker 1: it was just a weird season. No no chemistry, no cohesion.
Speaker 1: Guys are learning, Guys are learning each other's games in
Speaker 1: the playoffs, you know. So it's just a really weird
Speaker 1: year a lot of times to think from it, the
Speaker 1: other weird the other one thing I thought about it,
Speaker 1: think about after game Game three, right, like that's the
Speaker 1: game where Lebron was was sunning Crowder in the in
Speaker 1: the post, like we felt like we had tons of
Speaker 1: we felt like we had tons of chemistry. That was
Speaker 1: just a couple of games ago. Like it was just
Speaker 1: that kind of a season where it would be like
Speaker 1: we would go on a run and then we would
Speaker 1: just be like a disaster for like a couple of games.
Speaker 1: Like it was either like we're doing amazing or we're
Speaker 1: off with Hey, I got one last question your man.
Speaker 1: So you talked a little bit about I think a
Speaker 1: C and th HD they're there for sure guys that
Speaker 1: we should go after. I mean one of your thoughts
Speaker 1: on on Shrewder and UH and Harold because those seem
Speaker 1: to be the those are the bigger names and the
Speaker 1: bigger money items. Yeah, so, like I feel like Mantrez
Speaker 1: is kind of trying to try to try to get
Speaker 1: the biggest bag he can. Um. I don't think they'll
Speaker 1: bring him back just the way they used him in
Speaker 1: the playoffs. I think it's kind of clear that both
Speaker 1: of them are going in opposite directions, right. I think
Speaker 1: Treads was great in the regular season. UM. I called
Speaker 1: him an innings eater a lot. Like I feel like
Speaker 1: he did his job. They're kind of keeping us afloat. UM.
Speaker 1: Shrewder is the interesting one. I think they'll try to
Speaker 1: bring him back at a respectable number. I don't think
Speaker 1: he's going to touch the number that they try to
Speaker 1: extend him at earlier that four years eighty. I think
Speaker 1: it's probably screwed. He screwed himself. Like if you start
Speaker 1: at the beginning of this game. In last game he
Speaker 1: was like one for fourteen at one point. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so it was a really it's funny people are going
Speaker 1: to forget that Game two. In game three he had
Speaker 1: that really helped us. But yeah, he had a really
Speaker 1: tough playoffs man, And that's what you're judged on. And
Speaker 1: you know, I think that COVID protocol right before the
Speaker 1: season ended really derailed kind of the rhythm he was
Speaker 1: building with the team. Um so they're gonna try to
Speaker 1: bring him back T H T as well. I think
Speaker 1: it's a guy that there. He might have been the
Speaker 1: second most important part of this season just his development right,
Speaker 1: getting him going, getting his reps, getting him better as
Speaker 1: a player. You can see his growth even tonight, just
Speaker 1: as a guy who's confident. So that's where I'd go
Speaker 1: with him. Man. A C I think is the important
Speaker 1: one too. Yeah. I also don't think I've heard anybody
Speaker 1: talk about the fact that Chris Paul was a mentor
Speaker 1: and a teammate to Shrewder last year. So he's probably
Speaker 1: the one guy that knew where his weaknesses were and
Speaker 1: how we could pick him apart to like, like, nobody's
Speaker 1: really talked about that because he struggled last year and
Speaker 1: those playoffs too, like for okay, see, I'm pretty sure
Speaker 1: if I remember correctly, but exactly. Yeah, and Case and
Speaker 1: CP had an awesome series. Damn. I appreciate you. Thanks man,
Speaker 1: I appreciate the time. See if I can get I'm
Speaker 1: gonna trying to bring multiple people up here so I
Speaker 1: don't have to wait for it to connect. Aaron, are
Speaker 1: you there? Yeah, dude, what's up? Yeah? Honestly, I've been
Speaker 1: kind of in and out of listening to the two
Speaker 1: guys combo, but I did hear you guys talking about
Speaker 1: th HD a bit um? Yeah, honestly, I know it's
Speaker 1: been kind of depressing on the on the top so far,
Speaker 1: but I kind of just want to focus on THHD
Speaker 1: because I really like his ship. I like what he brings.
