WEBVTT - What's Wright - Nick Wright reacts to Lakers-Nuggets + Vikings OUT on Aaron Rodgers 0:00:00.360 --> 0:00:03.720 Welcome in What's Right with Nick Wright, Episode three twelve 0:00:04.440 --> 0:00:09.280 on nc DOUBLEA Tournament, Day one. And so here's the thing. 0:00:09.320 --> 0:00:12.360 If you're watching live right now, the games haven't tipped off. 0:00:13.119 --> 0:00:15.000 Oh the dog just jumped on the couch. Look at 0:00:15.000 --> 0:00:18.400 Dexter in the back. They're just hanging out. So here's 0:00:18.640 --> 0:00:22.599 here's the deal. We are. We're gonna bang, bang bang 0:00:22.640 --> 0:00:25.720 through this show because I think, to be totally honest, 0:00:25.760 --> 0:00:31.360 people are focused on the college basketball today and by happenstance, 0:00:31.400 --> 0:00:34.400 by dumb luck, the TV shows only a half hour today, 0:00:34.760 --> 0:00:38.320 which is good because first two days of the NCAA Tournament, 0:00:38.720 --> 0:00:42.959 nobody's watching Sports TV. They're watching the actual games, so 0:00:43.000 --> 0:00:46.040 that thirty minutes will be you know, for friends and 0:00:46.159 --> 0:00:50.520 family only essentially. However, today's show, we have good stuff 0:00:50.560 --> 0:00:54.600 for you. And something happened yesterday demonse that enraged me, 0:00:55.360 --> 0:00:59.000 and probably not in the direction people would think that 0:00:59.080 --> 0:01:01.840 I'm going to talk about it. So after we do Lakers, 0:01:01.920 --> 0:01:04.959 Nuggets and some NBA from last night, we're going to 0:01:05.080 --> 0:01:08.840 do that story. But first and foremost, here's what missed 0:01:08.840 --> 0:01:12.560 the cut. Season two of Quarterback Joe Burrow Jared goff 0:01:12.680 --> 0:01:17.240 Kirk Cousins It's gonna be a weird one. Burrow Amazing year, 0:01:17.360 --> 0:01:22.119 team stunk, Goff Amazing year, dog walked in round one, 0:01:22.560 --> 0:01:26.360 and Cousins playing the role of Marcus Mariota from season 0:01:26.400 --> 0:01:29.680 one of Quarterback as himself in season two of Quarterback, 0:01:29.959 --> 0:01:34.160 the veteran quarterback who gets benched. So we're I'm interested 0:01:34.160 --> 0:01:37.200 how it's gonna go. Jalen Milroe runs a four to 0:01:37.200 --> 0:01:40.400 three seven. It is pro day if he gets drafted 0:01:40.600 --> 0:01:47.160 higher than projected. He is the first Jalen Hurts quarterback, 0:01:47.280 --> 0:01:50.520 meaning a guy who's like man and now Jalen was 0:01:50.560 --> 0:01:54.400 a better passer in college. Jalen Hurts Dan Jalen Milroe, 0:01:54.720 --> 0:02:00.760 but leader has some winning characteristics, tough, but questions as 0:02:00.760 --> 0:02:03.080 a passer. That was Jalen Hurts. He slid to the 0:02:03.120 --> 0:02:06.320 second round. Milrose projected to go second and third. Wonder 0:02:06.320 --> 0:02:08.800 if he goes higher. Kyle Hamlinson had a take on 0:02:08.880 --> 0:02:12.000 White Lotus. I am not equipped to discuss the last 0:02:12.000 --> 0:02:14.880 White Lotus episode, he said, does anything ever happen in 0:02:14.880 --> 0:02:17.480 White Lotus when people just watch and say watch it 0:02:17.520 --> 0:02:20.119 to say next episode gonna be crazy? If you did 0:02:20.120 --> 0:02:24.239 not think the last episode of White Lotus involved two 0:02:24.360 --> 0:02:27.800 of the most bananas scenes in the last decade of 0:02:27.840 --> 0:02:31.280 American television. I don't know what to tell you. I'm 0:02:31.320 --> 0:02:34.600 not saying it's great TV. I like it, but people 0:02:34.639 --> 0:02:37.440 can dislike it if they want. But there were two 0:02:37.520 --> 0:02:40.400 scenes in White Lotus this past week. I've never seen 0:02:40.440 --> 0:02:42.960 anything like it on television or in life. Also, the 0:02:43.000 --> 0:02:46.960 Celtics just sold for six point one billion dollars to 0:02:47.040 --> 0:02:52.920 Bill Chisholm. There that is the after shocks of the 0:02:52.960 --> 0:02:56.240 Celtics going for six billion. Like you know that stupid 