1 00:00:01,880 --> 00:00:04,440 Speaker 1: So the Lakers season ended last night at the hand 2 00:00:04,480 --> 00:00:07,400 Speaker 1: of the hands of Anthony Edwards and the Timberwolves. So 3 00:00:07,640 --> 00:00:11,600 Speaker 1: might say Rigobert jj Rennick had a similar scheme. He 4 00:00:11,640 --> 00:00:14,040 Speaker 1: played his starters a lot of minutes. They came closer 5 00:00:14,120 --> 00:00:15,880 Speaker 1: at the end, but then kind of ran out of gas. 6 00:00:15,920 --> 00:00:16,640 Speaker 1: They couldn't do it. 7 00:00:17,760 --> 00:00:19,759 Speaker 2: How did you get this series so wrong? You said 8 00:00:19,760 --> 00:00:21,680 Speaker 2: that when this one they obviously didn't. 9 00:00:21,880 --> 00:00:24,520 Speaker 3: Well, yeah, and I said Lakers. I said my favorite 10 00:00:24,560 --> 00:00:28,360 Speaker 3: bet was Lakers minus a game and a half, meaning 11 00:00:28,400 --> 00:00:30,479 Speaker 3: Lakers in four or five or six. And when I 12 00:00:30,560 --> 00:00:33,760 Speaker 3: was giving the analysis of that bet, I said, I 13 00:00:33,800 --> 00:00:38,120 Speaker 3: didn't even really consider the possibility of the Lakers losing 14 00:00:38,200 --> 00:00:40,400 Speaker 3: the series. Is the reason the bet didn't come in. 15 00:00:40,960 --> 00:00:44,760 Speaker 3: I thought it was because the Lakers, you know, maybe 16 00:00:44,760 --> 00:00:47,479 Speaker 3: they win in seven, but I thought they would. I 17 00:00:47,479 --> 00:00:49,680 Speaker 3: thought they would be hard fought games. The Lakers were 18 00:00:49,720 --> 00:00:53,199 Speaker 3: clearly better. So I do want to start with me 19 00:00:54,040 --> 00:00:59,920 Speaker 3: because I gotta a whiff this strong. You gotta figure out, 20 00:01:00,120 --> 00:01:03,280 Speaker 3: you gotta kind of do an autopsy, a post mortem 21 00:01:03,320 --> 00:01:09,360 Speaker 3: of your own takes. And the number one thing that 22 00:01:09,520 --> 00:01:19,280 Speaker 3: I clearly overestimated going into this postseason was how dynamic 23 00:01:20,280 --> 00:01:25,759 Speaker 3: and unstoppable. The Lakers offense would be I thought there 24 00:01:25,959 --> 00:01:30,760 Speaker 3: was a little too much attention paid to the Lakers' 25 00:01:30,880 --> 00:01:35,400 Speaker 3: defensive deficiencies, not because I thought they'd be a great defense, 26 00:01:35,760 --> 00:01:39,520 Speaker 3: but because I thought it was pretty clear we had 27 00:01:39,560 --> 00:01:43,600 Speaker 3: proof of concept that the Lakers defense could be average, 28 00:01:44,319 --> 00:01:48,120 Speaker 3: that the Lakers defense could be fine, and that if 29 00:01:48,120 --> 00:01:52,160 Speaker 3: the Lakers defense is fine, even given their size limitations, 30 00:01:53,000 --> 00:01:57,840 Speaker 3: that this offense with Luca and Lebron was going to 31 00:01:57,960 --> 00:02:02,840 Speaker 3: be a top three in the league over the court, 32 00:02:02,880 --> 00:02:07,120 Speaker 3: you know, net rating wise or offensive rating wise offense. 33 00:02:07,520 --> 00:02:09,880 Speaker 3: And it was nothing close to that. And so that 34 00:02:10,040 --> 00:02:13,600 Speaker 3: was with number one whiff. Number one was that the 35 00:02:13,680 --> 00:02:18,600 Speaker 3: Lakers offense would be would put the other team under 36 00:02:18,680 --> 00:02:23,680 Speaker 3: such pressure to keep scoring and to keep pace that 37 00:02:23,919 --> 00:02:28,239 Speaker 3: a younger Timberwolves team, a Timberwolves team that only has 38 00:02:28,400 --> 00:02:32,440 Speaker 3: one true superstar, a Timberwolves team that has a few 39 00:02:32,520 --> 00:02:39,040 Speaker 3: guys who are max players who there have long playoff histories, 40 00:02:39,360 --> 00:02:45,079 Speaker 3: but the playoff histories are you know, checkered in Rudy 41 00:02:45,120 --> 00:02:50,640 Speaker 3: Gobert and Julius Randall that the weight of Lebron and 42 00:02:50,720 --> 00:02:55,080 Speaker 3: Luca on the offensive side of the ball would be 43 00:02:55,240 --> 00:02:59,120 Speaker 3: too much for him. None of that happened. We didn't 44 00:02:59,160 --> 00:03:06,400 Speaker 3: have a single game this series where Lebron and Luca 45 00:03:06,919 --> 00:03:12,720 Speaker 3: were both outstanding on the offensive end, and we did 46 00:03:12,760 --> 00:03:15,520 Speaker 3: have last night. And we'll talk obviously more about the 47 00:03:15,639 --> 00:03:23,320 Speaker 3: individual parties involved here shortly, but last night was the 48 00:03:23,360 --> 00:03:29,000 Speaker 3: first time in an elimination game that Lebron wasn't outstanding 49 00:03:29,800 --> 00:03:35,040 Speaker 3: in a decade. Honest to god, if you go through 50 00:03:35,160 --> 00:03:39,520 Speaker 3: it was it was somewhat jarring to see if you 51 00:03:39,680 --> 00:03:43,400 Speaker 3: look at what Lebron James, who averages thirty five points 52 00:03:43,440 --> 00:03:49,080 Speaker 3: per game in his career in elimination games, what he 53 00:03:49,160 --> 00:03:52,880 Speaker 3: did last night in comparison, like if I can just 54 00:03:53,000 --> 00:03:57,400 Speaker 3: quickly give you the game logs last year against Denver, 55 00:03:58,600 --> 00:04:02,880 Speaker 3: face well two games facing elimination against Denver, the first 56 00:04:02,960 --> 00:04:07,000 Speaker 3: game he had thirty five and four. The next game 57 00:04:07,080 --> 00:04:10,680 Speaker 3: and because they won it, he had thirty nine and eleven. 58 00:04:10,840 --> 00:04:15,160 Speaker 3: The year before, facing elimination against Denver, he had I 59 00:04:15,200 --> 00:04:18,520 Speaker 3: think thirty in the first half and he finished with 60 00:04:18,680 --> 00:04:25,320 Speaker 3: forty ten and nine When they lost to Phoenix in 61 00:04:25,360 --> 00:04:28,120 Speaker 3: a game they got they really didn't have much of 62 00:04:28,160 --> 00:04:30,640 Speaker 3: a chance. If you remember, that's the game Anthony Davis 63 00:04:30,680 --> 00:04:34,120 Speaker 3: started and then played like thirty seconds, then came out 64 00:04:34,120 --> 00:04:37,000 Speaker 3: of the game Lebron twenty nine to nine and seven 65 00:04:37,600 --> 00:04:41,320 Speaker 3: facing elimination. They never faced elimination and route to the 66 00:04:41,360 --> 00:04:45,680 Speaker 3: bubble in the championship run. And then if you look 67 00:04:45,720 --> 00:04:49,559 Speaker 3: at Game seven against Boston or Game six and seven 68 00:04:49,600 --> 00:04:53,320 Speaker 3: against Boston facing eliminations, they're down three to two, forty six, 69 00:04:53,400 --> 00:04:56,480 Speaker 3: eight and eleven, thirty five, fifteen and nine. You can 70 00:04:56,520 --> 00:05:02,000 Speaker 3: go his whole career. It's like, Okay, we're facing elimination. 