WEBVTT - Lakers/Sixers Postgame Spaces 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:18.640 M hmmm. Welcome to the State of the Lakers, presented 0:00:18.680 --> 0:00:22.760 by DASH Radio. Happy Thursday, everybody. It's been a very 0:00:22.800 --> 0:00:27.200 important week in Laker Land. We have somebody returning and 0:00:27.280 --> 0:00:29.800 that would be our friend and co host Raj. How 0:00:29.880 --> 0:00:32.440 you doing, buddy. How's your trip to Vegas? It was good. 0:00:32.720 --> 0:00:34.920 It was too long, Like I was telling you, five 0:00:35.000 --> 0:00:38.000 days in Vegas is way too long. After the third day, 0:00:38.040 --> 0:00:40.440 you're kind of ready to come back home. So, you know, 0:00:40.479 --> 0:00:43.440 a nice, nice sleep in your own bed, back to 0:00:43.479 --> 0:00:45.600 your own place, to be able to have, you know, 0:00:45.640 --> 0:00:47.440 your own breakfast and stuff like that. It was it 0:00:47.520 --> 0:00:48.879 was nice. But how are you, man, How are you doing. 0:00:49.600 --> 0:00:51.760 I'm doing very good. It is good to have you back. 0:00:51.800 --> 0:00:54.440 We have a lot to talk about. Um. We're gonna 0:00:54.440 --> 0:00:58.320 talk about this Anthony Davison be battle um because I 0:00:58.320 --> 0:01:00.400 thought it was super interesting and fascinating and as a 0:01:00.440 --> 0:01:03.400 basketball fan, it was kind of the type of matchup 0:01:03.480 --> 0:01:06.960 that you live for. Um. That said, I wanted to start, 0:01:07.040 --> 0:01:09.000 you know, kind of talking about the game in general. 0:01:09.080 --> 0:01:11.240 You know, I thought the Lakers should have been able 0:01:11.280 --> 0:01:13.600 to to to give this one a run for even 0:01:13.640 --> 0:01:16.240 without Lebron. I thought this was a winnable game. Why, 0:01:16.440 --> 0:01:20.440 Because the Sixers have overchead overachieved a bit. They don't 0:01:20.480 --> 0:01:22.320 have a ton of talent in their back court. They're 0:01:22.400 --> 0:01:25.119 leaning on their version of th HD and Tyrese Maxie, 0:01:25.120 --> 0:01:27.120 who was a better player than t HD right now, 0:01:27.160 --> 0:01:31.880 but another young, inconsistent type of guard. And Tobias Harris 0:01:31.920 --> 0:01:34.679 has not shot the ball well this year and has 0:01:34.840 --> 0:01:38.480 not been super consistent, and he's been in talks as 0:01:38.480 --> 0:01:41.280 a contract of the Sixers are trying to get off of. 0:01:41.480 --> 0:01:46.080 But there's this imbid factor and him obviously playing super well. 0:01:46.160 --> 0:01:47.920 But I thought that this was a winnable game. So 0:01:47.920 --> 0:01:50.040 I'm a little disappointed. You and I talked to in 0:01:50.080 --> 0:01:53.720 the text messages about how the Lakers didn't quite approach 0:01:54.040 --> 0:01:56.559 approach the game with the right amount of a belief, 0:01:56.640 --> 0:01:59.520 you know, you know, and just a handful of sequences 0:01:59.520 --> 0:02:00.920 in the game where you can tell they let go 0:02:00.960 --> 0:02:03.440 of the rope because they just didn't think they could win. 0:02:03.520 --> 0:02:05.760 And that became unfortunate because then when they tried to 0:02:05.800 --> 0:02:08.560 make runs later in the game, um, they weren't able 0:02:08.560 --> 0:02:11.560 to sustain anything enough. But I think the main driving 0:02:11.639 --> 0:02:13.880 force behind this, and this is something we've talked about 0:02:13.880 --> 0:02:16.760 a lot on the show is the Lakers are a 0:02:16.840 --> 0:02:22.320 brute force offense. They depend heavily on matchups. They depend 0:02:22.440 --> 0:02:26.280 on Lebron and Anthony Davis in their ability to compromise 0:02:26.320 --> 0:02:29.560 the defense, which then gets the defense and rotation, and 0:02:29.600 --> 0:02:32.520 then guys can capitalize off of that, right, That's kind 0:02:32.560 --> 0:02:36.840 of their formula. So they're not great with offensive sets. 0:02:36.880 --> 0:02:39.839 They don't run super sophisticated actions. They're not the team 0:02:39.840 --> 0:02:42.320 that's going to run down the floor and set fifteen 0:02:42.400 --> 0:02:45.160 screens and a bunch of flayers and hype, you know, 0:02:45.720 --> 0:02:49.520 like really complicated pick and rolls. It's it's pretty basic stuff. 