0:02:56.320 --> 0:02:59.240 meme about the little tiny domino and then it goes 0:02:59.280 --> 0:03:01.280 to the giant. It was like this led to this. 0:03:02.720 --> 0:03:06.200 There is a version of that meme where the first 0:03:06.200 --> 0:03:12.280 domino is the Celtics sale and the last domino is 0:03:12.760 --> 0:03:21.600 a competing professional basketball league backed by foreign, mostly saudy 0:03:21.680 --> 0:03:25.440 money that Lebron James is a piece of. I'm not 0:03:25.520 --> 0:03:28.720 saying that's going to happen. What I am saying is 0:03:29.160 --> 0:03:32.799 if the Celtics are worth six billion, if the franchise 0:03:32.880 --> 0:03:36.280 fee for the expansion team Lebron wants is going to 0:03:36.320 --> 0:03:43.080 be six billion, If that all happens and it just 0:03:43.120 --> 0:03:48.880 gets too expensive, is there a world where what Lebron's partner, 0:03:48.960 --> 0:03:51.800 Maverick at you know, has been kind of publicly flirting 0:03:51.840 --> 0:03:56.520 with a competing league where Lebron's a part of that. Maybe. 0:03:56.840 --> 0:04:00.760 But speaking of Lebron, he didn't play yesterday, did Jokic. 0:04:01.080 --> 0:04:04.600 Seems like a totally fair fight under those circumstances. I 0:04:04.680 --> 0:04:07.840 wonder who won Lakers, Nuggets, Demons take it away? 0:04:08.360 --> 0:04:09.240 Yeah, so funny. 0:04:09.280 --> 0:04:11.400 Luca actually came out and said that any team that 0:04:11.440 --> 0:04:13.720 has Jokis is always going to be dangerous. But like 0:04:13.760 --> 0:04:17.039 you just said, Jokich and Murray didn't play, so Luca 0:04:17.120 --> 0:04:21.400 let them up. La Cruz to that w He's he's 0:04:21.440 --> 0:04:23.640 looking really good. He's also had his six thirtieth point 0:04:23.680 --> 0:04:25.960 game in a month of March. What do you think 0:04:25.960 --> 0:04:27.560 about the Nuggets resting their guys again? 0:04:27.600 --> 0:04:32.480 Though, so listen, Joker plays as much as anybody. Michael 0:04:32.520 --> 0:04:35.600 Malone was correct that Jokers played I think the second 0:04:35.640 --> 0:04:37.919 most games of any player in the last decade, So 0:04:38.320 --> 0:04:41.200 I'm not going to kill him for it. I'm not 0:04:41.520 --> 0:04:45.919 certain exactly why Jamal Mury, you know, Jamal Murray couldn't play. 0:04:45.960 --> 0:04:50.559 Maybe because Jamal Murray without Nikala Jokic. You know, doesn't 0:04:50.640 --> 0:04:53.720 quite look like the Jamal Murray that a lot of 0:04:53.720 --> 0:04:58.640 folks like to believe he can be. I I will 0:04:58.680 --> 0:05:02.719 say this, the Nuggets are no longer a bad matchup 0:05:02.760 --> 0:05:06.120 for the Lakers. The Lakers are a bad matchup for 0:05:06.160 --> 0:05:10.279 the Nuggets. And that's with or without Joker. And there's 0:05:10.360 --> 0:05:15.960 multiple reasons for this. Uh. I understand Daniel, our producer, 0:05:16.000 --> 0:05:18.520 saying Jamal was hurt last game two. I get it, man. 0:05:19.040 --> 0:05:24.039 I'm the I'm not I'm I'm not accusing anyone of 0:05:24.080 --> 0:05:28.680 anything I do. I does anybody think that if this 0:05:28.800 --> 0:05:32.440 were a playoff game, Joe Kitchen Murray wouldn't play, wouldn't 0:05:32.440 --> 0:05:35.160 have played, of course not. They're not that injured. But 0:05:35.520 --> 0:05:38.600 that's totally fine. You want them to be rested and healthy. 0:05:38.880 --> 0:05:41.440 You'd prefer it not happen on a national TV game. 0:05:41.640 --> 0:05:44.080 You'd prefer it not have to happen in back to 0:05:44.160 --> 0:05:47.400 back games. Uh. But it is what it is, so 0:05:47.480 --> 0:05:50.280 to speak like, you deal with it, and you you know, 0:05:50.720 --> 0:05:53.159 you move forward. I think a lot of people assumed 0:05:53.800 --> 0:05:57.360 that the Nuggets, because they rested those guys or they 0:05:57.360 --> 0:06:00.640 didn't play against the Warriors, that they would play in 0:06:00.720 --> 0:06:03.720 the next game. But whatever, I'm not gonna kill him 0:06:03.720 --> 0:06:06.320 