71 00:05:03,560 --> 00:05:07,520 Speaker 3: I have to ramp it up. Here's the part that 72 00:05:07,800 --> 00:05:13,120 Speaker 3: last night informed me on he fired those bullets over 73 00:05:13,160 --> 00:05:19,160 Speaker 3: the weekend. He felt correctly clearly we were facing elimination 74 00:05:20,040 --> 00:05:24,880 Speaker 3: in Game four and in Game three he had the 75 00:05:24,920 --> 00:05:27,960 Speaker 3: thirty eight, ten and four and they blew it at 76 00:05:28,000 --> 00:05:31,920 Speaker 3: the end. In Game four he had twenty seven, twelve 77 00:05:32,040 --> 00:05:35,680 Speaker 3: and eight and the defensive stops at the end, and 78 00:05:35,760 --> 00:05:40,039 Speaker 3: in Game five the forty. It was a weird Lebron 79 00:05:40,120 --> 00:05:45,880 Speaker 3: game because he had three of his most explosive offensive 80 00:05:46,000 --> 00:05:49,320 Speaker 3: plays of those three dunks that he's had all postseason. 81 00:05:49,600 --> 00:05:52,480 Speaker 3: But he just didn't have the juice last night. So 82 00:05:52,600 --> 00:05:58,599 Speaker 3: Lebron didn't have the juice. Luca's performance last night even 83 00:05:58,680 --> 00:06:05,080 Speaker 3: more shocking because Luca has been a back against the wall, 84 00:06:05,440 --> 00:06:09,280 Speaker 3: I'm gonna f you up. Everybody's tough when they're up. 85 00:06:09,640 --> 00:06:13,160 Speaker 2: Lucas seemed pretty messed up, like basically this whole series though. 86 00:06:13,200 --> 00:06:15,800 Speaker 1: Yeah, or whether it was sicknesses or yesterday, I feel 87 00:06:15,839 --> 00:06:18,160 Speaker 1: like he came out with like some backspasm type of thing. 88 00:06:18,200 --> 00:06:21,160 Speaker 3: Well yeah, I mean, listen, he got hurt, but he didn't. 89 00:06:21,720 --> 00:06:25,599 Speaker 3: If it was he had looked awesome and until the 90 00:06:25,720 --> 00:06:28,880 Speaker 3: hard fall, that would be one thing, but that's not 91 00:06:28,920 --> 00:06:32,800 Speaker 3: what it was. Like. He was relatively passive in the 92 00:06:32,839 --> 00:06:36,080 Speaker 3: first quarter, which is when he has crushed. It felt 93 00:06:36,120 --> 00:06:41,680 Speaker 3: early on like Lebron and Luca were both like, okay, 94 00:06:42,320 --> 00:06:46,599 Speaker 3: let's conserve energy in the first quarter so we have 95 00:06:46,839 --> 00:06:50,599 Speaker 3: more in the fourth quarter. And at first it looked 96 00:06:50,640 --> 00:06:55,919 Speaker 3: like a bad strategy because they were down fourteen, but 97 00:06:56,080 --> 00:07:00,400 Speaker 3: then once despite all that, they were able to claw 98 00:07:00,480 --> 00:07:03,279 Speaker 3: their way back into the game and actually take a 99 00:07:03,320 --> 00:07:07,040 Speaker 3: one point lead. You thought, oh, this could work out, 100 00:07:07,640 --> 00:07:11,559 Speaker 3: but Lebron didn't have the extra gear and Luca didn't 101 00:07:11,560 --> 00:07:14,520 Speaker 3: have it. The really, I don't want to say the 102 00:07:14,560 --> 00:07:17,760 Speaker 3: whole series, but the last three games since he got sick, 103 00:07:18,480 --> 00:07:22,640 Speaker 3: Luca didn't have the Luca playoff gear. Twenty eight to 104 00:07:22,640 --> 00:07:25,800 Speaker 3: seven and nine on seven of eighteen from the field 105 00:07:25,800 --> 00:07:29,040 Speaker 3: for Luca is by his standards, a bad playoff game. 106 00:07:29,320 --> 00:07:33,760 Speaker 3: Now the flip side to that, and where folks, where 107 00:07:33,800 --> 00:07:37,160 Speaker 3: credit must be given is the other guys are paid too. 108 00:07:38,200 --> 00:07:43,680 Speaker 3: And the Timberwolves defensive plan against Luca and against Lebron 109 00:07:44,120 --> 00:07:51,040 Speaker 3: was outstanding. The Timberwolves trusting you know what, Austin Reeves. 110 00:07:51,400 --> 00:07:53,640 Speaker 3: If you beat us, you beat us. We don't think 111 00:07:53,640 --> 00:07:57,720 Speaker 3: you're gonna beat us. It was smart, it worked, and 112 00:07:57,840 --> 00:08:00,800 Speaker 3: so I'm not going to kill aust Reeves. He had 113 00:08:00,800 --> 00:08:06,680 Speaker 3: a rough series. But also the Lakers shouldn't have needed 114 00:08:07,560 --> 00:08:12,760 Speaker 3: Austin Reeves to be great to force a Game six 115 00:08:12,800 --> 00:08:17,680 Speaker 3: against the Timberwolves. And I understand that the Timberwolves are 116 00:08:17,720 --> 00:08:20,480 Speaker 3: now twenty one to five in their last twenty six 117 00:08:20,840 --> 00:08:23,160 Speaker 3: and I think they have ten or it's either ten 118 00:08:23,320 --> 00:08:26,800 Speaker 3: or fifteen. I don't remember double digit wins in that stretch. 119 00:08:29,360 --> 00:08:33,520 Speaker 3: I get that that maybe I was I am still 120 00:08:33,600 --> 00:08:39,040 Speaker 3: even to a degree underrating or disrespecting the Timberwolves. But 121 00:08:39,920 --> 00:08:44,240 Speaker 3: this Lakers team it was not. And this is what's 122 00:08:44,280 --> 00:08:48,720 Speaker 3: so frustrating about the way the season ended. It was 123 00:08:48,840 --> 00:08:54,040 Speaker 3: not some hope in a prayer media creation. They had 124 00:08:55,120 --> 00:08:58,880 Speaker 3: almost the exact same record against the Western Conference as 125 00:08:58,960 --> 00:09:04,480 Speaker 3: Oklahoma City did. They were a dominant team at home, 126 00:09:04,640 --> 00:09:07,600 Speaker 3: where they lost two of these games. They had I 127 00:09:07,640 --> 00:09:11,360 Speaker 3: think the third best record in the fourth best record 128 00:09:11,400 --> 00:09:15,000 Speaker 3: in the league against the best teams in the league. 