Speaker 1: So the Lakers season ended last night at the hand
Speaker 1: of the hands of Anthony Edwards and the Timberwolves. So
Speaker 1: might say Rigobert jj Rennick had a similar scheme. He
Speaker 1: played his starters a lot of minutes. They came closer
Speaker 1: at the end, but then kind of ran out of gas.
Speaker 1: They couldn't do it.
Speaker 2: How did you get this series so wrong? You said
Speaker 2: that when this one they obviously didn't.
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, and I said Lakers. I said my favorite
Speaker 3: bet was Lakers minus a game and a half, meaning
Speaker 3: Lakers in four or five or six. And when I
Speaker 3: was giving the analysis of that bet, I said, I
Speaker 3: didn't even really consider the possibility of the Lakers losing
Speaker 3: the series. Is the reason the bet didn't come in.
Speaker 3: I thought it was because the Lakers, you know, maybe
Speaker 3: they win in seven, but I thought they would. I
Speaker 3: thought they would be hard fought games. The Lakers were
Speaker 3: clearly better. So I do want to start with me
Speaker 3: because I gotta a whiff this strong. You gotta figure out,
Speaker 3: you gotta kind of do an autopsy, a post mortem
Speaker 3: of your own takes. And the number one thing that
Speaker 3: I clearly overestimated going into this postseason was how dynamic
Speaker 3: and unstoppable. The Lakers offense would be I thought there
Speaker 3: was a little too much attention paid to the Lakers'
Speaker 3: defensive deficiencies, not because I thought they'd be a great defense,
Speaker 3: but because I thought it was pretty clear we had
Speaker 3: proof of concept that the Lakers defense could be average,
Speaker 3: that the Lakers defense could be fine, and that if
Speaker 3: the Lakers defense is fine, even given their size limitations,
Speaker 3: that this offense with Luca and Lebron was going to
Speaker 3: be a top three in the league over the court,
Speaker 3: you know, net rating wise or offensive rating wise offense.
Speaker 3: And it was nothing close to that. And so that
Speaker 3: was with number one whiff. Number one was that the
Speaker 3: Lakers offense would be would put the other team under
Speaker 3: such pressure to keep scoring and to keep pace that
Speaker 3: a younger Timberwolves team, a Timberwolves team that only has
Speaker 3: one true superstar, a Timberwolves team that has a few
Speaker 3: guys who are max players who there have long playoff histories,
Speaker 3: but the playoff histories are you know, checkered in Rudy
Speaker 3: Gobert and Julius Randall that the weight of Lebron and
Speaker 3: Luca on the offensive side of the ball would be
Speaker 3: too much for him. None of that happened. We didn't
Speaker 3: have a single game this series where Lebron and Luca
Speaker 3: were both outstanding on the offensive end, and we did
Speaker 3: have last night. And we'll talk obviously more about the
Speaker 3: individual parties involved here shortly, but last night was the
Speaker 3: first time in an elimination game that Lebron wasn't outstanding
Speaker 3: in a decade. Honest to god, if you go through
Speaker 3: it was it was somewhat jarring to see if you
Speaker 3: look at what Lebron James, who averages thirty five points
Speaker 3: per game in his career in elimination games, what he
Speaker 3: did last night in comparison, like if I can just
Speaker 3: quickly give you the game logs last year against Denver,
Speaker 3: face well two games facing elimination against Denver, the first
Speaker 3: game he had thirty five and four. The next game
Speaker 3: and because they won it, he had thirty nine and eleven.
Speaker 3: The year before, facing elimination against Denver, he had I
Speaker 3: think thirty in the first half and he finished with
Speaker 3: forty ten and nine When they lost to Phoenix in
Speaker 3: a game they got they really didn't have much of
Speaker 3: a chance. If you remember, that's the game Anthony Davis
Speaker 3: started and then played like thirty seconds, then came out
Speaker 3: of the game Lebron twenty nine to nine and seven
Speaker 3: facing elimination. They never faced elimination and route to the
Speaker 3: bubble in the championship run. And then if you look
Speaker 3: at Game seven against Boston or Game six and seven
Speaker 3: against Boston facing eliminations, they're down three to two, forty six,
Speaker 3: eight and eleven, thirty five, fifteen and nine. You can
Speaker 3: go his whole career. It's like, Okay, we're facing elimination.