for that. What I am gonna talk about is if 0:06:06.360 --> 0:06:09.120 this is a playoff matchup, it favors the Lakers heavily, 0:06:10.200 --> 0:06:14.000 because here is the thing. The Lakers scored one twenty 0:06:14.080 --> 0:06:18.880 last night, could have scored one forty. And I said 0:06:18.880 --> 0:06:21.840 it on the TV show. I will say it again 0:06:22.480 --> 0:06:29.200 with this question. In the playoffs, if you get Lakers Nuggets, 0:06:29.680 --> 0:06:34.359 if Aaron Gordon is primarily matched up on Lebron, who 0:06:34.839 --> 0:06:39.560 is guarding Luca? They tried some Peyton Watson last night? 0:06:39.960 --> 0:06:43.320 How that work? Luca had twenty before you turn the 0:06:43.400 --> 0:06:48.080 game on and okay, no, no, no, Aaron Gordon's gonna guard Luca? 0:06:48.400 --> 0:06:52.800 Then who is guarding Lebron? It ain't Michael Porter Junior 0:06:52.800 --> 0:06:56.760 in a bad back. It ain't Russell Westbrook. It certainly 0:06:56.800 --> 0:07:01.200 ain't Christian Brown. Who are we talking about? Con car 0:07:01.320 --> 0:07:05.479 He ain't doing it. Gonna dust off Dario Sarich, he 0:07:05.520 --> 0:07:10.440 ain't doing it. It's certainly not the two guys who 0:07:10.440 --> 0:07:14.840 were missing last night and Joe Kitchen Murray. The Nuggets 0:07:14.840 --> 0:07:19.360 are bad defensive team at this point, and having Yo 0:07:19.480 --> 0:07:22.320 Kitchen Murray out doesn't hurt their defense and the Lakers 0:07:22.360 --> 0:07:27.080 scored at will without Lebron. Now, the Lakers, I think 0:07:27.080 --> 0:07:29.440 are going to actually end up being the best offense 0:07:29.480 --> 0:07:34.679 in the league. And you're starting to see it where 0:07:35.440 --> 0:07:41.920 they are generating so many great looks from three, so 0:07:42.120 --> 0:07:46.080 many wide open threes, and that's without Lebron on the court. 0:07:47.040 --> 0:07:49.360 And here's the other thing about the Lakers Nuggets matchup. 0:07:50.440 --> 0:07:53.040 The best thing the Nuggets had going for them in 0:07:53.080 --> 0:07:57.040 these playoff matchups is Joker, no question. The second best 0:07:57.040 --> 0:08:00.400 thing they had going for him was D'Angelo Russell minutes. 0:08:00.720 --> 0:08:02.840 And the third best thing they had going for him 0:08:03.080 --> 0:08:07.800 was Darvin Ham's coaching, which is why there was nobody 0:08:08.600 --> 0:08:11.800 that was a bigger Darvin Ham defender than Michael Malone. 0:08:12.480 --> 0:08:17.600 Michael Malone out there defending Darvin Ham, like Darvin Ham 0:08:17.680 --> 0:08:20.200 owes him money and he needs him to stay employed 0:08:20.240 --> 0:08:22.320 to get it. He's like, this is unfair that guy 0:08:22.320 --> 0:08:24.720 took him to the conference final. This is an outrage 0:08:25.640 --> 0:08:29.400 and Michael Malone, now of a sudden, Lakers got real coach. 0:08:30.320 --> 0:08:32.320 And by the way, are we done with that demands? 0:08:32.520 --> 0:08:35.720 I haven't checked the scoreboard. Is JJ Reddick now just 0:08:35.800 --> 0:08:39.080 Lakers head coach? Or is he still you know Lebron's 0:08:39.120 --> 0:08:42.160 podcast buddy, or now that everybody knows he's a great coach, 0:08:42.240 --> 0:08:44.080 or we just saying no, he's a Lakers head coach, 0:08:44.360 --> 0:08:46.160 because I know if he wasn't a great coach, it 0:08:46.160 --> 0:08:49.640 would be Lebron's podcast Buddy. It'd be like I'm I 0:08:49.760 --> 0:08:53.360 just again, I'm not seeing the exact rule right, and 0:08:53.360 --> 0:08:55.200 I'm not sure about the rules of any of this stuff. 0:08:55.320 --> 0:08:58.000 What I do know is this Nuggets are in real, 0:08:58.080 --> 0:09:01.080 real trouble and the Lakers are real, real dangerous. 0:09:01.440 --> 0:09:03.520 You don't think the Lagants are just like resting their 0:09:03.559 --> 0:09:07.640 guys strategically, like the same thing Golden State did with 0:09:07.760 --> 0:09:08.520 Steph Curry. 0:09:09.360 --> 0:09:10.880 I like, bigger. 