129 00:09:15,320 --> 00:09:18,800 Speaker 3: We saw them at the end of the year against 130 00:09:18,880 --> 00:09:23,920 Speaker 3: a full strength Oklahoma City team, blow them out, and 131 00:09:23,960 --> 00:09:26,600 Speaker 3: then go toe to toe with them a week before 132 00:09:26,640 --> 00:09:32,560 Speaker 3: the playoffs. They were rested. All of those things happened, 133 00:09:32,720 --> 00:09:38,120 Speaker 3: and while Lebron did not have a great Game five, 134 00:09:38,800 --> 00:09:43,720 Speaker 3: you did get great Lebron performances in games two, three, 135 00:09:43,920 --> 00:09:47,480 Speaker 3: and four. So it wasn't that oh the you know, 136 00:09:48,200 --> 00:09:50,800 Speaker 3: the old man slowed down at the end. He did 137 00:09:50,800 --> 00:09:55,280 Speaker 3: at the very end, and they still just got annihilated 138 00:09:55,320 --> 00:09:58,760 Speaker 3: in this series. The thing about last night that made 139 00:09:58,880 --> 00:10:06,480 Speaker 3: last usually demonsey. If if a team loses a closeout 140 00:10:06,559 --> 00:10:10,320 Speaker 3: game that you know, is a one possession game with 141 00:10:10,520 --> 00:10:15,080 Speaker 3: a few minutes left, it's heart wrenching. I gotta tell you, 142 00:10:16,600 --> 00:10:20,920 Speaker 3: it's not how I felt watching the Lakers squander that 143 00:10:21,000 --> 00:10:26,720 Speaker 3: game at the very end, because they were incredibly lucky 144 00:10:27,080 --> 00:10:32,080 Speaker 3: last night that they weren't blown out minutes. I mean, 145 00:10:32,120 --> 00:10:37,640 Speaker 3: Anthony Edwards was zero for eleven from three. The Timberlves 146 00:10:37,640 --> 00:10:42,160 Speaker 3: as a whole shot forty seven threes and made seven 147 00:10:42,200 --> 00:10:46,679 Speaker 3: of them. Think about that, they were fifteen percent from three. 148 00:10:47,360 --> 00:10:51,679 Speaker 3: So Ant was five of nineteen from the field. And 149 00:10:51,679 --> 00:10:55,840 Speaker 3: that's another weird thing for Ant because he's going to 150 00:10:55,920 --> 00:11:02,160 Speaker 3: get his flowers today, as he should. But it reminded 151 00:11:02,160 --> 00:11:06,840 Speaker 3: me actually a lot of game Game seven against Denver, 152 00:11:07,800 --> 00:11:11,959 Speaker 3: the biggest win of Anthony Edwards career. He was six 153 00:11:12,040 --> 00:11:15,360 Speaker 3: of twenty four from the field, two of ten from three, 154 00:11:15,840 --> 00:11:19,880 Speaker 3: had sixteen points. It was his worst game of the series, 155 00:11:20,440 --> 00:11:24,000 Speaker 3: and they came back and beat Denver. Anyway, last night 156 00:11:24,480 --> 00:11:28,079 Speaker 3: he's five of nineteen from the field. Ozho of eleven 157 00:11:28,160 --> 00:11:31,920 Speaker 3: from three has fifteen points. And it's the game that 158 00:11:31,960 --> 00:11:36,040 Speaker 3: he knocks off Luca and Lebron. That which is a 159 00:11:36,080 --> 00:11:41,840 Speaker 3: testament to the Timberwolves and a testament to Julius Randall 160 00:11:42,520 --> 00:11:47,760 Speaker 3: was excellent this entire series. Julius Randall was reliable, and 161 00:11:47,880 --> 00:11:55,720 Speaker 3: obviously Rudy Gobert's nine offensive rebounds twenty four total rebounds, 162 00:11:56,040 --> 00:12:02,120 Speaker 3: him scoring twenty seven points in a playoff game was unfathomable. 163 00:12:02,559 --> 00:12:06,559 Speaker 3: And you can say, oh, listen, this is the Lakers 164 00:12:06,559 --> 00:12:09,640 Speaker 3: don't play a center. The Lakers haven't played a center 165 00:12:09,760 --> 00:12:15,240 Speaker 3: all series. Rudy Gobert's stat lines prior to last night 166 00:12:15,880 --> 00:12:22,720 Speaker 3: two and six, six and six, one and three, five 167 00:12:23,000 --> 00:12:27,600 Speaker 3: and ten, and then twenty seven and twenty four. Prior 168 00:12:27,640 --> 00:12:33,360 Speaker 3: to last night, in the series, Rudy Gobert had fourteen 169 00:12:33,480 --> 00:12:39,520 Speaker 3: points twenty five rebounds in the four games. Last night, 170 00:12:39,520 --> 00:12:42,120 Speaker 3: he had twenty seven points, twenty four rebounds. 171 00:12:42,200 --> 00:12:43,800 Speaker 1: I'm not having a big guy, and there is going 172 00:12:43,840 --> 00:12:45,800 Speaker 1: to come back to bite you eventually, right. 173 00:12:46,040 --> 00:12:51,320 Speaker 3: Well, clearly, I mean so clearly it did. But the 174 00:12:51,440 --> 00:12:56,160 Speaker 3: point that I'm making is, and you guys know from 175 00:12:56,200 --> 00:12:59,240 Speaker 3: what I was saying earlier in the series that I 176 00:12:59,400 --> 00:13:05,240 Speaker 3: thought and even though the Lakers were in a tough spot, 177 00:13:05,679 --> 00:13:08,200 Speaker 3: one of the things that had worked out for them 178 00:13:09,120 --> 00:13:14,600 Speaker 3: was that the Timberwolves, and we talked about this that 179 00:13:14,840 --> 00:13:17,720 Speaker 3: even though the Lakers were everyone, the Lakers were playing 180 00:13:17,760 --> 00:13:21,480 Speaker 3: with six' eight and, Below rudy wasn't killing him that 181 00:13:21,559 --> 00:13:27,480 Speaker 3: they were getting away with playing that small because The 182 00:13:27,520 --> 00:13:30,200 Speaker 3: timberwolves didn't want to Give Rudy gobert the ball and 183 00:13:30,240 --> 00:13:32,800 Speaker 3: a'll be, honest last, night they didn't give him the 184 00:13:32,840 --> 00:13:36,319 Speaker 3: ball that. Much it was all on like often not, 185 00:13:36,559 --> 00:13:39,839 Speaker 3: ball but it, was, yeah it was on offensive, rebounds 186 00:13:40,280 --> 00:13:42,679 Speaker 3: it was on. Putbacks it wasn't a lot of like 187 00:13:42,920 --> 00:13:46,680 Speaker 3: they passed it To Rudy. Gobert and so a guy 188 00:13:47,480 --> 00:13:51,920 Speaker 3: who has in his seventy how how many games is 189 00:13:51,920 --> 00:13:56,199 Speaker 3: his playoff, career seventy four game playoff, career who went 190 00:13:56,240 --> 00:14:00,319 Speaker 3: into last night with five career twenty point playoff games 191 00:14:00,679 --> 00:14:05,320 Speaker 3: and zero career twenty five point playoff, games puts twenty 192 00:14:05,360 --> 00:14:09,120 Speaker 3: seven on your. HEAD a guy who in his seventy 193 00:14:09,200 --> 00:14:14,240 Speaker 3: four career playoff games once going into last, night had 194 00:14:14,320 --> 00:14:17,520 Speaker 3: more than eighteen rebounds in a game in the, playoffs 195 00:14:17,800 --> 00:14:22,400 Speaker 3: puts twenty four rebounds on your. Head it Was it 196 00:14:22,560 --> 00:14:26,200 Speaker 3: was a dominant performance by. Him it was a great 197 00:14:26,240 --> 00:14:33,800 Speaker 3: performance By, jalen By Julius. Randall they and that's the other. 