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Speaker 1: Warriors super entertaining game, very playoff field, not just with
Speaker 1: the intensity and how hard the teams were playing in
Speaker 1: the defense, but also because of all of the matchup attacking.
Speaker 1: That's always reminds me the most of the playoffs because
Speaker 1: it's really it's really a simple. When you get into
Speaker 1: a playoff series, everything is scouted. Everybody knows each other's
Speaker 1: strengths and weaknesses, so you're not just gonna go down
Speaker 1: and run your sets and get great stuff every single time.
Speaker 1: So it becomes kind of more of a personnel matchup.
Speaker 1: You're looking at what personnel do we have that can
Speaker 1: punish specific personnel on their team and vice versa. And
Speaker 1: you saw a lot of like attacking Darius Garland in
Speaker 1: the post with guys like Andrew Wiggins. That's a legitimate
Speaker 1: playoff chess match type of of move that you would see.
Speaker 1: You saw a step attacking the Cleveland Bigs both on
Speaker 1: switches and when they were too low and drop coverage.
Speaker 1: Some of you Celtics fans who watched that game probably
Speaker 1: had some PTSD watching that. Uh, Donovan Mitchell and Carreras
Speaker 1: Lavert attacking Jordan Pool every time they had a chance
Speaker 1: because he's one of the weakest perimeter defensive players on
Speaker 1: the Warriors. Um Steph got a lot of attacks in
Speaker 1: on Darius Garland late in the game because, as crazy
Speaker 1: as it sounds, he's a lot bigger than Darius Garland,
Speaker 1: and Garland's not a great defensive player, but a real
Speaker 1: chess match type of feel, and that type of chess
Speaker 1: match is gonna go the way of the Warriors. As
Speaker 1: I've always said, I don't trust any team in the
Speaker 1: league in terms of of management, coaching, players, experienced, continuity, talent,
Speaker 1: all those things. The way I trust the Warriors in
Speaker 1: a big part of that, that coaching part, that experience
Speaker 1: and continuity part that manifests in these chess matches. And
Speaker 1: it was interesting because, like I'll give you an example.
Speaker 1: So like Donovan Mitchell versus Steph Curry. So Donovan Mitchell
Speaker 1: was amazing in this game. He had twenty nine points,
Speaker 1: ten rebounds, and assists. He made a ton of big shots,
Speaker 1: big plays as a passer. His development as a pastor
Speaker 1: this year as a whole other conversation, like the leap
Speaker 1: he's taken with shot making and with passing has taken
Speaker 1: him from somewhere in the you know twenty range of
Speaker 1: player in the league too, firmly in the top ten,
Speaker 1: maybe even top five this season. That's how much of
Speaker 1: an improvement he's made there. But late in the game,
Speaker 1: when we got you know, into the last handful of possessions,
Speaker 1: he got thoroughly out executed by Steph Curry. He missed
Speaker 1: a couple of pull up jumpers short, which will happen.
Speaker 1: That's that's gonna happen when you're tired, and he was
Speaker 1: probably tired, um, but at he missed a pull up
Speaker 1: jumper on step at the top of the key, like
Speaker 1: a step back, and Steph contested the shot and ran
Speaker 1: out the other way, and Donovan Mitchell kind of like
Speaker 1: on his follow through, just kinda sat there and looked
Speaker 1: at the rim for like three or four seconds and
Speaker 1: made no effort to get back, And like, transition defense
Speaker 1: is all about floor balance. Generally speaking, most coaches will
Speaker 1: tell you, like, if you're you know, in the corner,
Speaker 1: you can crash before you get back. If you're the
Speaker 1: dunker spot, you can crash before you get back. But
Speaker 1: if you're at the top of the key or if
Speaker 1: you're on the wings, the general idea is to get
Speaker 1: back because you're unlikely to get the rebound and in
Speaker 1: all likelihood you're the only guy that has a chance
Speaker 1: to stop in transition. Donovan Mitchell took that jumper from
Speaker 1: the top of the key. He's his primary responsibility is
Speaker 1: in that position after the shot goes up, is to
Speaker 1: get back in transition defense. He didn't. Uh, Darius Garland
Speaker 1: ran back from the wing, but he was late. They
Speaker 1: threw it out ahead to Steph, and Steph got a
Speaker 1: layup that effectively amounted to the final lead. It was
Speaker 1: the last lead change of the game. That's a critical
Speaker 1: defensive mistake from Donovan Mitchell down the stretch of the game.