0:09:11.320 --> 0:09:14.800 I think that's a game they wanted to win. That 0:09:14.960 --> 0:09:20.560 you're fighting for seeding. I I don't right now, the 0:09:20.559 --> 0:09:26.079 Western armentge standings go like this, Oklahoma City has locked 0:09:26.120 --> 0:09:31.600 the one seed. It's so bananas they they have locked 0:09:31.920 --> 0:09:38.160 locked up the well, I guess technically they're their magic 0:09:38.280 --> 0:09:41.280 number for locking up the one seed is one game 0:09:42.040 --> 0:09:46.480 with fifteen or how however, man eat thirteen games remaining. Uh, 0:09:46.640 --> 0:09:49.480 they have fifty seven wins. No one else in the 0:09:49.520 --> 0:09:53.240 conference can get to fifty eight, So Oklahoma City's locked. 0:09:53.840 --> 0:09:59.000 And then it gets interesting. The Rockets have twenty five losses, 0:09:59.040 --> 0:10:02.439 the Lakers have twenty five losses, the Nuggets have twenty six, 0:10:02.800 --> 0:10:06.360 the Grizzlies have twenty seven, the Warriors have twenty nine, 0:10:07.160 --> 0:10:13.160 Clippers thirty, Timberwolves thirty one. So four five six, I'm sorry, 0:10:13.440 --> 0:10:18.640 two three four five two games apart, two three four 0:10:19.960 --> 0:10:27.160 one loss apart, and I don't think the Nuggets would 0:10:27.720 --> 0:10:31.000 give these games away. Say it again, it would be. 0:10:30.920 --> 0:10:32.840 In their best interest being one game. I mean they 0:10:32.840 --> 0:10:36.040 were tied before last night and then now Lakers. 0:10:37.320 --> 0:10:37.880 Yeah. 0:10:38.280 --> 0:10:42.200 And the other piece of it is because of last 0:10:43.040 --> 0:10:46.360 With a win yesterday, they would have locked up the 0:10:46.400 --> 0:10:50.840 season series three to one, which would have given them 0:10:50.880 --> 0:10:52.640 the head to have ty breaker if they finished with 0:10:52.679 --> 0:10:54.400 the same record. Now it's two to two, so I'm 0:10:54.400 --> 0:10:56.400 not even sure what ty breaker it goes to. Now 0:10:56.400 --> 0:11:02.679 the Nuggets do they get Portland next? Then Houston Chicago? 0:11:02.800 --> 0:11:05.600 Like I'm just looking at their easy, tough games. I 0:11:05.640 --> 0:11:09.920 think they When we went to Tankathon before and we 0:11:10.120 --> 0:11:14.719 checked it, I thought the Nuggets were league average essentially 0:11:15.000 --> 0:11:18.880 remaining strength, strength of schedule. They have a little tougher 0:11:18.880 --> 0:11:22.439 than league average. They have the eleventh hardest strength of schedule, 0:11:22.520 --> 0:11:24.840 left the Lakers by the way of the third hardest 0:11:24.840 --> 0:11:29.240 strength of schedule, left Houston tenth hardest. I'm just doing 0:11:29.240 --> 0:11:33.200 the teams fighting for this seed, Memphis seventh hardest, Golden 0:11:33.240 --> 0:11:36.240 State with the easiest of the group with the eighteenth hardest. 0:11:36.800 --> 0:11:40.680 So but here's the other piece of it. For the Lakers, 0:11:41.600 --> 0:11:44.840 as I said the other day, you can now kind 0:11:44.840 --> 0:11:48.679 of definitively say, even though they lost those first three 0:11:48.760 --> 0:11:56.280 without Lebron, they have survived his injury. They I said, 0:11:56.400 --> 0:12:00.240 if you missed ten games, going six and four would 0:12:00.240 --> 0:12:03.600 be a great result. And six and four is now 0:12:03.840 --> 0:12:05.800 very on the board. And I don't know that he's 0:12:05.800 --> 0:12:09.160 gonna miss four more. But the Lakers are three and three. 0:12:09.840 --> 0:12:13.960 Lost to Brooklyn, bad loss, lost to Milwaukee, lost to 0:12:14.040 --> 0:12:16.840 Denver in what would have been an unbelievable win when 0:12:16.840 --> 0:12:19.079 Denver had all its guys and Lakers without six of 0:12:19.120 --> 0:12:23.880 their top eight. And then blew out Phoenix, blew out 0:12:23.920 --> 0:12:27.000 San Antonio, blew out Denver. And now the next four 0:12:27.200 --> 0:12:35.440 home for Milwaukee, Tonight home for Chicago at Orlando at Indiana. 