Speaker 1: I love the energy that brings. Obviously, he like you
Speaker 1: were saying, he needs more reps and needs more experience,
Speaker 1: but I I really hope he's He's not somebody that
Speaker 1: gets that gets traded. And another thing, when I add
Speaker 1: real quick is just I know a lot. I know
Speaker 1: Kuzma has been getting a lot of hate, but I
Speaker 1: feel that I feel that I don't know. I like
Speaker 1: the energy he brings too, and I think it's hard
Speaker 1: for him to find a shot too, especially with like
Speaker 1: two other superstars like Adane Lebron. So I don't know,
Speaker 1: I just want to throw that into the conversation. No,
Speaker 1: for sure, And like, look, Kuzma is a guy that
Speaker 1: I'm sad that this is the way he goes out
Speaker 1: because I feel like he really developed here, not just
Speaker 1: this year, last year into a winning player under Vogel
Speaker 1: and becoming a defensive minded kind of player, a guy
Speaker 1: who does all the little things. If you remember his
Speaker 1: rookie year, Man, they gave him the ball, let him score.
Speaker 1: He was the eight teen points per game score and
Speaker 1: then he and then those when then when Lebron came,
Speaker 1: you know, his shots went down. His efficiency these last
Speaker 1: these last two years, man, he's been a winning player.
Speaker 1: Like he's really, um, he's really turned himself into that
Speaker 1: and turned himself into a guy who just takes spot
Speaker 1: up three pointers and and he missed all the shots
Speaker 1: in the playoffs, Like that's just what happened. And it's
Speaker 1: sad that that's kind of how it went Um. We
Speaker 1: expect better from him, and I look, the Lakers signed
Speaker 1: him to like a three year or forty deal. They
Speaker 1: believe in his development. If he's traded, he's traded. But
Speaker 1: I think they I don't think these six games take
Speaker 1: away from the two seasons worth of stuff that he's gone.
Speaker 1: And he was a championship level player last year and
Speaker 1: THHD as well. I think case she's really important. Um
Speaker 1: just you don't usually get young guys like this on
Speaker 1: championship level teams. You don't get this type of talent
Speaker 1: to be able to nurture and develop. So that he's
Speaker 1: a guy that I think they're going to try to
Speaker 1: keep as well this offseason. He's a restricted free agent,
Speaker 1: so I think those two dudes are part of the
Speaker 1: young core along with Crusoe, not the guy they'll try
Speaker 1: to keep. No, yeah exactly. I was actually just thinking
Speaker 1: of Cruso too, but no, yeah, I am. I don't
Speaker 1: really have much else to add, but I mean, thanks
Speaker 1: for all you do, Roger. I really appreciate all the
Speaker 1: stuff that you put on on Twitter and like your
Speaker 1: your whole thing. I really appreciate it. Me and my
Speaker 1: siblings are always always keeping up with their stuff, so things.
Speaker 1: I appreciate you, Aaron thinks, Man, I appreciate it. Uh
Speaker 1: let's see. Oh okay, Okatchy are either uh yeah, you
Speaker 1: hear me, I can hear you. What's going on? Man?
Speaker 1: Nothing much? But yeah, it was a tough way to
Speaker 1: end the season, obviously seeing that, and I mean, yeah,
Speaker 1: like the writing was kind of on the wall, the injuries,
Speaker 1: the whole thing. But um, I'm kind of like looking
Speaker 1: forward and I think we gotta really just put th
Speaker 1: Hd at the forefront. And I think he has a
Speaker 1: legitimate shot. I don't know what we do a shooter,
Speaker 1: but he's got a legitimate shot to start next year
Speaker 1: and also maybe probably be that six man. Mm hmm.