198 00:14:33,880 --> 00:14:37,600 Speaker 3: Piece jade McDaniel's in foul trouble immediately and it didn't. 199 00:14:37,640 --> 00:14:43,840 Speaker 3: Matter so this was A it felt to me, like 200 00:14:44,720 --> 00:14:46,960 Speaker 3: and this is is not an excuse and it might 201 00:14:47,000 --> 00:14:51,240 Speaker 3: even be an. Indictment it felt to me like The 202 00:14:51,360 --> 00:14:56,640 Speaker 3: lakers felt they lost the series On, sunday and that 203 00:14:56,880 --> 00:15:00,240 Speaker 3: is and that they came out because there was no 204 00:15:00,440 --> 00:15:05,200 Speaker 3: energy in the first. Quarter it was something of a. 205 00:15:05,240 --> 00:15:08,040 Speaker 2: Miracle minnesota was leaving it up there for. 206 00:15:08,120 --> 00:15:12,000 Speaker 1: Grabs, yeah they were playing pretty complacent with the, lead 207 00:15:12,480 --> 00:15:14,120 Speaker 1: taking a lot of deep shots instead of. 208 00:15:14,160 --> 00:15:15,480 Speaker 2: Driving it was a. 209 00:15:15,680 --> 00:15:20,800 Speaker 3: Miracle it's exactly right demonse that this game was. Closely 210 00:15:22,400 --> 00:15:27,440 Speaker 3: minnesota just has A c minus shooting night instead of 211 00:15:27,720 --> 00:15:29,920 Speaker 3: the worst shooting night any team will have in the 212 00:15:29,960 --> 00:15:33,640 Speaker 3: playoffs over the next three, years which is really what they. 213 00:15:33,640 --> 00:15:39,440 Speaker 3: Did The lakers are down twenty, five, right and so 214 00:15:41,040 --> 00:15:44,800 Speaker 3: the credit to The Turm wolves, Man and. 215 00:15:44,760 --> 00:15:47,400 Speaker 2: What about The Mark williams? Trade, Man like what is? 216 00:15:48,160 --> 00:15:49,960 Speaker 2: WELL i would that have changed? 217 00:15:49,960 --> 00:15:56,440 Speaker 3: This here's the thing it what they gave up in 218 00:15:56,520 --> 00:16:01,360 Speaker 3: The Mark williams trade Was Dalton connect a first round 219 00:16:01,400 --> 00:16:07,200 Speaker 3: pick AND i think a. Swap so there is no 220 00:16:07,360 --> 00:16:11,080 Speaker 3: argument to be, made, like, well for this, series in this, 221 00:16:11,160 --> 00:16:15,680 Speaker 3: postseason that would have hurt you Because Dalton connect got zero, 222 00:16:15,800 --> 00:16:19,240 Speaker 3: minutes you know WHAT i. Mean so since the guy 223 00:16:19,360 --> 00:16:25,920 Speaker 3: you traded you never played in the short, term And 224 00:16:25,960 --> 00:16:28,040 Speaker 3: Mark williams took a bit of a victory LAP i. 225 00:16:28,120 --> 00:16:32,640 Speaker 3: Understand On, TWITTER i get that it certainly felt like 226 00:16:33,240 --> 00:16:36,440 Speaker 3: and they when they didn't Get Mark, williams they Signed Alex, 227 00:16:36,560 --> 00:16:40,960 Speaker 3: lynn who played zero. Minutes Now Maxi kleiba comes off 228 00:16:41,040 --> 00:16:44,000 Speaker 3: the bench after not playing in months because of his, 229 00:16:44,080 --> 00:16:47,360 Speaker 3: INJURY jj gives him five minutes and more ON jj 230 00:16:47,600 --> 00:16:56,160 Speaker 3: shortly there is. There it sure feels like they would 231 00:16:56,160 --> 00:16:58,640 Speaker 3: have had a better. Chance now in, retrospect in this 232 00:16:58,800 --> 00:17:02,120 Speaker 3: series they Had Mark, williams we never saw him play 233 00:17:02,120 --> 00:17:05,639 Speaker 3: with him and they now that powder is dry for you, 234 00:17:05,640 --> 00:17:10,760 Speaker 3: know a move this coming summer. Potentially BUT i. CAN'T 235 00:17:11,240 --> 00:17:14,640 Speaker 3: i can't pick a team to win the championship and 236 00:17:14,720 --> 00:17:18,960 Speaker 3: then when they get popped in round one in five be, like, 237 00:17:19,040 --> 00:17:22,680 Speaker 3: well here's all the obvious flaws with the, Roster like that's. 238 00:17:22,760 --> 00:17:26,520 Speaker 3: BULLSHIT i Knew Mark williams wasn't on the. TEAM i 239 00:17:26,640 --> 00:17:30,840 Speaker 3: knew how big The timberwolves were WHEN i said After 240 00:17:31,000 --> 00:17:34,000 Speaker 3: day eighty, Two game eighty two of the season THAT 241 00:17:34,440 --> 00:17:38,120 Speaker 3: i thought the bracket fell perfectly for The, Lakers and 242 00:17:39,800 --> 00:17:42,080 Speaker 3: now you look at it and you, say well that 243 00:17:42,240 --> 00:17:48,440 Speaker 3: was wrong. Obviously so, no it's A i but at its, 244 00:17:48,600 --> 00:17:52,800 Speaker 3: core people are, GONNA i think focus on the wrong. 245 00:17:52,920 --> 00:17:57,800 Speaker 3: THINGS i think this what happened to The, lakers in my, 246 00:17:58,520 --> 00:18:06,160 Speaker 3: opinion is three games of this series and they scored 247 00:18:07,640 --> 00:18:11,800 Speaker 3: less than one hundred. Points four games of the series 248 00:18:12,240 --> 00:18:16,600 Speaker 3: they scored less than one oh. Five the one game they, 249 00:18:16,680 --> 00:18:22,240 Speaker 3: won they only scored ninety. Four and you can so 250 00:18:24,560 --> 00:18:28,560 Speaker 3: folks are going to say the issue was they were 251 00:18:28,600 --> 00:18:32,119 Speaker 3: never going to be good enough, defensively, maybe but the 252 00:18:32,160 --> 00:18:37,719 Speaker 3: issue in this series was an offense that the only 253 00:18:37,840 --> 00:18:41,800 Speaker 3: way to look at This lakers team as a legitimate 254 00:18:41,840 --> 00:18:45,880 Speaker 3: contender was going to be they have an elite. Offense 255 00:18:46,320 --> 00:18:49,200 Speaker 3: that offense was never, Elite it was never even very, 256 00:18:49,240 --> 00:18:55,840 Speaker 3: good and it's just remarkable to me that it's the same. 257 00:18:55,920 --> 00:19:00,439 Speaker 3: OFFENSE i saw a few weeks ago drop one twenty 258 00:19:00,520 --> 00:19:05,040 Speaker 3: six IN okc in a GAME okac, wanted and then 259 00:19:05,200 --> 00:19:10,160 Speaker 3: have like one ten with six minutes left IN okac 260 00:19:11,200 --> 00:19:14,720 Speaker 3: against that. Defense in the, Game luca got ejected IN 261 00:19:15,840 --> 00:19:24,800 Speaker 3: i the The lakers role players all had some. Struggles 262 00:19:25,720 --> 00:19:29,440 Speaker 3: luca obviously wasn't. Himself lebron ran out of gas in 263 00:19:29,520 --> 00:19:34,120 Speaker 3: every every one of these fourth, quarters and that's how 264 00:19:34,119 --> 00:19:34,600 Speaker 3: you lose in. 265 00:19:34,680 --> 00:19:38,120 Speaker 1: Five given To, Austin, YEAH i feel like you Were 266 00:19:38,240 --> 00:19:40,560 Speaker 1: you did really go easy On Austin. Reeves if those 267 00:19:40,560 --> 00:19:42,960 Speaker 1: guys aren't gonna show, up that who has to show? 268 00:19:43,040 --> 00:19:44,760 Speaker 1: UP i think it has to Be Austin. 