0:02:50.040 --> 0:02:52.400 And so when you take a Lebron James out of 0:02:52.400 --> 0:02:56.080 the equation, all of a sudden, the basic stuff doesn't 0:02:56.120 --> 0:02:58.680 work as well, you know, because you just don't have 0:02:58.760 --> 0:03:01.880 that initial advantage creation. And I thought our offense struggled 0:03:01.919 --> 0:03:05.000 a lot tonight and led to a bunch of poor 0:03:05.480 --> 0:03:08.840 jump shots, which then led to runouts where the Sixers 0:03:08.880 --> 0:03:11.480 were so comfortable in transition, even in beat, it's just 0:03:11.520 --> 0:03:14.040 so comfortable bringing the ball up the floor and making moves. 0:03:14.520 --> 0:03:16.280 And I thought that's kind of where the wheels came 0:03:16.280 --> 0:03:19.680 off tonight. What was your take on that. Yeah, you know, 0:03:19.760 --> 0:03:21.520 like when you whenever Lebrons hits out, you kind of 0:03:21.520 --> 0:03:23.919 moved people up a position, you know, you bring Russell, 0:03:23.919 --> 0:03:26.840 you put Russell Westbrook more in a creation mode. I thought, 0:03:26.880 --> 0:03:28.919 you know, going to into this game, that Malik Monk 0:03:28.919 --> 0:03:31.040 and every Bradley starting was just too small. And I 0:03:31.040 --> 0:03:32.560 thought that kind of played out as the game went 0:03:32.600 --> 0:03:35.440 on to Bias Harris got comfortable even court Mas and 0:03:35.440 --> 0:03:37.800 then we and we doubled and beat on the catch 0:03:38.000 --> 0:03:39.640 a lot. I didn't really like that as a scheme, 0:03:39.680 --> 0:03:41.920 I understood it. I would have liked to see Anthony 0:03:42.000 --> 0:03:43.400 Davis get a little bit more of a one on 0:03:43.400 --> 0:03:45.640 one defense on him. I thought he did okay in 0:03:45.720 --> 0:03:47.840 that matchup and beat again. As a brute force, that's 0:03:47.840 --> 0:03:49.640 just a tough guy to stay off the rim. But 0:03:49.640 --> 0:03:51.480 I thought Anthony Davis did a pretty good job. But 0:03:51.520 --> 0:03:53.160 when Dwight was in the game, we just doubled on 0:03:53.200 --> 0:03:55.680 the catch, which I didn't really understand that. I didn't 0:03:55.680 --> 0:03:57.720 really understand if you're going to play Dwight Howard, at 0:03:57.760 --> 0:03:59.680 least you know, make Mbat work for some of those 0:03:59.680 --> 0:04:02.640 possess sessions, especially doubling one passed away. We just weren't 0:04:02.640 --> 0:04:05.320 connected tonight. And the belief again, I thought, wasn't there 0:04:05.360 --> 0:04:08.200 a lot of babbled passes thumb leak Monk really struggled early. 0:04:08.280 --> 0:04:09.720 I think he had like it was like one for 0:04:09.800 --> 0:04:12.480 five to start, a bunch of uh babbled balls in 0:04:12.520 --> 0:04:13.960 the in the lane when he tried to attack. So 0:04:13.960 --> 0:04:16.000 I thought there's a lot of disbelief lacking there. But 0:04:16.040 --> 0:04:18.600 Anthony Davis being the story, I thought he was amazing. 0:04:18.640 --> 0:04:21.080 But yeah, our scheme against it beat really didn't make 0:04:21.120 --> 0:04:22.800 a lot of sense to be got to the line. 0:04:23.240 --> 0:04:25.080 But Anthony Davis matched him like if you can get 0:04:25.120 --> 0:04:26.880 a D two match in bed, and I think he 0:04:26.920 --> 0:04:29.719 even outplayed him tonight. That should have probably been enough. 0:04:29.800 --> 0:04:31.720 I just thought we didn't defend well enough, we didn't 0:04:31.720 --> 0:04:34.159 get enough shooting. I think I tweated out Anthony Davis. 0:04:34.160 --> 0:04:36.839 I think was like fourteen for thirteen for nineteen, and 0:04:36.839 --> 0:04:39.520 the rest of the team was like fourteen for forty six. 0:04:39.560 --> 0:04:43.040 At one point it was about which is about thirty percent. 