Speaker 3: I have to ramp it up. Here's the part that
Speaker 3: last night informed me on he fired those bullets over
Speaker 3: the weekend. He felt correctly clearly we were facing elimination
Speaker 3: in Game four and in Game three he had the
Speaker 3: thirty eight, ten and four and they blew it at
Speaker 3: the end. In Game four he had twenty seven, twelve
Speaker 3: and eight and the defensive stops at the end, and
Speaker 3: in Game five the forty. It was a weird Lebron
Speaker 3: game because he had three of his most explosive offensive
Speaker 3: plays of those three dunks that he's had all postseason.
Speaker 3: But he just didn't have the juice last night. So
Speaker 3: Lebron didn't have the juice. Luca's performance last night even
Speaker 3: more shocking because Luca has been a back against the wall,
Speaker 3: I'm gonna f you up. Everybody's tough when they're up.
Speaker 2: Lucas seemed pretty messed up, like basically this whole series though.
Speaker 1: Yeah, or whether it was sicknesses or yesterday, I feel
Speaker 1: like he came out with like some backspasm type of thing.
Speaker 3: Well yeah, I mean, listen, he got hurt, but he didn't.
Speaker 3: If it was he had looked awesome and until the
Speaker 3: hard fall, that would be one thing, but that's not
Speaker 3: what it was. Like. He was relatively passive in the
Speaker 3: first quarter, which is when he has crushed. It felt
Speaker 3: early on like Lebron and Luca were both like, okay,
Speaker 3: let's conserve energy in the first quarter so we have
Speaker 3: more in the fourth quarter. And at first it looked
Speaker 3: like a bad strategy because they were down fourteen, but
Speaker 3: then once despite all that, they were able to claw
Speaker 3: their way back into the game and actually take a
Speaker 3: one point lead. You thought, oh, this could work out,
Speaker 3: but Lebron didn't have the extra gear and Luca didn't
Speaker 3: have it. The really, I don't want to say the
Speaker 3: whole series, but the last three games since he got sick,
Speaker 3: Luca didn't have the Luca playoff gear. Twenty eight to
Speaker 3: seven and nine on seven of eighteen from the field
Speaker 3: for Luca is by his standards, a bad playoff game.
Speaker 3: Now the flip side to that, and where folks, where
Speaker 3: credit must be given is the other guys are paid too.
Speaker 3: And the Timberwolves defensive plan against Luca and against Lebron
Speaker 3: was outstanding. The Timberwolves trusting you know what, Austin Reeves.
Speaker 3: If you beat us, you beat us. We don't think
Speaker 3: you're gonna beat us. It was smart, it worked, and
Speaker 3: so I'm not going to kill aust Reeves. He had
Speaker 3: a rough series. But also the Lakers shouldn't have needed
Speaker 3: Austin Reeves to be great to force a Game six
Speaker 3: against the Timberwolves. And I understand that the Timberwolves are
Speaker 3: now twenty one to five in their last twenty six
Speaker 3: and I think they have ten or it's either ten
Speaker 3: or fifteen. I don't remember double digit wins in that stretch.
Speaker 3: I get that that maybe I was I am still
Speaker 3: even to a degree underrating or disrespecting the Timberwolves. But
Speaker 3: this Lakers team it was not. And this is what's
Speaker 3: so frustrating about the way the season ended. It was
Speaker 3: not some hope in a prayer media creation. They had
Speaker 3: almost the exact same record against the Western Conference as
Speaker 3: Oklahoma City did. They were a dominant team at home,
Speaker 3: where they lost two of these games. They had I
Speaker 3: think the third best record in the fourth best record
Speaker 3: in the league against the best teams in the league.