Speaker 1: I don't think that's like a crazy idea. And I
Speaker 1: know people like the last guy we just came in,
Speaker 1: he was talking about Kuzma and everybody's playing flaming Kuza.
Speaker 1: But Kuzma for for what he was asked for the season,
Speaker 1: which was to depend and you know, hit timely threes.
Speaker 1: For the most part, he was good and obviously towards
Speaker 1: the end it kind of just fluttered out. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I think we really got a um pushed towards TSD
Speaker 1: and make him a forefront and sort of like make
Speaker 1: him an important piece of what we're doing in the future.
Speaker 1: And then as far as getting more shooters, um, that's
Speaker 1: all up to the the front office and let's see
Speaker 1: what they do there. And also let center rotation because
Speaker 1: we've got to figure that out because without when a
Speaker 1: D is not on the court, we gotta have at
Speaker 1: least decent um efficiency or the defense and rebounding just
Speaker 1: it's got to be there, no for sure. And just
Speaker 1: to like go on your th h T point. He
Speaker 1: really developed this year. Like especially even he was a
Speaker 1: really bad off ball defender, I think he really improved
Speaker 1: on their His on ball defense also really improved. And
Speaker 1: him just being as a shot creator, you could tell
Speaker 1: his confidence, it just had a whole another level. Um
Speaker 1: him as a just a high ball screen type of player,
Speaker 1: a guy you can just give the ball to and
Speaker 1: just say create a shot, get a bucket. He really
Speaker 1: got Um. He really got comfortable with his fade away
Speaker 1: as well. Um. I still think his three pointers so
Speaker 1: up and down. That's gonna have to be worked on.
Speaker 1: But they really believe in him and his talent is there.
Speaker 1: You don't get kids like this on championship level teams,
Speaker 1: and I think they really I think they really realized
Speaker 1: that this is a deep team. Man, even and even
Speaker 1: when everyone was healthy, he was like the seventh eighth
Speaker 1: man coming off the bench when we were winning, when
Speaker 1: we were like twenty one and six or whatever. He
Speaker 1: was a full part of the rotation, backup point guard,
Speaker 1: shooting guard. UM. I think he he took West Matthew spot.
Speaker 1: If you remember earlier in the year, Wes Matthews was
Speaker 1: like the backup guard and THHD just stole those minutes
Speaker 1: because he was that good. And uh, I think I
Speaker 1: think he definitely had a shot next year for the
Speaker 1: backup guard. I don't know if he'll be the starting
Speaker 1: point guard. I don't think he's shooting is good enough
Speaker 1: yet to start next to Lebron. I think you need
Speaker 1: more shooting, but you know, you never know. I think
Speaker 1: his three point shooting is real. I think it can be.
Speaker 1: I don't think it's like something that um he can't
Speaker 1: improve on. So I think you're right. And when with Kuzma, man,
Speaker 1: you hit it right on the money, like his job
Speaker 1: is to be an energy guy, hit shots, rebound um,
Speaker 1: and he really improved on that, and it's sad that
Speaker 1: this is the way that they're gonna they're gonna kind
Speaker 1: of remember him. But uh, I think you're right on
Speaker 1: that money with that though, Kuzma did his job this
Speaker 1: year other than the playoffs, which is the disappointing part. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and one more thing because people were trying talking about
Speaker 1: trading him, but then I don't know how many six
Speaker 1: nine guys out there right to play both sides of
Speaker 1: the ball, Like, there's not many of those guys out there.
Speaker 1: Like then the next guys they're just they're they're also
Speaker 1: level players like those are who those types of players are.
