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Jabari Smith six to thirteen four 0:02:57.639 --> 0:03:01.440 nine from three twenty two, Tari E eighteen six of 0:03:01.520 --> 0:03:05.360 eleven to a six, Shing Goon fourteen points five of 0:03:05.480 --> 0:03:10.200 ninem and Thompson fifteen points. Reed Shepherd had twelve points. 0:03:10.200 --> 0:03:12.880 He played unbelievable night. Knocked down. Some big shots had 0:03:12.880 --> 0:03:14.800 a big steal to really put the game away, but 0:03:14.840 --> 0:03:17.560 even the guys came up the bench. Phinnis Smith, Aaron 0:03:17.600 --> 0:03:21.639 Holliday and Okogie played really, really well. Joe, I told 0:03:21.680 --> 0:03:23.200 you I didn't like the way the Lakers looked the 0:03:23.240 --> 0:03:25.160 other night, and it was like that, well, were. 0:03:25.040 --> 0:03:26.800 Going back home. We'll take care of that home. 0:03:27.560 --> 0:03:29.959 If you notice these guys, they do a lot more 0:03:30.000 --> 0:03:32.280 moving when Kadie's not there, because it's almost like they're 0:03:32.280 --> 0:03:35.000 looking like, Okay, let's see what Kadie's gonna do. Tonight, 0:03:35.440 --> 0:03:38.080 shing Goon got the ball. Nobody was standing around. They 0:03:38.080 --> 0:03:40.440 were diving to the rim, and they made the Lakers 0:03:40.440 --> 0:03:42.720 play on some back door cuts and over the top. Joe, 0:03:42.800 --> 0:03:44.240 what did you like about what you saw from the 0:03:44.280 --> 0:03:52.200 Houston Rockets tonight to force a game six? Joe, you muted, 0:03:55.400 --> 0:03:55.880 I'm bad. 0:03:57.280 --> 0:04:01.720 They're justins that they made un ojo where the Rockets 0:04:01.800 --> 0:04:04.760 just using their youth. Bro, the Lakers look, you know, 0:04:04.840 --> 0:04:08.320 they look stuck in mud. And that's why I tell y'all, man, 0:04:08.320 --> 0:04:11.119 it's a fine line between winning and losing and the postseason, 0:04:11.440 --> 0:04:14.040 you know what I mean, Lakers went to Houston one 0:04:14.160 --> 0:04:17.960 games what was that three or four? And they won 0:04:18.040 --> 0:04:20.200 game three. They was up three, oh yeah, one game 0:04:20.240 --> 0:04:22.960 three and then come back and come home. Man, you 0:04:23.000 --> 0:04:24.760 think you know, I was thinking they were trying and 0:04:24.800 --> 0:04:26.960 close these boys out, but they never They didn't even 0:04:27.040 --> 0:04:30.000 start the game like you know, like they had that off, 0:04:30.080 --> 0:04:31.839 like they was ready to put these boys away. And 0:04:31.880 --> 0:04:34.600 you give a young team like the Houston Rockets, bro life, 0:04:35.120 --> 0:04:36.640 you don't know who's gonna beat you. You don't know 0:04:36.640 --> 0:04:38.360 who gonna step up and make shots. You don't know 0:04:38.360 --> 0:04:40.960 who gonna step up and make plays. That's a hard 0:04:41.040 --> 0:04:43.400 team to game plan for, you know what I mean. 0:04:43.760 --> 0:04:47.040 And when you look, hell, Lakers ain't getting nothing from 0:04:47.120 --> 0:04:50.000 Luke Canard to night with thirty one minutes. Yeah, but 0:04:50.080 --> 0:04:51.720 you know what Joe he's been. 0:04:51.839 --> 0:04:53.880 I mean, if you look at him since the guys 0:04:53.920 --> 0:04:57.240 have been out, he's playing above his head. And we've 0:04:57.279 --> 0:04:59.839 talked about it. We've never seen him play like this before. 