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Speaker 1: talk some basketball. So King's win one fifteen. They started
Speaker 1: owing four, but they're six and two over the next
Speaker 1: eight games. A couple of quality wins in there against
Speaker 1: the Warriors and Calves, although it's been a softer schedule,
Speaker 1: and the other four wins their fourth in offense during
Speaker 1: that span, just outscoring teams twenty two in defense during
Speaker 1: that span. This is a really interesting game because the
Speaker 1: Kings actually ended up taking a nine point lead kind
Speaker 1: of midway through the fourth quarter against Golden States bench
Speaker 1: big shock. We'll get to that in a little bit.
Speaker 1: Then Steph and Draymond checked back in the game, and
Speaker 1: the Warriors immediately go on and run and they take
Speaker 1: a one thirteen to one ten lead off of a
Speaker 1: Draymond lay up, and then from there, over the course
Speaker 1: of four possession the Kings took this game away from
Speaker 1: the Golden State Warriors. On the Draymond make, Darren Fox
Speaker 1: gets the inbound pass and just runs down the floor
Speaker 1: faster than everybody and finishes at the rim. Then over
Speaker 1: the next three possessions, they just spammed Spain pick and roll,
Speaker 1: Darren Fox up top. Sabonis comes and sets the screen.
Speaker 1: Herders underneath the basket. As Fox and and Sabonis are
Speaker 1: are working downhill, Kevin Herder relocates to the top of
Speaker 1: the key. We've talked about that specific play a bunch
Speaker 1: over the course of the last few months on the show,
Speaker 1: so I'm not gonna get into those details right now,
Speaker 1: but that's what they were running. And they got three
Speaker 1: baskets and three stops, and then the game was over.
Speaker 1: On the first one, they ended up getting getting on
Speaker 1: a switch. Sabonus on on lamb underneath the basket, Draymond
Speaker 1: was guarding Fox on the right wing. Draymond just abandoned
Speaker 1: Fox to go help Sabonis. Help on Sabonis, which he
Speaker 1: needed to do. The kickout pass came to Fox and
Speaker 1: he knocked down to three, which, by the way, Darren
Speaker 1: fox is shooting fifty percent on catching shoot threes this year.
Speaker 1: On the second play, Clay actually got over the screen
Speaker 1: and cut Dear and Fox off and it actually turned
Speaker 1: into an ice so, but Darren Foxes went to his
Speaker 1: patented little leaning back fade away pull up two and
Speaker 1: he knocked that down, which, by the way, Darren Foxes
Speaker 1: shooting un pull up two is this year. So a
Speaker 1: couple of bread and butter plays there that had led
Speaker 1: to high quality shots that they knocked down. And then
Speaker 1: on the third one, Darren fox actually rejected the screen
Speaker 1: and went over to the right. Sa Bonus was at
Speaker 1: the top of the key and Draymond was there, and
Speaker 1: Draymond just fell asleep, and Sabonus just cut right behind
Speaker 1: him and got an offensive rebound and put the ball
Speaker 1: back in the basket, So you know, an unusual, uncharacteristic
Speaker 1: defensive mistake from Draymond Green that led to that third basket.
Speaker 1: Suddenly you're down six in the game is over, um
Speaker 1: and that's you know, that's kind of like the the
Speaker 1: problem with what the Warriors are having with their bench is,
Speaker 1: you know, their starters can play really well, but they're
Speaker 1: starting from behind a lot of the times when they're
Speaker 1: coming back in late in these games, like Stephan Draymond
Speaker 1: checking this game down on buy nine. So even if
Speaker 1: you do go on a fifteen to three run to
Speaker 1: take a lead, that should be a fifteen to three
Speaker 1: run that puts the game away, and instead you're only
Speaker 1: up three, and you have a four possession sequence where
Speaker 1: the Kings run some solid offense and you miss some shots.
Speaker 1: Lamb missed a wide open catching shoot three on the
Speaker 1: left wing, Andrew Wiggins missed a wide open catching shoot
Speaker 1: three on the right wing, and the game is over.
Speaker 1: So we're gonna get to the Warriors in a second.
Speaker 1: But that was just that's just another example of this
Speaker 1: problem that's been cropping up for them throughout this year. Alright,
Speaker 1: I had three Kings that I wanted to shout out
Speaker 1: before we move on to the Warriors. First, Darren Fox.