0:12:35.600 --> 0:12:37.720 Can you go three and one in those four you 0:12:37.800 --> 0:12:41.120 should be able to even if Lebron's not back. And 0:12:41.160 --> 0:12:44.480 that's the other piece of last night the blowout being awesome. 0:12:45.000 --> 0:12:48.959 Luca only played thirty two minutes. Reeves probably played a 0:12:49.000 --> 0:12:51.640 little more than he needed to, but so be it. 0:12:52.559 --> 0:12:57.559 And so the Lakers are really well positioned. Houston keeps winning. Houston, 0:12:57.679 --> 0:13:03.559 to their credit, has really taken advantage of the absolute 0:13:03.760 --> 0:13:08.200 softest stretch of their schedule imaginable, and they have won 0:13:08.280 --> 0:13:13.839 more soft game Friday against Miami. But their schedule during 0:13:13.880 --> 0:13:16.440 this winning streak has been the following teams for Houston, 0:13:16.840 --> 0:13:22.680 New Orleans, New Orleans, Orlando, Phoenix, Dallas, Chicago, Philly, Orlando. 0:13:23.360 --> 0:13:26.200 So those are the worst, like some of the worst 0:13:26.280 --> 0:13:28.760 teams in the league, plus Orlando, which has been really 0:13:28.800 --> 0:13:32.679 bad for months, and Phoenix, which hates itself, and now 0:13:32.720 --> 0:13:36.720 you have Miami, and then it gets way tougher for Houston. 0:13:36.800 --> 0:13:41.960 So I because after Miami, Houston goes Denver, Atlanta, Utah, Phoenix, 0:13:42.480 --> 0:13:46.600 Lakers Utah Oka see Golden State Clippers Lakers Denver. What 0:13:46.800 --> 0:13:50.880 a final stretch for Houston final five games Oka see 0:13:50.880 --> 0:13:54.719 Golden State Clippers Lakers Denver. I wonder what OKAC is 0:13:54.760 --> 0:13:56.600 gonna do down the stretch because they will have locked 0:13:56.679 --> 0:13:59.600 up the one seed and with the Calvs losing all 0:13:59.600 --> 0:14:01.480 of a sudd and as of late, they will you know, 0:14:01.559 --> 0:14:03.679 they're gonna be in a good position for the number 0:14:03.679 --> 0:14:07.600 one overall seed. But I expect Houston to drop back 0:14:08.360 --> 0:14:10.720 and eying. The Lakers got a real shot at the two, 0:14:11.960 --> 0:14:16.520 a real shot at the two, and so I you know, 0:14:18.120 --> 0:14:21.880 I think and Daniel tells me LA is the tiebreaker 0:14:22.240 --> 0:14:26.400 because they win win their division? Oh, the stupid divisions 0:14:26.480 --> 0:14:29.400 or the next tiebreaker. Oh well, then last night's game 0:14:29.480 --> 0:14:33.520 was even bigger for Denver because now if they finished 0:14:33.520 --> 0:14:36.880 with the same record, Lakers have the tiebreaker. That's noteworthy. 0:14:37.240 --> 0:14:40.280 That's really really noteworthy. All right, Ask what are the 0:14:40.280 --> 0:14:40.960 follow ups here? 0:14:41.040 --> 0:14:43.400 Pal, Well, who do you think needs to adjust more 0:14:43.400 --> 0:14:45.880 when Lebron does come back, because you know, Lucas obviously 0:14:45.920 --> 0:14:50.560 getting into a groove. So Lebron Luca, Oh, Lebron's Lebron. 0:14:52.360 --> 0:14:57.320 Lebron can do more different things. Lebron can play so 0:14:57.480 --> 0:15:00.880 many different ways, So it wouldn't make sense to ask 0:15:00.960 --> 0:15:03.080 Luca to adjust because Lucas not going to be great 0:15:03.120 --> 0:15:06.000 at other things. Lebron can be great at playing almost 0:15:06.080 --> 0:15:10.520 any style of offensive basketball, so Lebron should and will 0:15:11.320 --> 0:15:14.800 look like and so that to me is not even 0:15:14.800 --> 0:15:20.120 a concern. And one of the benefits demanse to having 0:15:20.360 --> 0:15:26.720 every single statistical record in NBA history already accomplished. You 0:15:26.720 --> 0:15:29.360 don't have to worry about your stats as much like 0:15:29.440 --> 0:15:33.800 when you already have all the records, you already have 0:15:34.000 --> 0:15:37.040 all the all nbas, all the points, all the all 0:15:37.080 --> 0:15:41.479 of that you can, you don't really have to necessarily 0:15:41.520 --> 0:15:44.080 put that first and foremost in your mind. Now, I 0:15:44.120 --> 0:15:49.840 will tell you this a sneaky stat that Lebron cares about. 