0:05:00.400 --> 0:05:03.200 Now maybe he hadn't got the minutes like this before, 0:05:03.320 --> 0:05:05.880 but Joe, we've never seen them. I mean, a playoff 0:05:05.880 --> 0:05:08.440 career high. He was having career highs. He was shooting 0:05:08.480 --> 0:05:11.800 the ball. He woned what third or fourth three point 0:05:11.800 --> 0:05:15.120 field goal percentage in the NBA. So at some point 0:05:15.120 --> 0:05:17.520 in time, you're gonna revert back to who you are. 0:05:17.560 --> 0:05:20.080 You are what you are, and he just reverted back 0:05:20.080 --> 0:05:21.720 to who he was. He's a role player, he's a 0:05:21.800 --> 0:05:24.480 solid role player. But you're asking him to play thirty one, 0:05:24.560 --> 0:05:27.640 thirty five, thirty six minutes. That's asking him awful lot, Joe, 0:05:27.720 --> 0:05:28.920 go ahead, continue. 0:05:28.720 --> 0:05:31.599 Yeah, you're right, but with him, with them being at home, 0:05:31.920 --> 0:05:33.400 you know, you would think he would play a lot 0:05:33.440 --> 0:05:35.359 better than this. I mean he only took four shots 0:05:35.400 --> 0:05:38.080 in thirty one minutes. I mean, how is that even possible? 0:05:38.720 --> 0:05:42.280 Seeing that the way he's played throughout this whole entire series. 0:05:42.680 --> 0:05:44.120 You know, I thought they got I thought the Lakers 0:05:44.120 --> 0:05:47.120 got some good production from from from from different guys. 0:05:47.160 --> 0:05:51.000 But scoring ninety three points, Ojo, It's gonna be hard 0:05:51.000 --> 0:05:55.000 to win like that, Bro, It's gonna be hard to win. Really. 0:05:55.040 --> 0:05:57.119 For me, the only person that really impressed me tonight 0:05:57.240 --> 0:05:59.600 was DA. I thought, d A's this is what I've 0:05:59.600 --> 0:06:01.480 been looking for from D eight. He gave us, he 0:06:01.520 --> 0:06:04.480 gave you, he gave you eighteen and seventeen. Lebron nine 0:06:04.560 --> 0:06:06.960 or twenty from the floor. Ruy was five or eleven 0:06:07.000 --> 0:06:10.520 from the floor. Marcus Mart with three. Marcus Mart had 0:06:10.560 --> 0:06:13.720 more turnovers than assists. He was three of seven. All 0:06:13.720 --> 0:06:15.440 of his shots were from the three point line. Luke 0:06:15.520 --> 0:06:18.760 Kennard was over over two from the uh and Austin 0:06:18.800 --> 0:06:21.200 Reeves came back. He was twelve or thirteen. He was aggressive, 0:06:21.400 --> 0:06:23.400 but he was four or sixteen from the floor. It's 0:06:23.480 --> 0:06:26.760 just hard to win like that. And you look at 0:06:27.040 --> 0:06:29.480 the three point shot, they're seven to twenty seven. And 0:06:29.520 --> 0:06:32.040 I thought the Rockets knocked down some big shots. I 0:06:32.040 --> 0:06:33.960 thought they had guys in their face. Now some of 0:06:34.000 --> 0:06:36.320 the guys were open. They gotta pay, They gotta pay 0:06:36.320 --> 0:06:38.479 better attention. And the Lakers don't do a good job 0:06:38.520 --> 0:06:41.320 of defending because what happens. They get beat off the dribble, 0:06:41.520 --> 0:06:43.680 somebody comes to help, and now you got to kick 0:06:43.680 --> 0:06:45.280 in the corner or you gotta kick to the top 0:06:45.279 --> 0:06:47.080 of the key, and the guy's shooting a wide open three. 