Speaker 1: Um and then on the dagger three, the one that
Speaker 1: Steph hit, Like, yeah, it was an illegal screen. I
Speaker 1: mean it was one of the worst illegal screens I've
Speaker 1: ever seen. Klay Thompson literally just threw a block. But
Speaker 1: there are probably roughly thirty to forty illegal screens per
Speaker 1: NBA game that go uncalled, and you'll see another half
Speaker 1: dozen or so get called. Right, you can't bank on
Speaker 1: that getting called. And even if it was an illegal screen,
Speaker 1: the way that that action is defended is the same
Speaker 1: regardless of whether it's illegal or not, because there's always
Speaker 1: that chance that Isaac a Coral is going to get
Speaker 1: caught on the screen, even if Clay sets a legal screen.
Speaker 1: Now that specific action, you've got Steff with the ball
Speaker 1: at the top of the on the left wing. He's
Speaker 1: trying to come downhill towards the right and they're coming
Speaker 1: up with Clay, and they usually do one of two
Speaker 1: things there. Most of the time, they run what's called
Speaker 1: a ghost screen, which is really just a fancy way
Speaker 1: of saying that he just slips the screen. So he
Speaker 1: runs up like he's gonna set a screen, but before
Speaker 1: he sets the screen, he'll just vacate out off to
Speaker 1: the left wing and it throws the defenders in a
Speaker 1: loop usually, but in that specific case, no matter what,
Speaker 1: there's only two ways to guard it. You're either going
Speaker 1: to switch it out right because it's a guard to
Speaker 1: guard screen with two shooters. So a coro would basically
Speaker 1: signal to Donovan Mitchell like, hey, you're taking Steff, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna take Clay as he comes off this, or you're
Speaker 1: gonna do a brief hedge before you recover. So Donovan Mitchell,
Speaker 1: as he's coming up behind Clay, which is kind of
Speaker 1: lunge out and just swipe with his left arm, just
Speaker 1: to swipe, just something to dissuade Steph from that easy
Speaker 1: pull up three before he vacates out to get Clay,
Speaker 1: and instead he just did nothing. He just kind of
Speaker 1: jogged behind Clay and stood there while Clay through the
Speaker 1: block and then there was nobody guarding step when he
Speaker 1: knocked down the game winning three. So like at the
Speaker 1: end of the day. That's two players that have both
Speaker 1: played like top five players this season. Both of them
Speaker 1: made top five in my player rankings on Thursday. Both
Speaker 1: of them are playing at the absolute peak of their
Speaker 1: powers offensively. But we got to a chess match at
Speaker 1: the end of the game and Steph made all of
Speaker 1: the winning plays and Donovan Mitchell made critical defensive mistakes.
Speaker 1: And those of you guys who have been watching my
Speaker 1: show all season know that I've been I've been calling
Speaker 1: this specifically out with Donovan Mitchell had made a bunch
Speaker 1: of them against the Celtics as well. He's been particularly
Speaker 1: bad on defense and crunch time this season. That's an issue,
Speaker 1: and that's something he's to work out because that could
Speaker 1: be the difference between him being a first round exit
Speaker 1: type of team with the Calves this year or somebody
Speaker 1: that has legitimate aspirations. Steph made every big play down
Speaker 1: the stretch of this game. They were down eight with
Speaker 1: about four minutes left. After that wild sequence where they
Speaker 1: I think Jordan Pool flagrant fouled Carris Laverd on a
Speaker 1: step back three um, they ended up going up by eight.
Speaker 1: They then every possession down the stretch, it was Steph.