Speaker 3: We saw them at the end of the year against
Speaker 3: a full strength Oklahoma City team, blow them out, and
Speaker 3: then go toe to toe with them a week before
Speaker 3: the playoffs. They were rested. All of those things happened,
Speaker 3: and while Lebron did not have a great Game five,
Speaker 3: you did get great Lebron performances in games two, three,
Speaker 3: and four. So it wasn't that oh the you know,
Speaker 3: the old man slowed down at the end. He did
Speaker 3: at the very end, and they still just got annihilated
Speaker 3: in this series. The thing about last night that made
Speaker 3: last usually demonsey. If if a team loses a closeout
Speaker 3: game that you know, is a one possession game with
Speaker 3: a few minutes left, it's heart wrenching. I gotta tell you,
Speaker 3: it's not how I felt watching the Lakers squander that
Speaker 3: game at the very end, because they were incredibly lucky
Speaker 3: last night that they weren't blown out minutes. I mean,
Speaker 3: Anthony Edwards was zero for eleven from three. The Timberlves
Speaker 3: as a whole shot forty seven threes and made seven
Speaker 3: of them. Think about that, they were fifteen percent from three.
Speaker 3: So Ant was five of nineteen from the field. And
Speaker 3: that's another weird thing for Ant because he's going to
Speaker 3: get his flowers today, as he should. But it reminded
Speaker 3: me actually a lot of game Game seven against Denver,
Speaker 3: the biggest win of Anthony Edwards career. He was six
Speaker 3: of twenty four from the field, two of ten from three,
Speaker 3: had sixteen points. It was his worst game of the series,
Speaker 3: and they came back and beat Denver. Anyway, last night
Speaker 3: he's five of nineteen from the field. Ozho of eleven
Speaker 3: from three has fifteen points. And it's the game that
Speaker 3: he knocks off Luca and Lebron. That which is a
Speaker 3: testament to the Timberwolves and a testament to Julius Randall
Speaker 3: was excellent this entire series. Julius Randall was reliable, and
Speaker 3: obviously Rudy Gobert's nine offensive rebounds twenty four total rebounds,
Speaker 3: him scoring twenty seven points in a playoff game was unfathomable.
Speaker 3: And you can say, oh, listen, this is the Lakers
Speaker 3: don't play a center. The Lakers haven't played a center
Speaker 3: all series. Rudy Gobert's stat lines prior to last night
Speaker 3: two and six, six and six, one and three, five
Speaker 3: and ten, and then twenty seven and twenty four. Prior
Speaker 3: to last night, in the series, Rudy Gobert had fourteen
Speaker 3: points twenty five rebounds in the four games. Last night,
Speaker 3: he had twenty seven points, twenty four rebounds.
Speaker 1: I'm not having a big guy, and there is going
Speaker 1: to come back to bite you eventually, right.
Speaker 3: Well, clearly, I mean so clearly it did. But the
Speaker 3: point that I'm making is, and you guys know from
Speaker 3: what I was saying earlier in the series that I
Speaker 3: thought and even though the Lakers were in a tough spot,
Speaker 3: one of the things that had worked out for them
Speaker 3: was that the Timberwolves, and we talked about this that
Speaker 3: even though the Lakers were everyone, the Lakers were playing
Speaker 3: with six' eight and, Below rudy wasn't killing him that
Speaker 3: they were getting away with playing that small because The
Speaker 3: timberwolves didn't want to Give Rudy gobert the ball and
Speaker 3: a'll be, honest last, night they didn't give him the
Speaker 3: ball that. Much it was all on like often not,
Speaker 3: ball but it, was, yeah it was on offensive, rebounds
Speaker 3: it was on. Putbacks it wasn't a lot of like
Speaker 3: they passed it To Rudy. Gobert and so a guy
Speaker 3: who has in his seventy how how many games is
Speaker 3: his playoff, career seventy four game playoff, career who went
Speaker 3: into last night with five career twenty point playoff games
Speaker 3: and zero career twenty five point playoff, games puts twenty
Speaker 3: seven on your. HEAD a guy who in his seventy
Speaker 3: four career playoff games once going into last, night had
Speaker 3: more than eighteen rebounds in a game in the, playoffs
Speaker 3: puts twenty four rebounds on your. Head it Was it
Speaker 3: was a dominant performance by. Him it was a great
Speaker 3: performance By, jalen By Julius. Randall they and that's the other.
Speaker 3: Piece jade McDaniel's in foul trouble immediately and it didn't.
Speaker 3: Matter so this was A it felt to me, like
Speaker 3: and this is is not an excuse and it might
Speaker 3: even be an. Indictment it felt to me like The
Speaker 3: lakers felt they lost the series On, sunday and that
Speaker 3: is and that they came out because there was no
Speaker 3: energy in the first. Quarter it was something of a.