0:06:47.240 --> 0:06:48.840 They got to do a better job of staying in 0:06:48.880 --> 0:06:51.320 front of their guys. It's really that simple. And you 0:06:51.360 --> 0:06:54.279 know what, let Shin gooon goes go off, but you 0:06:54.320 --> 0:06:57.200 can't give up dunks and layups, Joe, because you're coming 0:06:57.240 --> 0:06:59.400 to double And he spins around and sees the guy 0:06:59.440 --> 0:07:01.360 dive into the and gives it to him and he 0:07:01.400 --> 0:07:02.680 either dunked the ball or layer up. 0:07:02.960 --> 0:07:05.800 Just let shin gun say. 0:07:04.360 --> 0:07:09.960 A uh d A you on your on the night, Yeah, 0:07:10.240 --> 0:07:12.120 on the night, I wondered, you gotta play you gotta 0:07:12.120 --> 0:07:14.680 play him square up? Yeah, when when you look at it, 0:07:15.400 --> 0:07:18.160 I wonder did the Lakers, you know, take Houston for 0:07:18.240 --> 0:07:21.520 granted this last Yeah? I mean you know you still 0:07:21.560 --> 0:07:23.280 know Kdie, You still ain't got a lot of your 0:07:23.320 --> 0:07:26.080 Vengero guys out. I think they thought they was gonna 0:07:26.080 --> 0:07:28.040 come out hend and just walk the dog on these boys. 0:07:28.040 --> 0:07:30.960 But the energy and effort wasn't there from the jump, 0:07:32.200 --> 0:07:34.800 you know what I mean, Like Staples wasn't like I 0:07:34.840 --> 0:07:35.600 mean not Staples. 0:07:35.640 --> 0:07:38.040 It wasn't buzzing Crypto, It wasn't. It wasn't buzzing like 0:07:38.040 --> 0:07:39.600 it normally was. You know what I mean. They never 0:07:39.600 --> 0:07:42.040 could get the grab the crowd into it to kind 0:07:42.040 --> 0:07:44.240 of make those runs. Yeah, they try to make a 0:07:44.320 --> 0:07:46.880 late surge, but it was too late, man, it was 0:07:46.880 --> 0:07:48.880 too late. You gotta get Houston. A lot of critic 0:07:48.920 --> 0:07:50.640 give them young boys credit man to come in that 0:07:50.680 --> 0:07:53.080 hostile environment like that, knowing that they was on the 0:07:53.120 --> 0:07:55.720 brink if they if they didn't win, it was a 0:07:55.800 --> 0:07:58.520 rap and he they showed a lot of maturity tonight. 0:07:58.960 --> 0:08:00.880 Hey hey, uncle Joe, what's that man? 0:08:02.200 --> 0:08:06.119 Them boys came out flat from the beginning, obviously knowing 0:08:06.160 --> 0:08:07.480 that youth is against you. 0:08:07.800 --> 0:08:10.280 Yeah, you want to come out and set the tone early. 0:08:10.440 --> 0:08:12.960 You're playing at home with the opportunity to close these 0:08:13.000 --> 0:08:16.600 young bulls out, the fact that they don't have Katie playing, 0:08:17.200 --> 0:08:18.800 you know, it should be one up. I think the 0:08:18.840 --> 0:08:22.239 inconsistencies when it comes to certain players with the Lakers. 0:08:22.400 --> 0:08:24.160 You don't know what you're gonna get in which night, 0:08:24.560 --> 0:08:26.760 DeAndre Aiden. I mean, this is what we need from 0:08:26.760 --> 0:08:30.040 you every night. No, I mean you talk about it 0:08:30.040 --> 0:08:32.120 all the time. Hell, you don't know what you're gonna 0:08:32.120 --> 0:08:34.920 get from Luke nar I mean, I like what unc said. 0:08:35.120 --> 0:08:38.240 You know, he'd been playing way above what's expected of him, 0:08:38.280 --> 0:08:40.600 so he's bound to have a night and revert back to. 0:08:40.800 --> 0:08:42.000 You know who he truly is. 0:08:42.480 --> 0:08:44.320 I mean, Lebron can only do so much, you know, 0:08:44.360 --> 0:08:46.719 Mark Smart did did what need to do and aus three. 