Speaker 1: He hit a three against Jared Allen and dropped on
Speaker 1: the left wing where Jared was way too low. Then
Speaker 1: he got Alan on a switch on the left wing
Speaker 1: and beat him off the dribble, which got Draymond Green open.
Speaker 1: He dropped it off and drey made a basket. Uh,
Speaker 1: there was the relocation three on Darius Garland, so this
Speaker 1: was Uh, this was kind of an interesting play because
Speaker 1: he drove into Darius Garland's chest and Darius did his job.
Speaker 1: He held his ground, took the contact in the chest
Speaker 1: and cut Steff off. But here's the difference. Steph got
Speaker 1: cut off, gave the basketball up, and then sprinted back
Speaker 1: out to the three point line. As soon as Darius
Speaker 1: Garland took that contact contact in the chest, he stood
Speaker 1: up out of his defensive stance and quit on the play.
Speaker 1: So so Jared Allen was like what am I supposed
Speaker 1: to do? When he ran over and threw a late contest,
Speaker 1: but it was too late. Steph was wide open on
Speaker 1: the left wing. That was the three that tied the
Speaker 1: game at eight. So again, good defense from Darius Garland
Speaker 1: for half of the possession, but didn't finish the possession.
Speaker 1: And then on the run out lay up for We
Speaker 1: talked about that that was bad transition defense from Donovan Mitchell,
Speaker 1: and then on the dagger three oh, we talked about
Speaker 1: that action as well. But every single play down the
Speaker 1: stretch from when they were down by eight two when
Speaker 1: they effectively ice the game one, it was Steph making
Speaker 1: the play. In the last three games, steps are averaging
Speaker 1: forty two points, five rebounds, and seven assists on eighty
Speaker 1: two percent true shooting, which is just ridiculous in clutch
Speaker 1: situations this year, So when the score is within five
Speaker 1: points with less than five minutes left, he's twelve for
Speaker 1: twenty two from the field, five for twelve from three
Speaker 1: and seven assists to just two turnovers. He's a You
Speaker 1: Warriors wins away from being the MVP front runner, because
Speaker 1: as good as Your Honest has been, his m VP
Speaker 1: front running status is largely based on how good the
Speaker 1: Bucks have been. In crunch time. He's been you know,
Speaker 1: it's he's playing good on defense, but it's not his
Speaker 1: best defensive season. His perimeter shot has completely fallen apart.
Speaker 1: He's really only dominating in the paint. He's been good, Honest,
Speaker 1: has been honest. He's deserves to be called the best
Speaker 1: player in the league right now. But Staff is actually
Speaker 1: playing a little bit better basketball than him. The team
Speaker 1: just isn't winning enough to make it all work. But
Speaker 1: they've won a couple in a row here, and if
Speaker 1: he can get the Warriors back into that you know,
Speaker 1: top half of the Western Conference standings where they're you know,
Speaker 1: in home court in the first round type of thing.
Speaker 1: At this at the level he's playing, you're looking at
Speaker 1: a third m VP there. Um. A couple of quick
Speaker 1: notes on the guards are on the calves the guards.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be a legitimate issue here because Darius Garland
Speaker 1: was pretty bad on both ends of the floor tonight.
Speaker 1: Pretty bad defensively, which we talked about his offensively. One
Speaker 1: of the things I've noticed with Darius Garland throughout his career,
Speaker 1: a lot of guys compared Darry Scarland to Kyrie Irving
Speaker 1: because he's really shifty guard. Right. I don't really see
Speaker 1: that comparison, mainly because Darius is a better pastor than
Speaker 1: Kyrie Ever was, and then on the offense, like the
Speaker 1: scoring perspective, the Kyrie is just there's a massive chasm
Speaker 1: between those two. And one of the main reasons why
Speaker 1: is Darius Garland, like a lot of young players in
Speaker 1: the league, of young players in general, now shoot really
Speaker 1: far down below, like almost below his chin. That's where
Speaker 1: he starts his shooting pocket. And the problem with that
Speaker 1: is it makes it extremely difficult to get shots off.