269 00:19:44,720 --> 00:19:48,640 Speaker 3: Well, no, LISTEN i So Austin reeves for the series 270 00:19:50,280 --> 00:19:55,080 Speaker 3: was sixteen to five and three on forty one thirty two. 271 00:19:55,119 --> 00:20:00,960 Speaker 3: Splits it's a bad. Series the Reason i'm not focusing 272 00:20:01,000 --> 00:20:04,840 Speaker 3: on that is BECAUSE i just think that would be 273 00:20:06,400 --> 00:20:11,960 Speaker 3: kind of bullshit in THAT i didn't pick The. Lakers 274 00:20:12,840 --> 00:20:15,440 Speaker 3: people ARE i think MAYBE i think people that are 275 00:20:15,800 --> 00:20:19,040 Speaker 3: discerning listeners to HOW i do this stuff are maybe 276 00:20:19,119 --> 00:20:23,640 Speaker 3: at times surprised at how FAIR i try to be 277 00:20:24,080 --> 00:20:28,440 Speaker 3: to what is honest. COMMENTARY i didn't pick The lakers 278 00:20:28,640 --> 00:20:32,280 Speaker 3: BECAUSE i Thought Austin reeves was gonna cook so like 279 00:20:32,600 --> 00:20:36,159 Speaker 3: and so this was the first playoff run of his 280 00:20:36,359 --> 00:20:42,320 Speaker 3: career where a lot was expected of. Him that's where 281 00:20:42,840 --> 00:20:47,880 Speaker 3: and and he didn't. Listen he wasn't, great but he's 282 00:20:47,920 --> 00:20:50,240 Speaker 3: a young player who doesn't make a ton of. Money 283 00:20:50,600 --> 00:20:56,960 Speaker 3: who you just? EAT I i don't like when stars 284 00:20:57,200 --> 00:21:02,680 Speaker 3: are awesome their teams and people then blame the. Star 285 00:21:03,520 --> 00:21:06,439 Speaker 3: the example of that would would have been if after 286 00:21:06,640 --> 00:21:11,400 Speaker 3: The pacers beat The, bucks if people were Like yiannis 287 00:21:11,520 --> 00:21:15,159 Speaker 3: needed to do. More yiannis did fucking everything he could have, 288 00:21:15,160 --> 00:21:18,760 Speaker 3: done and they got. Beat, so Like Bill james used to, 289 00:21:18,800 --> 00:21:23,160 Speaker 3: say bad teams have an amazing ability to blame their 290 00:21:23,200 --> 00:21:26,920 Speaker 3: best players for their biggest, problems and SO i try 291 00:21:26,960 --> 00:21:29,439 Speaker 3: not to do. That but WHAT i also try not 292 00:21:29,600 --> 00:21:34,600 Speaker 3: to do is when a team THAT i thought was 293 00:21:34,640 --> 00:21:41,639 Speaker 3: going to win because of the overwhelming star power at 294 00:21:41,680 --> 00:21:46,200 Speaker 3: the very top doesn't, win and those two stars are 295 00:21:47,040 --> 00:21:51,879 Speaker 3: good but not WHAT i thought they would, be then be, 296 00:21:52,000 --> 00:21:56,119 Speaker 3: like man needed more from your third, option LIKE i 297 00:21:56,200 --> 00:21:59,159 Speaker 3: Just and so it's not like That i'm trying to 298 00:21:59,200 --> 00:22:03,640 Speaker 3: Protect austin and it's nothing like. That it's that he 299 00:22:03,760 --> 00:22:08,840 Speaker 3: wasn't very, good But Austin reeves playing at A c 300 00:22:09,040 --> 00:22:14,000 Speaker 3: minus level again should not be the reason you're going 301 00:22:14,040 --> 00:22:20,000 Speaker 3: home in. 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Ago he tore his achilles in game. 337 00:24:38,600 --> 00:24:42,200 Speaker 1: Four you said that it was likely the last time 338 00:24:42,240 --> 00:24:44,680 Speaker 1: we See dame play Like, dame and you also said 339 00:24:44,920 --> 00:24:46,879 Speaker 1: this is probably the last time we See giannis as a. 340 00:24:46,880 --> 00:24:57,359 Speaker 5: Buck your, Thoughts, YEAH I i hate this so much 341 00:24:57,400 --> 00:25:09,480 Speaker 5: For Damian lillard and and you know he. 342 00:25:05,040 --> 00:25:11,159 Speaker 3: He he came back faster from and it killed sorry 343 00:25:11,240 --> 00:25:19,760 Speaker 3: from blood clots than anyone ever and THAT i don't 344 00:25:19,800 --> 00:25:23,040 Speaker 3: really understand how he did, it and obviously blood clots 345 00:25:23,040 --> 00:25:27,280 Speaker 3: are not related to a torn. Achilles, however him being 346 00:25:27,320 --> 00:25:29,760 Speaker 3: out and not being able to train and do their 347 00:25:30,160 --> 00:25:34,080 Speaker 3: play for a month a month and then jumping into playoff. 348 00:25:34,119 --> 00:25:38,600 Speaker 3: Basketball did that CONTRIBUTE i would have to imagine it 349 00:25:38,640 --> 00:25:43,240 Speaker 3: at least could. Have and so you just feel truly 350 00:25:43,400 --> 00:25:46,360 Speaker 3: sick to your stomach that this guy did everything he 351 00:25:46,480 --> 00:25:54,440 Speaker 3: could to come back as early as possible and now 352 00:25:54,560 --> 00:25:57,639 Speaker 3: and it was to get this playoff. Run and now 353 00:25:57,760 --> 00:26:00,640 Speaker 3: he didn't get this playoff, run and he's not gonna 354 00:26:00,640 --> 00:26:03,119 Speaker 3: have next year's playoff, run and he might not have 355 00:26:03,160 --> 00:26:06,879 Speaker 3: any more playoff. Runs SO i, mean that is a true, 356 00:26:07,200 --> 00:26:12,359 Speaker 3: cruel cruel turn of events for a great dude and 357 00:26:12,400 --> 00:26:16,600 Speaker 3: a great. Player, YEAH i, mean you just hate. It 358 00:26:16,720 --> 00:26:20,040 Speaker 3: you hate every piece of. It and you know he 359 00:26:20,119 --> 00:26:26,240 Speaker 3: Has i'm sure so many what ifs in his. Head 360 00:26:27,000 --> 00:26:29,040 Speaker 3: what if he had just stayed In portland and just 361 00:26:29,080 --> 00:26:32,639 Speaker 3: been the legend there. Forever it's not, like you, know 362 00:26:32,760 --> 00:26:34,760 Speaker 3: well IF i had done, THAT i wouldn't have gotten 363 00:26:34,800 --> 00:26:38,200 Speaker 3: these great playoff runs that those never. Happened so, you, 364 00:26:39,080 --> 00:26:40,440 Speaker 3: oh you said. 365 00:26:40,440 --> 00:26:43,800 Speaker 2: That dame, said like what IF i never Left? Portland 366 00:26:43,800 --> 00:26:44,480 Speaker 2: and you're saying. 