Speaker 1: So he's up to twenty five and six on sixty
Speaker 1: true shooting for the season. I went over his jump
Speaker 1: shooting stats earlier, so I won't do that again. But
Speaker 1: you're seeing what happens when you're a real downhill threat
Speaker 1: combined with real jump shooting proficiency, when you can actually
Speaker 1: make a defender have to make a decision between containing
Speaker 1: the drive and taking away the jump shot. That's what
Speaker 1: makes you impossible to guard. And we're gonna find out
Speaker 1: over the course of the season and just how consistent
Speaker 1: that jumper is, because if this is the way he shoots,
Speaker 1: then he's an All Star. And now we have to
Speaker 1: kind of change the way that we look at the
Speaker 1: King's moving forward. Uh, Sabonus, just classic Sabonus game, just
Speaker 1: bullying everywhere for post position and rebounding position. Had a
Speaker 1: bunch of offensive rebounds in this game, critical ones too
Speaker 1: at the end of the game. He's so good at
Speaker 1: using pump fakes and body angles and his strength because
Speaker 1: he's one of the biggest and strongest players on the
Speaker 1: floor to find openings and score below the rim despite
Speaker 1: not being a great athlete. Then obviously he's always been
Speaker 1: a great passer. Did a great job passing out of
Speaker 1: the post, out of the short roll, even face up situations,
Speaker 1: just grabbing and ripping through to his left and then
Speaker 1: kick into shooters when guys step over to help. And
Speaker 1: then Keegan Murray. This was his second twenty point game
Speaker 1: as a probe. You guys know, I wanted them to
Speaker 1: take Jade and Ivy. I just thought he had higher upside,
Speaker 1: But I understood the Keegan Murray pick. What he represents
Speaker 1: is the perfect type of dude that you love to
Speaker 1: have around your stars. A six eight wing that can
Speaker 1: guard up and down a position, and that can shoot
Speaker 1: the basketball and do some stuff attacking clothes outs and
Speaker 1: he's already really good at those things. This, you know,
Speaker 1: if you're a young basketball player, especially one that wants
Speaker 1: to be a good shooter, he's a good guy to
Speaker 1: watch in terms of his footwork and the way that
Speaker 1: he establishes his base before the ball gets to him
Speaker 1: or before he rises up into a shot. So in
Speaker 1: spot up situations, it's as simple as just already being
Speaker 1: crouched down in a shooting position. But in movement possessions,
Speaker 1: it's moving low and having a nice strong base so
Speaker 1: that when you catch you can just go straight up
Speaker 1: instead of having to dip or do anything crazy to
Speaker 1: establish your base. There. There's one play in particular in
Speaker 1: this game that I want you guys to look up
Speaker 1: if you're if you're a young basketball player is trying
Speaker 1: to be a shooter. He started in the left corner
Speaker 1: and he came off of basically a double wide, pinned
Speaker 1: down and shot a catch and shoot three at the
Speaker 1: top of the key. And on the play, look at
Speaker 1: how low he's running. He's running so low to the
Speaker 1: ground that when he needs to turn that right foot
Speaker 1: around and elevate, his legs are already prepared to take
Speaker 1: on the strength it takes to a stay abolish a
Speaker 1: balanced base off of the move. Because he's moving low.
Speaker 1: Watch him in his spot up situations, he's waiting low.
Speaker 1: Watch him in his movement movement situations. He's moving low.
Speaker 1: It's he's establishing his base before he gets the basketball,
Speaker 1: which just quickens his release, which buys you time to
Speaker 1: get shots off. And he made countless important shots in
Speaker 1: this game. All right, let's talk about some Warriors. So
Speaker 1: they were up a hundred in this game when a
Speaker 1: bench lineup of Andrew Wiggins, Jordan Poole, Covan Luni and
Speaker 1: Dante DiVincenzo and Anthony Lamb gave up a seven oh
Speaker 1: run and then Steph checks back in the game and
Speaker 1: they immediately go on a fifteen three run. And by
Speaker 1: the way, Steph was great in this game. They were
Speaker 1: doubling and trapping him all over the floor, just making
Speaker 1: the right place. Draymond Green, by the way, continues to
Speaker 1: be so highly underrated with what he does offensively for
Speaker 1: the Warriors, making reads out of the short roll, and
Speaker 1: especially in games like this when Steff is getting double
Speaker 1: teamed that when you see it, that's when you see it.