Speaker 2: Miracle minnesota was leaving it up there for.
Speaker 1: Grabs, yeah they were playing pretty complacent with the, lead
Speaker 1: taking a lot of deep shots instead of.
Speaker 2: Driving it was a.
Speaker 3: Miracle it's exactly right demonse that this game was. Closely
Speaker 3: minnesota just has A c minus shooting night instead of
Speaker 3: the worst shooting night any team will have in the
Speaker 3: playoffs over the next three, years which is really what they.
Speaker 3: Did The lakers are down twenty, five, right and so
Speaker 3: the credit to The Turm wolves, Man and.
Speaker 2: What about The Mark williams? Trade, Man like what is?
Speaker 2: WELL i would that have changed?
Speaker 3: This here's the thing it what they gave up in
Speaker 3: The Mark williams trade Was Dalton connect a first round
Speaker 3: pick AND i think a. Swap so there is no
Speaker 3: argument to be, made, like, well for this, series in this,
Speaker 3: postseason that would have hurt you Because Dalton connect got zero,
Speaker 3: minutes you know WHAT i. Mean so since the guy
Speaker 3: you traded you never played in the short, term And
Speaker 3: Mark williams took a bit of a victory LAP i.
Speaker 3: Understand On, TWITTER i get that it certainly felt like
Speaker 3: and they when they didn't Get Mark, williams they Signed Alex,
Speaker 3: lynn who played zero. Minutes Now Maxi kleiba comes off
Speaker 3: the bench after not playing in months because of his,
Speaker 3: INJURY jj gives him five minutes and more ON jj
Speaker 3: shortly there is. There it sure feels like they would
Speaker 3: have had a better. Chance now in, retrospect in this
Speaker 3: series they Had Mark, williams we never saw him play
Speaker 3: with him and they now that powder is dry for you,
Speaker 3: know a move this coming summer. Potentially BUT i. CAN'T
Speaker 3: i can't pick a team to win the championship and
Speaker 3: then when they get popped in round one in five be, like,
Speaker 3: well here's all the obvious flaws with the, Roster like that's.
Speaker 3: BULLSHIT i Knew Mark williams wasn't on the. TEAM i
Speaker 3: knew how big The timberwolves were WHEN i said After
Speaker 3: day eighty, Two game eighty two of the season THAT
Speaker 3: i thought the bracket fell perfectly for The, Lakers and
Speaker 3: now you look at it and you, say well that
Speaker 3: was wrong. Obviously so, no it's A i but at its,
Speaker 3: core people are, GONNA i think focus on the wrong.
Speaker 3: THINGS i think this what happened to The, lakers in my,
Speaker 3: opinion is three games of this series and they scored
Speaker 3: less than one hundred. Points four games of the series
Speaker 3: they scored less than one oh. Five the one game they,
Speaker 3: won they only scored ninety. Four and you can so
Speaker 3: folks are going to say the issue was they were
Speaker 3: never going to be good enough, defensively, maybe but the
Speaker 3: issue in this series was an offense that the only
Speaker 3: way to look at This lakers team as a legitimate
Speaker 3: contender was going to be they have an elite. Offense
Speaker 3: that offense was never, Elite it was never even very,
Speaker 3: good and it's just remarkable to me that it's the same.
Speaker 3: OFFENSE i saw a few weeks ago drop one twenty
Speaker 3: six IN okc in a GAME okac, wanted and then
Speaker 3: have like one ten with six minutes left IN okac
Speaker 3: against that. Defense in the, Game luca got ejected IN
Speaker 3: i the The lakers role players all had some. Struggles
Speaker 3: luca obviously wasn't. Himself lebron ran out of gas in
Speaker 3: every every one of these fourth, quarters and that's how
Speaker 3: you lose in.
Speaker 1: Five given To, Austin, YEAH i feel like you Were
Speaker 1: you did really go easy On Austin. Reeves if those
Speaker 1: guys aren't gonna show, up that who has to show?
Speaker 1: UP i think it has to Be Austin.
Speaker 3: Well, no, LISTEN i So Austin reeves for the series
Speaker 3: was sixteen to five and three on forty one thirty two.