367 00:26:45,680 --> 00:26:48,480 Speaker 3: No, true, no, no, No i'm Saying i'm just talking 368 00:26:48,480 --> 00:26:50,359 Speaker 3: about From. Dame i'll get To giannis in a. Minute 369 00:26:50,359 --> 00:26:53,199 Speaker 3: What i'm saying For dame is he's just, thinking, Like 370 00:26:53,359 --> 00:26:56,480 Speaker 3: i'm sure he has a lot of, like, man what 371 00:26:56,560 --> 00:26:59,320 Speaker 3: HAVE i never? LEFT i Left, portland WHICH i didn't 372 00:26:59,400 --> 00:27:02,159 Speaker 3: really want to do BECAUSE i wanted to compete for a. 373 00:27:02,240 --> 00:27:06,960 Speaker 3: CHAMPIONSHIP i won zero playoff series In. MILWAUKEE i would 374 00:27:07,000 --> 00:27:08,960 Speaker 3: you know WHAT i? Mean like that that didn't. Happen 375 00:27:09,119 --> 00:27:11,679 Speaker 3: i'm sure he's also, thinking what if they had just 376 00:27:11,800 --> 00:27:15,200 Speaker 3: traded me WHERE i wanted to be traded To miami 377 00:27:16,080 --> 00:27:18,919 Speaker 3: and it was me And Jimmy butler and. Bam you 378 00:27:18,920 --> 00:27:22,120 Speaker 3: know what would that have looked? Like and so it's 379 00:27:22,200 --> 00:27:26,359 Speaker 3: a cruel not final, chapter but close to a final 380 00:27:26,440 --> 00:27:35,159 Speaker 3: chapter For dame and then For. YANNIS I i don't 381 00:27:35,240 --> 00:27:44,119 Speaker 3: see How yannis can. Stay and The bucks are in 382 00:27:44,520 --> 00:27:49,760 Speaker 3: such a weird spot because they don't control any of 383 00:27:49,800 --> 00:27:54,240 Speaker 3: their own picks the next six, years so they can't. 384 00:27:54,359 --> 00:27:58,760 Speaker 3: Tank they have no cap space to improve the. Team 385 00:28:00,119 --> 00:28:05,760 Speaker 3: they don't have any young players that you're just super excited, 386 00:28:05,800 --> 00:28:10,399 Speaker 3: about and so it's gonna be fake trade season With. 387 00:28:10,480 --> 00:28:18,919 Speaker 3: Giannis and there's two demands THAT i made that are really. 388 00:28:18,960 --> 00:28:28,600 Speaker 3: Interesting one is to The, rockets where you Get Shngoon Reed, 389 00:28:28,640 --> 00:28:32,320 Speaker 3: shepherd who is a top five pick who doesn't play Jack. 390 00:28:32,480 --> 00:28:35,800 Speaker 3: Landale he doesn't play because he doesn't, defend but he 391 00:28:35,840 --> 00:28:38,240 Speaker 3: was top five picking this year's, draft so he's. Valuable 392 00:28:38,840 --> 00:28:44,640 Speaker 3: jaquelandale for salary. Filler and then four draft, picks two 393 00:28:44,680 --> 00:28:48,520 Speaker 3: of which are super, valuable The phoenix twenty seven and 394 00:28:48,600 --> 00:28:52,000 Speaker 3: twenty nine first and The houston twenty eight and thirty. 395 00:28:52,040 --> 00:28:58,000 Speaker 3: First that if You're Milwaukee, coulse keep in mind you can't, 396 00:28:58,080 --> 00:29:01,280 Speaker 3: tank So shingoon it makes it so you don't. Tank 397 00:29:01,720 --> 00:29:05,160 Speaker 3: you have those picks to start getting the young. Players 398 00:29:05,760 --> 00:29:09,120 Speaker 3: that to me is a unique an interesting. One and 399 00:29:09,160 --> 00:29:10,959 Speaker 3: then the other one if you just want to go 400 00:29:11,200 --> 00:29:17,520 Speaker 3: pure young you there is a trade with The spurs 401 00:29:18,520 --> 00:29:23,080 Speaker 3: where you offer Them giannis So jannis And wimber, together 402 00:29:23,200 --> 00:29:28,160 Speaker 3: which is terrifying for the, league and they give Up 403 00:29:28,320 --> 00:29:33,280 Speaker 3: barnes for the Salary Keldon, Johnson rookie of The Year Stefan, 404 00:29:33,440 --> 00:29:38,760 Speaker 3: castle and then a litany of. Picks The atlanta and 405 00:29:39,120 --> 00:29:43,200 Speaker 3: first round pick in twenty twenty, seven The chicago first 406 00:29:43,280 --> 00:29:46,920 Speaker 3: round pick in twenty twenty, seven The boston first round 407 00:29:46,920 --> 00:29:50,480 Speaker 3: pick in twenty twenty, eight The dallas first round pick 408 00:29:50,520 --> 00:29:53,760 Speaker 3: in twenty, thirty which could be super, valuable and The 409 00:29:53,840 --> 00:29:57,400 Speaker 3: minnesota first round pick in twenty, thirty which is, Okay 410 00:29:58,720 --> 00:30:08,520 Speaker 3: AND i, like those are real trades And i'm interested 411 00:30:08,800 --> 00:30:12,120 Speaker 3: if they would they would be interested in any of. 412 00:30:12,160 --> 00:30:15,560 Speaker 3: Those are there any other fake trades you want to 413 00:30:15,600 --> 00:30:15,920 Speaker 3: ask me? 414 00:30:15,960 --> 00:30:17,600 Speaker 2: About, yeah there's what About? 415 00:30:17,680 --> 00:30:20,440 Speaker 1: Oka, SEE i, mean they have, picks and they can 416 00:30:20,480 --> 00:30:21,400 Speaker 1: obviously trade good. 417 00:30:21,400 --> 00:30:23,320 Speaker 2: Players so you see that working. 418 00:30:23,320 --> 00:30:30,560 Speaker 3: Out here's the thing FOR. Okac first of, all they 419 00:30:30,680 --> 00:30:33,720 Speaker 3: might win the title this. Year if they do. THAT 420 00:30:34,480 --> 00:30:36,640 Speaker 3: i can't imagine that. 421 00:30:37,120 --> 00:30:39,480 Speaker 2: In this, scenario if they fell, off if they came up, 422 00:30:39,480 --> 00:30:40,320 Speaker 2: short if. 423 00:30:40,160 --> 00:30:45,400 Speaker 3: They, okay so they came up, short do? They so 424 00:30:45,440 --> 00:30:49,200 Speaker 3: they're not Trading shay, Right So i'm just trying to 425 00:30:49,240 --> 00:30:52,400 Speaker 3: see how they could make the salaries. WORK i guess 426 00:30:52,760 --> 00:30:57,200 Speaker 3: they could Because hartenstein makes twenty eight. Million i'm just 427 00:30:57,240 --> 00:31:00,960 Speaker 3: trying to put it together on the. Fly if you 428 00:31:01,120 --> 00:31:15,240 Speaker 3: traded Them hartenstein And chet to go and let me 429 00:31:15,320 --> 00:31:21,000 Speaker 3: find one more guy that you would have like if 430 00:31:21,040 --> 00:31:27,960 Speaker 3: you traded Him, Hartenstein chet And Isaiah. Joe that that 431 00:31:28,680 --> 00:31:33,680 Speaker 3: makes the salaries. Work and then they have the. Picks 432 00:31:33,720 --> 00:31:39,760 Speaker 3: okayc Has is in twenty twenty, Six houston's and The 433 00:31:39,800 --> 00:31:45,680 Speaker 3: clippers in twenty twenty, seven their own And dallas in 434 00:31:45,800 --> 00:31:50,960 Speaker 3: twenty twenty Eight Denver denver's, pick and then they have 435 00:31:51,080 --> 00:31:53,160 Speaker 3: their own picks the rest of the, Way so they 436 00:31:53,200 --> 00:32:00,840 Speaker 3: don't have great. Picks we thought That clippers pick would be. 437 00:32:01,000 --> 00:32:04,320 Speaker 3: Unbelievable do they have? SWAPS i thought they had swaps 438 00:32:04,360 --> 00:32:08,800 Speaker 3: with The clippers and let me look that up real, 439 00:32:08,880 --> 00:32:16,120 Speaker 3: quick future draft Picks clippers so or, NO i, don't 440 00:32:16,520 --> 00:32:21,320 Speaker 3: so let me. See they so outgoing draft picks for 441 00:32:21,360 --> 00:32:29,040 Speaker 3: THE i should have done The, thunder but SO i 442 00:32:29,080 --> 00:32:34,200 Speaker 3: don't think that maybe those picks went. Elsewhere, sorry this 443 00:32:34,280 --> 00:32:42,480 Speaker 3: is not good, podcasting BUT i just incoming. Picks so They, 444 00:32:42,680 --> 00:32:47,520 Speaker 3: yeah they can swap with The clippers in twenty twenty, 445 00:32:47,600 --> 00:32:53,680 Speaker 3: seven they can swap With dallas in twenty twenty, eighth 446 00:32:54,520 --> 00:32:58,320 Speaker 3: AND i think that's where that The Paul george trade 447 00:32:58,320 --> 00:33:01,360 Speaker 3: and all that stuff. Ends But chat would be a real. Piece, 448 00:33:01,440 --> 00:33:05,320 Speaker 3: Obviously hartenstein's a real. Piece so, YEAH i don't think 449 00:33:05,440 --> 00:33:08,040 Speaker 3: The thunder are gonna make that. Move Maybe i'm. WRONG 450 00:33:09,400 --> 00:33:15,360 Speaker 3: i Think houston Or San antonio are the more likely outcomes. 