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Speaker 1: sun to everybody. Hope all you guys are having a
Speaker 1: great weekend. We got a surprise this morning as the
Speaker 1: Los Angeles Lakers make their first trade of the season,
Speaker 1: sending di'angelo Russell and Maxwell Lewis and three second round
Speaker 1: picks to the Brooklyn Nets for Dorian Finney Smith and
Speaker 1: Shake Milton. I'm just gonna give you guys my initial
Speaker 1: impressions on that trade and then we'll get out of
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Speaker 1: on Fridays throughout the rest of this year. So what
Speaker 1: we're going to be doing here to kind of go
Speaker 1: through this, I want to start by just focusing on
Speaker 1: each player that's coming back from the nets individually as
Speaker 1: basketball players. Once we get through that, then we'll kind
Speaker 1: of talk about it in the big picture of what
Speaker 1: the Lakers are trying to accomplish this season. So join Finney.
Speaker 1: Smith is quite literally the stereotypical three and D guy.
Speaker 1: He is a professional defender. He knows his job is
Speaker 1: to play defense, and he does it every night, it'll be.
Speaker 2: A good addition to the motor.
Speaker 1: Issues that the team can struggle with, like an apex athlete. Like,
Speaker 1: he's not as good of an athlete laterally in terms
Speaker 1: of like foot speed and covering ground as like Jared Vanderbilt,
Speaker 1: but he does play hard consistently. He's a good motor guy.
Speaker 1: Brooklyn's scheme involves a lot of switching. He typically would
Speaker 1: guard bigger perimeter players, but he did switch a lot,
Speaker 1: and there were examples, like in the Cavs game in particular,
Speaker 1: where he drew the Donovan Mitchell assignment right out the gates.
Speaker 1: So like, he's pretty versatile in the type of guys
Speaker 1: that he can guard. He's pretty big and strong, but
Speaker 1: like we talked about earlier, not overly quick. That said,
Speaker 1: he's very good with angles, meaning like his approach to
Speaker 1: defense in terms of reading the offensive player and choosing
Speaker 1: how to weaponize his physical gifts translates well to his
Speaker 1: ability to guard different different types of players on different
Speaker 1: types of possessions. So, for example, there was a play
Speaker 1: in the Cavs game the other day a couple of
Speaker 1: weeks ago, I should say, where he ducks underneath the
Speaker 1: pick and Donovan. Mitchell hits the jets and tries to
Speaker 1: turn the corner and get downhill, and instead of like
Speaker 1: trying to slide over and meet him, he picks a
Speaker 1: spot pretty far back around like the second block, and
Speaker 1: like sprints back and even though he's not as fast
Speaker 1: as Donovan, he's able to cut him off take the
Speaker 1: contact in the middle of his chest. Now Donovan spun
Speaker 1: off of that. It hit like a little turnaround, fadeaway
Speaker 1: jump shot over his right shoulder. But the point is
Speaker 1: it's an example of like, Okay, I'm giving up speed here,
Speaker 1: so I've got to pick the right angle to find
Speaker 1: a spot where I can beat him there by virtue
Speaker 1: of the fact that I'm choosing the right angle rather
Speaker 1: than just trying to beat him in a foot race,
Speaker 1: which I'm gonna lose because he's done him and Mitchell.
Speaker 1: So like, as far as the Lakers go, I think
Speaker 1: it's important to acknowledge what he is and what he isn't.
Speaker 2: Here's what he's not.
Speaker 1: Dorian Finneysmith is not the type of defender that you
Speaker 1: feel great about putting on the other team's best player
Speaker 1: every single night. Jared Vanderbilt is that type of guy.
Speaker 1: Jared Vanderbilt is that type of apex athlete, not the
Speaker 1: super vertical athlete, but he's very very quick laterally in
Speaker 1: a way that you feel comfortable with him on the
Speaker 1: other team's best player. That's not a Jared Vanderbilt's issues
Speaker 1: are on the offensive end of the floor. On the
Speaker 1: defensive end, he's pretty far up when he's healthy. He's
Speaker 1: that type of guy. Dorian Finney Smith is not that
Speaker 1: type of guy, but what he is is just a
Speaker 1: really good, versatile defender that fits the Lakers scheme really well.