Speaker 3: Splits it's a bad. Series the Reason i'm not focusing
Speaker 3: on that is BECAUSE i just think that would be
Speaker 3: kind of bullshit in THAT i didn't pick The. Lakers
Speaker 3: people ARE i think MAYBE i think people that are
Speaker 3: discerning listeners to HOW i do this stuff are maybe
Speaker 3: at times surprised at how FAIR i try to be
Speaker 3: to what is honest. COMMENTARY i didn't pick The lakers
Speaker 3: BECAUSE i Thought Austin reeves was gonna cook so like
Speaker 3: and so this was the first playoff run of his
Speaker 3: career where a lot was expected of. Him that's where
Speaker 3: and and he didn't. Listen he wasn't, great but he's
Speaker 3: a young player who doesn't make a ton of. Money
Speaker 3: who you just? EAT I i don't like when stars
Speaker 3: are awesome their teams and people then blame the. Star
Speaker 3: the example of that would would have been if after
Speaker 3: The pacers beat The, bucks if people were Like yiannis
Speaker 3: needed to do. More yiannis did fucking everything he could have,
Speaker 3: done and they got. Beat, so Like Bill james used to,
Speaker 3: say bad teams have an amazing ability to blame their
Speaker 3: best players for their biggest, problems and SO i try
Speaker 3: not to do. That but WHAT i also try not
Speaker 3: to do is when a team THAT i thought was
Speaker 3: going to win because of the overwhelming star power at
Speaker 3: the very top doesn't, win and those two stars are
Speaker 3: good but not WHAT i thought they would, be then be,
Speaker 3: like man needed more from your third, option LIKE i
Speaker 3: Just and so it's not like That i'm trying to
Speaker 3: Protect austin and it's nothing like. That it's that he
Speaker 3: wasn't very, good But Austin reeves playing at A c
Speaker 3: minus level again should not be the reason you're going
Speaker 3: home in. Five and that's where that's where we end.
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Speaker 1: Ball So dame unfortunately went down with a non contact
Speaker 1: injury a few days. Ago he tore his achilles in game.
Speaker 1: Four you said that it was likely the last time
Speaker 1: we See dame play Like, dame and you also said
Speaker 1: this is probably the last time we See giannis as a.
Speaker 5: Buck your, Thoughts, YEAH I i hate this so much
Speaker 5: For Damian lillard and and you know he.
Speaker 3: He he came back faster from and it killed sorry
Speaker 3: from blood clots than anyone ever and THAT i don't
Speaker 3: really understand how he did, it and obviously blood clots
Speaker 3: are not related to a torn. Achilles, however him being
Speaker 3: out and not being able to train and do their
Speaker 3: play for a month a month and then jumping into playoff.
Speaker 3: Basketball did that CONTRIBUTE i would have to imagine it
Speaker 3: at least could. Have and so you just feel truly
Speaker 3: sick to your stomach that this guy did everything he
Speaker 3: could to come back as early as possible and now
Speaker 3: and it was to get this playoff. Run and now
Speaker 3: he didn't get this playoff, run and he's not gonna
Speaker 3: have next year's playoff, run and he might not have
Speaker 3: any more playoff. Runs SO i, mean that is a true,
Speaker 3: cruel cruel turn of events for a great dude and
Speaker 3: a great. Player, YEAH i, mean you just hate. It
Speaker 3: you hate every piece of. It and you know he
Speaker 3: Has i'm sure so many what ifs in his. Head
Speaker 3: what if he had just stayed In portland and just
Speaker 3: been the legend there. Forever it's not, like you, know
Speaker 3: well IF i had done, THAT i wouldn't have gotten
Speaker 3: these great playoff runs that those never. Happened so, you,
Speaker 3: oh you said.
Speaker 2: That dame, said like what IF i never Left? Portland
Speaker 2: and you're saying.
Speaker 3: No, true, no, no, No i'm Saying i'm just talking
Speaker 3: about From. Dame i'll get To giannis in a. Minute
Speaker 3: What i'm saying For dame is he's just, thinking, Like
Speaker 3: i'm sure he has a lot of, like, man what
Speaker 3: HAVE i never? LEFT i Left, portland WHICH i didn't
Speaker 3: really want to do BECAUSE i wanted to compete for a.