Speaker 1: Right when he checked in, there was a really nice
Speaker 1: like kind of a cross screen action with Draymond out
Speaker 1: of the r out of the left block that got
Speaker 1: him a three in the right corner. Then he had
Speaker 1: like a nasty isolation a step back three with his
Speaker 1: left hand on Davey on Mitchell on the right wing.
Speaker 1: But you go on that fifteen to three run, you
Speaker 1: take a one, one ten lead, and then four possessions
Speaker 1: cost you the game, which we went over earlier. I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna go over again. But that's it. Four possessions.
Speaker 1: And that's the problem that the Warriors are having right now.
Speaker 1: Their bench is making it so that their starting unit
Speaker 1: has an incredibly tiny margin for error. A fifteen to
Speaker 1: three run like the one that Stephan Draymond went when
Speaker 1: they checked in in the middle of the fourth quarter,
Speaker 1: that should put teams away, That should end games, and
Speaker 1: instead it's leaving it, you know, lingering in a in
Speaker 1: a range where you can have a sequence where one
Speaker 1: team executes really well for three or four possessions in
Speaker 1: a row and you end up losing. They lost the
Speaker 1: non Steff minutes by seven points. In this game. They
Speaker 1: lost the game by seven points. I it's it's you know,
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna talk too long about that tonight because
Speaker 1: I've done that so many times over the course of the
Speaker 1: the last couple of weeks. But their bench continues to
Speaker 1: be a legitimate problem. You can't keep bringing in your
Speaker 1: starters with a deficit or losing the advantage that you
Speaker 1: gained during the earlier stretches of the game. You guys
Speaker 1: know where I stand. I would trade a couple of
Speaker 1: the young guys for a veteran wing to bolster the bench,
Speaker 1: But my guess is they're gonna wait a lot longer
Speaker 1: before they decided to do anything like that. One last
Speaker 1: guy I want to talk about with the Warriors, Jordan Pool,
Speaker 1: is having a pretty rough stretch of basketball his last
Speaker 1: six games. Thirteen points, two rebounds, three assists, percent from
Speaker 1: the field uh from three on pull up jumpers for
Speaker 1: eighteen at the rim, twenty four turnovers to just twenty assists,
Speaker 1: and he continues to be really bad on the defensive
Speaker 1: ended for I misquoted once that there he's thirty from three,
Speaker 1: but really not shooting well, not taking care of the basketball,
Speaker 1: not creating shots for his teammates, and struggling on the
Speaker 1: defensive end of the floor. And I thought he really
Speaker 1: struggled during that seven oh run that I referenced earlier,
Speaker 1: the one where UM Sacramento ended up taking a nine
Speaker 1: point lead in the fourth quarter, he took a bad
Speaker 1: quick pull up three and transition that wasn't a great
Speaker 1: look and kind of felt like a bad momentum shot
Speaker 1: that continued to further the run for Sacramento. And then
Speaker 1: the end of the run, he took a bad contested
Speaker 1: three out of the deep corner and the left and
Speaker 1: like he held onto the ball for a long time
Speaker 1: instead of trying to get something else going. He stood
Speaker 1: there in the corner for a while and ended up
Speaker 1: just jacking up a shot. And the problem with corner
Speaker 1: threes is they typically lead to long rebounds, and when
Speaker 1: they go long, they're always funneling back towards the other
Speaker 1: way right because of the backboard. And when you take
Speaker 1: a corner three, you're a defensive player that is as
Speaker 1: far as you could possibly be away from your own basket,
Speaker 1: and it always leads to transition opportunities. Jordan Pool miss
Speaker 1: the three out of the left corner, dear and Fox
Speaker 1: ran out and got to lay up. Now you're down nine, Um,
Speaker 1: Jordan Pool is not going to be traded obviously, so
Speaker 1: he just needs to get back on track offfensively to
Speaker 1: help that bench unit. Alright, Sixers Jazz so uh. The
Speaker 1: Sixers win one oh five nine. Joel Embiid fifty nine points,
Speaker 1: eleven rebounds, eight assists, seven blocks, and he was plus
Speaker 1: twenty seven, excuse me, plus twenty five in a seven
Speaker 1: point win. His perimeter shot was really going in last night.
Speaker 1: It's really been going in all season. Utah tried everything
Speaker 1: Olenk had no chance. He worked Kessler Edwards with like
Speaker 1: the Rondo fake uh in the first half. He abuse
Speaker 1: Ruby Gay a little bit. In the second half, Laurie
Speaker 1: markin and he scored against him. He was hitting shots
Speaker 1: over Jared Vanderbilt. There's just nothing they could do with him. Um.
