WEBVTT - What's Wright - Best of - Lakers STUNNED by Timberwolves, JJ Redick's big problem, top Giannis Antetokounmpo trade destinations 0:00:01.880 --> 0:00:04.440 So the Lakers season ended last night at the hand 0:00:04.480 --> 0:00:07.400 of the hands of Anthony Edwards and the Timberwolves. So 0:00:07.640 --> 0:00:11.600 might say Rigobert jj Rennick had a similar scheme. He 0:00:11.640 --> 0:00:14.040 played his starters a lot of minutes. They came closer 0:00:14.120 --> 0:00:15.880 at the end, but then kind of ran out of gas. 0:00:15.920 --> 0:00:16.640 They couldn't do it. 0:00:17.760 --> 0:00:19.759 How did you get this series so wrong? You said 0:00:19.760 --> 0:00:21.680 that when this one they obviously didn't. 0:00:21.880 --> 0:00:24.520 Well, yeah, and I said Lakers. I said my favorite 0:00:24.560 --> 0:00:28.360 bet was Lakers minus a game and a half, meaning 0:00:28.400 --> 0:00:30.479 Lakers in four or five or six. And when I 0:00:30.560 --> 0:00:33.760 was giving the analysis of that bet, I said, I 0:00:33.800 --> 0:00:38.120 didn't even really consider the possibility of the Lakers losing 0:00:38.200 --> 0:00:40.400 the series. Is the reason the bet didn't come in. 0:00:40.960 --> 0:00:44.760 I thought it was because the Lakers, you know, maybe 0:00:44.760 --> 0:00:47.479 they win in seven, but I thought they would. I 0:00:47.479 --> 0:00:49.680 thought they would be hard fought games. The Lakers were 0:00:49.720 --> 0:00:53.199 clearly better. So I do want to start with me 0:00:54.040 --> 0:00:59.920 because I gotta a whiff this strong. You gotta figure out, 0:01:00.120 --> 0:01:03.280 you gotta kind of do an autopsy, a post mortem 0:01:03.320 --> 0:01:09.360 of your own takes. And the number one thing that 0:01:09.520 --> 0:01:19.280 I clearly overestimated going into this postseason was how dynamic 0:01:20.280 --> 0:01:25.759 and unstoppable. The Lakers offense would be I thought there 0:01:25.959 --> 0:01:30.760 was a little too much attention paid to the Lakers' 0:01:30.880 --> 0:01:35.400 defensive deficiencies, not because I thought they'd be a great defense, 0:01:35.760 --> 0:01:39.520 but because I thought it was pretty clear we had 0:01:39.560 --> 0:01:43.600 proof of concept that the Lakers defense could be average, 0:01:44.319 --> 0:01:48.120 that the Lakers defense could be fine, and that if 0:01:48.120 --> 0:01:52.160 the Lakers defense is fine, even given their size limitations, 0:01:53.000 --> 0:01:57.840 that this offense with Luca and Lebron was going to 0:01:57.960 --> 0:02:02.840 be a top three in the league over the court, 0:02:02.880 --> 0:02:07.120 you know, net rating wise or offensive rating wise offense. 0:02:07.520 --> 0:02:09.880 And it was nothing close to that. And so that 0:02:10.040 --> 0:02:13.600 was with number one whiff. Number one was that the 0:02:13.680 --> 0:02:18.600 Lakers offense would be would put the other team under 0:02:18.680 --> 0:02:23.680 such pressure to keep scoring and to keep pace that 0:02:23.919 --> 0:02:28.239 a younger Timberwolves team, a Timberwolves team that only has 0:02:28.400 --> 0:02:32.440 one true superstar, a Timberwolves team that has a few 0:02:32.520 --> 0:02:39.040 guys who are max players who there have long playoff histories, 0:02:39.360 --> 0:02:45.079 but the playoff histories are you know, checkered in Rudy 0:02:45.120 --> 0:02:50.640 Gobert and Julius Randall that the weight of Lebron and 0:02:50.720 --> 0:02:55.080 Luca on the offensive side of the ball would be 0:02:55.240 --> 0:02:59.120 too much for him. None of that happened. We didn't 0:02:59.160 --> 