Speaker 3: CHAMPIONSHIP i won zero playoff series In. MILWAUKEE i would
Speaker 3: you know WHAT i? Mean like that that didn't. Happen
Speaker 3: i'm sure he's also, thinking what if they had just
Speaker 3: traded me WHERE i wanted to be traded To miami
Speaker 3: and it was me And Jimmy butler and. Bam you
Speaker 3: know what would that have looked? Like and so it's
Speaker 3: a cruel not final, chapter but close to a final
Speaker 3: chapter For dame and then For. YANNIS I i don't
Speaker 3: see How yannis can. Stay and The bucks are in
Speaker 3: such a weird spot because they don't control any of
Speaker 3: their own picks the next six, years so they can't.
Speaker 3: Tank they have no cap space to improve the. Team
Speaker 3: they don't have any young players that you're just super excited,
Speaker 3: about and so it's gonna be fake trade season With.
Speaker 3: Giannis and there's two demands THAT i made that are really.
Speaker 3: Interesting one is to The, rockets where you Get Shngoon Reed,
Speaker 3: shepherd who is a top five pick who doesn't play Jack.
Speaker 3: Landale he doesn't play because he doesn't, defend but he
Speaker 3: was top five picking this year's, draft so he's. Valuable
Speaker 3: jaquelandale for salary. Filler and then four draft, picks two
Speaker 3: of which are super, valuable The phoenix twenty seven and
Speaker 3: twenty nine first and The houston twenty eight and thirty.
Speaker 3: First that if You're Milwaukee, coulse keep in mind you can't,
Speaker 3: tank So shingoon it makes it so you don't. Tank
Speaker 3: you have those picks to start getting the young. Players
Speaker 3: that to me is a unique an interesting. One and
Speaker 3: then the other one if you just want to go
Speaker 3: pure young you there is a trade with The spurs
Speaker 3: where you offer Them giannis So jannis And wimber, together
Speaker 3: which is terrifying for the, league and they give Up
Speaker 3: barnes for the Salary Keldon, Johnson rookie of The Year Stefan,
Speaker 3: castle and then a litany of. Picks The atlanta and
Speaker 3: first round pick in twenty twenty, seven The chicago first
Speaker 3: round pick in twenty twenty, seven The boston first round
Speaker 3: pick in twenty twenty, eight The dallas first round pick
Speaker 3: in twenty, thirty which could be super, valuable and The
Speaker 3: minnesota first round pick in twenty, thirty which is, Okay
Speaker 3: AND i, like those are real trades And i'm interested
Speaker 3: if they would they would be interested in any of.
Speaker 3: Those are there any other fake trades you want to
Speaker 3: ask me?
Speaker 2: About, yeah there's what About?
Speaker 1: Oka, SEE i, mean they have, picks and they can
Speaker 1: obviously trade good.
Speaker 2: Players so you see that working.
Speaker 3: Out here's the thing FOR. Okac first of, all they
Speaker 3: might win the title this. Year if they do. THAT
Speaker 3: i can't imagine that.
Speaker 2: In this, scenario if they fell, off if they came up,
Speaker 2: short if.
Speaker 3: They, okay so they came up, short do? They so
Speaker 3: they're not Trading shay, Right So i'm just trying to
Speaker 3: see how they could make the salaries. WORK i guess
Speaker 3: they could Because hartenstein makes twenty eight. Million i'm just
Speaker 3: trying to put it together on the. Fly if you
Speaker 3: traded Them hartenstein And chet to go and let me
Speaker 3: find one more guy that you would have like if
Speaker 3: you traded Him, Hartenstein chet And Isaiah. Joe that that
Speaker 3: makes the salaries. Work and then they have the. Picks
Speaker 3: okayc Has is in twenty twenty, Six houston's and The
Speaker 3: clippers in twenty twenty, seven their own And dallas in
Speaker 3: twenty twenty Eight Denver denver's, pick and then they have
Speaker 3: their own picks the rest of the, Way so they
Speaker 3: don't have great. Picks we thought That clippers pick would be.