Speaker 1: The Lakers aren't switching as much as they did to
Speaker 1: start the year, particularly in actions that involve Anthony Davis,
Speaker 1: but they are still doing a lot of switching. And
Speaker 1: when you're doing that sort of thing, the kind of
Speaker 1: defensive personnel you need is just a bunch of guys
Speaker 1: who are pretty good at guarding bunch of different types
Speaker 1: of players. Why, Because you might be a guard who
Speaker 1: ends up guarding a forward. You might be a forward
Speaker 1: who ends up guarding a guard. You might end up
Speaker 1: in a rebound battle with a bigger player or a
Speaker 1: rebound battle with a quicker player, right.
Speaker 2: And so like. For instance, like Austin Reeves. You've talked
Speaker 2: about this before.
Speaker 1: Not the kind of guy that you want to have
Speaker 1: guarding the other team's best player every single night, but
Speaker 1: does a pretty good job guarding guards and does a
Speaker 1: pretty good job guarding forward. So does Dorian Phinney Smith.
Speaker 1: You get Max Christi in the mix right now. Max
Speaker 1: Christy in the starting lineup is the guy who's guarding
Speaker 1: the best perimeter player every night. But like you just
Speaker 1: added another player in Dorian Finney Smith who's pretty good
Speaker 1: at guarding the most the majority of types of offensive players
Speaker 1: that you'll see in the league. So you just feel
Speaker 1: anytime Dorian Finney Smith is on an island against somebody,
Speaker 1: you're not gonna feel like you're completely compromised. You're gonna
Speaker 1: feel like he's got a fighting chance in that matchup.
Speaker 1: So does Austin, so does Max. You're turning Maxwell Lewis
Speaker 1: a guy who was completely out of your rotation as
Speaker 1: a young player that's got a long.
Speaker 2: Way to go.
Speaker 1: And Dangelo Russell, who we're going to talk about, is
Speaker 1: a real loss for the Lakers on the offensive end
Speaker 1: of the floor. You're bringing in a legitimate forward defensive
Speaker 1: weapon there that is real value on the rebounding front.
Speaker 1: He's not the type of rebounder that Jared Vanderbilt, but
Speaker 1: he's a lot better than Torrian Prince was. What I
Speaker 1: see when I see on tape is a guy in
Speaker 1: Dorian Phiney Smith who competes and fights on the glass,
Speaker 1: but again, just isn't that exceptional type of athlete that
Speaker 1: can really dominate the glass on the offensive end of
Speaker 1: the floor. There's not really much to get into with
Speaker 1: Dorian Phinney Smith. He is your textbook three and T
Speaker 1: guy at three and D guy in the sense that
Speaker 1: like he is.
Speaker 2: A very good catch and shoot shooter.
Speaker 1: His numbers as of right now, he's shooting forty three
Speaker 1: percent on catch and shoot jump shots overall, forty four
Speaker 1: percent when he's guarded, forty two percent when he's unguarded,
Speaker 1: converting spot up possessions at one point one four points
Speaker 1: per possession.
Speaker 2: All really good.
Speaker 1: That is a solid spacing threat out there on the perimeter.
Speaker 1: He only attempted eight pull up jump shots, floaters or
Speaker 1: hook shots all season, so he is not the high
Speaker 1: level close out of He's not Michale Bridges beating a
Speaker 1: guy off of a close out and hitting a fadeaway
Speaker 1: jump shot in the mid range.
Speaker 2: That's not what he is.
Speaker 1: He's a wide open catch and shoot three drive the
Speaker 1: close out to either make the next pass or take
Speaker 1: a layup if he's got an opportunity there, same sort
Speaker 1: of thing in transition, running his lanes and getting to
Speaker 1: the corners for three point shots. So, like what that
Speaker 1: basically means is he can function as part of an offense,
Speaker 1: but he's not going to be part of the offensive
Speaker 1: driving force in terms of advantage creation. So like that
Speaker 1: is what you expect from a three to and D guy.
Speaker 1: We'll get back into Dorian Finney Smith in the context
Speaker 1: of the Lakers and their big picture goals here in
Speaker 1: just a minute. I wanted to briefly talk about Shake Milton.
Speaker 1: I don't think Shake Milton is going to be a
Speaker 1: huge part of what the Lakers do. He might play
Speaker 1: a little bit in the d LO role right off
Speaker 1: the bat because Gabe Vincent is dealing with an oblique
Speaker 1: strain and so he might be kind of forced into
Speaker 1: the rotation. But when Gabe gets healed, I wouldn't be
Speaker 1: surprised if if Shake just falls out of the rotation.