451 00:33:15,400 --> 00:33:24,280 Speaker 6: There Blending vice's signature dynamic storytelling with the high octane 452 00:33:24,320 --> 00:33:27,720 Speaker 6: world of, Sports Vice sports brings an exciting and diverse 453 00:33:27,800 --> 00:33:30,640 Speaker 6: range of programming that goes beyond the, game catch action 454 00:33:30,840 --> 00:33:35,240 Speaker 6: packed live, events and exclusive sports documentaries and profiles only 455 00:33:35,280 --> 00:33:35,720 Speaker 6: On VICE. 456 00:33:35,760 --> 00:33:38,760 Speaker 2: TV Jj reddick was. 457 00:33:38,760 --> 00:33:41,520 Speaker 1: Askeding a pregame pressor if he was going to consult 458 00:33:41,560 --> 00:33:44,440 Speaker 1: with his assistants a little bit, more and he got 459 00:33:44,440 --> 00:33:46,800 Speaker 1: offended by that and kind of stormed out of the, 460 00:33:46,840 --> 00:33:51,840 Speaker 1: meeting And Dragonfly jones came out and, said, yeah, so, 461 00:33:52,080 --> 00:33:54,960 Speaker 1: quote you can't be the, smug know it all new. 462 00:33:55,000 --> 00:33:58,479 Speaker 1: Coach and then every coach whoever schemed Against rudy did 463 00:33:58,480 --> 00:34:01,680 Speaker 1: a better job than you to those questions at the, podium. 464 00:34:01,720 --> 00:34:08,799 Speaker 3: Bro so so here's the. Deal So i'm also not 465 00:34:09,080 --> 00:34:15,160 Speaker 3: going to So i'm big, on and we can Take 466 00:34:15,239 --> 00:34:19,359 Speaker 3: dragonflies tweet. Off i'm big. On this is gonna sound, 467 00:34:19,400 --> 00:34:26,799 Speaker 3: silly just being, honest no matter how it looks or 468 00:34:26,840 --> 00:34:29,359 Speaker 3: if people think there's an agenda there or. Whatever it. 469 00:34:29,440 --> 00:34:33,680 Speaker 3: Is so over the last couple of, years WHEN i 470 00:34:33,719 --> 00:34:39,200 Speaker 3: have criticized The lakers, coaching it hasn't been to Protect. 471 00:34:39,320 --> 00:34:43,640 Speaker 3: Lebron it hasn't been BECAUSE i was looking for a fall. 472 00:34:43,680 --> 00:34:48,520 Speaker 3: Guy it was BECAUSE i Thought darvinham was objectively, speaking 473 00:34:48,680 --> 00:34:52,359 Speaker 3: a bad, coach AND i thought he put them in 474 00:34:52,880 --> 00:34:59,920 Speaker 3: bad strategic and tactical and line up, situations and it 475 00:35:00,200 --> 00:35:05,960 Speaker 3: hurt their chances of. Succeeding that's WHY i. CRITICIZE i 476 00:35:06,000 --> 00:35:09,239 Speaker 3: am not going to all of a sudden because they 477 00:35:09,320 --> 00:35:13,000 Speaker 3: lost a series THAT i thought they should. Win act, 478 00:35:13,160 --> 00:35:16,759 Speaker 3: LIKE i don't THINK Jj reddick over the course of 479 00:35:16,800 --> 00:35:20,080 Speaker 3: the year did an excellent. JOB i think he. DID 480 00:35:20,600 --> 00:35:23,960 Speaker 3: i THINK Jj reddick is a really sharp. COACH i 481 00:35:24,000 --> 00:35:29,440 Speaker 3: think there are a lot of major positives FOR Jj 482 00:35:29,560 --> 00:35:35,800 Speaker 3: reddick from a work, ethic from attention to, detail from, 483 00:35:36,120 --> 00:35:41,759 Speaker 3: tactics from understanding the kind of newer elements of what 484 00:35:41,800 --> 00:35:44,279 Speaker 3: you would call, analytics but it's really just kind of 485 00:35:44,640 --> 00:35:47,400 Speaker 3: smart math on. Things all of those THINGS i give 486 00:35:47,480 --> 00:35:56,200 Speaker 3: him high marks. For with that, said my concern ABOUT 487 00:35:56,360 --> 00:36:00,239 Speaker 3: jj coming, in and you guys can remember, this you 488 00:36:00,239 --> 00:36:07,360 Speaker 3: can check the, tape was actually a personality, concern which 489 00:36:07,600 --> 00:36:14,359 Speaker 3: WAS i saw HOW jj dealt with criticism when he 490 00:36:14,440 --> 00:36:21,760 Speaker 3: was in the. MEDIA i saw HOW jj how online 491 00:36:21,880 --> 00:36:26,160 Speaker 3: he was and reading mentioned and reading what was being, 492 00:36:26,200 --> 00:36:34,520 Speaker 3: written AND i was worried that when times got, tough 493 00:36:35,600 --> 00:36:42,240 Speaker 3: THAT Jj reddick wouldn't react well to. That the first 494 00:36:42,520 --> 00:36:48,640 Speaker 3: tough times he really, had the first real criticism he 495 00:36:48,760 --> 00:36:54,719 Speaker 3: got his entire tenure was after he did something literally 496 00:36:54,800 --> 00:36:59,200 Speaker 3: no coach has ever done in basketball history play all five, 497 00:36:59,320 --> 00:37:03,600 Speaker 3: starters play the same five guys all twenty four minutes 498 00:37:03,920 --> 00:37:07,920 Speaker 3: in a playoff game for the second. Half he got 499 00:37:08,320 --> 00:37:13,120 Speaker 3: some criticism for, it and then also was asked about 500 00:37:13,160 --> 00:37:17,960 Speaker 3: it pregame and immediately became a bit of a petulant. 501 00:37:18,040 --> 00:37:23,759 Speaker 3: Child and that was the. Concern here is the other, 502 00:37:23,920 --> 00:37:27,839 Speaker 3: concern and this is ONE jj is not going to 503 00:37:27,960 --> 00:37:36,280 Speaker 3: like to. Hear but the record speaks for. ITSELF Jj, 504 00:37:36,440 --> 00:37:45,399 Speaker 3: reddick his entire basketball life gets tight in big. Spots 505 00:37:47,440 --> 00:37:50,600 Speaker 3: at the peak of his basketball career when he was 506 00:37:50,640 --> 00:37:56,080 Speaker 3: the best player in college basketball At, Duke go look 507 00:37:56,120 --> 00:38:00,759 Speaker 3: at those tournament stat lines and you might, say this is. 508 00:38:00,920 --> 00:38:04,719 Speaker 3: Ridiculous why are you bringing UP Jj, reddicks you, know 509 00:38:05,960 --> 00:38:10,840 Speaker 3: three or six In cuba tournament in talking about The. 510 00:38:10,920 --> 00:38:16,560 Speaker 3: Lakers i'll. Explain BUT Jj reddick as. Great he was 511 