Speaker 1: Um there are a handful of guys like step shoots
Speaker 1: like that, but he's one, he's the best shooter of
Speaker 1: all time. Two, he's arguably the best ball handler in
Speaker 1: the league. And three he's six ft three and a
Speaker 1: much better athlete than Darius Garland, so you can get
Speaker 1: to his spots a lot easier. So like he's kind
Speaker 1: of the exception to the rule. But Kyrie Irving elevates
Speaker 1: into his shot and has a higher release point which
Speaker 1: allows him to actually get off shots against elite defense.
Speaker 1: As a guy like Darius Garland, I concerned about his ability.
Speaker 1: I am scerned about his ability to get to his
Speaker 1: spots and knockdown shots against the better defenses in the league.
Speaker 1: And he really really struggled last night. And then fundamentally,
Speaker 1: you gotta look at like, can you win with two
Speaker 1: small guards in your primary lineups that don't defend and
Speaker 1: I mean Donovan Mitchell, he doesn't defend but at least
Speaker 1: he can make some plays with his athleticism on the periphery,
Speaker 1: so he can grab contested rebounds, like and he grabbed
Speaker 1: a huge contested rebound late in this game. I think
Speaker 1: it was when it was or something like that. The uh,
Speaker 1: he's going to make the occasional defensive play with his
Speaker 1: athleticism because he's just such a big, strong athlete at
Speaker 1: the guard position. But you're not getting any of that
Speaker 1: out of Darius Garland. He's just completely overmatched this season.
Speaker 1: When Darius Garland doesn't play their six and oh and
Speaker 1: when he does play there two and four. Now, does
Speaker 1: that mean you trade Darius Garland? I don't know. That's
Speaker 1: not an easy question. I would certainly give this a
Speaker 1: lot longer and ride it out till at least the deadline.
Speaker 1: But there's no point in going down prideful. You made
Speaker 1: a trade for a really good guard that does everything
Speaker 1: that Darius Garland does and does it better and is
Speaker 1: a more functional athlete on your defensive in your defensive scheme,
Speaker 1: although he's flawed there. So yes, I get that you
Speaker 1: drafted Darius. Yes, I get that the fan base is
Speaker 1: attached to him. I'm sure Cavs fans will recoil when
Speaker 1: they hear this, But at a certain point, you gotta
Speaker 1: look at this and go, I've got Jared Allen, Evan Mobley,
Speaker 1: you know I've got Donovan Mitchell. Would I be better
Speaker 1: served it caresul Vert's playing well? Would I be better
Speaker 1: served with a wing out of that specific position? Is
Speaker 1: their team out there? Like? Could I call Toronto and
Speaker 1: try to functionally swap Darius Garland for like an O,
Speaker 1: G N and Noby? Would I be better off if
Speaker 1: I did something like that with Toronto? Appreciate having the
Speaker 1: offensive firepower with all the size that they have on
Speaker 1: the perimeter, Like those are the kinds of questions that
Speaker 1: Cleveland's gonna have to ask themselves as we get closer
Speaker 1: to the trade deadline. Won't do anything now? Too small
Speaker 1: example size. You gotta ride this out to the deadline.
Speaker 1: But you gotta pay really close attention to how you're
Speaker 1: losing these games. And a couple of their recent losses
Speaker 1: have been because of their weak uh size and physicality
Speaker 1: and defense in the backcourt. Last note from the Caves.
Speaker 1: I was so impressed with Evan Mobile last night and four,
Speaker 1: mainly his physical aggression He's still pretty thin, but he
Speaker 1: fights hard for position. He's fearless when he's attacking smaller
Speaker 1: defensive players. He had two specific post moves in this
Speaker 1: game that I like. There was one in the first
Speaker 1: half where he got Andrew Wiggins on a switch and
Speaker 1: he just battled for positions and Wiggins. Wiggins is a big,
Speaker 1: strong man now, and you know, Mobile is still basically
Speaker 1: a kid, and he's jockeying for position against Wiggins and
Speaker 1: actually fights and gets a decent spot on the floor
Speaker 1: about ten ft from the rim, and then just does
Speaker 1: a really physical, like violent ripped through to the baseline
Speaker 1: and finishes with his left hand on the other side
Speaker 1: of the rim. That was impressive. And then he got
Speaker 1: Lamb on a switch in the fourth quarter and made
Speaker 1: a really good aggressive post move towards the middle of
Speaker 1: the floor, made like a sweeping hook shot in the lane.