0:03:06.400 have a single game this series where Lebron and Luca 0:03:06.919 --> 0:03:12.720 were both outstanding on the offensive end, and we did 0:03:12.760 --> 0:03:15.520 have last night. And we'll talk obviously more about the 0:03:15.639 --> 0:03:23.320 individual parties involved here shortly, but last night was the 0:03:23.360 --> 0:03:29.000 first time in an elimination game that Lebron wasn't outstanding 0:03:29.800 --> 0:03:35.040 in a decade. Honest to god, if you go through 0:03:35.160 --> 0:03:39.520 it was it was somewhat jarring to see if you 0:03:39.680 --> 0:03:43.400 look at what Lebron James, who averages thirty five points 0:03:43.440 --> 0:03:49.080 per game in his career in elimination games, what he 0:03:49.160 --> 0:03:52.880 did last night in comparison, like if I can just 0:03:53.000 --> 0:03:57.400 quickly give you the game logs last year against Denver, 0:03:58.600 --> 0:04:02.880 face well two games facing elimination against Denver, the first 0:04:02.960 --> 0:04:07.000 game he had thirty five and four. The next game 0:04:07.080 --> 0:04:10.680 and because they won it, he had thirty nine and eleven. 0:04:10.840 --> 0:04:15.160 The year before, facing elimination against Denver, he had I 0:04:15.200 --> 0:04:18.520 think thirty in the first half and he finished with 0:04:18.680 --> 0:04:25.320 forty ten and nine When they lost to Phoenix in 0:04:25.360 --> 0:04:28.120 a game they got they really didn't have much of 0:04:28.160 --> 0:04:30.640 a chance. If you remember, that's the game Anthony Davis 0:04:30.680 --> 0:04:34.120 started and then played like thirty seconds, then came out 0:04:34.120 --> 0:04:37.000 of the game Lebron twenty nine to nine and seven 0:04:37.600 --> 0:04:41.320 facing elimination. They never faced elimination and route to the 0:04:41.360 --> 0:04:45.680 bubble in the championship run. And then if you look 0:04:45.720 --> 0:04:49.559 at Game seven against Boston or Game six and seven 0:04:49.600 --> 0:04:53.320 against Boston facing eliminations, they're down three to two, forty six, 0:04:53.400 --> 0:04:56.480 eight and eleven, thirty five, fifteen and nine. You can 0:04:56.520 --> 0:05:02.000 go his whole career. It's like, Okay, we're facing elimination. 0:05:03.560 --> 0:05:07.520 I have to ramp it up. Here's the part that 0:05:07.800 --> 0:05:13.120 last night informed me on he fired those bullets over 0:05:13.160 --> 0:05:19.160 the weekend. He felt correctly clearly we were facing elimination 0:05:20.040 --> 0:05:24.880 in Game four and in Game three he had the 0:05:24.920 --> 0:05:27.960 thirty eight, ten and four and they blew it at 0:05:28.000 --> 0:05:31.920 the end. In Game four he had twenty seven, twelve 0:05:32.040 --> 0:05:35.680 and eight and the defensive stops at the end, and 0:05:35.760 --> 0:05:40.039 in Game five the forty. It was a weird Lebron 0:05:40.120 --> 0:05:45.880 game because he had three of his most explosive offensive 0:05:46.000 --> 0:05:49.320 plays of those three dunks that he's had all postseason. 0:05:49.600 --> 0:05:52.480 But he just didn't have the juice last night. So 0:05:52.600 --> 0:05:58.599 Lebron didn't have the juice. Luca's performance last night even 0:05:58.680 --> 0:06:05.080 more shocking because Luca has been a back against the wall, 0:06:05.440 --> 0:06:09.280 I'm gonna f you up. Everybody's tough when they're up. 0:06:09.640 --> 0:06:13.160 Lucas seemed pretty messed up, like basically this whole series though. 0:06:13.200 --> 0:06:15.800 Yeah, or whether it was sicknesses or yesterday, I feel 0:06:15.839 --> 0:06:18.160 like he came out with like some backspasm type of thing. 