Speaker 1: So trading Kuzma, I don't know what we get back
Speaker 1: and would that be even better? Right? You can never
Speaker 1: have enough three and D wings, Like that's what the
Speaker 1: league kind of wants. Everyone wants that. And look, Christmas
Speaker 1: three wasn't there. But you have a guy that defends
Speaker 1: and doesn't make mistakes on the on the floor, you
Speaker 1: you kind of live with the open three is not
Speaker 1: going in at sometimes. Um, it's just sad that this
Speaker 1: is the way it kind of happened. But again, he
Speaker 1: wasn't the only one. The whole team went cold. The
Speaker 1: whole team kind of got shook. Um, I think the
Speaker 1: A D news really hurt. Um, I don't. This's just
Speaker 1: a theory of mine. Just a D being a game
Speaker 1: time decision in game five, then E D trying to
Speaker 1: play tonight and not being able to go. It just
Speaker 1: kind of kills the whole like mood with the team.
Speaker 1: You know, you could just tell when a D went out,
Speaker 1: Like when a D went out after five minutes tonight,
Speaker 1: you could just tell. The whole team was like, oh,
Speaker 1: that's probably it. And then I'm not excusing that, I'm
Speaker 1: just saying that's what it looked like. So you're kind
Speaker 1: of right, because like Anthony Davis, essentially he was her
Speaker 1: best player, Like right, like Anthony Davis needed to be
Speaker 1: that um game to game three type of player in
Speaker 1: thirty or four points affect both sides of the ball,
Speaker 1: like he needed to be that guy for the Lakers,
Speaker 1: so in this series, and well, just he wasn't healthy
Speaker 1: enough to do it, which really sucks for any team,
Speaker 1: Like if anything loses the best player, like it's hard
Speaker 1: to come back to that. You're right exactly, Yeah, I
Speaker 1: agree with you, and hopefully he'll be back next year.
Speaker 1: But that's just a blow to your team, man. And
Speaker 1: h Phoenix is a hell of good team. I want
Speaker 1: to give them props. Man, that's a legitimately good team
Speaker 1: that had a chance to beat us even when we
Speaker 1: were healthy. In my opinion, like I just thought they
Speaker 1: were legitimately that good. You don't win that many games
Speaker 1: on accident, like they want to think, like the games
Speaker 1: after January for some crazy number. I think they start
Speaker 1: like ten and ten or something something like that, and
Speaker 1: he went on a went on a crazy run. So
Speaker 1: they're legit, they're good. They have a shot to win
Speaker 1: the title. They're they're that good. Um, so great to them,
Speaker 1: but yeah, it sucks to lose your second best player
Speaker 1: in the middle of a playoffs series. Like most teams
Speaker 1: wouldn't be able to survive that and we didn't. Yeah,
Speaker 1: thanks a getting rodgered up form letting me speak, But
Speaker 1: I'm gonna let you get to other people, of course. Man,
Speaker 1: I appreciate you coming on. Come on anytime, all right,
Speaker 1: See Brett, are you there? Yeah? What's up? What's going on? Man? Oh?
Speaker 1: You know, just trying to talk my way through this
Speaker 1: and um, one thing I want to talk about is
Speaker 1: I think that a lot of people are sort of
Speaker 1: putting a lot of the blame on the team building.
Speaker 1: This team, this team had. I think that people are saying, oh,
Speaker 1: I should have kept the white People are saying that
Speaker 1: should have kept Vail, which I think is just blasphemous
Speaker 1: seeing what happened. Well, we we didn't see anything of him.
Speaker 1: I think the last two series of last season, people
Speaker 1: were saying Danny Green, should we should have kept him
Speaker 1: over Shrewder. Um. I just I'm very confused whether people
Speaker 1: are thinking um, because I think that considering that Lebron
Speaker 1: and Anthony Davis got hurt, I think that we're not
Speaker 1: even close to making the playoffs with the group that
Speaker 1: we had last year. You know, we talked about how
Speaker 1: this group was depending on Lebron Anthony Davis. Last season,
Speaker 1: we had zero playmaking outside of Lebron and Anthony Davis.
Speaker 1: I mean, you could say Rondo, but you know, who
Speaker 1: knows what he would have been during the regular season.