Speaker 1: Most of his blocks, the seven blocks that he got
Speaker 1: were during his stretch of the game when he was
Speaker 1: guarding Jared Vanderbilt and he just completely ignored him hung
Speaker 1: around the basket. Which again, when when you have a
Speaker 1: big guy who was able to hang out around the
Speaker 1: basket because he's guarding a non shooting threat, that makes
Speaker 1: it so all your perimeter defenders are able to push
Speaker 1: up more on jump shooters because they have leeway knowing
Speaker 1: that Joel Embiid is behind them, and as a result,
Speaker 1: they locked in. They got enough stops and they gotta win.
Speaker 1: You guys know my take on Joel Embiad. He's not
Speaker 1: my favorite player, but for him, everything is about his
Speaker 1: perimeter shot. When teams packed the paint on you, whether
Speaker 1: that's through double teaming or just just zoning up or
Speaker 1: whatever it is they do to make it so that
Speaker 1: you're playing in too much congestion around the paint. You
Speaker 1: have to be able to do one of two things.
Speaker 1: You have to be able to pass the basketball well
Speaker 1: to make teams pay for doing that, or you have
Speaker 1: to be in a great jump shooter. You have to
Speaker 1: be willing and able to knock down shots over that
Speaker 1: paint congestion, you know. For Janice, because the jump shot
Speaker 1: is just so far away, it's about the passing. And
Speaker 1: he's also a very good passer, You're honest, Like Joel
Speaker 1: Embiad is a bad passer, and we're gonna get to
Speaker 1: that in a minute. Joannice is a very good passer already.
Speaker 1: So for him, I'm less worried about the jump shot
Speaker 1: because his passing ability, combined with his ability to force
Speaker 1: teams to pack the paint, turn him into an offensive engine.
Speaker 1: For Joel Embiid not a great passer. He had eight
Speaker 1: assists last night, but he had five turnovers. For this season,
Speaker 1: he has more turnovers than he had assists. So with
Speaker 1: Joel Embid, I'm always looking at the way he's shooting
Speaker 1: the basketball further away from the basket because that's the
Speaker 1: kind of stuff he's gonna have to do to be
Speaker 1: effective when teams really packed the paint on him. Uh,
Speaker 1: this season, he's shooting forty five and a half percent
Speaker 1: outside of the restricted area. Now, we've talked about this
Speaker 1: a lot over the show over the course of the
Speaker 1: last year on the show. You guys remember, in his
Speaker 1: playoff career, you can basically book him to miss two
Speaker 1: thirds of his shots outside of the restricted area. That's
Speaker 1: just what he does every year in the playoffs. He
Speaker 1: makes a lot of perimeter shots during the regular season,
Speaker 1: and I don't know if it's the fatigue and just
Speaker 1: how much more demanding the playoffs are on him physically,
Speaker 1: or if it's the pressure or what the deal is.
Speaker 1: He can't make shots outside of the restricted area in
Speaker 1: the postseason. He also doesn't get to the foul line
Speaker 1: as much, and he doesn't pass well enough when teams
Speaker 1: packed the paint, so has impact. Joe Embid is one
Speaker 1: of those guys who's impact just kind of craters when
Speaker 1: he gets into the postseason. So a big thing to
Speaker 1: watch for him over the course of this next phase
Speaker 1: of his career is how well this perimeter shooting translates
Speaker 1: to the playoffs and if he can get that, if
Speaker 1: he can have a long playoff run where he shoots
Speaker 1: this well, it'll lead to team success, and then he'll
Speaker 1: start entering into those conversations of those who are considered
Speaker 1: the best players in the world, which right now I
Speaker 1: don't think he is. I think Joel Embiad Joel Embiid
Speaker 1: is clearly outside of that conversation. But forty and a
Speaker 1: half outside the restricted area this year, if he can
Speaker 1: maintain that through the season, through the playoffs, through deep
Speaker 1: playoff run, now we're talking about a guy who's every
Speaker 1: bit as good as a Nicola Yokis, who's every bit
Speaker 1: as good as a Janice or staff or any one
Speaker 1: of those kinds of guys, um ladies and gentlemen. The
Speaker 1: Utah Jazz are finally starting to miss some shots. A
Speaker 1: lot of people have been asking me, you know, like,
Speaker 1: how are are the Jazz playing so well to start
Speaker 1: the season, And I don't really think it's that complicated.