0:08:46.760 --> 0:08:47.599 We're gonna be all three in. 0:08:47.679 --> 0:08:49.800 But they don't have anybody that can consistently you can 0:08:49.840 --> 0:08:52.000 count on and be like, this is what our number 0:08:52.080 --> 0:08:54.360 is gonna be. We just need everybody else around us 0:08:54.480 --> 0:08:55.840 to contribute just a little bit. 0:08:57.360 --> 0:08:57.680 Might be. 0:08:58.040 --> 0:08:59.720 I'm not sure how many times the team has come 0:08:59.760 --> 0:09:00.520 back three. 0:09:00.320 --> 0:09:05.960 That three, three, none, zero, one nine. It never happened, yep, 0:09:06.200 --> 0:09:08.320 but eventually it's gonna happen. And I said that said 0:09:08.320 --> 0:09:10.520 at the beginning, serious, you know, when they got up 0:09:10.520 --> 0:09:12.480 three ozer Joe, I said, nobody's ever come back. The 0:09:12.559 --> 0:09:15.319 only time it's ever happened. Well, and I think it 0:09:15.400 --> 0:09:18.600 might have happened in hockey once, but it happened in baseball. 0:09:18.640 --> 0:09:20.400 The Yankees were up three to zero in the Red Sox, 0:09:20.440 --> 0:09:23.240 and the Red Sox came back. It's never happened in basketball. 0:09:23.400 --> 0:09:25.600 But eventually it's gonna happen. Just like nobody had ever 0:09:25.600 --> 0:09:27.120 come back from three to one down in the NBA 0:09:27.200 --> 0:09:30.360 Finals and it happened. It's going to happen. The low 0:09:30.480 --> 0:09:32.920 Averages says, it's gonna happen. You just don't want it 0:09:32.920 --> 0:09:34.880 to happen to the team. That you're on or happened 0:09:34.920 --> 0:09:36.480 to the team that you happen to be rooting for. 0:09:36.760 --> 0:09:39.040 But it's going to happen eventually, and this might be 0:09:39.120 --> 0:09:41.320 the series because the Rockets have confidence. 0:09:41.440 --> 0:09:42.800 And I told you, I said, what's gonna happen. 0:09:42.840 --> 0:09:45.120 They win this game, they win Game four, they go 0:09:45.200 --> 0:09:47.520 back and still game five, it says, okay, we're gonna 0:09:47.520 --> 0:09:51.520 get game six at our place. All the pressure now 0:09:51.640 --> 0:09:55.560 goes to them in Game seven. At some point in time. 0:09:55.640 --> 0:09:58.800 Lebron's gonna need He got aggressive late, but he came 0:09:58.840 --> 0:10:01.440 out again. What we trying to do. Get everybody involved, 0:10:02.600 --> 0:10:05.760 Get everybody involved. And when guys ain't making no shot, 0:10:06.000 --> 0:10:10.000 he's not a guy that can he forty one. Yeah, 0:10:10.240 --> 0:10:12.200 what you could do at twenty eight, what you could 0:10:12.200 --> 0:10:14.800 do at thirty two. Get everybody involved and not getting it, 0:10:14.880 --> 0:10:17.480 get yourself going. It gets hard and harder for the 0:10:17.520 --> 0:10:20.480 old Carter Crank and Marcus Smart started off turning the 0:10:20.480 --> 0:10:22.960 ball over. Bro, you're not in church. Stop raising your 0:10:22.960 --> 0:10:24.720 hand when you turn the ball over. Just stop turning 0:10:24.760 --> 0:10:25.080 it over. 0:10:25.280 --> 0:10:28.520 I thought, I thought Marcus Smart got off to a 0:10:28.520 --> 0:10:30.840 decent start. He scored eight of the first ten points. 