Speaker 1: So I just wanted to just get that out there
Speaker 1: that like this, you know, Harold and Shrewder, that they're
Speaker 1: the reason that we're in the playoffs. We're not making
Speaker 1: the playoffs without those guys having good nights during the
Speaker 1: rh of season when Lebron jameson Anthon Davis were out.
Speaker 1: And I'm just thinking this, if you were to ask
Speaker 1: before the season, know, Lebrono, did you get hurt? I
Speaker 1: think that the first question you asked, why do we
Speaker 1: even make the playoffs? And I think this is sort
Speaker 1: of the furthest that you could have gotten considering the circumstances. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean it's funny if you kind of go back
Speaker 1: to like the preseason UM podcasts of a lot of
Speaker 1: Laker kind of podcasts and stuff like that, they were
Speaker 1: I wasn't watching during the Kobe and Check kind of era,
Speaker 1: was really old enough to kind of watched that, but um,
Speaker 1: they were saying, this is the most talented Laker team
Speaker 1: that they've seen in a long time, like and it
Speaker 1: kind of and for me, it's more talented than our
Speaker 1: own nine oh ten teams like that. Just the group
Speaker 1: of talent, the collection of talent was was just really
Speaker 1: high man and I just don't think we ever got
Speaker 1: a shot. But a shrewd run Harold, Like Harold to
Speaker 1: me was a uh innings eater in the regular season,
Speaker 1: a guy that really can just put up numbers and
Speaker 1: really help us through those kind of dog days of
Speaker 1: energy lacking nights. And I think he did his job
Speaker 1: and he brought his energy on those nights. And it
Speaker 1: sucks that in the playoffs that he really got taken
Speaker 1: out of the rotation like this, because Phoenix is a
Speaker 1: team I he can play against. They play Kaminski, they
Speaker 1: play Sorry sometimes we didn't play this series, but Kaminski
Speaker 1: is a guy that can go at it. You know,
Speaker 1: Harold just didn't just the way the rotations worked out.
Speaker 1: But man, this like going after Polinka and after the
Speaker 1: roster construction is so hindsight is and you're right, like
Speaker 1: last year's team, I don't know what putting Danny Green
Speaker 1: and Dwight Howard and Tamail McKee does to a team
Speaker 1: with al Anthony Davis and Lebron for half that for
Speaker 1: like games. It just doesn't make sense. Um, It's kind
Speaker 1: of like the Kyle Lowrydrid trade. In my opinion, you
Speaker 1: get Kyle Lowry, but you get them with no Lebron
Speaker 1: for twenty games, no a D for thirty games, Like,
Speaker 1: what's the point of that. There's no there's no comparison
Speaker 1: to be made. This team wasn't healthy it didn't get
Speaker 1: a chance, so going after the moves in the off
Speaker 1: seasons kind of it doesn't really make sense to me.
Speaker 1: I think you're right with that. That's really all I
Speaker 1: had to say. Thanks, appreciate you. I'm gonna get to
Speaker 1: a get to a couple more here. I've been going
Speaker 1: for like an hour, um, and I'm starting to lose
Speaker 1: my voice. Let's get to uh, two more here and
Speaker 1: get to a couple people him waiting for a while.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get a couple of people at times. So
Speaker 1: if you get up here, I'll kind of just wait, justin,
Speaker 1: are you there? Justin? Hey, how you doing? Man? Can
Speaker 1: you hear me? You can hear what's going on? Man?
Speaker 1: I'm just frustrated with how this season went. I understand,
Speaker 1: and I get all injuries is all part of it.