0:15:50.160 --> 0:15:51.680 That is such a silly one. 0:15:52.240 --> 0:15:54.960 The double digit what oh well. 0:15:55.000 --> 0:15:56.400 No, no, no, that one's not sneaky. 0:15:56.800 --> 0:15:58.000 That one's definitive. 0:15:58.320 --> 0:16:01.360 The thirteen hundred straight game of at least ten points. 0:16:01.480 --> 0:16:03.160 But he doesn't have to try to get that one. 0:16:03.760 --> 0:16:09.640 It's that he has averaged at least twenty five points 0:16:09.680 --> 0:16:14.600 per game to the tenth of a point in every 0:16:14.640 --> 0:16:17.880 single year of his career except for his rookie season, 0:16:18.200 --> 0:16:21.120 twenty one straight years. And the reason I know he 0:16:21.240 --> 0:16:26.960 cares about it is a few years ago, post ankle injury, 0:16:27.000 --> 0:16:30.240 going into the final game of the year, he needed 0:16:30.280 --> 0:16:32.560 a bucket. I think he knew the exact amount of 0:16:32.600 --> 0:16:35.440 points he needed, and he needed a bucket late and 0:16:35.480 --> 0:16:38.080 went and got it. So he finished that year averaging 0:16:38.120 --> 0:16:42.480 twenty five point zero zero zero. Right now this moment, 0:16:43.760 --> 0:16:49.240 Lebron has played fifty eight games and has scored one 0:16:49.320 --> 0:16:54.080 thy four hundred and fifty points. So let's just do 0:16:54.200 --> 0:16:58.840 the math on that. Fourteen point fifty divided by fifty eight, 0:16:59.280 --> 0:17:03.840 that is twenty five point zero zero zero zero zero. 0:17:05.080 --> 0:17:10.120 So here's the point I'm making. I do think Lebron 0:17:10.200 --> 0:17:12.880 will want to make sure when he comes back he's 0:17:12.920 --> 0:17:16.480 still getting twenty five at night. I haven't talked to him, 0:17:17.040 --> 0:17:21.000 but I I think that is a sneaky one that 0:17:21.080 --> 0:17:24.919 he would be annoyed if he missed it by a 0:17:25.000 --> 0:17:26.960 couple one hundredths of a point. 0:17:27.680 --> 0:17:29.960 So yeah, but even with him having to make the 0:17:30.000 --> 0:17:33.240 adjustments with Luca, like him getting twenty five points isn't 0:17:33.280 --> 0:17:35.320 like a stretch, Like I don't think that's like it's 0:17:35.320 --> 0:17:37.240 gonna be hard with his new role. 0:17:38.000 --> 0:17:42.399 I actually think his scoring might go up with the 0:17:42.440 --> 0:17:47.439 new role because I think I think his assists will 0:17:47.480 --> 0:17:52.320 plummet and scoring go up a bit and rebounding go 0:17:52.440 --> 0:17:55.879 up a lot. That's what I would anticipate is gonna 0:17:55.880 --> 0:17:58.320 happen here, all right. 0:17:58.320 --> 0:18:01.040 Go to the other side of it. Yeah, So. 0:18:02.440 --> 0:18:06.639 Anthony Davis the Swears, Oh my gosh. Tim McMahon reported 0:18:06.640 --> 0:18:08.760 that he wants Anthony Davis to play, but the team 0:18:08.880 --> 0:18:11.439 doesn't want him to play right now. He said he 0:18:11.520 --> 0:18:15.000 is steadfast in his determination to want to return this season, 0:18:15.400 --> 0:18:17.840 maybe as soon as next week, despite the fact there 0:18:17.840 --> 0:18:20.800 are people within the Mavericks organization that try to take 0:18:20.840 --> 0:18:23.000 him out of it. Do you think Anthony Davis should 0:18:23.000 --> 0:18:24.679 try to force the issue and play here? 0:18:26.160 --> 0:18:29.000 If he's healthy, you should play. They're tied to the 0:18:29.040 --> 0:18:33.040 City of Dallas. Yeah, get listen, they're tied for the 0:18:33.080 --> 0:18:38.320 tenth seed like they and the team they're tied with, Phoenix, 0:18:39.119 --> 0:18:41.600 is an open revolt. I know they've won a couple 0:18:41.640 --> 0:18:44.679 in a row. But you can make the play in 0:18:45.400 --> 0:18:47.440 and if you have a health even as injured as 0:18:47.440 --> 0:18:51.040 they are. If you have a healthy Anthony Davis, you're 0:18:51.359 --> 0:18:55.560 live in the first playing game against the Kings, and 