Speaker 1: But just so, did you guys know what he is.
Speaker 1: He's kind of more or less a just like an
Speaker 1: average to below average backup guard that you'll find in
Speaker 1: the league. Offensive minded guy. He handles the ball and
Speaker 1: play makes a little bit like you'll see him break
Speaker 1: a dude off with a dribble combination and whip a
Speaker 1: cross court pass to a shooter from time to time.
Speaker 1: Really really good shooter, really really good spot up guy.
Speaker 1: His shooting numbers this year right now forty three percent
Speaker 1: on jump shots, converting spot up possessions at one point
Speaker 1: three to one points per possession, which is obviously through
Speaker 1: the roof good a little bit more advanced close out
Speaker 1: attacking with him, like I think in catch and shoot
Speaker 1: jump shots, he's shooting only thirty nine percent. But he's
Speaker 1: that guy that like gets into that mid to short
Speaker 1: range and a lot of like little pushots, floaters turn
Speaker 1: around like got like a good little turnaround jump shot,
Speaker 1: a little pull up jump shot in that like short range.
Speaker 1: He likes to take it pretty far in like around
Speaker 1: like ten feet from the basket. And that's what it
Speaker 1: makes him a more advanced spot up player, so like
Speaker 1: he can run a little bit of offense. Good spot
Speaker 1: up guy. He was running the backup unit a lot
Speaker 1: of times this year for Brooklyn. On the defensive end, though,
Speaker 1: even though he has good size, like his good size
Speaker 1: six four and a half without shoes on, and has
Speaker 1: a seven to one wingspan, and he's pretty well built,
Speaker 1: like he's a solid like two h five two ten
Speaker 1: in terms of like his physical build, but he does
Speaker 1: not make great use of those tools. He's not very
Speaker 1: quick laterally when you see him on the ball, his
Speaker 1: weight is forward a lot of times, and he has
Speaker 1: a stance open, so like he just gets blown by
Speaker 1: all the time. Doesn't defend well on ball screens, doesn't
Speaker 1: defend well in ISO for being a guy who's pretty big.
Speaker 1: He doesn't defend well in the post either, So like
Speaker 1: the defensive end leaves a lot to be desired. I
Speaker 1: mean for a guy with a seven to one wingspan,
Speaker 1: he doesn't really get much in the way of deflections
Speaker 1: or rebounds. But again, like it's just a depth piece, right,
Speaker 1: Like he's a guard that can play NBA minutes from
Speaker 1: time to time when you need him to. But again,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't be surprised, especially with how well Gabe has
Speaker 1: been playing as of late, if we just see more
Speaker 1: of Gabe and Cam and a lot, and it's just
Speaker 1: being kind of like an Austin Max Gabe Cam type
Speaker 1: of backcourt rotation. But again a guy for some depth pieces.
Speaker 1: So here are my big picture thoughts about how this
Speaker 1: whole thing is coming together for the Lakers. I talked
Speaker 1: a lot about when I looked at like different trade
Speaker 1: kind of like strategies for the Lakers, that they could
Speaker 1: get away with an inferior two or three as long
Speaker 1: as the upgrade they got at the two or three
Speaker 1: is a really high level player. So if you think
Speaker 1: of the Lakers in terms of their core lineup as
Speaker 1: Austin as the one, and Lebron and Ad is the
Speaker 1: four to five, you have these two three spots, right,
Speaker 1: and they've been being filled by a variety of different
Speaker 1: guys over the last couple of years. Rui's kind of
Speaker 1: settled into that three spot, But like at the two spot,
Speaker 1: it's been d Lo, it's been Max, it's been Gabe,
Speaker 1: it's been Torrin Prince, it's been it's been Cam Reddish,
Speaker 1: It's been so many different guys, right, And the reality
Speaker 1: is is neither of those guys are actually the starting
Speaker 1: caliber players at that position. Could Ruey Hachimura be a
Speaker 1: starting caliber four for a good team. Yeah, if he's
Speaker 1: like the fifth best player in that lineup, I think
Speaker 1: he could be.
Speaker 2: But he's a four.
Speaker 1: Is the point Ruey is miscast as a three because
Speaker 1: at the three there are a lot more perimeter defense
Speaker 1: responsibilities that a guy like Ruy's going to struggle with.