0:04:43.120 --> 0:04:44.520 And then if you add Russ in there, I think 0:04:44.600 --> 0:04:46.760 Russ was like five for eleven. So if you take 0:04:46.839 --> 0:04:48.720 those two, the rest of the team really hit like 0:04:48.760 --> 0:04:51.120 six or seven shots in the game was pretty much 0:04:51.120 --> 0:04:53.279 over and uh Philly was able to take over. Man, 0:04:53.320 --> 0:04:54.520 this would have been a great one. I was so 0:04:54.600 --> 0:04:57.000 disappointed when I saw Lebron was out because I thought 0:04:57.000 --> 0:04:58.440 this is something this is a game we could have 0:04:58.440 --> 0:05:00.200 built on. And I feel like if Lebron play aid, 0:05:00.400 --> 0:05:02.680 you get this Anthony Davis type of production. I thought 0:05:02.680 --> 0:05:04.200 we could have one tonight, but we just weren't there, 0:05:04.279 --> 0:05:07.320 didn't defend well enough. You know. Still the Carmelo Dwight 0:05:07.320 --> 0:05:10.720 Howard lineups are still too wonky for me, especially defensively. 0:05:11.120 --> 0:05:14.480 Philly continued to attack Carmelo. He hit a cree jump shots, 0:05:14.520 --> 0:05:16.279 but I think that's just a tough thing to stay 0:05:16.360 --> 0:05:18.880 up on. And again, Malik Monk Avery Bradley played too 0:05:18.920 --> 0:05:21.719 many minutes together. Um, that lineup is just too small. 0:05:21.760 --> 0:05:24.440 It gets a team like Philly. Even when you talked 0:05:24.440 --> 0:05:26.840 about all the time how these contests aren't really contests, 0:05:27.000 --> 0:05:29.480 Danny Green was contested I guess four or five times. 0:05:29.640 --> 0:05:31.880 He still hit three threes because it's like every Bradley 0:05:31.880 --> 0:05:33.920 getting a hand out or two him and stuff like that. 0:05:33.960 --> 0:05:35.440 So I thought that's where we lost the game. But 0:05:35.560 --> 0:05:38.120 Anthony Davis man incredible and credib will get into him. 0:05:38.120 --> 0:05:40.000 But the game I thought was lost by doubling and 0:05:40.080 --> 0:05:42.679 b too much and Philly hit shots and we didn't 0:05:42.720 --> 0:05:45.440 from tonight. Yeah, I'm so glad you brought up that 0:05:45.600 --> 0:05:49.960 having to do with uh, you know, Lebron coming out 0:05:49.960 --> 0:05:52.320 in the continuity, because that was one of my biggest takeaways. 0:05:52.320 --> 0:05:55.480 When I saw that today, I was like, Okay, so 0:05:56.080 --> 0:06:00.159 you're thinking about it back to back here, So is 0:06:00.160 --> 0:06:02.280 Anthony Davis gonna play both ends of the back to back? 0:06:02.320 --> 0:06:06.040 Because the continuity is the number one thing that's missing here. 0:06:06.080 --> 0:06:09.279 I don't need to see anymore of what a Lebron 0:06:09.440 --> 0:06:12.080 with a d off lineup might look like. I don't 0:06:12.080 --> 0:06:14.039 need to see any more of what an a d 0:06:14.279 --> 0:06:17.240 On with Lebron off lineup might look like. We just 0:06:17.320 --> 0:06:19.760 we've seen, we've seen so much of that this year. 0:06:20.080 --> 0:06:22.159 You know, typically in a regular season like back in 0:06:22.920 --> 0:06:25.000 you might be like, oh, a d s off tonight, 0:06:25.080 --> 0:06:27.200 Lebron's off tomorrow. We've got a chance to win both 0:06:27.240 --> 0:06:29.280 games and we can kind of tinker with No, we 0:06:29.320 --> 0:06:31.560 don't need to tinker with lineups anymore. We need our 0:06:31.640 --> 0:06:34.600 guys out there that's what actually needs to happen, and 0:06:35.080 --> 0:06:37.400 so I hope a D goes tomorrow, and I hope 0:06:37.680 --> 0:06:39.800 Lebron goes tomorrow, because if it ends up being one 0:06:39.800 --> 0:06:41.800 of those things where Lebron's like, oh, my knee is fine, 0:06:41.839 --> 0:06:43.599 but then a D takes the night off, that's going 0:06:43.640 --> 0:06:47.400 to be frustrating because then we basically accomplished nothing in 0:06:47.440 --> 0:06:50.280 this back to back. But that remains to be seen. 0:06:50.320 --> 0:06:52.719 I'm really glad you pointed out that thing with doubling, 0:06:52.760 --> 0:06:56.880 because that's a super fascinating basketball concept that is, uh, 0:06:56.920 --> 0:06:59.960 you know, seems simple, but really isn't right. Like, it's 0:07:00.000 --> 0:07:02.120 seem simple, just send two guys to the ball and 0:07:02.160 --> 0:07:04.360 then you make the guy pass out of it, right, 0:07:04.720 --> 0:07:08.640 But if it's when it's done well, it's effective. When 0:07:08.640 --> 0:07:12.720 it's done in a sloppy way, teams will make you 0:07:12.800 --> 0:07:15.200 pay NonStop. And so, like what you were saying, I 0:07:15.200 --> 0:07:18.440 thought it was super interesting. They were doubling one pass away, 0:07:18.480 --> 0:07:21.920 but then they weren't recovering to that first pass, and 0:07:21.960 --> 0:07:25.200 so it was just a quick outlet to that first 0:07:25.200 --> 0:07:27.920 guy and then swing swaying shot or swinging attack, close 0:07:27.960 --> 0:07:31.000 out shot, and it wasn't they weren't making anything difficult 0:07:31.000 --> 0:07:33.560 on embeat the way you're supposed to do that kind 0:07:33.600 --> 0:07:37.800 of double as you immediately cover that first pass away. 0:07:38.080 --> 0:07:40.640 You understand when you double that you're going to give 0:07:40.720 --> 0:07:43.480 away a pass, but you need to give away the 0:07:43.560 --> 0:07:46.720 furthest pass. Why so that if you apply a ball 0:07:46.760 --> 0:07:50.040 pressure on Embiid and you can force him to throw 0:07:50.120 --> 0:07:53.840 something loopy like with a lot of arc on it, 0:07:54.040 --> 0:07:56.880 or God forbid you tip the pass. If you can 0:07:56.960 --> 0:07:59.920 do something along those lines to make that pass slow, 0:08:00.560 --> 0:08:03.600 then you can recover because it's all the way across 0:08:03.640 --> 0:08:05.960 the floor and it's easy to rotate out of it. 0:08:06.040 --> 0:08:08.520 But when you make it easy for them to pass out, 0:08:08.600 --> 0:08:11.920 it's just immediately just you know, pass past swing, swing, drive, 0:08:11.960 --> 0:08:13.280 and it's over, you know what I mean. And so 0:08:13.640 --> 0:08:15.320 that's an important deal, and I agree with you, like 0:08:15.760 --> 0:08:18.960 make it. Make Embiid earn it, earn the right to 0:08:19.040 --> 0:08:21.880 get those double teams, especially with matchups with a D 0:08:22.040 --> 0:08:23.640 and Dwight. Like I get it when it's like, okay, 0:08:23.680 --> 0:08:26.720 we got Stanley Johnson on a switch here. We need 0:08:26.760 --> 0:08:28.440 to scram them out of it. You know, I get that, 0:08:28.520 --> 0:08:31.520 But like Anthony Davis and Dwight Howard, they can at 0:08:31.560 --> 0:08:34.480 least make embiid earn his baskets. And this is the 0:08:34.559 --> 0:08:38.320 key here. Stagnation something we talked about all the time. 0:08:38.440 --> 0:08:42.400 Rods like a possession where Embied takes fourteen seconds to 0:08:42.559 --> 0:08:46.120 stare down Dwight Howard and score over the top of him. 0:08:46.200 --> 0:08:48.240 It's kind of a win for the defense. Yes, it 0:08:48.360 --> 0:08:51.079 results in points on the scoreboard, but it slows things down. 0:08:51.440 --> 0:08:54.120 All of the other defenders on the floor a standing 0:08:54.160 --> 0:08:56.800 still so they get to rest. If he does miss, 0:08:56.840 --> 0:08:59.160 it's usually leads to a run out because guys are 0:08:59.200 --> 0:09:02.480 loaded up and ready to run. Any sort of isolation 0:09:02.520 --> 0:09:07.880 possession that is usually the best possible possession that a 0:09:08.000 --> 0:09:11.200 defense can give up. So my thing is, I'm with you, 0:09:11.240 --> 0:09:14.480 I would have and if that matchup, like especially in 0:09:14.480 --> 0:09:17.080 the Western Conference, it's more like a Yokich kind of thing. 0:09:17.160 --> 0:09:19.160 But I don't think we'll see him beat in the finals. 