Speaker 1: They don't have a star right although Lori Marketing has
Speaker 1: been playing like a star. But they have a ton
Speaker 1: of ball handling and shooting, and they like to share
Speaker 1: the basketball. So it's like a classic concept of you know,
Speaker 1: they're running a ton of high pick and roll, but
Speaker 1: they're screeners are guys that can shoot, so they're picking
Speaker 1: and popping, which renders most drop coverage is useless, right,
Speaker 1: so they're playing teams out of drop coverage or they're
Speaker 1: shooting teams out of drop coverage. And they have such
Speaker 1: a high uh, you know, they have so many shooters,
Speaker 1: ball handlers and guys who are willing to make the
Speaker 1: extra pass that they're just generating a ton of jump shots.
Speaker 1: They're knocking them things down, and their top five in
Speaker 1: the league and assists because they're sharing the basketball. But
Speaker 1: like that, shot making guys just rising up and knocking
Speaker 1: down shots has been a huge part of their offensive
Speaker 1: success to start the season. Before this two game losing streak,
Speaker 1: they had an effective field goal percentage of on pull
Speaker 1: up jump shots, which was seventh in the league. Their
Speaker 1: last two games on pull up jumpers including n on
Speaker 1: pull up three's. Now they're o and two. So as
Speaker 1: you can see, guys just rising up and knocking down
Speaker 1: shots for the Jazz has been a huge part of
Speaker 1: their success. They all they're also third in the league
Speaker 1: and catching shoot makes per game, so they just they
Speaker 1: just part of my languags. Just shoot the ship out
Speaker 1: of the basketball man and that's really all it takes. Um.
Speaker 1: You know, in the modern NBA, when you've got enough
Speaker 1: guys that can do that and can put the ball
Speaker 1: in the basketball, put the ball on the floor and
Speaker 1: renders so many of these coverages useless. But maybe this
Speaker 1: is them cooling off a little bit, and maybe they'll
Speaker 1: consider to start trading some of their pieces soon. I
Speaker 1: don't think they want to disqualify themselves from the Victor women.
Speaker 1: Yama sweepsticks. All right, Wolves Calves, so the Wolves win.
Speaker 1: The Calves are really shorthanded. Had no Donovan mitchell Um
Speaker 1: and no Jared Allen in this game, which is arguably
Speaker 1: their two best players. This was a classic D'Angelo Russell
Speaker 1: and Carl Town's game. Uh, Dilo was just working in
Speaker 1: pick and roll all night long. And the first half
Speaker 1: you was seeing a steady diet of Darius Garland and
Speaker 1: robal Netto. And those two guys are just way too slow.
Speaker 1: So even when they fight over the screen and get
Speaker 1: a late contest, Delos just not even seeing those guys
Speaker 1: because they're too small. Then in the second half, they
Speaker 1: switched Darius Garland onto Jaden McDaniels and they giving him
Speaker 1: a steady diet of like Carris Laverte and Isaac Accorro.
Speaker 1: But at that point he was already feeling himself, he
Speaker 1: already had his confidence in his rhythm, and he just
Speaker 1: kept hitting those tough shots um and then obviously Dealo
Speaker 1: has always been a really good passer at high pick
Speaker 1: and roll, especially when he's shooting the ball as well
Speaker 1: as he is and it dictates more attention. And then
Speaker 1: Carl Town's the usual stuff, hitting pick and pop threes,
Speaker 1: jab step threes and like ISO situations. He beat Evan
Speaker 1: Mobley to the rim off of a pump Bacon ripped
Speaker 1: through late in the game, did the same thing to
Speaker 1: Robin Lopez out of the right corner. He's one of
Speaker 1: the best face up players in the league. With this game,
Speaker 1: the Cow's damn near one in anyway, on the strength
Speaker 1: of a career high fifty one from Darius Garland, got
Speaker 1: crazy hot from three in the fourth quarter, was making
Speaker 1: some really tough shots. Classic I go out of my
Speaker 1: way last week to talk about how I'm concerned about
Speaker 1: Darius Garland's shot making because he's a little bit small,
Speaker 1: and then of course he just goes out and makes
Speaker 1: every single damn shot to drop fifty one against the Timberwolves. UM,
Speaker 1: I know I've talked a lot out about darius defensive
Speaker 1: shortcomings and they're real, Like he could not guard D'Angel
Speaker 1: Russell in this game, and then they switched him on
Speaker 1: too Jaden McDaniels and even Jade McDaniels was scoring over
Speaker 1: the top of him when he would like cut to
Speaker 1: the basket or post ups and things along those lines.