0:10:31.120 --> 0:10:33.080 Old y'all. I said, you know, because if he can 0:10:33.160 --> 0:10:35.720 have a big game, that'll take some pressure out Brun. 0:10:36.280 --> 0:10:38.800 But when you think about it, the longer this series 0:10:38.880 --> 0:10:42.680 goldfellas it plays in the Houston hands because they're a 0:10:42.720 --> 0:10:47.080 young team there, your team. Look, this series has been grueling, 0:10:47.120 --> 0:10:51.120 has been physical, and it's mentally it wears and tears 0:10:51.120 --> 0:10:53.840 on you. Bro like it's it's tough, you know, especially 0:10:53.880 --> 0:10:56.040 when you got Lebron at forty one and you're asking 0:10:56.160 --> 0:10:58.840 so much of him. That's a lot, man, that's a lot. 0:10:58.880 --> 0:11:02.319 I think Houston they're in a good position right now. 0:11:02.320 --> 0:11:05.680 They can go home. I know they they looking forward 0:11:05.720 --> 0:11:07.920 to winning Game six and coming back to LA for 0:11:08.000 --> 0:11:10.560 a Game seven. But I think Houston got a real 0:11:10.559 --> 0:11:11.040 shot at this. 0:11:12.200 --> 0:11:15.320 Yeah, absolutely, oh yeah, absolutely. 0:11:15.679 --> 0:11:16.560 Only four teams of. 0:11:18.040 --> 0:11:20.920 The teams to start three and oh, only four have 0:11:21.120 --> 0:11:22.400 ever forced the game seven. 0:11:23.000 --> 0:11:24.120 Those teams are oher and three. 0:11:24.280 --> 0:11:27.120 Even though they forced the game seven, Lebron James teams 0:11:27.120 --> 0:11:28.000 has never blown a. 0:11:28.000 --> 0:11:30.560 Two oh series lead his entire NBA career. 0:11:32.120 --> 0:11:34.439 I just look, like you said, Joe, they didn't they 0:11:34.440 --> 0:11:38.240 didn't have they didn't come out with that passion. I mean, 0:11:38.280 --> 0:11:40.560 they got a little lead and then you know, Houston 0:11:40.600 --> 0:11:41.559 took a time out. 0:11:41.640 --> 0:11:46.080 And they just hey them them damn minutes that they 0:11:46.120 --> 0:11:48.439 that they logging night in and night out. It's starting, 0:11:48.440 --> 0:11:50.319 I'm telling you, man, they're starting to catch up with. 0:11:50.280 --> 0:11:54.920 Them with Lebron. Lebron played another thirty nine minutes. Shing goo, 0:11:54.960 --> 0:11:56.880 I mean Shan Goon played forty three minutes. I'm and 0:11:56.960 --> 0:11:59.959 Thompson played. But you're talking about guys that's twenty five. Yeah, 0:12:00.280 --> 0:12:02.600 you talk about guys, I mean Lebron kids. Damn the 0:12:02.600 --> 0:12:06.040 oldest these guys. You got Jabari Smith Junior, you played 0:12:06.040 --> 0:12:09.000 forty two minutes, You got arm and Thompson played forty 0:12:09.000 --> 0:12:11.600 five minutes. Your big guys that you're counting on. Easton 0:12:11.679 --> 0:12:13.520 came in and gave him some great minutes. Tonight man 0:12:13.720 --> 0:12:15.840 eighteen points, Joe On six of eleven, two or six. 0:12:16.080 --> 0:12:18.719 He played really well before what did he file out? No, 0:12:18.840 --> 0:12:22.760 he picked up his field. They changed? Did they change it? 0:12:22.880 --> 0:12:25.599 Because I started getting the dressed when they called a 0:12:25.679 --> 0:12:26.920 charge on him and they challenged it. 0:12:26.920 --> 0:12:29.080 Did they there? They changed it? They