0:09:19.160 --> 0:09:22.520 But same thing goes with you know, uh Janice type 0:09:22.559 --> 0:09:25.120 of matchup to like make a guy earn that. Then 0:09:25.240 --> 0:09:26.960 if it becomes if it gets to the point where 0:09:26.960 --> 0:09:29.400 he's in such a group where he's burning you every time, 0:09:29.679 --> 0:09:32.480 then yeah, then that's when you make that adjustment. But 0:09:32.559 --> 0:09:35.840 the hard doubles early in the game, unless you're dealing 0:09:35.840 --> 0:09:38.000 with someone like Anthony Davis is just such a bad 0:09:38.040 --> 0:09:40.280 passer that like you can throw him out of the 0:09:40.320 --> 0:09:44.840 game entirely. I just don't really like that strategy. But like, 0:09:45.000 --> 0:09:49.000 just in general, I seemed to me tonight that the 0:09:49.080 --> 0:09:51.600 Lakers at approach the game with the right amount of belief. 0:09:51.600 --> 0:09:53.040 I thought it was a winnable game, and so that 0:09:53.080 --> 0:09:55.719 was unfortunate. Yeah, I felt the same way. You could 0:09:55.720 --> 0:09:57.360 tell from the role players as well. I felt like 0:09:57.360 --> 0:09:59.600 once Lebron was out, the belief was gone. But going 0:09:59.600 --> 0:10:01.520 back to a doubles, we doubled one pass away right. 0:10:01.559 --> 0:10:04.240 It was just too easy. Philly eventually adjusted. They had 0:10:04.320 --> 0:10:06.599 Cork mods throwing the entry pass. So it's basically the 0:10:06.720 --> 0:10:09.439 entry pass goes in Taylor Horn, Tucker drops down, Carmelo 0:10:09.480 --> 0:10:11.600 Anthony is the guy that's supposed to rotate over. He's 0:10:11.640 --> 0:10:13.760 just too slow and it's open three for him. We 0:10:13.800 --> 0:10:15.880 had Motiste Tye will throw it in, and Russell Westbrook 0:10:15.960 --> 0:10:17.920 was really bad at this tonight, Like he would double 0:10:18.000 --> 0:10:20.360 right away off the cutter, and that's like a cardinal sin, 0:10:20.440 --> 0:10:22.880 right in basketball, you don't double off the cutter Matisse 0:10:23.000 --> 0:10:25.120 Eize will throws it in, he cuts Westbrook just leaves 0:10:25.200 --> 0:10:26.559 him and he got to lay up a few times. 0:10:26.559 --> 0:10:28.000 So I didn't like the scheme. I think, like you know, 0:10:28.040 --> 0:10:30.120 in a seven game series, that type of stuff will 0:10:30.160 --> 0:10:31.920 be cleaned up, and those are things that you know, 0:10:31.960 --> 0:10:34.160 I think we need to be coaching game the game. 0:10:34.280 --> 0:10:36.360 I think we're like a game under five hundred now. 0:10:36.559 --> 0:10:39.079 And again, if Anthony Davis wasn't just incredible, I think 0:10:39.080 --> 0:10:42.480 you have like twenty five points or something. I have time. Yeah, 0:10:42.559 --> 0:10:44.400 this game is probably over by the first quarter. Eighty 0:10:44.559 --> 0:10:46.480 was just amazing. And this is the e d that 0:10:46.679 --> 0:10:48.959 one that is the damn title, right. I guess we'll 0:10:49.000 --> 0:10:50.360 move on to him. But yeah, it just didn't like 0:10:50.400 --> 0:10:52.280 the schemes I guess against em Beat and you know, 0:10:52.360 --> 0:10:54.199 don't take anything away from em Beat and Beat is 0:10:54.240 --> 0:10:56.319 a freaking monster. He's playing like one of the best 0:10:56.320 --> 0:10:58.200 players in the world, maybe the best player in the 0:10:58.200 --> 0:11:00.760 game right now, carrying this Philly team. Philly also has 0:11:00.760 --> 0:11:03.240 a Max guy that's just decided not to play this season, 0:11:03.320 --> 0:11:05.960 so uh, and be doing what he's doing is super impressive. 