0:18:55.600 --> 0:18:59.120 then you see what you are in the next playing game. 0:18:59.160 --> 0:19:01.920 If you get there against either Golden State, the Clippers 0:19:01.960 --> 0:19:06.600 or the Timberwolves, like you. You can't just napalm the 0:19:06.760 --> 0:19:10.840 entire season like this. And I give Anthony Davis credit 0:19:11.240 --> 0:19:14.280 for wanting to play. I give him the mint credit 0:19:14.359 --> 0:19:17.479 to be totally honest for wanting to play. I think 0:19:17.520 --> 0:19:20.920 it's the right thing to do, and I think it's 0:19:21.240 --> 0:19:26.239 I now, listen if he is not you know, if 0:19:26.240 --> 0:19:30.840 they're like, ah, he really shouldn't play. He's not healthy, 0:19:31.600 --> 0:19:34.679 but he could force that's different. But if he is 0:19:34.880 --> 0:19:41.159 cleared by the doctors, you should let Anthony Davis play. 0:19:41.480 --> 0:19:44.600 That trade what you say, I was saying, like, after 0:19:44.640 --> 0:19:46.439 making that trade, I don't think you can mail it 0:19:46.440 --> 0:19:48.720 in in any type of form or fashion whatever you 0:19:48.760 --> 0:19:51.160 can possibly do, I think you should be going after 0:19:51.600 --> 0:19:53.880 Like obviously the fans are in a bad state. 0:19:53.960 --> 0:19:57.040 But yeah, and like playoff games are fun and as 0:19:57.160 --> 0:20:00.719 upset as the Dallas fans are, and they you know, 0:20:00.920 --> 0:20:04.679 does rightfully so are they would get hyped up for 0:20:04.800 --> 0:20:07.919 a play in game or you know the potentially like 0:20:07.960 --> 0:20:11.000 that would be fun. And so you gotta if he's healthy, 0:20:11.040 --> 0:20:13.879 you gotta let him play. The guy's played thirty minutes 0:20:13.960 --> 0:20:17.720 for twenty five minutes for you since the trade yeah, 0:20:17.440 --> 0:20:20.360 and so you gotta at least let the fans have something, 0:20:20.760 --> 0:20:24.480 some type of hope for next year, like Anthony Davis 0:20:24.480 --> 0:20:28.119 comes back and looks good something. All right, let's go 0:20:28.200 --> 0:20:29.480 to the other Lakers stuff. 0:20:29.640 --> 0:20:29.840 Yeah. 0:20:29.880 --> 0:20:31.960 So since it was a blowout, Luca got a lot 0:20:31.960 --> 0:20:34.240 of rest at the end of that Lakers game. So 0:20:34.400 --> 0:20:37.800 now they got The Bucks just lost to a currulous Warriors. 0:20:39.720 --> 0:20:43.640 Who would you have in that game tonight? So your 0:20:43.800 --> 0:20:48.840 thing Doc had that meeting with Giannison Dane. I am 0:20:50.440 --> 0:20:54.480 legitimately not just worried about the Bucks. I'm ready to 0:20:54.560 --> 0:20:57.960 say the Bucks are done as a contender. I didn't 0:20:58.000 --> 0:21:01.760 I had been holding on hope for them because of 0:21:01.840 --> 0:21:06.160 how good Giannis is. But these are some bad losses, man. 0:21:06.920 --> 0:21:10.960 The you know, the losing to Orlando would started this 0:21:11.119 --> 0:21:15.840 five and seven, not being competitive against OKC, losing to 0:21:15.920 --> 0:21:20.840 Golden State without Curry. The only time they've looked really good, 0:21:21.560 --> 0:21:24.040 you know, in the last couple of weeks was against 0:21:24.119 --> 0:21:27.440 the Lakers, when Lucas still scored. What did Lucas score 0:21:27.440 --> 0:21:31.560 in that game? Forty five? So that's so, yeah, Lucas 0:21:31.560 --> 0:21:35.000 scored forty five and the Bucks still blew the Lakers out, 0:21:35.760 --> 0:21:42.000 and so I the Bucks should win tonight. The Lakers 0:21:42.000 --> 0:21:44.439 are on a back to back. The Lakers kind of 0:21:44.520 --> 0:21:48.320 knew what they needed was a split with Milwaukee and Denver. 