changed he shot 0:12:29.160 --> 0:12:31.280 I think he shined free throws behind them. Okay, yeah, 0:12:31.720 --> 0:12:33.160 I figured that as much. 0:12:33.280 --> 0:12:35.360 Hey, hold on hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, 0:12:35.559 --> 0:12:35.959 hold on. 0:12:36.120 --> 0:12:38.880 I just I just want to make something clear real quick, right, Yeah, yeah, 0:12:39.240 --> 0:12:42.200 Lebron is still playing Joe, and I'm right correct, Yes, yes, 0:12:42.320 --> 0:12:44.360 you know it was his decision to play this this 0:12:44.440 --> 0:12:46.640 far into his career twenty three you know, twenty three 0:12:46.679 --> 0:12:48.920 years in the league at forty one years old. What 0:12:49.000 --> 0:12:50.800 we're not going to, we can't keep doing is using 0:12:51.000 --> 0:12:53.680 his age as a reason when things don't work out, 0:12:54.160 --> 0:12:55.800 or trying to set that up as a crush on 0:12:55.880 --> 0:12:58.720 why things didn't work out. You know, he knows, even 0:12:59.000 --> 0:13:01.480 he knows his wouldn't be the same playing at forty 0:13:01.520 --> 0:13:03.480 one years old, playing a certain amount of minutes, you know, 0:13:03.559 --> 0:13:05.760 especially being in a situation like this, So we can't 0:13:05.840 --> 0:13:08.000 keep throwing out his age all the time every time 0:13:08.040 --> 0:13:09.240 things don't go right. 0:13:09.280 --> 0:13:11.360 That's his decision, the one that played this long. 0:13:11.640 --> 0:13:13.000 Even when things go well. 0:13:13.120 --> 0:13:15.360 You're in awe that a forty one year old is 0:13:15.400 --> 0:13:17.000 doing this because we've never seen it before. 0:13:17.080 --> 0:13:19.240 Yeah, yeah, yeah, obviously. 0:13:18.880 --> 0:13:21.160 So even even the mere fact, the mere fact that 0:13:21.200 --> 0:13:23.840 he's playing, because normally when guys are played that you 0:13:24.080 --> 0:13:27.360 look at Vince Carter, guys are averaging average five points. 0:13:27.440 --> 0:13:28.280 Yeah, points a game. 0:13:28.360 --> 0:13:31.760 Yeah, he's twenty, he's twenty five and five actually was 0:13:31.760 --> 0:13:35.560 twenty six, twenty point eight, seven, and I think six. 0:13:36.080 --> 0:13:38.400 So you look at what he's doing. So even yeh, yes, 0:13:39.000 --> 0:13:42.719 we're not gonna we're not saying that using that as 0:13:42.760 --> 0:13:46.120 a crutch, But even when he plays well at forty one, 0:13:46.200 --> 0:13:48.800 you have to marvel it because we've never seen we've 0:13:48.800 --> 0:13:52.480 never seen anybody play that well at forty at thirty nine, 0:13:52.880 --> 0:13:56.560 at thirty eight, and what you're asking him to do, 0:13:56.760 --> 0:14:00.200 nobody has ever been asked to do what he's doing 0:14:01.440 --> 0:14:03.880 at this age. So let that sink here for a second. 0:14:04.080 --> 0:14:08.439 You're asking him at forty one to do something. The 0:14:08.520 --> 0:14:13.440 NBA is seventy years old, and the history no eighty 0:14:13.520 --> 0:14:16.160 years old. I'll take that back, eighty years old, and 0:14:16.280 --> 0:14:18.760 we've never seen the NBA ask a player at that 0:14:18.920 --> 0:14:20.960 age to do what they're asking him to do. 0:14:21.240 --> 0:14:24.120 That's not an excuse. They have to play better. 