0:11:06.480 --> 0:11:09.280 We we we came into this game deciding to double him, 0:11:09.320 --> 0:11:11.319 and I think that was unfortunately. I wish we kind 0:11:11.320 --> 0:11:13.560 of let the game decide that, Like you said, right, 0:11:13.640 --> 0:11:16.120 let the game decide that you double Joel Embiid, you know, 0:11:16.240 --> 0:11:18.440 just go in and you instantly double him every time. 0:11:18.600 --> 0:11:20.560 That's too easy. And joelan Bead is also not a 0:11:20.559 --> 0:11:22.640 great pastor. I think that's one of his you know, 0:11:23.000 --> 0:11:26.040 worst quote unquote skill sets is his playmaking. We just 0:11:26.080 --> 0:11:28.240 made it too easy for him tonight. And maybe that's 0:11:28.240 --> 0:11:30.280 just a function of what the game was that they 0:11:30.320 --> 0:11:32.480 wanted to do. Didn't want a D I guess having 0:11:32.520 --> 0:11:35.080 to you know, bang with Embiid for a full game, 0:11:35.160 --> 0:11:37.000 him just coming back from injury and all that. A 0:11:37.120 --> 0:11:39.320 D again went down with the risk. I'm glad he 0:11:39.320 --> 0:11:41.600 was able to finish, finish the game. It wasn't too serious, 0:11:41.760 --> 0:11:44.560 but yeah, I didn't like the scheme again against Joel Embiid. 0:11:44.640 --> 0:11:47.000 Could have could have mixed it up a little bit, 0:11:47.040 --> 0:11:49.000 but that's just why. And Philly again hit all their 0:11:49.240 --> 0:11:52.120 all their threes against us. Didn't take Anthony Davis long 0:11:52.240 --> 0:11:53.960 to have a run back to the locker room and 0:11:54.000 --> 0:11:56.679 his return to the Lakers. Did it, you know, not man? 0:11:56.880 --> 0:11:59.840 Has has us holding our heart every single game, and 0:12:01.240 --> 0:12:04.880 so the the actual matchup between Embad and Anthony Davis 0:12:04.880 --> 0:12:08.640 is super interesting to me because they're basically completely different players. 0:12:08.720 --> 0:12:11.080 I think that's a very important detail here. Like, I 0:12:11.080 --> 0:12:15.199 know it's being portrayed as like this classic battle between 0:12:15.240 --> 0:12:17.440 two dominant big men, and don't get me wrong, they are, 0:12:17.520 --> 0:12:21.640 but they both represent two completely different eras of NBA basketball, 0:12:21.720 --> 0:12:25.520 and you know, more or less, they're both completely ill 0:12:25.520 --> 0:12:27.760 equipped to guard each other, which I think is why 0:12:27.760 --> 0:12:30.679 they both had so much offensive success against each other. 0:12:30.960 --> 0:12:34.920 We saw this a lot in the season. Actually it 0:12:34.960 --> 0:12:36.559 might have been, Yeah, it was. It was last year 0:12:36.920 --> 0:12:39.480 in the game where they lost the Philly when Tobias 0:12:39.520 --> 0:12:43.520 Harris made the game winner. In that game, Anthony Davis 0:12:43.559 --> 0:12:46.240 had the most success against them Beat when he stayed 0:12:46.280 --> 0:12:48.840 kind of a little bit disconnected from his body, like 0:12:48.920 --> 0:12:51.640 a little bit further off, you know, and made and 0:12:51.800 --> 0:12:55.880 bead tried to drive into his length where he was 0:12:55.920 --> 0:12:58.400 struggling to find angles to finish it. And in that 0:12:58.480 --> 0:13:01.600 game last season, when a d was attached to em 0:13:01.640 --> 0:13:05.480 Beat's body, it played into em beats physicality advantage. Because 0:13:05.600 --> 0:13:08.000 it's crazy when you watch and beat and Anthony Davis 0:13:08.000 --> 0:13:11.040 staying next to each other, and he makes Anthony Davis 0:13:11.040 --> 0:13:15.120 looks small like a massive human being, and massive he 0:13:15.280 --> 0:13:18.360 is a massive human being. And so when you get 0:13:18.400 --> 0:13:22.120 physically attached to the guy who has the physical advantage, 0:13:22.120 --> 0:13:24.200 it's so easy for him to do a quick pivot 0:13:24.559 --> 0:13:27.800 or that little like imperceptible you know, chicken wing that 0:13:27.840 --> 0:13:29.679 never gets called. You know that little elbow that to 0:13:29.720 --> 0:13:31.760 throw the guy up. You can do so many more, 0:13:32.160 --> 0:13:35.160 you know, physical bullyball types of actions when you're connected. 