Speaker 1: But make no mistake, he's that classic combination of great
Speaker 1: pull up shooting with a good mid range game and
Speaker 1: the floater and stuff like that that make him a
Speaker 1: really dynamic pick and roll shot creator, especially with his
Speaker 1: well as he passes the basketball. If the Calves do
Speaker 1: decide to make a move on from him to capitalize
Speaker 1: on the rest of the talent on this roster, it
Speaker 1: won't be an easy decision to make because of how
Speaker 1: gifted he is offensively, And no matter what, they should
Speaker 1: absolutely wait till the deadline because you want to give
Speaker 1: this group as much time as possible to try to
Speaker 1: figure out a way to either hide Darius through some
Speaker 1: scheming thing like pre switching or putting him on defenders
Speaker 1: that um like putting him on offensive players like Jade McDaniels,
Speaker 1: but maybe I don't know, teaching him to front the
Speaker 1: post and having him work a little bit harder, just
Speaker 1: try to find a way to make him functional defensively.
Speaker 1: So maybe you don't have to make that trade. But
Speaker 1: here we are and you're sitting at you know, eight
Speaker 1: and five, and you're two and five in games that
Speaker 1: Darius Garland has played. So that's definitely something to keep
Speaker 1: an eye on as the season progresses. All Right, Lakers NETS.
Speaker 1: Big win for the Lakers over a NETS team that
Speaker 1: had won four out of five games. Katie made two
Speaker 1: free throws to get it down seven in the fourth quarter,
Speaker 1: and then Austin Reeves, Lonnie Walker and Anthony Davis just
Speaker 1: took this game over. Very next possession, Austin Reeves kind
Speaker 1: of gets the ball late clock on the left wing
Speaker 1: and has to rescue a possession and makes a really
Speaker 1: nice to dribble pull up going towards the left elbow,
Speaker 1: did a really nice job of taking a really long
Speaker 1: step before that last pull up to get the defender
Speaker 1: to back off a little bit. Rose up, left it
Speaker 1: a little short, but got the bounce on the rim.
Speaker 1: Then on the next possession he runs high pick and
Speaker 1: roll with Anthony Davis. This was just I I tweeted
Speaker 1: a video out of this particular play again, you can
Speaker 1: find it on my twitter feed at under score Jason lt.
Speaker 1: But he gets downhill and draws help. Now I said
Speaker 1: in the video that he made the fourth read in
Speaker 1: the pick and roll because the reads in order are,
Speaker 1: if you're coming downhill and you have a layup, you
Speaker 1: take the layoup. If the big man steps up, you
Speaker 1: have the drop pass to Anthony Davis. If for some
Speaker 1: reason the drop pass isn't open, it's usually the week
Speaker 1: side corner. But on this play, Patty Mills dropped out
Speaker 1: of the weak side wing to the week side corner.
Speaker 1: So the fourth read was the weak side wing. And
Speaker 1: literally Austin gets downhill, palms the ball with one hand
Speaker 1: and elevates, then switches the ball to his left hand
Speaker 1: and hooks throws like a hook pass around the help
Speaker 1: defender that hits Lonnie Walker wide open on the right
Speaker 1: wing for three really really impressive piece of high level
Speaker 1: playmaking from Austin Reeves at a pick and roll. Then
Speaker 1: these were the next four possessions. Lonnie Walker started spamming
Speaker 1: the pick and roll with Anthony Davis, he gets downhill,
Speaker 1: mrs a layup, Anthony Davis tip slam, Lonnie Walker gets
Speaker 1: dow on hill and does a pullback drivel, gets a
Speaker 1: ton of separation, knocks down a fifteen foot jump shot.
Speaker 1: Then he gets downhill and actually makes the layup, and
Speaker 1: then he missed another one of those pullback jumpers, but
Speaker 1: Anthony Davis had Royce O'Neil on him and just went
Speaker 1: right up and uh dunked it in on the tips.
Speaker 1: So like four point game, Katie makes a couple of
Speaker 1: free throws, were heading towards another Lakers collapse, and then
Speaker 1: Austin Reeves, Lonnie Walker and Anthony Davis just took this
Speaker 1: damn game over and then on the other end of
Speaker 1: the floor one of the Again the Laker defense, I said,
Speaker 1: is real, and I believe that truly. It was real.