0:14:24.480 --> 0:14:27.680 But the days of him being able to single handily 0:14:28.000 --> 0:14:30.520 put teams on his back like he did the calf 0:14:30.680 --> 0:14:34.440 against Boston, like he did against Toronto, like he did 0:14:34.480 --> 0:14:36.000 against Indiana. 0:14:35.520 --> 0:14:38.920 Those days are over. Yeah, yeah, and it's over. For 0:14:38.960 --> 0:14:39.280 a lot. 0:14:39.640 --> 0:14:42.480 KD can't carry a team like he wants could. Steph 0:14:42.600 --> 0:14:45.600 Curry can't carry a team like he once could. James 0:14:45.640 --> 0:14:47.200 Harden can't carry your team like. 0:14:47.160 --> 0:14:51.280 He once could. Sports is a young man's game, Ain, 0:14:51.720 --> 0:14:54.640 And and when you look at the game, you look 0:14:54.720 --> 0:14:56.920 down the stretch, you see how all his shots were 0:14:56.960 --> 0:15:01.720 short yep, because them legs gone. Bro, when leg's gone, okay, 0:15:01.760 --> 0:15:03.920 oh Joe, I don't I don't care who you are, bro. 0:15:04.080 --> 0:15:06.080 That that that the first thing to go when them 0:15:06.160 --> 0:15:08.160 legs gone is that jump shot. That jump shot out 0:15:08.160 --> 0:15:10.600 of It's the That's why you see a lot of 0:15:10.600 --> 0:15:12.880 his shots was at the basket, at the rim, in 0:15:12.960 --> 0:15:15.600 the paint, you know. And that's what we talk about, 0:15:15.720 --> 0:15:18.280 you know, as series goes along, because it's so physical, 0:15:18.320 --> 0:15:21.240 it's so grueling, and it's so mental. You know, it's 0:15:21.280 --> 0:15:27.960 mentally challenging that bro. It's draining. It is draining though, and. 0:15:28.040 --> 0:15:29.560 He was a great joe Y mean you you got 0:15:29.640 --> 0:15:31.440 to get him credit with you and Joe. He took 0:15:31.480 --> 0:15:34.280 to free throw teams. Ah yeah, but it's hard at 0:15:34.320 --> 0:15:37.240 his age to constantly drive, to constantly drive. 0:15:37.320 --> 0:15:40.640 He can't put pressure on you like shape shakee twenty six. 0:15:42.000 --> 0:15:42.720 So he can just. 0:15:42.640 --> 0:15:44.720 Come at and just keep coming and keep coming and 0:15:44.800 --> 0:15:47.720 keep coming at you. That's not Lebron. He got to 0:15:47.760 --> 0:15:50.920 pick and choose those spots. I agree, But he's gonna 0:15:50.960 --> 0:15:53.680 need other guys. He's gonna need Austin reed to Look, 0:15:53.720 --> 0:15:56.400 it was a great game for Often to get back. 0:15:56.920 --> 0:15:59.280 I think he'll be better in game six. It's gotta 0:15:59.320 --> 0:16:02.160 realize he's been for a month. I believe he'll be 0:16:02.200 --> 0:16:04.880 better in game six than he was in Game five. Hey, 0:16:04.960 --> 0:16:06.520 he put pressure on him. I love the way he 0:16:06.600 --> 0:16:08.600 attacked shots, just didn't go down for it. 0:16:08.800 --> 0:16:11.120 Yeah. Hello, another guy that you can put in the 0:16:11.120 --> 0:16:14.920 pick and roll, who can obviously create, score, make plays 0:16:14.920 --> 0:16:18.880 for other guys. But man, it's gonna take. It's gonna 0:16:18.880 --> 0:16:20.520 take a lot for them to put this young Houston 0:16:20.560 --> 0:16:22.480 team away. Fellas. 0:16:22.520 --> 0:16:24.720 Oh yeah, for sure, because like I said, they got 0:16:24.760 --> 0:16:27.000 confidence now, they believe to say. 0:16:27.160 --> 0:16:28.640 And Joe we talked about the other night. 