0:13:35.200 --> 0:13:37.800 And so Anthony Davis, I thought struggled early in the 0:13:37.800 --> 0:13:40.600 game with trying to figure out that right distance. But 0:13:40.720 --> 0:13:43.079 over the course of the game he had some success 0:13:43.120 --> 0:13:45.120 block in a few shots and things like that. But 0:13:45.160 --> 0:13:47.319 then on the other end of the floor and be 0:13:47.559 --> 0:13:50.000 just couldn't stay in front of Anthony davis foot speat, 0:13:50.800 --> 0:13:53.559 and Anthony Davis was able to get plenty of separation 0:13:53.640 --> 0:13:56.080 both going to the basket and getting to his jump shot. 0:13:56.160 --> 0:13:58.160 It really funky shot chart. If you look at Anthony 0:13:58.240 --> 0:14:00.839 Davis's shot chart, everything needs on the left side of 0:14:00.880 --> 0:14:04.280 the floor from fifty feet was money, and then everything 0:14:04.320 --> 0:14:06.080 he took in the middle of the floor on the 0:14:06.160 --> 0:14:09.600 right side was off, which is just one of those 0:14:09.600 --> 0:14:12.320 weird things with basketball. You'll never be able to understand it. 0:14:12.360 --> 0:14:16.520 That's why these analytics people that work for these teams 0:14:16.800 --> 0:14:19.320 have these sorts of shot charts handy so that they 0:14:19.320 --> 0:14:21.720 can look and go like, hey, like, let's try to 0:14:21.720 --> 0:14:23.680 get a d more touches over here, because this is 0:14:23.680 --> 0:14:26.200 where he's more comfortable. Over here, he seems to struggle more. 0:14:26.440 --> 0:14:29.120 But just in general, I really like to see that 0:14:29.200 --> 0:14:33.480 was the most confident I've seen Anthony Davis offensively and 0:14:34.120 --> 0:14:36.520 literally sense the bubble, I can't think of, you know, 0:14:36.600 --> 0:14:39.200 I'll take that back. There was one game against Phoenix 0:14:39.200 --> 0:14:41.200 at the end of the season last year, right before 0:14:41.280 --> 0:14:44.680 Lebron came back, where he looked this confident going to 0:14:44.760 --> 0:14:47.280 his jump shot. But it's been rare. It's been rare 0:14:47.360 --> 0:14:50.000 to see that since the bubble, and so one of 0:14:50.000 --> 0:14:54.040 my biggest wishes was hopefully over this time that he's rehabbing, 0:14:54.480 --> 0:14:57.760 he'll just be repping out jump shots by himself in 0:14:57.800 --> 0:15:00.120 a gym, and maybe he'll be able to read for 0:15:00.240 --> 0:15:02.120 some of that confidence. And he I think he went 0:15:02.200 --> 0:15:04.760 one for two on jump shots, uh the other night, 0:15:04.840 --> 0:15:07.160 and then he made a bunch more tonight, so we're 0:15:07.360 --> 0:15:09.960 obviously a small sample size still, but good progress for 0:15:09.960 --> 0:15:11.800 Anthony Davis in the sense that he seems to be 0:15:11.800 --> 0:15:16.600 regaining some of his perimeter form. Yeah, he's regaining his mobility. 0:15:16.720 --> 0:15:18.560 Like this is the best I've seen him move. He 0:15:18.600 --> 0:15:20.840 had to places tonight where like I think only him 0:15:20.840 --> 0:15:22.840 and maybe like, be honest, are you able to do it? 0:15:22.880 --> 0:15:25.080 Where like Joel Embie did a step back jumper and 0:15:25.080 --> 0:15:26.680 he blocked it, you know what I mean, and Beach 0:15:26.680 --> 0:15:28.520 shoots it from the top of his head and the 0:15:28.600 --> 0:15:30.440 beads already you know, seven foot tall, you put the 0:15:30.440 --> 0:15:32.320 ball over his head. Anthony Dave was blocked out one. 0:15:32.360 --> 0:15:33.720 I think he had another one and be tried to 0:15:33.840 --> 0:15:35.920 like a turnaround and he blocked out one. Just seeing 0:15:36.040 --> 0:15:37.600 you know, Anthony Davis moved like this. This is the 0:15:37.640 --> 0:15:40.600 defensive player we need. Back to back games with four blocks, 0:15:40.600 --> 0:15:43.000 so eight eight blocks in two games. Um, I think 0:15:43.000 --> 0:15:45.440 he's only had he had four blocks this whole season 0:15:45.480 --> 0:15:47.320 in terms of games. So it's just cool to see 0:15:47.360 --> 0:15:49.040 him kind of move his feed. He looks like he 0:15:49.120 --> 0:15:51.920 lost a little bit of weight to b Yeah, it 0:15:51.960 --> 0:15:53.840 looks like he's lighter. On his feet, and that means 0:15:53.840 --> 0:15:55.520 a lot for a player like him. And you know 0:15:55.560 --> 0:15:57.760 the gap from and you know, we do these, you 0:15:57.800 --> 0:15:59.720 do these player rankings and stuff like that. I'm not 0:15:59.760 --> 0:16:01.920 as much into those, but the gap from a D 0:16:02.000 --> 0:16:04.640 as a top ten to fifteen player to a top 0:16:04.680 --> 0:16:07.640 five player is wide right. That's a huge gap from 0:16:07.640 --> 0:16:09.680 what he was playing this from the regular season to 0:16:09.760 --> 0:16:11.920 start this year to what he looked like these last 0:16:12.240 --> 0:16:14.200 Even in that first game, I thought against the nets, 0:16:14.200 --> 0:16:16.920 his offense wasn't there, but his defense to me was incredible. 0:16:16.920 --> 0:16:18.480 He looked like the second best player on the floor 0:16:18.480 --> 0:16:21.160 with eight points for that whole game. So he looks 0:16:21.200 --> 0:16:23.200 good man, and tonight just looked like he's moving well. 0:16:23.560 --> 0:16:25.400 If they're jumper is real, I'm not sure if it's 0:16:25.400 --> 0:16:27.720 gonna hit like tonight, but it just looks smooth. He 0:16:27.760 --> 0:16:29.800 looked confident with it. Um. He had a step back 0:16:29.800 --> 0:16:31.960 game going as well. He had a few jumpers behind 0:16:31.960 --> 0:16:34.760 the backboard. They gave them some isolations and against him 0:16:34.800 --> 0:16:36.640 beat and you're right, he's able to attack and beat 0:16:36.720 --> 0:16:39.080 with his speed, with his handles, get by him. Step 0:16:39.120 --> 0:16:41.280 back jumpers. He just looked good. If this is the 0:16:41.320 --> 0:16:44.080 a D that we compare with Lebron. Man, we're cooking. Uh, 0:16:44.120 --> 0:16:46.240 this is the this I always say, there's a good 0:16:46.240 --> 0:16:48.440 team in here that revolves a lot around a D 0:16:48.560 --> 0:16:51.000 looking like this and Lebron coming back to where he 0:16:51.040 --> 0:16:53.080 was playing. But he looked. He looked incredible. That big 0:16:53.080 --> 0:16:54.920 man matchup was fun, I think and beat again. He 0:16:54.960 --> 0:16:56.960 was playing like one of the best players in the world, 0:16:57.000 --> 0:16:58.960 and I think a D out played him tonight. If 0:16:58.960 --> 0:17:00.760 you get this a D that should get you. That 0:17:00.800 --> 0:17:02.600 gets you some marginal error for the rest of the 0:17:02.720 --> 0:17:04.639 roster here, which I'm sure we'll get to you. But 0:17:04.720 --> 0:17:06.520 Adi looked great. Man. I hope you know this is 0:17:06.560 --> 0:17:08.920 a continuation. I hope there's no setbacks. I hope he's 0:17:08.920 --> 0:17:11.679 able to continue to play, and he plays tomorrow. We 0:17:11.680 --> 0:17:14.040 can finally get another game with the big three. They 0:17:14.080 --> 0:17:17.119 have sixteen games together on this season, I believe, and 0:17:17.200 --> 0:17:19.240 now they're like at two hundred something minutes where eighties 0:17:19.280 --> 0:17:21.119 at center. So we need to get those minutes up. Man. 0:17:21.119 --> 0:17:23.400 We need to get some more reps here and continue 0:17:23.440 --> 0:17:24.720 to build. This would have been a nice win if 0:17:24.800 --> 0:17:27.399 Lebron would have played, but Adi looked incredible. His movement 0:17:27.400 --> 0:17:29.159 was there you know he was. He was running a 0:17:29.160 --> 0:17:31.359 lot more pick a roll, a lot more dribble handoffs. 0:17:31.359 --> 0:17:33.440 He saw him running actors with Leak Monk and it 0:17:33.560 --> 0:17:35.560 looks like he's getting comfortable that second unit. Did you 0:17:35.560 --> 0:17:37.399 see that, Jason? I had that in my notes. I 0:17:37.400 --> 0:17:39.760 thought that was really fun. We had a D Stanley 0:17:40.280 --> 0:17:42.840 Reeves and Monk, and I think that's just a super 0:17:43.160 --> 0:17:49.399 like bouncy second unit. That. Yeah, and it looks like 0:17:49.600 --> 0:17:51.480 that kind of stuff rubs off, not on just Lebron 0:17:51.480 --> 0:17:53.199