0:06:18.200 --> 0:06:21.160 Well yeah, I mean, listen, he got hurt, but he didn't. 0:06:21.720 --> 0:06:25.599 If it was he had looked awesome and until the 0:06:25.720 --> 0:06:28.880 hard fall, that would be one thing, but that's not 0:06:28.920 --> 0:06:32.800 what it was. Like. He was relatively passive in the 0:06:32.839 --> 0:06:36.080 first quarter, which is when he has crushed. It felt 0:06:36.120 --> 0:06:41.680 early on like Lebron and Luca were both like, okay, 0:06:42.320 --> 0:06:46.599 let's conserve energy in the first quarter so we have 0:06:46.839 --> 0:06:50.599 more in the fourth quarter. And at first it looked 0:06:50.640 --> 0:06:55.919 like a bad strategy because they were down fourteen, but 0:06:56.080 --> 0:07:00.400 then once despite all that, they were able to claw 0:07:00.480 --> 0:07:03.279 their way back into the game and actually take a 0:07:03.320 --> 0:07:07.040 one point lead. You thought, oh, this could work out, 0:07:07.640 --> 0:07:11.559 but Lebron didn't have the extra gear and Luca didn't 0:07:11.560 --> 0:07:14.520 have it. The really, I don't want to say the 0:07:14.560 --> 0:07:17.760 whole series, but the last three games since he got sick, 0:07:18.480 --> 0:07:22.640 Luca didn't have the Luca playoff gear. Twenty eight to 0:07:22.640 --> 0:07:25.800 seven and nine on seven of eighteen from the field 0:07:25.800 --> 0:07:29.040 for Luca is by his standards, a bad playoff game. 0:07:29.320 --> 0:07:33.760 Now the flip side to that, and where folks, where 0:07:33.800 --> 0:07:37.160 credit must be given is the other guys are paid too. 0:07:38.200 --> 0:07:43.680 And the Timberwolves defensive plan against Luca and against Lebron 0:07:44.120 --> 0:07:51.040 was outstanding. The Timberwolves trusting you know what, Austin Reeves. 0:07:51.400 --> 0:07:53.640 If you beat us, you beat us. We don't think 0:07:53.640 --> 0:07:57.720 you're gonna beat us. It was smart, it worked, and 0:07:57.840 --> 0:08:00.800 so I'm not going to kill aust Reeves. He had 0:08:00.800 --> 0:08:06.680 a rough series. But also the Lakers shouldn't have needed 0:08:07.560 --> 0:08:12.760 Austin Reeves to be great to force a Game six 0:08:12.800 --> 0:08:17.680 against the Timberwolves. And I understand that the Timberwolves are 0:08:17.720 --> 0:08:20.480 now twenty one to five in their last twenty six 0:08:20.840 --> 0:08:23.160 and I think they have ten or it's either ten 0:08:23.320 --> 0:08:26.800 or fifteen. I don't remember double digit wins in that stretch. 0:08:29.360 --> 0:08:33.520 I get that that maybe I was I am still 0:08:33.600 --> 0:08:39.040 even to a degree underrating or disrespecting the Timberwolves. But 0:08:39.920 --> 0:08:44.240 this Lakers team it was not. And this is what's 0:08:44.280 --> 0:08:48.720 so frustrating about the way the season ended. It was 0:08:48.840 --> 0:08:54.040 not some hope in a prayer media creation. They had 0:08:55.120 --> 0:08:58.880 almost the exact same record against the Western Conference as 0:08:58.960 --> 0:09:04.480 Oklahoma City did. They were a dominant team at home, 0:09:04.640 --> 0:09:07.600 where they lost two of these games. They had I 0:09:07.640 --> 0:09:11.360 think the third best record in the fourth best record 0:09:11.400 --> 0:09:15.000 in the league against the best teams in the league. 