Speaker 1: That was actually a big play in this game. UM.
Speaker 1: I like him a lot. I like his physical aggression.
Speaker 1: I like how quick his feet is compared to so
Speaker 1: many of these other lanky defensive bigs that have come
Speaker 1: through the league. Um, he's really really exciting and and
Speaker 1: even how good do you gotta feel as the Calves,
Speaker 1: where like you're Darius Garland problem is not that big
Speaker 1: of a problem because how good Jared Allen is, how
Speaker 1: good Evan Mobley is, and how good Donovan Mitchell is.
Speaker 1: All right, let's talk about the Kings and the Lakers.
Speaker 1: So the Lakers took a thirteen point lead late in
Speaker 1: the second quarter of this game, and then they let
Speaker 1: Sacramento get it back to four with like two minutes left.
Speaker 1: Um uh, they were up their team with about two
Speaker 1: minutes left, and by halftime it was back to four.
Speaker 1: And then the rest of the game is really about
Speaker 1: as back and forth as you could possibly imagine, until
Speaker 1: the Lakers went cold at the end of the game.
Speaker 1: Sacramento went on an eight oh run at the end
Speaker 1: of this game. So first of all, um, they get
Speaker 1: a stop, but Anthony Davis gets buried under the rim
Speaker 1: by Sabonis and as a result, there's a rebonding foul.
Speaker 1: I think uh, Patrick Beverley saw him in trouble and
Speaker 1: came flying over and ended up fouling Sabonis on the
Speaker 1: ensuing possession. Harrison Barnes ends up getting a bailout foul
Speaker 1: at the end of the shot clock, so he makes
Speaker 1: two Free throws. Then they go down the other way
Speaker 1: and in pick and roll, Russ just for some reason
Speaker 1: takes an impossible bank shot leaning towards his life and
Speaker 1: misses it very next possession. Um, I was just talking
Speaker 1: about that ghost screen. Actually, I was telling you guys
Speaker 1: about well, I believe it might have been. It was
Speaker 1: either I think it was Terrence Davis, it might have
Speaker 1: been davey On Mitchell, I can't remember, but Austin Reeves
Speaker 1: was guarding one of the other king's guards, but have
Speaker 1: even been Malik Monk, but they ran up instead a
Speaker 1: ghost screen, so like ran past Deer and foxon didn't
Speaker 1: actually set a screen and in in the process Austin
Speaker 1: Reeves froze for just a second but then recovered out
Speaker 1: and Russell Westbrook just just quit on the play, didn't
Speaker 1: didn't switch out to the other uh to the other
Speaker 1: King's guard, and also didn't stay in front of Deer
Speaker 1: and Fox literally just let him drive around. I just
Speaker 1: tweeted out the clip earlier today was one of the
Speaker 1: most bizarre defensive player I've ever seen. Fox just goes
Speaker 1: right downhill and scores. Now it's a four oh run.
Speaker 1: Then they double Anthony Davis in the poet liston on
Speaker 1: the back side of Patrick Beverley ends up missing a
Speaker 1: pretty decent look from three at the top of the key,
Speaker 1: and then Darren Fox hits a really tough turnaround over
Speaker 1: Austin Reeves and from there, Lonnie Walker miss the three
Speaker 1: out of a time out that was kind of like,
Speaker 1: you know, they were already down four at that point,
Speaker 1: and then Harrison Barns made two free throws and then
Speaker 1: the game was over. So, I mean, you know, it's
Speaker 1: kind of a depressing loss of you're a Lakers fan,
Speaker 1: right because you're kind of hanging around the entire game.
Speaker 1: You have a late lead at one, four, one twelve,
Speaker 1: and then you blow it, giving up an eight over run.