Speaker 1: You could see it on tape. They were stopping good offenses.
Speaker 1: Then they started ohing five and those dudes quit. And
Speaker 1: I don't blame them. They weren't winning. You want to
Speaker 1: be rewarded for your action. And over the course of
Speaker 1: the last two weeks their defense was awful, but last
Speaker 1: night looked like that Lakers defense that we saw earlier
Speaker 1: in the season. Anthony Davis had a couple of key
Speaker 1: stops on Kevin Durant, including a possession where he just
Speaker 1: straight up denied him the basketball full court on a
Speaker 1: on a critical defensive stop. And then Katie also missed
Speaker 1: a couple of short floating jump shots that he usually makes,
Speaker 1: and then the game was over. Uh. Anthony Davis So,
Speaker 1: first time scoring thirty points in a game since February three,
Speaker 1: which was last season, first time scoring thirty seven in
Speaker 1: the game since May nine of two thousand one. That's
Speaker 1: how uncommon that dominant performance from Anthony Davis. Was absolutely
Speaker 1: dominant on the offensive glass. He had ten offensive rebounds.
Speaker 1: Some of it was bullying, you know, Nick Lackston, Kevin Durant,
Speaker 1: a little bit of Mark Kith Morris, but also in
Speaker 1: the pick and roll switches, just destroying the nets guards
Speaker 1: when they wouldn't do their job of boxing out Anthony
Speaker 1: Davis when there'd be a pick and roll switch. He
Speaker 1: had a couple of nice post moves in the first half,
Speaker 1: and then he had a couple of really nice isolation
Speaker 1: pull up jump shots over Kevin Durant in the second half.
Speaker 1: Just a vintage dominant Anthony Davis performance. This is why
Speaker 1: I hold Anthony Davis to such a high standard. He
Speaker 1: puts up really good numbers on his bad nights a
Speaker 1: lot like Lebron. I constantly when I criticize Anthony Davis
Speaker 1: or Lebron, I'll have people go, like, you know, Lebron
Speaker 1: had twenty five, ten and eight in this game, how
Speaker 1: dare you say that he played terrible? And I'm like,
Speaker 1: Lebron will put up and eight in his sleep. Anthony
Speaker 1: Davis will put up twenty four and thirteen in his sleep. Okay,
Speaker 1: So you've got to pay attention to the difference between
Speaker 1: when they're really impacting the game the way that you
Speaker 1: know they're capable of, and when they're sleepwalking. And both
Speaker 1: of those guys, especially Anthony Davis, over the years, has
Speaker 1: a tendency to sleep balk Lebron. Those performances are few
Speaker 1: and far between, but I call them out when they
Speaker 1: happen as well. Is he is he honest? No, he's
Speaker 1: not gonna. He's not gonna be the best player in
Speaker 1: the world. I think that ship has sailed. He's just
Speaker 1: not fast enough right now, and he's not physical enough.
Speaker 1: But there's no reason in the world why he can't
Speaker 1: average thirty and twelve. That's his basement when he's fully engaged.
Speaker 1: There's no reason he shouldn't be a defensive Player of
Speaker 1: the Year candidate every single year. He is in of
Speaker 1: the heart of the prime of his career. This is
Speaker 1: not thirty eight. You're old Lebron who you can understand
Speaker 1: why he takes a few defensive possessions off. This is
Speaker 1: part of your prime. Anthony Davis one of the most
Speaker 1: physically gifted players in the league. There's no reason in
Speaker 1: the world he should ever average less than thirty and
Speaker 1: twelve or be a top three Defensive Player of the
Speaker 1: Year vote getter every single season. You know, I wanted
Speaker 1: to talk about the Lebron A dpairing for just a minute,
Speaker 1: because any hope that the Lakers have of contending in
Speaker 1: this era depends on those two guys. We talked about
Speaker 1: a lot of the stuff on the periphery, but those
Speaker 1: two guys are also not good enough have not been
Speaker 1: good enough over the course of the last two seasons.