0:09:15.320 --> 0:09:18.800 We saw them at the end of the year against 0:09:18.880 --> 0:09:23.920 a full strength Oklahoma City team, blow them out, and 0:09:23.960 --> 0:09:26.600 then go toe to toe with them a week before 0:09:26.640 --> 0:09:32.560 the playoffs. They were rested. All of those things happened, 0:09:32.720 --> 0:09:38.120 and while Lebron did not have a great Game five, 0:09:38.800 --> 0:09:43.720 you did get great Lebron performances in games two, three, 0:09:43.920 --> 0:09:47.480 and four. So it wasn't that oh the you know, 0:09:48.200 --> 0:09:50.800 the old man slowed down at the end. He did 0:09:50.800 --> 0:09:55.280 at the very end, and they still just got annihilated 0:09:55.320 --> 0:09:58.760 in this series. The thing about last night that made 0:09:58.880 --> 0:10:06.480 last usually demonsey. If if a team loses a closeout 0:10:06.559 --> 0:10:10.320 game that you know, is a one possession game with 0:10:10.520 --> 0:10:15.080 a few minutes left, it's heart wrenching. I gotta tell you, 0:10:16.600 --> 0:10:20.920 it's not how I felt watching the Lakers squander that 0:10:21.000 --> 0:10:26.720 game at the very end, because they were incredibly lucky 0:10:27.080 --> 0:10:32.080 last night that they weren't blown out minutes. I mean, 0:10:32.120 --> 0:10:37.640 Anthony Edwards was zero for eleven from three. The Timberlves 0:10:37.640 --> 0:10:42.160 as a whole shot forty seven threes and made seven 0:10:42.200 --> 0:10:46.679 of them. Think about that, they were fifteen percent from three. 0:10:47.360 --> 0:10:51.679 So Ant was five of nineteen from the field. And 0:10:51.679 --> 0:10:55.840 that's another weird thing for Ant because he's going to 0:10:55.920 --> 0:11:02.160 get his flowers today, as he should. But it reminded 0:11:02.160 --> 0:11:06.840 me actually a lot of game Game seven against Denver, 0:11:07.800 --> 0:11:11.959 the biggest win of Anthony Edwards career. He was six 0:11:12.040 --> 0:11:15.360 of twenty four from the field, two of ten from three, 0:11:15.840 --> 0:11:19.880 had sixteen points. It was his worst game of the series, 0:11:20.440 --> 0:11:24.000 and they came back and beat Denver. Anyway, last night 0:11:24.480 --> 0:11:28.079 he's five of nineteen from the field. Ozho of eleven 0:11:28.160 --> 0:11:31.920 from three has fifteen points. And it's the game that 0:11:31.960 --> 0:11:36.040 he knocks off Luca and Lebron. That which is a 0:11:36.080 --> 0:11:41.840 testament to the Timberwolves and a testament to Julius Randall 0:11:42.520 --> 0:11:47.760 was excellent this entire series. Julius Randall was reliable, and 0:11:47.880 --> 0:11:55.720 obviously Rudy Gobert's nine offensive rebounds twenty four total rebounds, 0:11:56.040 --> 0:12:02.120 him scoring twenty seven points in a playoff game was unfathomable. 0:12:02.559 --> 0:12:06.559 And you can say, oh, listen, this is the Lakers 0:12:06.559 --> 0:12:09.640 don't play a center. The Lakers haven't played a center 0:12:09.760 --> 0:12:15.240 all series. Rudy Gobert's stat lines prior to last night 0:12:15.880 --> 0:12:22.720 two and six, six and six, one and three, five 0:12:23.000 --> 0:12:27.600 and ten, and then twenty seven and twenty four. Prior 0:12:27.640 --> 0:12:33.360 to last night, in the series, Rudy Gobert had fourteen 0:12:33.480 --> 0:12:39.520 points twenty five rebounds in the four games. Last night, 0:12:39.520 --> 0:12:42.120 he had twenty seven points, twenty four rebounds. 0:12:42.200 --> 0:12:43.800 I'm not having a big guy, and there is going 0:12:43.840 --> 0:12:45.800 to come back to bite you eventually, right. 