Speaker 1: So Ruey's more or less of starting caliber player, but
Speaker 1: he's at a position. And then there's never there's not
Speaker 1: a single starting caliber two on the entire roster unless
Speaker 1: you count Austin who's currently filling that point guard role.
Speaker 1: So like those are the two primary weak spots, and
Speaker 1: so what I was saying in terms of the they're
Speaker 1: kind of like approach this trade deadline is like, let's
Speaker 1: say you get like a brandon Ingram. If you get
Speaker 1: a brandon Ingram, then yeah, I think a max at
Speaker 1: the two is fine. I think a flawed, more of
Speaker 1: a bench player type of guy at the two is
Speaker 1: fine because now you have Austin Reeves, brandon Ingram, Lebron James,
Speaker 1: and Anthony Davis. Right, your top end talent is so
Speaker 1: good that you can kind of craft a small enough
Speaker 1: role there that it's fine but if you don't get
Speaker 1: that type player, in this case a Dorian Finney Smith.
Speaker 1: I only like it in terms of a real ceiling
Speaker 1: raising move for the Lakers. In the context of also
Speaker 1: upgrading that two spot. Max has been playing really well
Speaker 1: this year, but again he's a young player. I think
Speaker 1: this is where it would be cool if you could
Speaker 1: get an upgrade at that specific type of position and
Speaker 1: start to slot everybody properly in the rotation. So, for instance,
Speaker 1: let's look at the two spot right now, you have
Speaker 1: as your bench to Cam Reddish. Cam Reddish has had
Speaker 1: his moments this year, but he's also had his moments
Speaker 1: where he's not that great. Every single time I see
Speaker 1: a play happen, like a play materialize Austin Lebron ad stack,
Speaker 1: pick and roll, help off the corner, Cam Reddish is
Speaker 1: wide open, the ball gets in his hands, he misses
Speaker 1: another catch and shoot three. I always think the same thing. Man,
Speaker 1: It sure would be nice if the Lakers just had
Speaker 1: a better version of Cam Reddish, just like a guy
Speaker 1: who can guard but like that hits that catch and
Speaker 1: shoot three at a pretty high percentage, right, That would
Speaker 1: be amazing. So now you can imagine a scenario with that,
Speaker 1: we look at Max Christi. Max Christy's really developing, but
Speaker 1: he's a young guard. Ideally he'd be in the camspot.
Speaker 1: He is the guy that can guard and we'll hit
Speaker 1: that catch and shoot three. So if you imagine a
Speaker 1: slotting process where we move everything around to where Dorian
Speaker 1: Finney Smith is now kind of like a traditional starting three,
Speaker 1: Ruey is now an overquality Ruey may stay in the
Speaker 1: starting lineup, but Ruey would now be an overqualified bench forward.
Speaker 1: Max Christie slotted as a bench guard looks good. You
Speaker 1: get a starting caliber two in there. Let's just call
Speaker 1: it Bruce Brown for the sake of argument, but it's
Speaker 1: it might be a different player who knows call it
Speaker 1: Bruce Brown. But like, you get that kind of guy
Speaker 1: in there. Now, all of a sudden you start to
Speaker 1: look at it and it's like Austin Bruce, Dorian Finney Smith,
Speaker 1: lebron Ad with a bench group centered around Ruey and
Speaker 1: Max and Christian Cloco, Gabe Vincent. You guys get the
Speaker 1: drill right not to make not to mention the bench
Speaker 1: centers that have been hurt, guys like Christian Wood and
Speaker 1: Jackson Hayes and stuff like that. So like again, they're
Speaker 1: saying that they're not going for the high level player,
Speaker 1: they're going for the moderate upgrade. If they're going for
Speaker 1: the moderate upgrade, that's good. I just think you also
Speaker 1: need a moderate upgrade of that two spot.
Speaker 2: You need to.
Speaker 1: Turn Max and Cam into somebody else in Max. I
Speaker 1: think if you do that, you start to have a
Speaker 1: really strong role player cores and this that kind of
Speaker 1: goes to like one of the new developments that's been
Speaker 1: taking place for the Lakers in recent weeks. Austin Reeves
Speaker 1: was like out of control good against Sacramento last night.