Speaker 1: The front office has made it perfectly clear that they
Speaker 1: don't believe in those two anymore. That's why they didn't
Speaker 1: make a trade. If they believed in Lebron James and
Speaker 1: Anthony Davis. Russ would be wearing a different jersey right now,
Speaker 1: Buddy Yield and Miles Turner would be flanking Lebron James
Speaker 1: and Anthony Davis. They are not. The front office doesn't
Speaker 1: believe if Lebron and comes back next Friday, like there's
Speaker 1: a four full days off now, If Lebron comes back
Speaker 1: next Friday and he plays the way he did against
Speaker 1: the Clippers right before he got hurt, and if Anthony
Speaker 1: Davis continues to play at this level, the rest of
Speaker 1: the team will defend their ass off and they'll make
Speaker 1: enough plays offensively for them to go on a winning streak,
Speaker 1: and they're up on up into a weaker part of
Speaker 1: their schedule their next six games, or the Pistons, the Spurs,
Speaker 1: the Suns, the Spurs, the Spurs, the Pacers. Five, five
Speaker 1: and one is absolutely doable with Lebron James and Anthony
Speaker 1: Davis on the roster, and six and oh is possible
Speaker 1: if you can win a game against the Suns. If
Speaker 1: you go five and one, now you're eight and eleven. Now,
Speaker 1: Rob Polinka and Genie Buss will consider pulling the trigger
Speaker 1: on that deal and then you can go on a
Speaker 1: run with Buddy Yield and Miles Turner against your tougher opponents.
Speaker 1: There was a story from Chris haynes Um for Yahoo
Speaker 1: Sports Law last week or maybe the week before where
Speaker 1: there was like some pretty significant like hints that Lebron
Speaker 1: James and Anthony Davis want a trade to be made.
Speaker 1: They were publicly advocating for it through leaks to Chris Haines,
Speaker 1: but Robin Genie clearly will not do so until they
Speaker 1: believe in that parent. Now. I think that's horseshit. They
Speaker 1: should have invested in them before the season started. They
Speaker 1: set them up to fail by sending them out there
Speaker 1: against that impossible schedule without enough help on the wing.
Speaker 1: Robin Genie, it's a it's an it was a completely
Speaker 1: unacceptable approach from them, but that's their approach. So you
Speaker 1: need to prove to them, Lebron in a d that
Speaker 1: you're worth the investment. And if you do, I believe
Speaker 1: they will invest in this next six game stretch starting
Speaker 1: on Friday, we're gonna find out a ton about what
Speaker 1: Lebron James and Anthony Davis are capable of. And then
Speaker 1: on the Brooklyn that's front. That was a front. That
Speaker 1: was their sixth game in ten days. Five of those
Speaker 1: games are on the road, and this was a back
Speaker 1: to back. They got really sloppy defensively in the fourth quarter,
Speaker 1: So I'm going to kind of give them a pass
Speaker 1: here for fatigue, Uh for fatigue. I really like what
Speaker 1: they're building in terms of their identity. They just need
Speaker 1: to They need to find a way to integrate Kyrie,
Speaker 1: but like a focused version of Kyrie, because they simply
Speaker 1: need the talent and they can't flip him for anything.
Speaker 1: They don't have any real means with which to improve
Speaker 1: the roster. So this is gonna be Katie's biggest leadership challenge.
Speaker 1: He needs to get Kyrie back in that locker room
Speaker 1: and then, as his friend and as the leader of
Speaker 1: the basketball team, beg him to stay on task and
Speaker 1: until the end of June or whenever it is their
Speaker 1: season ends. That then be like, dude, whatever else you
Speaker 1: want to do at that point, go nuts, But just
Speaker 1: for me, man, my friend, please give me this next
Speaker 1: few months. Let's make a run at this thing. We're
Speaker 1: good enough. There's a lot of talent on that Nets roster,
Speaker 1: but not enough. If Kyrie is not there, and not
Speaker 1: if he's fully engaged. Not unless he's fully engaged. Whatever
Speaker 1: it was to start the season, all the bad energy
Speaker 1: and aura surrounding the team, that can't happen anymore. You
Speaker 1: need him to be fully engaged in this version of
Speaker 1: the nets, all right. That is all I have for today, guys,
Speaker 1: Like said, Tomorrow night live on AMP after Grizzlies Pelicans,
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Speaker 1: on YouTube after Warrior Sons. Also on Wednesday, Thursday live
Speaker 1: on AMP for our Power rankings, and then Friday one
Speaker 1: more film breakdown and then we're out of there for
Speaker 1: the week. As always, I sincerely appreciate your guys support
Speaker 1: and I will see you tomorrow. The volume