Speaker 1: I mean, but here's the reality, Like, uh, I gotta
Speaker 1: Anthony Davis continues to be one of the most frustrating
Speaker 1: players that have ever covered, because like you look at
Speaker 1: the box score, and you look at the production, and
Speaker 1: you look at like the defensive highlights for most possessions
Speaker 1: and it's so good. But the types of mistakes he makes,
Speaker 1: particularly in transition defense and particularly uh in box out situations,
Speaker 1: can be so frustrating. He he got bullied against the
Speaker 1: Clippers in the second half on the offensive glass and
Speaker 1: then critical possession. It's one four, one twelve, there's two
Speaker 1: minutes left in the game. You have the lead, you
Speaker 1: get a stop, and you don't box out Sabonus. He
Speaker 1: buries you under the rim. They get an extra possession
Speaker 1: and that triggers their run. Like that's the kind of
Speaker 1: stuff where it's like, oh, man, Anthony Davis, Like, you
Speaker 1: can't make that mistake as a guy who calls himself
Speaker 1: one of the top ten players in the league, you
Speaker 1: can't make that particularly mistake. Like this season, the bouts
Speaker 1: of bad transition defense and the bouts of bad defensive
Speaker 1: rebounding from Anthony Davis has been really problematic for this team,
Speaker 1: and they've lost games because of it, Like that King's
Speaker 1: game last night. I'm not gonna say that's the reason
Speaker 1: they lost, but that was a big play when you
Speaker 1: had a late lead, and then they lost that game
Speaker 1: up in Denver earlier this season strictly because Anthony Davis
Speaker 1: wasn't running back in transition. Um they were. The Lakers
Speaker 1: in particular, were really struggling with Sacramentos pick and roll
Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter. And if I have some time
Speaker 1: later today, I'm gonna make a video about this because
Speaker 1: I think it's really interesting. So basically, um uh so
Speaker 1: early in the quarter it was Chebezzi met Too and
Speaker 1: Darren Fox and they were guarding it with when you
Speaker 1: in Gabriel and Troy Brown Jr. And so you kind
Speaker 1: of when you're running a drop coverage, like we always
Speaker 1: talked about, guard chases over the top of the screen. Right,
Speaker 1: so Darren Fox is coming downhill, Troy Brown Juniors trailing
Speaker 1: him right when you Gabriel. Because Troy Brown Junior is
Speaker 1: behind the ball handler, he has to step over and
Speaker 1: kind of contain the ball handler while they're getting downhill.
Speaker 1: But there's an important thing that's supposed to happen in
Speaker 1: that coverage. If the guard gets completely out of position
Speaker 1: to where the big has to step up, then the
Speaker 1: guard is supposed to peel off of the guard and
Speaker 1: run down to the big and box him out of
Speaker 1: the lane so that he can't get an offensive rebound.
Speaker 1: And they got killed in that specific matchup because you know,
Speaker 1: like Troy Brown Junior word chase Fox over the top
Speaker 1: when you would step up, Fox would miss like a
Speaker 1: short jump shot, basically being bracketed by when you Gabriel
Speaker 1: and Troy Brown Junior and Chevezi met Too come in
Speaker 1: unguarded to tip dunk the basketball into the hoop. Then
Speaker 1: there was another play later in the like a few
Speaker 1: possessions later. Now Anthony Davis checks backs into the checks
Speaker 1: back into the game, same type of deal. Austin Reeves
Speaker 1: is chasing Deer and Fox over the top of the screen.