Speaker 1: It was one of the It was one of the
Speaker 1: most Like the Warriors game on Christmas Day was a
Speaker 1: little uglier for Austin in the sense that it was
Speaker 1: a tougher game, tougher opponent. Not everything was as easy,
Speaker 1: but he makes a bunch of huge plays, drops twenty six,
Speaker 1: twenty six, ten and ten and gets the win. The
Speaker 1: winn against Sacramento, Austin was just cutting those dudes up,
Speaker 1: just picking them apart as a ball handler. As a passer,
Speaker 1: his skip passes and pick and roll were insane. He
Speaker 1: was just consistently every time Sacramento brought that low man over.
Speaker 1: He's just throwing that skip pass and it's just landing
Speaker 1: right in the shooting pocket for a guy like Max
Speaker 1: Christy to knock down a shot. Austin has been so
Speaker 1: good on offense as of late, and Gabe has been
Speaker 1: playing better on offense. I think the Lakers are looking
Speaker 1: at the situation and going like, let's anchor this team
Speaker 1: on the defensive end of the floor. I think that's
Speaker 1: probably the right direction for them to go. If you
Speaker 1: look at their recent success since the ugly stretch, and
Speaker 1: I can't remember the exact they were four and one
Speaker 1: and then they dropped the Pistons game, and then they
Speaker 1: won two in a row, right, So that would make
Speaker 1: them what six and two in their last eight if
Speaker 1: I remember correctly. So like this recent stretch that they've
Speaker 1: been playing pretty well, it's been the defense that has
Speaker 1: been driving them by and large, and that is the
Speaker 1: best direction for this team to go. Right, is the
Speaker 1: team that made it to the Western Conference finals. It's
Speaker 1: Lebron and ad focused on defense, but anchor them with
Speaker 1: high level offense. That's what Austin Reeves is bringing, right.
Speaker 1: Austin Reeves is bringing that higher level offensive creation from
Speaker 1: the perimeter anchor. These guys with defensive role players. I
Speaker 1: like that direction. Here's the thing that's important to keep
Speaker 1: in mind. The the D'Angelo Russell loss is real and
Speaker 1: worth and worth uh calling into question here to a
Speaker 1: certain extent, they this year their best plus minus guy
Speaker 1: has been D'Angelo Russell. It's been almost nine points better
Speaker 1: per one hundred possessions for the Lakers when he's on
Speaker 1: the floor versus when he's off, specifically on offense, five
Speaker 1: and a half points better per one hundred possessions on
Speaker 1: versus when he's off. So losing Delo is real. This
Speaker 1: is not just like a oh, Delo's bad, We're getting
Speaker 1: rid of Delo. I have my issues with del as
Speaker 1: a playoff player. When you when the physical intensity picks
Speaker 1: up and the attention to detail matters more, his mental
Speaker 1: focus drifts from time to time, his jump shooting falls
Speaker 1: off of a cliff, and in general he really struggles
Speaker 1: with ball pressure in the intense physicality of the playoff environment.
Speaker 1: So like, I have my issues with Delo as a
Speaker 1: playoff player, but he is a good regular season basketball
Speaker 1: player who really greases the wheels for an offense. As
Speaker 1: a matter of fact, I wouldn't be surprised if Brooklyn
Speaker 1: ends up flipping de Lo again before the deadline to
Speaker 1: a team that needs someone that can run their bench groups,
Speaker 1: like a backup guard, someone that can really help them,
Speaker 1: and Delo is the kind of guy who can really
Speaker 1: help that type of unit. So in this context, it
Speaker 1: it adds a little bit of a complication in the
Speaker 1: sense that this will require Austin and Lebron to be
Speaker 1: very good offensively for this whole thing to work, because
Speaker 1: without Delo, those guys are going to have more responsibility
Speaker 1: to create shots. Also, it at least makes you have
Speaker 1: to consider as you're perusing the trade market to at
Speaker 1: least look at backup guards and guys who could potentially
Speaker 1: help this team on the offensive end of the floor,
Speaker 1: because we have seen this team this season not be
Speaker 1: as smooth offensively as they were in this second half
Speaker 1: of last year. It's been one of the weirder developments
Speaker 1: with this particular team.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: So like losing d Lo, real loss, it's a real
Speaker 1: piece that helped this team on offense. It's gonna put
Speaker 1: more pressure on Austin and Lebron, but you brought in
Speaker 1: a legitimate wing defender that helps this team in their
Speaker 1: switching scheme really well. I like it in the context
Speaker 1: of also trying to support at the two and hopefully
Speaker 1: squeeze Cam out of the rotation and put Max more
Speaker 1: properly slotted as a bench guard. If they can pull
Speaker 1: that off, I think now you're looking at a team
Speaker 1: that has a real defense alongside Austin Reeves, Lebron James,
Speaker 1: and Anthony Davis. And at the level that Austin Reeves
Speaker 1: has been playing, at the level that Lebron's been playing
Speaker 1: as of late, I think you've got a real opportunity
Speaker 1: there to try to make a run again. The last
Speaker 1: piece of all of this is the thing I've been
Speaker 1: talking about with the Lakers all season. When the Lakers
Speaker 1: had their downstretch, when they went on that big road
Speaker 1: trip last month or earlier this month, I should say
Speaker 1: I talked a lot about how I expect this team
Speaker 1: to have more good stretches. There's a lot of teams
Speaker 1: in the Western Conference in that five to eleven group
Speaker 1: that will have good stretches and bad stretches. You watch
Speaker 1: the Suns on the right week or two, they look
Speaker 1: like a team that can win the conference. You watch
Speaker 1: the Lakers on the right week or two, they look
Speaker 1: like a team that is a threat to win the conference.