0:21:48.720 --> 0:21:52.080 They got the benefit of Denver resting their guys. But 0:21:52.800 --> 0:21:58.040 at this point, you can't be shocked any game the 0:21:58.080 --> 0:22:02.520 Bucks lose because they just seem disjointed and they seem 0:22:02.640 --> 0:22:08.800 like a team that cannot survive anything but an excellent 0:22:08.840 --> 0:22:12.560 game from Yannis. So and I think this kind of 0:22:12.640 --> 0:22:16.639 speaks to the situation the Bucks find themselves in. The 0:22:16.720 --> 0:22:20.320 Lakers are on a back to back, Lebron is not playing, 0:22:20.800 --> 0:22:23.920 the Bucks are desperate, and it's a three and a 0:22:23.960 --> 0:22:32.600 half point line, So the Bucks should win. But the Bucks, Uh, 0:22:32.920 --> 0:22:39.359 the Bucks right now are just an okay team with 0:22:39.440 --> 0:22:42.400 an all time great player and. 0:22:43.280 --> 0:22:46.239 Get back just driving to the cup. I'm shooting well. 0:22:46.280 --> 0:22:49.560 I mean, Yiannis has been unbelievable this year. I mean, 0:22:49.600 --> 0:22:53.840 Giannis is like thirty a game on sixty percent, like 0:22:54.720 --> 0:23:02.359 Janice's numbers this season, thirty twelve and on sixty percent 0:23:02.440 --> 0:23:05.560 from the field. I mean, he really has been great. 0:23:06.040 --> 0:23:08.480 The rest of the team just hasn't been there. It 0:23:08.480 --> 0:23:11.560 would be a great win for the Lakers tonight, but 0:23:11.720 --> 0:23:16.640 you've gotta you've gotta think that the Bucks get this one, 0:23:17.119 --> 0:23:22.240 and then we get another update after tonight about Lebron's 0:23:22.280 --> 0:23:24.360 health and the next time we're gonna see him. What's 0:23:24.400 --> 0:23:25.200 your follow up here? 0:23:25.840 --> 0:23:26.320 Uh yeah? 0:23:26.359 --> 0:23:28.359 What do you think about Draymond saying that he's a 0:23:28.880 --> 0:23:31.480 million percent as a case to win Defensive Player of 0:23:31.480 --> 0:23:34.440 the Year after his performance against Milwaukee? 0:23:35.240 --> 0:23:40.280 Listen, he was unbelievable against Giannis, and Draymond probably does 0:23:40.320 --> 0:23:42.520 have a case for Defensive Player of the Year. Listen, 0:23:42.680 --> 0:23:46.280 I have to segment, Mike dra I almost have to 0:23:46.320 --> 0:23:49.800 segment my Draymond opinions into three buckets in my brain. 0:23:50.560 --> 0:23:54.920 Bucket won is this. I think Draymond Green is one 0:23:54.920 --> 0:23:59.239 of the greatest defensive players ever. I do think that 0:23:59.440 --> 0:24:05.840 on the pre and post KD Warriors, Draymond, not Klay Thompson, 0:24:06.320 --> 0:24:09.240 was the second most important player, and I don't really 0:24:09.280 --> 0:24:12.720 think it's that arguable. I think he unlocked so many 0:24:12.760 --> 0:24:16.840 things they could do. And and I also am on 0:24:16.880 --> 0:24:20.159 the record from years ago that those defensive Player of 0:24:20.200 --> 0:24:23.520 the Year awards Kawhi Leonard won. I think Draymond Green 0:24:23.560 --> 0:24:26.560 should have won and so I think Draymond should have 0:24:26.600 --> 0:24:30.800 three already, and I do think he is a legendary 0:24:30.880 --> 0:24:34.359 all time defensive player. That's bucket one in my brain. 0:24:34.840 --> 0:24:41.120 Bucket two of my brain is this, every single person 0:24:41.840 --> 0:24:47.399 that I am tight with that has a personal, non 0:24:47.560 --> 0:24:53.040 basketball relationship with Draymond Green talks about him like he 0:24:53.160 --> 0:24:56.800 is one of the best dudes in the world, and 0:24:58.160 --> 0:25:02.679 I have to give him credit for that. The third 0:25:02.720 --> 0:25:06.480 bucket of my brain is that, man, oh man, he 0:25:06.600 --> 0:25:11.520 just strikes me as a really bad guy. And the 0:25:11.640 --> 0:25:17.800 Carl Anthony town stuff from this weekend I thought was outrageous. 0:25:18.240 --> 0:25:23.800 I thought him, mister new media, And we don't as 0:25:23.840 --> 0:25:26.399 the dog is back there and we don't need to 0:25:26.440 --> 0:25:29.399 make this a social breakout clip or anything. But I 0:25:29.480 --> 0:25:31.560 just want to get on the record on this, mister 0:25:31.760 --> 0:25:36.959 new media, being like talking about one of the problems 0:25:37.200 --> 0:25:41.280 with old media was not getting the real story going 0:25:41.280 --> 0:25:46.160