Speaker 3: Unbelievable do they have? SWAPS i thought they had swaps
Speaker 3: with The clippers and let me look that up real,
Speaker 3: quick future draft Picks clippers so or, NO i, don't
Speaker 3: so let me. See they so outgoing draft picks for
Speaker 3: THE i should have done The, thunder but SO i
Speaker 3: don't think that maybe those picks went. Elsewhere, sorry this
Speaker 3: is not good, podcasting BUT i just incoming. Picks so They,
Speaker 3: yeah they can swap with The clippers in twenty twenty,
Speaker 3: seven they can swap With dallas in twenty twenty, eighth
Speaker 3: AND i think that's where that The Paul george trade
Speaker 3: and all that stuff. Ends But chat would be a real. Piece,
Speaker 3: Obviously hartenstein's a real. Piece so, YEAH i don't think
Speaker 3: The thunder are gonna make that. Move Maybe i'm. WRONG
Speaker 3: i Think houston Or San antonio are the more likely outcomes.
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Speaker 2: TV Jj reddick was.
Speaker 1: Askeding a pregame pressor if he was going to consult
Speaker 1: with his assistants a little bit, more and he got
Speaker 1: offended by that and kind of stormed out of the,
Speaker 1: meeting And Dragonfly jones came out and, said, yeah, so,
Speaker 1: quote you can't be the, smug know it all new.
Speaker 1: Coach and then every coach whoever schemed Against rudy did
Speaker 1: a better job than you to those questions at the, podium.
Speaker 3: Bro so so here's the. Deal So i'm also not
Speaker 3: going to So i'm big, on and we can Take
Speaker 3: dragonflies tweet. Off i'm big. On this is gonna sound,
Speaker 3: silly just being, honest no matter how it looks or
Speaker 3: if people think there's an agenda there or. Whatever it.
Speaker 3: Is so over the last couple of, years WHEN i
Speaker 3: have criticized The lakers, coaching it hasn't been to Protect.
Speaker 3: Lebron it hasn't been BECAUSE i was looking for a fall.
Speaker 3: Guy it was BECAUSE i Thought darvinham was objectively, speaking
Speaker 3: a bad, coach AND i thought he put them in
Speaker 3: bad strategic and tactical and line up, situations and it
Speaker 3: hurt their chances of. Succeeding that's WHY i. CRITICIZE i
Speaker 3: am not going to all of a sudden because they
Speaker 3: lost a series THAT i thought they should. Win act,
Speaker 3: LIKE i don't THINK Jj reddick over the course of
Speaker 3: the year did an excellent. JOB i think he. DID
Speaker 3: i THINK Jj reddick is a really sharp. COACH i
Speaker 3: think there are a lot of major positives FOR Jj
Speaker 3: reddick from a work, ethic from attention to, detail from,
Speaker 3: tactics from understanding the kind of newer elements of what
Speaker 3: you would call, analytics but it's really just kind of
Speaker 3: smart math on. Things all of those THINGS i give
Speaker 3: him high marks. For with that, said my concern ABOUT
Speaker 3: jj coming, in and you guys can remember, this you
Speaker 3: can check the, tape was actually a personality, concern which
Speaker 3: WAS i saw HOW jj dealt with criticism when he
Speaker 3: was in the. MEDIA i saw HOW jj how online
Speaker 3: he was and reading mentioned and reading what was being,
Speaker 3: written AND i was worried that when times got, tough
Speaker 3: THAT Jj reddick wouldn't react well to. That the first
Speaker 3: tough times he really, had the first real criticism he
Speaker 3: got his entire tenure was after he did something literally
Speaker 3: no coach has ever done in basketball history play all five,
Speaker 3: starters play the same five guys all twenty four minutes
Speaker 3: in a playoff game for the second. Half he got
Speaker 3: some criticism for, it and then also was asked about
Speaker 3: it pregame and immediately became a bit of a petulant.
Speaker 3: Child and that was the. Concern here is the other,
Speaker 3: concern and this is ONE jj is not going to
Speaker 3: like to. Hear but the record speaks for. ITSELF Jj,
Speaker 3: reddick his entire basketball life gets tight in big. Spots
Speaker 3: at the peak of his basketball career when he was
Speaker 3: the best player in college basketball At, Duke go look
Speaker 3: at those tournament stat lines and you might, say this is.
Speaker 3: Ridiculous why are you bringing UP Jj, reddicks you, know
Speaker 3: three or six In cuba tournament in talking about The.