Speaker 1: Anthony Davis steps up their bracketing Fox. He misses the shot,
Speaker 1: but Austin doesn't dig down to the big and there's
Speaker 1: Demonis Sabonis making a layup right at the front of
Speaker 1: the rim. So finally, at the end of the fourth quarter,
Speaker 1: they did what you're supposed to do with the peel
Speaker 1: off switches with Patrick Beverley on Deer and Fox, and
Speaker 1: they did it twice, and Beverley did his job, peeled
Speaker 1: over the top, applied some back pressure. As soon as
Speaker 1: he saw Anthony Davis step up to contain, he ran
Speaker 1: down and boxed Demonis Sabonis out. But a d couldn't
Speaker 1: get a damn stop. And two times in a row
Speaker 1: he gave Deer and Fox way too much space and
Speaker 1: he knocked down back to back contested contested jumpers over
Speaker 1: the top, and so that's what's frustrating, is like early
Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter you're struggling because the guards aren't
Speaker 1: doing their job. Then you bring in the guy that
Speaker 1: I've been calling the defensive player or the year, and
Speaker 1: he's not doing his job and he can't get a
Speaker 1: stop on deer. And Fox's a mid level point guard
Speaker 1: in this league. In those isolation situations, office switches and
Speaker 1: so you know that specific action and I'll try to
Speaker 1: break it down in the video later today, Like I said,
Speaker 1: if I have some time, so keep an eye on
Speaker 1: my Twitter feed. Um, but yeah, that was that was
Speaker 1: the specific action that was killing l A down the
Speaker 1: stretch of this game. A couple of quick notes on Sacramento.
Speaker 1: They're up to five and six now, they're five and
Speaker 1: two since their own four start in that span, their
Speaker 1: fifth and offense, twenty defense, eleventh and net rating on
Speaker 1: the season, dear, and Fox is averaging twenty three five
Speaker 1: and six on sixty two true shooting in crunch time
Speaker 1: this season. He's fifteen for twenty four. Excuse me that
Speaker 1: twenty five and six six is just in this last
Speaker 1: uh seven games span when they're five and two UM
Speaker 1: in crunch time this season, Deer and Fox fifteen for
Speaker 1: twenty four from the field, three of six from three,
Speaker 1: and he's perfect from the line. So he's been incredible
Speaker 1: and crunch time, although it hasn't necessarily mounted to wins
Speaker 1: for them in the U in clutch situations over the season.
Speaker 1: Kevin Herder is also having a great season from three
Speaker 1: on eight attempts. Seed another big shot in the fourth
Speaker 1: quarter last night, and then Sabonis made two huge plays
Speaker 1: down the stretch on the offensive glass, one and pick
Speaker 1: and roll and one on that offensive rebound against Anthony
Speaker 1: Davis that I told you about. UM, this is a
Speaker 1: fun team. They don't defend and they're likely not going anywhere,
Speaker 1: so we're not gonna spend a ton of time talking
Speaker 1: about them this season, but they are fun. A couple
Speaker 1: of quick notes on the Lakers. I wonder how much
Speaker 1: longer the upper management is going to watch this team
Speaker 1: spiral out of control. UM, Like it's an hour never
Speaker 1: kind of thing. Now where never was this summer, but
Speaker 1: now it's definitely an now or never. You're two in ten,
Speaker 1: like at a certain point you've gotta if you're going
Speaker 1: to give them a fighting chance. Give them a fighting
Speaker 1: chance now before they're too far below in the standings.
Speaker 1: If you're not going to give him a fighting chance,
Speaker 1: then stop making Lebron play through foot soreness, Stop making
Speaker 1: Anthony Davis play through lower backs soreness. If you have
Speaker 1: are If you do not care about this team and
Speaker 1: you do not care about what they can accomplish, then
Speaker 1: pull the freaking plug before somebody gets hurt, because you
Speaker 1: keep talking about next summer and it won't matter if
Speaker 1: they if one of them suffers a serious injury. So
Speaker 1: like this weird thing where you're like beating the hell
Speaker 1: out of Lebron and Anthony Davis to try to win games,
Speaker 1: but not actually giving them the requisite pieces to compete.
Speaker 1: It's just horrific leadership from the Lakers up top, and
Speaker 1: and I wish they would just pick what the heck
Speaker 1: they want to do. If you don't believe in these
Speaker 1: guys and you don't want to give them a fighting chance,
Speaker 1: then pull the plug before one of them gets hurt.
Speaker 1: All right, that's all I have for today, guys. As always,
Speaker 1: I sincerely appreciate your support. Like I said, we'll get
Speaker 1: to some of the other games from Friday night and
Speaker 1: the Saturday Sunday games on Monday. I will see you
Speaker 1: guys after the weekend.