0:12:46.040 --> 0:12:51.320 Well, clearly, I mean so clearly it did. But the 0:12:51.440 --> 0:12:56.160 point that I'm making is, and you guys know from 0:12:56.200 --> 0:12:59.240 what I was saying earlier in the series that I 0:12:59.400 --> 0:13:05.240 thought and even though the Lakers were in a tough spot, 0:13:05.679 --> 0:13:08.200 one of the things that had worked out for them 0:13:09.120 --> 0:13:14.600 was that the Timberwolves, and we talked about this that 0:13:14.840 --> 0:13:17.720 even though the Lakers were everyone, the Lakers were playing 0:13:17.760 --> 0:13:21.480 with six' eight and, Below rudy wasn't killing him that 0:13:21.559 --> 0:13:27.480 they were getting away with playing that small because The 0:13:27.520 --> 0:13:30.200 timberwolves didn't want to Give Rudy gobert the ball and 0:13:30.240 --> 0:13:32.800 a'll be, honest last, night they didn't give him the 0:13:32.840 --> 0:13:36.319 ball that. Much it was all on like often not, 0:13:36.559 --> 0:13:39.839 ball but it, was, yeah it was on offensive, rebounds 0:13:40.280 --> 0:13:42.679 it was on. Putbacks it wasn't a lot of like 0:13:42.920 --> 0:13:46.680 they passed it To Rudy. Gobert and so a guy 0:13:47.480 --> 0:13:51.920 who has in his seventy how how many games is 0:13:51.920 --> 0:13:56.199 his playoff, career seventy four game playoff, career who went 0:13:56.240 --> 0:14:00.319 into last night with five career twenty point playoff games 0:14:00.679 --> 0:14:05.320 and zero career twenty five point playoff, games puts twenty 0:14:05.360 --> 0:14:09.120 seven on your. HEAD a guy who in his seventy 0:14:09.200 --> 0:14:14.240 four career playoff games once going into last, night had 0:14:14.320 --> 0:14:17.520 more than eighteen rebounds in a game in the, playoffs 0:14:17.800 --> 0:14:22.400 puts twenty four rebounds on your. Head it Was it 0:14:22.560 --> 0:14:26.200 was a dominant performance by. Him it was a great 0:14:26.240 --> 0:14:33.800 performance By, jalen By Julius. Randall they and that's the other. 0:14:33.880 --> 0:14:37.600 Piece jade McDaniel's in foul trouble immediately and it didn't. 0:14:37.640 --> 0:14:43.840 Matter so this was A it felt to me, like 0:14:44.720 --> 0:14:46.960 and this is is not an excuse and it might 0:14:47.000 --> 0:14:51.240 even be an. Indictment it felt to me like The 0:14:51.360 --> 0:14:56.640 lakers felt they lost the series On, sunday and that 0:14:56.880 --> 0:15:00.240 is and that they came out because there was no 0:15:00.440 --> 0:15:05.200 energy in the first. Quarter it was something of a. 0:15:05.240 --> 0:15:08.040 Miracle minnesota was leaving it up there for. 0:15:08.120 --> 0:15:12.000 Grabs, yeah they were playing pretty complacent with the, lead 0:15:12.480 --> 0:15:14.120 taking a lot of deep shots instead of. 0:15:14.160 --> 0:15:15.480 Driving it was a. 0:15:15.680 --> 0:15:20.800 Miracle it's exactly right demonse that this game was. Closely 0:15:22.400 --> 0:15:27.440 minnesota just has A c minus shooting night instead of 0:15:27.720 --> 0:15:29.920 the worst shooting night any team will have in the 0:15:29.960 --> 0:15:33.640 playoffs over the next three, years which is really what they. 0:15:33.640 --> 0:15:39.440 Did The lakers are down twenty, five, right and so 0:15:41.040 --> 0:15:44.800 the credit to The Turm wolves, Man and. 0:15:44.760 --> 0:15:47.400 What about The Mark williams? Trade, Man like what is? 0:15:48.160 --> 0:15:49.960 WELL i would that have changed? 