00:38:16,600 --> 00:38:20,640 Speaker 3: an unbelievable college basketball player who was not a very 512 00:38:20,640 --> 00:38:25,360 Speaker 3: good N cuba tournament. Player was on Four duke, teams 513 00:38:25,360 --> 00:38:28,640 Speaker 3: any of which could have won the national, championship got 514 00:38:28,640 --> 00:38:31,640 Speaker 3: popped in the sweet sixteen almost every, year made it 515 00:38:31,640 --> 00:38:35,439 Speaker 3: to One Final, four and it wasn't, like, OH jj was. Great, 516 00:38:35,520 --> 00:38:37,839 Speaker 3: no that's not how it. Went go back and look 517 00:38:37,880 --> 00:38:43,200 Speaker 3: if you don't remember, then As Jerry west reminded, him 518 00:38:43,560 --> 00:38:48,640 Speaker 3: WHEN jj did The plumbers And fireman BIT jj in 519 00:38:48,719 --> 00:38:53,040 Speaker 3: the pros as really good as he was later in his, 520 00:38:53,080 --> 00:38:59,640 Speaker 3: career was not a good playoff. Performer so why AM 521 00:38:59,680 --> 00:39:04,279 Speaker 3: i bring that up? Now he strikes me as a 522 00:39:04,280 --> 00:39:07,560 Speaker 3: guy who gets a little, tight who's wound a little. 523 00:39:07,600 --> 00:39:13,200 Speaker 3: Tight and when you have on THE tnt broadcast the 524 00:39:13,520 --> 00:39:18,719 Speaker 3: sideline reporter who never that's like the opposite of the 525 00:39:18,760 --> 00:39:23,120 Speaker 3: take industry is the sideline. Reporter when you have the 526 00:39:23,719 --> 00:39:29,160 Speaker 3: sideline reporter telling, us OOH jj was wound. Up when 527 00:39:29,200 --> 00:39:31,840 Speaker 3: we met with him before the, game he was on. 528 00:39:32,280 --> 00:39:35,520 Speaker 3: Edge He and then when you HAVE jj storming out 529 00:39:35,560 --> 00:39:38,640 Speaker 3: of a press conference when you have in the, game 530 00:39:39,480 --> 00:39:42,920 Speaker 3: he has committed before the, Game i'm not gonna Play Jackson. 531 00:39:43,000 --> 00:39:45,360 Speaker 3: Hayes but then all of a sudden you are just 532 00:39:45,400 --> 00:39:48,920 Speaker 3: getting your teeth kicked in on the offensive glass and you're, like, 533 00:39:48,960 --> 00:39:51,200 Speaker 3: Well i've already Said i'm not Playing Jackson. Hayes SO 534 00:39:51,280 --> 00:39:55,640 Speaker 3: i Guess Maxi, kleiba who AGAIN i think could have 535 00:39:55,719 --> 00:39:59,799 Speaker 3: been useful for The lakers cuz he's a big guy 536 00:40:00,040 --> 00:40:02,520 Speaker 3: who can, shoot and as a relationship With. Luca the 537 00:40:02,600 --> 00:40:05,520 Speaker 3: problem is he hadn't practiced or played with him. Once, 538 00:40:05,560 --> 00:40:09,480 Speaker 3: ever you put him in like the coach who got 539 00:40:09,520 --> 00:40:12,759 Speaker 3: a little. Tight oh my, goodness, SORRY i don't know 540 00:40:12,800 --> 00:40:14,920 Speaker 3: if you guys heard my dog freaking. Out it's a 541 00:40:14,960 --> 00:40:20,520 Speaker 3: coach that gets he got a little. Tight and SO 542 00:40:21,920 --> 00:40:25,840 Speaker 3: i think that IF i am, IF i am GIVING 543 00:40:25,960 --> 00:40:31,719 Speaker 3: Jj reddick advice for next year and for the rest 544 00:40:31,719 --> 00:40:34,680 Speaker 3: of his coaching, career BECAUSE i do think he has 545 00:40:35,440 --> 00:40:40,040 Speaker 3: a lot of the talent to be a really good head, 546 00:40:40,080 --> 00:40:43,839 Speaker 3: coach And lucas said great things about him, afterwards said 547 00:40:43,840 --> 00:40:45,799 Speaker 3: of reminding him of being back In europe with the 548 00:40:45,840 --> 00:40:48,239 Speaker 3: style of coaching and the attention to detail all. That 549 00:40:50,000 --> 00:40:54,920 Speaker 3: it honestly is as still as it. Sounds just chill 550 00:40:54,960 --> 00:40:58,359 Speaker 3: a little, Man just breathe and. 551 00:40:58,480 --> 00:41:02,640 Speaker 1: Chill AND i think he was also in his head 552 00:41:02,640 --> 00:41:06,239 Speaker 1: about making that, decision and like he's, LIKE i don't 553 00:41:06,280 --> 00:41:08,279 Speaker 1: want to call it, embarrassed but like the fact that 554 00:41:08,280 --> 00:41:10,640 Speaker 1: he's being questioned on, it he just can't can't stand. 555 00:41:10,680 --> 00:41:11,280 Speaker 2: It he walked. 556 00:41:11,280 --> 00:41:17,080 Speaker 1: AWAY i also think sorry for the birds by the, way, Guys. 557 00:41:16,520 --> 00:41:19,200 Speaker 3: OH i loved. IT i WAS i was going to 558 00:41:19,360 --> 00:41:23,520 Speaker 3: ask you about. THAT i think it sounds. DELIGHTFUL i was, 559 00:41:23,560 --> 00:41:26,160 Speaker 3: like oh, man this is a nice little background to the, 560 00:41:26,280 --> 00:41:34,440 Speaker 3: pot just chirping Southern california. Birds BUT i so here's the, 561 00:41:34,520 --> 00:41:41,840 Speaker 3: thing almost, ASSUREDLY i can. BET i can't bet, this 562 00:41:41,960 --> 00:41:50,560 Speaker 3: BUT i would bet almost anything That reddick had no 563 00:41:50,680 --> 00:41:56,280 Speaker 3: idea that no coach ever had played all five guys 564 00:41:56,320 --> 00:41:59,360 Speaker 3: for the second half of a playoff, game like when 565 00:41:59,400 --> 00:42:01,440 Speaker 3: he was doing, It, like why would? HE i didn't know, 566 00:42:01,520 --> 00:42:02,880 Speaker 3: it you know WHAT i, MEAN i. 567 00:42:05,200 --> 00:42:06,600 Speaker 2: Made history, right. 568 00:42:06,920 --> 00:42:10,200 Speaker 3: Correct i'm sure he knew it was, rare you know 569 00:42:10,200 --> 00:42:15,160 Speaker 3: WHAT i? Mean it worth that no team ever in basketball. 570 00:42:15,280 --> 00:42:19,920 Speaker 3: History and so then when they fall apart at the 571 00:42:20,120 --> 00:42:24,839 Speaker 3: end and then he finds Out i'm the first guy 572 00:42:24,920 --> 00:42:28,360 Speaker 3: to ever do, THIS i bet he felt a little 573 00:42:28,360 --> 00:42:32,239 Speaker 3: boxed in and maybe even a little. Embarrassed and SO 574 00:42:33,360 --> 00:42:35,680 Speaker 3: i just DON'T i think he has wound a little. 575 00:42:36,120 --> 00:42:42,799 Speaker 3: Tight AND i think that that, unfortunately manifested itself in 576 00:42:42,880 --> 00:42:48,960 Speaker 3: big spots in his playing career and now first running the, 577 00:42:48,960 --> 00:42:53,319 Speaker 3: playoffs manifested itself a bit in the first really big 578 00:42:53,360 --> 00:43:01,120 Speaker 3: spot of his coaching, career that's. All it's not a lifelong. 579 00:43:01,200 --> 00:43:03,480 Speaker 3: Indictment it just is what it. 580 00:43:03,560 --> 00:43:05,440 Speaker 5: Is