0:16:28.640 --> 0:16:31.240 Oh Joe, we talked about how the Cavaliers when they 0:16:31.240 --> 0:16:33.960 were down three to one, they say, Okay, let's get 0:16:34.000 --> 0:16:37.040 this game. Okay, now we're gonna go. But we hey, 0:16:37.200 --> 0:16:39.840 we're gonna get Game five there now, we're gonna come 0:16:39.880 --> 0:16:41.680 back home and get game six here. 0:16:41.960 --> 0:16:44.360 Yeah, Now, all. 0:16:43.800 --> 0:16:48.040 The pressure goals on them, because no team has ever 0:16:48.120 --> 0:16:50.000 gave giving up a three to one lead in the 0:16:50.080 --> 0:16:53.440 NBA Finals. No team in NBA playoff history has given 0:16:53.520 --> 0:16:57.240 up a three zero lead. Hey, all the pressure goes 0:16:57.400 --> 0:17:04.120 to the team, especially if you're at home. You're at home. 0:17:06.000 --> 0:17:08.719 And listening to if you if okay, see they at 0:17:08.720 --> 0:17:13.000 the house like this, he'll rubbing their hands together. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. 0:17:13.000 --> 0:17:15.280 Cuse as soon as y'all come out this grueling series 0:17:15.359 --> 0:17:17.000 right here against the Rockets, whoever. 0:17:17.000 --> 0:17:18.440 You gotta deal, you gotta deal with us. 0:17:18.760 --> 0:17:22.080 They probably gonna play next Tuesday, because you got Friday Sunday. 0:17:22.119 --> 0:17:25.000 Oh they playing next Tuesday. Yeah, and the damn who win? 0:17:25.160 --> 0:17:29.679 They played well, the Rockets or the Lakers. They're playing 0:17:29.720 --> 0:17:32.199 next Tuesday. NBA don't want to put the schedule out, 0:17:32.240 --> 0:17:33.879 but they playing next Tuesday. You're not going you're not 0:17:33.880 --> 0:17:36.359 getting that, but you're not going that far that much further. Hey, 0:17:36.640 --> 0:17:38.760 the boys resting, they kind of healing up some of 0:17:38.800 --> 0:17:42.120 the wounds they got. Yeah, it's gonna be a dangerous team, bro, 0:17:42.400 --> 0:17:44.360 that's I mean, that's what you don't want. 0:17:44.480 --> 0:17:47.320 Hey, younger Joe, Yes, we got regardless of who makes 0:17:47.320 --> 0:17:49.360 it out this series, whether it's the Lakers. 0:17:49.119 --> 0:17:52.600 Neither team, both teams getting swept if they play. Okay, 0:17:53.400 --> 0:17:53.639 I just. 0:17:53.640 --> 0:17:56.840 Want to see what you're gonna give it your gentleman and. 0:17:56.840 --> 0:18:01.040 Sweet No four, oh, ain't no gentleman. So you so 0:18:01.119 --> 0:18:03.280 you don't think you don't think, Okay, c gonna get 0:18:03.280 --> 0:18:06.200 a challenge until they get to the Western Conference. Uh, 0:18:06.600 --> 0:18:11.119 that is correct finals. Yes, m m. They're just too good. 0:18:12.440 --> 0:18:14.560 Yeah, they just too good, too much depth ship. 0:18:14.920 --> 0:18:18.119 And that guy, that guy ahead of the Snake, you're nice. 0:18:20.200 --> 0:18:21.800 He ain't playing those silly games, is it? 0:18:21.880 --> 0:18:22.320 Man? No? 0:18:23.920 --> 0:18:27.520 No, he's an attack mode. He's an attack mode. He's 0:18:27.520 --> 0:18:31.880 an attack mode. Lakers guys are defending. They're defending. They're defending. 0:18:31.880 --> 0:18:35.880 They're defending at an elite level. Guys understand their role, 0:18:35.920 --> 0:18:39.040 they understand their responsibility. They're not envious of each other. 0:18:39.800 --> 0:18:42.760