0:15:49.960 --> 0:15:56.440 This here's the thing it what they gave up in 0:15:56.520 --> 0:16:01.360 The Mark williams trade Was Dalton connect a first round 0:16:01.400 --> 0:16:07.200 pick AND i think a. Swap so there is no 0:16:07.360 --> 0:16:11.080 argument to be, made, like, well for this, series in this, 0:16:11.160 --> 0:16:15.680 postseason that would have hurt you Because Dalton connect got zero, 0:16:15.800 --> 0:16:19.240 minutes you know WHAT i. Mean so since the guy 0:16:19.360 --> 0:16:25.920 you traded you never played in the short, term And 0:16:25.960 --> 0:16:28.040 Mark williams took a bit of a victory LAP i. 0:16:28.120 --> 0:16:32.640 Understand On, TWITTER i get that it certainly felt like 0:16:33.240 --> 0:16:36.440 and they when they didn't Get Mark, williams they Signed Alex, 0:16:36.560 --> 0:16:40.960 lynn who played zero. Minutes Now Maxi kleiba comes off 0:16:41.040 --> 0:16:44.000 the bench after not playing in months because of his, 0:16:44.080 --> 0:16:47.360 INJURY jj gives him five minutes and more ON jj 0:16:47.600 --> 0:16:56.160 shortly there is. There it sure feels like they would 0:16:56.160 --> 0:16:58.640 have had a better. Chance now in, retrospect in this 0:16:58.800 --> 0:17:02.120 series they Had Mark, williams we never saw him play 0:17:02.120 --> 0:17:05.639 with him and they now that powder is dry for you, 0:17:05.640 --> 0:17:10.760 know a move this coming summer. Potentially BUT i. CAN'T 0:17:11.240 --> 0:17:14.640 i can't pick a team to win the championship and 0:17:14.720 --> 0:17:18.960 then when they get popped in round one in five be, like, 0:17:19.040 --> 0:17:22.680 well here's all the obvious flaws with the, Roster like that's. 0:17:22.760 --> 0:17:26.520 BULLSHIT i Knew Mark williams wasn't on the. TEAM i 0:17:26.640 --> 0:17:30.840 knew how big The timberwolves were WHEN i said After 0:17:31.000 --> 0:17:34.000 day eighty, Two game eighty two of the season THAT 0:17:34.440 --> 0:17:38.120 i thought the bracket fell perfectly for The, Lakers and 0:17:39.800 --> 0:17:42.080 now you look at it and you, say well that 0:17:42.240 --> 0:17:48.440 was wrong. Obviously so, no it's A i but at its, 0:17:48.600 --> 0:17:52.800 core people are, GONNA i think focus on the wrong. 0:17:52.920 --> 0:17:57.800 THINGS i think this what happened to The, lakers in my, 0:17:58.520 --> 0:18:06.160 opinion is three games of this series and they scored 0:18:07.640 --> 0:18:11.800 less than one hundred. Points four games of the series 0:18:12.240 --> 0:18:16.600 they scored less than one oh. Five the one game they, 0:18:16.680 --> 0:18:22.240 won they only scored ninety. Four and you can so 0:18:24.560 --> 0:18:28.560 folks are going to say the issue was they were 0:18:28.600 --> 0:18:32.119 never going to be good enough, defensively, maybe but the 0:18:32.160 --> 0:18:37.719 issue in this series was an offense that the only 0:18:37.840 --> 0:18:41.800 way to look at This lakers team as a legitimate 0:18:41.840 --> 0:18:45.880 contender was going to be they have an elite. Offense 0:18:46.320 --> 0:18:49.200 that offense was never, Elite it was never even very, 0:18:49.240 --> 0:18:55.840 good and it's just remarkable to me that it's the same. 0:18:55.920 --> 0:19:00.439 OFFENSE i saw a few weeks ago drop one twenty 0:19:00.520 --> 0:19:05.040 six IN okc in a GAME okac, wanted and then 0:19:05.200 --> 0:19:10.160 have like one ten with six minutes left IN okac 0:19:11.200 --> 0:19:14.720 against that. Defense in the, Game luca got ejected IN 0:19:15.840 --> 0:19:24.800 i the The lakers role players all had some. Struggles 0:19:25.720 --> 0:19:29.440 luca obviously wasn't. Himself lebron ran out of gas in 0:19:29.520 --> 0:19:34.120 every every one of these fourth, quarters and that's how 0:19:34.119 --> 0:19:34.600 you lose in. 0:19:34.680 --> 0:19:38.120 Five given To, Austin, YEAH i feel like you Were 0:19:38.240 --> 0:19:40.560 you did really go easy On Austin. Reeves if those 0:19:40.560 --> 0:19:42.960 guys aren't gonna show, up that who has to show? 0:19:43.040 --> 0:19:44.760 UP i think it has to Be Austin. 