Speaker 1: You watch Denver on the right week or two, they
Speaker 1: look like a team that can win the conference. You
Speaker 1: watch Minnesota on the right week or two, they look
Speaker 1: like a team that can win the conference. You guys,
Speaker 1: get the point. But if you watch them on a
Speaker 1: different week when they don't have it together, they look
Speaker 1: like a team that could miss the play in entirely right,
Speaker 1: and like that, somebody has to separate from that group
Speaker 1: if they're serious about making a run for the title,
Speaker 1: and that comes down to a consistent effort, energy, and
Speaker 1: focus on the details, the margins that win basketball games
Speaker 1: outside of the talent that you have on your roster.
Speaker 1: I am skeptical about the Lakers and their commitment in
Speaker 1: that department, So even irrespective of any sort of deal
Speaker 1: that they might make, in order for me to believe
Speaker 1: in them, it's gonna come down to a consistent effort
Speaker 1: on those details to become the type of team that
Speaker 1: has the type of habits you need to thrive in
Speaker 1: adversity and win multiple playoff rounds. And the way that
Speaker 1: will manifest is by separating from the pack you're eighteen
Speaker 1: and thirteen. Now, I think if you're the Lakers and
Speaker 1: you want to seriously contend, you got to do what
Speaker 1: Dallas has done. With Dallas obviously since the Luke injury
Speaker 1: has dropped another game. But like, if you look at
Speaker 1: that next tier above number five, those top four seeds,
Speaker 1: they're just a level, just a level above the group below.
Speaker 1: And in that group, if you end up in that group,
Speaker 1: you are demonstrating that you're putting in that effort to
Speaker 1: establish those habits to carry you in the adversity when
Speaker 1: you get to the postseason. Right, Like, again we look
Speaker 1: at last year you lose to Denver. You can look
Speaker 1: at the Jamal Murray shot in game two. You can
Speaker 1: look at the Jamal Murray shot in game five. I
Speaker 1: look at Ruey Hachimura losing a shooter coming off of
Speaker 1: a screen, Lebron James missing a box out. I look
Speaker 1: at a lot of like little details where they lost
Speaker 1: that series that were under their control that go outside
Speaker 1: of like let's just hope and pray that Jamal Murray
Speaker 1: misses a shot. If you're sharper on those details, you
Speaker 1: buy yourself more margin for error, which can be the
Speaker 1: difference between winning and losing that type of series.
Speaker 2: So I'm I'm proud of the.
Speaker 1: Lakers for giving Lebron James and Anthony Davis the support.
Speaker 1: The onus is now on them. Well again, there's another
Speaker 1: part of this. I want the front office to do more.
Speaker 1: But once the front office has finished the process of
Speaker 1: revamping the roster, it is on Lebron James and Anthony
Speaker 1: Davis to lead these guys on the daily process of
Speaker 1: becoming an excellent basketball team. And I'm skeptical, but I'm
Speaker 1: hopeful as a fan that they will apply that type
Speaker 1: of daily process that they need. All right, guys, that's
Speaker 1: all I have for today. Is always, as sincerely appreciate
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