Speaker 1: I just felt like this team we just never really
Speaker 1: clicked with all those injuries, and even still it felt
Speaker 1: like and then when we got healthy, at least it
Speaker 1: felt like some of our guys we're I guess their
Speaker 1: heads weren't always there. Throw Ouder example of he like
Speaker 1: he was healthy for the majority of the season, but
Speaker 1: then he had those there was times when he just
Speaker 1: was a bone headed So I just wondered if I
Speaker 1: just wondered if half the time we were just going
Speaker 1: walking through the motions of this series, thinking, hey, we
Speaker 1: can get back and we know what it took to
Speaker 1: get there, and just we're trying, We're just going to
Speaker 1: go through the motions of going through it. Yeah, So
Speaker 1: that was kind of one of my issues with the season,
Speaker 1: and a hole like I thought we had. We didn't
Speaker 1: have a respect for the continuity that it takes to
Speaker 1: win a title. And I'm not just just talking about
Speaker 1: obviously Lebron an a deal route, but I just thought
Speaker 1: we were playing a lot of rotations a lot of
Speaker 1: minutes that just didn't make a lot of sense to me.
Speaker 1: And Shrewder was a part of that as well. He
Speaker 1: was a lot of weird rotations and uh, he's a
Speaker 1: guy that's also playing for a contract, Like that's not
Speaker 1: something that's hidden. I don't know if that effects I
Speaker 1: don't think that affected his kind of team play, but
Speaker 1: it's just like you have all these things kind of
Speaker 1: working um against like one team, kind of playing for
Speaker 1: a goal, and uh, like we had we had minutes
Speaker 1: with a lot of like Ben mckamore and like my
Speaker 1: tris Harrold playing next to Mark even Morris, like just linus.
Speaker 1: It didn't make sense to me. And then you try
Speaker 1: to turn a switch on, right, You try to turn
Speaker 1: this switch into the playoffs, like this is go time,
Speaker 1: this is this has to be serious, and you just
Speaker 1: can't turn that switch on. Sometimes it's just not there. Um.
Speaker 1: And that's how a lot of title teams, a lot
Speaker 1: of championship teams kind of lose. And I thought that's
Speaker 1: how we lost, Like we just like that game one
Speaker 1: we kind of sleep walked through and A d even
Speaker 1: talked about it. We didn't have energy for it, like
Speaker 1: that's game one of the playoffs and we just decided
Speaker 1: not to have energy for it. So those are things
Speaker 1: that happened, man, And uh, it sucks that this was
Speaker 1: a year, but it's just like that's how we went.
Speaker 1: We we sleep the walk through a lot of this season, um,
Speaker 1: from a coaching perspective to a player's perspective, a lot
Speaker 1: of just experimental stuff to just you know, go through
Speaker 1: the motions, and and that's how we kind of lost. Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: like get it. Hopefully we can addressing and get ourselves.
Speaker 1: This is a wake up call for some of these
Speaker 1: guys that we and addressed it in the off season
Speaker 1: later on, because I know, yeah, I know, Anthony Davis
Speaker 1: is probably thinking he's getting He's like, I, I get
Speaker 1: the rest up for the Olympics because Team US. I
Speaker 1: think it starts the week after the finals. I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm not really sure if he'll play in the Olympics,
Speaker 1: but we'll see. Um. I don't think any of the
Speaker 1: players who kind of talked about it yet, but I
Speaker 1: feel like most of them are gonna want to just
Speaker 1: rest this offseason. But but we'll definitely see. Um what's
Speaker 1: gonna happen? Justin I appreciate you, man, thank you for
Speaker 1: for coming on, thank you for always listening. I always
Speaker 1: see you in here, no problem. Uh, let's see Mario?
Speaker 1: Are you there? Like this? The last kind of one
Speaker 1: for the night going on? Man? Oh man? That game
Speaker 1: was very depressing to watch. But I kept watching the game.
Speaker 1: You know, I've been I've been watching the Lakers since
Speaker 1: since I was small. You know, I didn't see the
Speaker 1: Kobe and shock and all. But that game was very
Speaker 1: tough for me and for everyone all of us. Um. So,
Speaker 1: now that the season is done for us, now it's
Speaker 1: the OFFSA. You know, I've been thinking about it lately.