0:19:44.720 --> 0:19:48.640 Well, no, LISTEN i So Austin reeves for the series 0:19:50.280 --> 0:19:55.080 was sixteen to five and three on forty one thirty two. 0:19:55.119 --> 0:20:00.960 Splits it's a bad. Series the Reason i'm not focusing 0:20:01.000 --> 0:20:04.840 on that is BECAUSE i just think that would be 0:20:06.400 --> 0:20:11.960 kind of bullshit in THAT i didn't pick The. Lakers 0:20:12.840 --> 0:20:15.440 people ARE i think MAYBE i think people that are 0:20:15.800 --> 0:20:19.040 discerning listeners to HOW i do this stuff are maybe 0:20:19.119 --> 0:20:23.640 at times surprised at how FAIR i try to be 0:20:24.080 --> 0:20:28.440 to what is honest. COMMENTARY i didn't pick The lakers 0:20:28.640 --> 0:20:32.280 BECAUSE i Thought Austin reeves was gonna cook so like 0:20:32.600 --> 0:20:36.159 and so this was the first playoff run of his 0:20:36.359 --> 0:20:42.320 career where a lot was expected of. Him that's where 0:20:42.840 --> 0:20:47.880 and and he didn't. Listen he wasn't, great but he's 0:20:47.920 --> 0:20:50.240 a young player who doesn't make a ton of. Money 0:20:50.600 --> 0:20:56.960 who you just? EAT I i don't like when stars 0:20:57.200 --> 0:21:02.680 are awesome their teams and people then blame the. Star 0:21:03.520 --> 0:21:06.439 the example of that would would have been if after 0:21:06.640 --> 0:21:11.400 The pacers beat The, bucks if people were Like yiannis 0:21:11.520 --> 0:21:15.159 needed to do. More yiannis did fucking everything he could have, 0:21:15.160 --> 0:21:18.760 done and they got. Beat, so Like Bill james used to, 0:21:18.800 --> 0:21:23.160 say bad teams have an amazing ability to blame their 0:21:23.200 --> 0:21:26.920 best players for their biggest, problems and SO i try 0:21:26.960 --> 0:21:29.439 not to do. That but WHAT i also try not 0:21:29.600 --> 0:21:34.600 to do is when a team THAT i thought was 0:21:34.640 --> 0:21:41.639 going to win because of the overwhelming star power at 0:21:41.680 --> 0:21:46.200 the very top doesn't, win and those two stars are 0:21:47.040 --> 0:21:51.879 good but not WHAT i thought they would, be then be, 0:21:52.000 --> 0:21:56.119 like man needed more from your third, option LIKE i 0:21:56.200 --> 0:21:59.159 Just and so it's not like That i'm trying to 0:21:59.200 --> 0:22:03.640 Protect austin and it's nothing like. That it's that he 0:22:03.760 --> 0:22:08.840 wasn't very, good But Austin reeves playing at A c 0:22:09.040 --> 0:22:14.000 minus level again should not be the reason you're going 0:22:14.040 --> 0:22:20.000 home in. Five and that's where that's where we end. 0:22:20.080 --> 0:22:27.760 Up THE nba eighty two game grind is done and 0:22:27.880 --> 0:22:31.320 now the real fun has. 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Achilles, however him being 0:25:27.320 --> 0:25:29.760 out and not being able to train and do their 0:25:30.160 --> 0:25:34.080 play for a month a month and then jumping into playoff. 0:25:34.119 --> 0:25:38.600 Basketball did that CONTRIBUTE i would have to imagine it 0:25:38.640 --> 0:25:43.240 at least could. Have and so you just feel truly 0:25:43.400 --> 0:25:46.360 sick to your stomach that this guy did everything he 0:25:46.480 --> 0:25:54.440 could to come back as early as possible and now 0:25:54.560 --> 0:25:57.639 and it was to get this playoff. Run and now 0:25:57.760 --> 0:26:00.640 he didn't get this playoff, run and he's not gonna 0:26:00.640 --> 0:26:03.119 have next year's playoff, run and he might not have 0:26:03.160 --> 0:26:06.879 any more playoff. Runs SO i, mean that is a true, 0:26:07.200 --> 0:26:12.359 cruel cruel turn of events for a great dude and 0:26:12.400 --> 0:26:16.600 a great. Player, YEAH i, mean you just hate. It 0:26:16.720 --> 0:26:20.040 you hate every piece of. It and you know he 0:26:20.119 --> 0:26:26.240 Has i'm sure so many what ifs in his. Head 0:26:27.000 --> 0:26:29.040 what if he had just stayed In portland and just 0:26:29.080 --> 0:26:32.639 been the legend there. Forever it's not, like you, know 0:26:32.760 --> 0:26:34.760 well IF i had done, THAT i wouldn't have gotten 0:26:34.800 --> 0:26:38.200 these great playoff runs that those never. Happened so, you, 0:26:39.080 --> 0:26:40.440 oh you said. 0:26:40.440 --> 0:26:43.800 That dame, said like what IF i never Left? Portland 0:26:43.800 --> 0:26:44.480 and you're saying. 0:26:45.680 --> 0:26:48.480 No, true, no, no, No i'm Saying i'm just talking 0:26:48.480 --> 0:26:50.359 about From. Dame i'll get To giannis in a. Minute 0:26:50.359 --> 0:26:53.199 What i'm saying For dame is he's just, thinking, Like 0:26:53.359 --> 0:26:56.480 i'm sure he has a lot of, like, man what 0:26:56.560 --> 0:26:59.320 HAVE i never? LEFT i Left, portland WHICH i didn't 0:26:59.400 --> 0:27:02.159 really want to do BECAUSE i wanted to compete for a. 0:27:02.240 --> 0:27:06.960 CHAMPIONSHIP i won zero playoff series In. MILWAUKEE i would 0:27:07.000 --> 0:27:08.960 you know WHAT i? Mean like that that didn't. Happen 0:27:09.119 --> 0:27:11.679 i'm sure he's also, thinking what if they had just 0:27:11.800 --> 0:27:15.200 traded me WHERE i wanted to be traded To miami 0:27:16.080 --> 0:27:18.919 and it was me And Jimmy butler and. Bam you 0:27:18.920 --> 0:27:22.120 know what would that have looked? Like and so it's 0:27:22.200 --> 0:27:26.359 a cruel not final, chapter but close to a final 0:27:26.440 --> 0:27:35.159 chapter For dame and then For. YANNIS I i don't 0:27:35.240 --> 0:27:44.119 see How yannis can. Stay and The bucks are in 0:27:44.520 --> 0:27:49.760 such a weird spot because they don't control any of 0:27:49.800 --> 0:27:54.240 their own picks the next six, years so they can't. 0:27:54.359 --> 0:27:58.760 Tank they have no cap space to improve the. Team 0:28:00.119 --> 0:28:05.760 they don't have any young players that you're just super excited, 0:28:05.800 --> 0:28:10.399 about and so it's gonna be fake trade season With. 0:28:10.480 --> 0:28:18.919 Giannis and there's two demands THAT i made that are really. 0:28:18.960 --> 0:28:28.600 Interesting one is to The, rockets where you Get Shngoon Reed, 0:28:28.640 --> 0:28:32.320 shepherd who is a top five pick who doesn't play Jack. 0:28:32.480 --> 0:28:35.800 Landale he doesn't play because he doesn't, defend but he 0:28:35.840 --> 0:28:38.240 was top five picking this year's, draft so he's. Valuable 0:28:38.840 --> 0:28:44.640 jaquelandale for salary. Filler and then four draft, picks two 0:28:44.680 --> 0:28:48.520 of which are super, valuable The phoenix twenty seven and 0:28:48.600 --> 0:28:52.000 twenty nine first and The houston twenty eight and thirty. 0:28:52.040 --> 0:28:58.000 First that if You're Milwaukee, coulse keep in mind you can't, 0:28:58.080 --> 0:29:01.280 tank So shingoon it makes it so you don't. Tank 0:29:01.720 --> 0:29:05.160 you have those picks to start getting the young. Players 0:29:05.760 --> 0:29:09.120 that to me is a unique an interesting. One and 0:29:09.160 --> 0:29:10.959 then the other one if you just want to go 0:29:11.200 --> 0:29:17.520 pure young you there is a trade with The spurs 0:29:18.520 --> 0:29:23.080