Speaker 3: Lakers i'll. Explain BUT Jj reddick as. Great he was
Speaker 3: an unbelievable college basketball player who was not a very
Speaker 3: good N cuba tournament. Player was on Four duke, teams
Speaker 3: any of which could have won the national, championship got
Speaker 3: popped in the sweet sixteen almost every, year made it
Speaker 3: to One Final, four and it wasn't, like, OH jj was. Great,
Speaker 3: no that's not how it. Went go back and look
Speaker 3: if you don't remember, then As Jerry west reminded, him
Speaker 3: WHEN jj did The plumbers And fireman BIT jj in
Speaker 3: the pros as really good as he was later in his,
Speaker 3: career was not a good playoff. Performer so why AM
Speaker 3: i bring that up? Now he strikes me as a
Speaker 3: guy who gets a little, tight who's wound a little.
Speaker 3: Tight and when you have on THE tnt broadcast the
Speaker 3: sideline reporter who never that's like the opposite of the
Speaker 3: take industry is the sideline. Reporter when you have the
Speaker 3: sideline reporter telling, us OOH jj was wound. Up when
Speaker 3: we met with him before the, game he was on.
Speaker 3: Edge He and then when you HAVE jj storming out
Speaker 3: of a press conference when you have in the, game
Speaker 3: he has committed before the, Game i'm not gonna Play Jackson.
Speaker 3: Hayes but then all of a sudden you are just
Speaker 3: getting your teeth kicked in on the offensive glass and you're, like,
Speaker 3: Well i've already Said i'm not Playing Jackson. Hayes SO
Speaker 3: i Guess Maxi, kleiba who AGAIN i think could have
Speaker 3: been useful for The lakers cuz he's a big guy
Speaker 3: who can, shoot and as a relationship With. Luca the
Speaker 3: problem is he hadn't practiced or played with him. Once,
Speaker 3: ever you put him in like the coach who got
Speaker 3: a little. Tight oh my, goodness, SORRY i don't know
Speaker 3: if you guys heard my dog freaking. Out it's a
Speaker 3: coach that gets he got a little. Tight and SO
Speaker 3: i think that IF i am, IF i am GIVING
Speaker 3: Jj reddick advice for next year and for the rest
Speaker 3: of his coaching, career BECAUSE i do think he has
Speaker 3: a lot of the talent to be a really good head,
Speaker 3: coach And lucas said great things about him, afterwards said
Speaker 3: of reminding him of being back In europe with the
Speaker 3: style of coaching and the attention to detail all. That
Speaker 3: it honestly is as still as it. Sounds just chill
Speaker 3: a little, Man just breathe and.
Speaker 1: Chill AND i think he was also in his head
Speaker 1: about making that, decision and like he's, LIKE i don't
Speaker 1: want to call it, embarrassed but like the fact that
Speaker 1: he's being questioned on, it he just can't can't stand.
Speaker 2: It he walked.
Speaker 1: AWAY i also think sorry for the birds by the, way, Guys.
Speaker 3: OH i loved. IT i WAS i was going to
Speaker 3: ask you about. THAT i think it sounds. DELIGHTFUL i was,
Speaker 3: like oh, man this is a nice little background to the,
Speaker 3: pot just chirping Southern california. Birds BUT i so here's the,
Speaker 3: thing almost, ASSUREDLY i can. BET i can't bet, this
Speaker 3: BUT i would bet almost anything That reddick had no
Speaker 3: idea that no coach ever had played all five guys
Speaker 3: for the second half of a playoff, game like when
Speaker 3: he was doing, It, like why would? HE i didn't know,
Speaker 3: it you know WHAT i, MEAN i.
Speaker 2: Made history, right.
Speaker 3: Correct i'm sure he knew it was, rare you know
Speaker 3: WHAT i? Mean it worth that no team ever in basketball.
Speaker 3: History and so then when they fall apart at the
Speaker 3: end and then he finds Out i'm the first guy
Speaker 3: to ever do, THIS i bet he felt a little
Speaker 3: boxed in and maybe even a little. Embarrassed and SO
Speaker 3: i just DON'T i think he has wound a little.
Speaker 3: Tight AND i think that that, unfortunately manifested itself in
Speaker 3: big spots in his playing career and now first running the,
Speaker 3: playoffs manifested itself a bit in the first really big
Speaker 3: spot of his coaching, career that's. All it's not a lifelong.
Speaker 3: Indictment it just is what it.
Speaker 5: Is