Speaker 1: And if we don't get Harold back, which we won't
Speaker 1: and Drummond, I feel like the Lakers should reese. Uh,
Speaker 1: they should sign Damian Jones. I really love the way
Speaker 1: he played those Tink games m hm and bringing a
Speaker 1: power forward, more defense, more three and three and D
Speaker 1: like Robert Cummington, or you know, some more defense and
Speaker 1: more shooting. Yeah, I we'll see. Like Damian Jones, that
Speaker 1: thought did his job. It was great for the Lakers. UM.
Speaker 1: I totally understood going after Andre Drummond. I feel like
Speaker 1: that was a there was a talent gap there, but
Speaker 1: never know how that would have worked out. Maybe he
Speaker 1: comes back. I think Sacramento likes him. I think they're
Speaker 1: gonna try to keep mp um, but yeah, they're gonna
Speaker 1: try to go after some shooting and maybe some more
Speaker 1: you know, athletic bigs. I feel like we were short
Speaker 1: on that this year. We really didn't have a low
Speaker 1: threat next to a d um that can really help
Speaker 1: give just give some pressure off Lebron and and a
Speaker 1: d down there in the in the doctor spot where
Speaker 1: we have however, guy's posting up. We need a guy
Speaker 1: who can catch lobs down there. Drum is not that guy.
Speaker 1: Marcosol is a really great spacer. He's also not that guy,
Speaker 1: so Cam Pastor, Right, So we might might want to
Speaker 1: go after some athletic bigs, athletic wings and some shooting
Speaker 1: this offseason and and there we'll have a lot of
Speaker 1: time to talk about the offseason and uh and definitely
Speaker 1: kind of get into it more. But yeah, that's kind
Speaker 1: of where the baseline is is just going after those
Speaker 1: kind of players. And and the Lakers are the Lakers, man,
Speaker 1: You're gonna have vets wanting to come and and and
Speaker 1: and chase rings and stuff like that at uh, and
Speaker 1: then you get Lebron and a d You'll be You'll
Speaker 1: be fine. So the Lakers will be fine. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: think I think they The season was a little bit
Speaker 1: too rushed for sure, and and I knew something bad
Speaker 1: was gonna happen too, because after that finals running what
Speaker 1: was in November right somewhere around the yeah around there.
Speaker 1: I don't think that was such a good idea for
Speaker 1: Adam Adam Silver to bring back the NBA quickly. I
Speaker 1: think they should have waited until next October. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean they were never going to do that. It was
Speaker 1: a money thing kind of. Uh, they need to get
Speaker 1: it done before the Olympics, and this was the agreed
Speaker 1: upon so everyone can get their money. And then maybe
Speaker 1: they started too soon. You're seeing a lot of injuries
Speaker 1: kind of get come out. All the teams that went
Speaker 1: far in the playoffs last year, um really kind of
Speaker 1: got struck by either injuries or went out early in
Speaker 1: the playoffs. But yeah, that this is what they decided
Speaker 1: in the playoffs are here and the team that wins wins.
Speaker 1: I mean, there's no kind of there's no uh, there's
Speaker 1: no sympathy. The Lakers won their title last year. No
Speaker 1: one has sympathy for them for losing in the first round,
Speaker 1: especially Chris Paul. Chris Paul has never even touched Chris Paul.
Speaker 1: Leave that team to that finals. I think he has
Speaker 1: a good chance when he his first three he does. Yeah, Mario,
Speaker 1: I appreciate you, man, Thank you all right, I appreciate
Speaker 1: your thank you man. I appreciate it. I appreciate everybody
Speaker 1: kind of sticking out, hanging out. I mean, Jason will
Speaker 1: be back to in a pod. He's on, but he
Speaker 1: went to vacation, flew to Aruba, today so he wasn't here,
Speaker 1: but I appreciate everyone has stayed who listened throughout the
Speaker 1: whole season. UM, that really means a lot to us.
Speaker 1: UM the support here and on the podcast has been crazy,
Speaker 1: So thanks everyone. Everyone has a safe night, and uh
Speaker 1: we'll see you guys soon