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Speaker 1: All right, let's talk some basketball. So the Lakers. I
Speaker 1: talked a lot after Game two, before Game two even
Speaker 1: that I expected them to bring a lack of daisical
Speaker 1: effort into risk dropping a game, and then they did.
Speaker 1: And I thought, even in my rewatch going back to
Speaker 1: look at that, it's hard to overstate just how much
Speaker 1: effort played a role in that. And I think a
Speaker 1: big part of it stems from Lebron James and Anthony Davis,
Speaker 1: the two of them, from the top down. There are
Speaker 1: two guys that like like to inflict their physicality on
Speaker 1: the game relative to the amount that they feel threatened.
Speaker 1: And it's been like that, literally NonStop since the twenty
Speaker 1: twenty Championship that season, they were pretty consistently locked in.
Speaker 1: They'd have their occasional bad games, just like anybody else
Speaker 1: would around the NBA. Nobody's perfect, but in terms of
Speaker 1: consistent night in and night out effort, the two of
Speaker 1: them were laser focused from training camp until they hoisted
Speaker 1: the Larry O'Brien Trophy in October, and they have not
Speaker 1: had that consistent level of effort ever since. That said,
Speaker 1: it has actually made them kind of an easy team
Speaker 1: to predict. Just as confident as I was that they
Speaker 1: would struggle in Game two, I was very confident that
Speaker 1: they would play well in Game three, and Lebron James
Speaker 1: and Anthony Davis were going to bring the requisite level
Speaker 1: of force. The Memphis Grizzlies in Game two started doing
Speaker 1: a lot more switching, and we've talked about this a
Speaker 1: lot with the Lakers in particular, because the way that
Speaker 1: you attack switching defenses is very different than the way
Speaker 1: that you attack drop coverage or other traditional pick and
Speaker 1: roll coverages. When you're attacking traditional pick and roll coverages,
Speaker 1: you need a certain type of ball handler that can
Speaker 1: make all the different shots that the coverage might give
Speaker 1: you and then make all the passing reads that the
Speaker 1: coverage might give you. That's very much about there's a
Speaker 1: couple of specific things you have to do. You have
Speaker 1: to get downhill to draw in the rim protector, and
Speaker 1: then from there you have to make really good reads.
Speaker 1: It's very much a decision making type of offense. Again,
Speaker 1: attacking a switching scheme is the exact opposite. It's very
Speaker 1: much brute force and ironically like Lebron James and Anthony
Speaker 1: Davis represent probably the best possible switch attacking duo that
Speaker 1: you can have in the NBA because of the ability
Speaker 1: that Lebron James has to score from different spots on
Speaker 1: the floor and Anthony Davis just being this big walking mismatch,
Speaker 1: and most importantly they can beat mismatches at the rim.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of times where we've seen in NBA
Speaker 1: history guys that are great at attacking switches but rely
Speaker 1: too heavily on their jump shot. Their jump shot fails
Speaker 1: them and they end up struggling. Lebron James and Anthony
Speaker 1: Davis can turn these switching contests into rock fights when
Speaker 1: they want to. The problem is is it demands that
Speaker 1: you attack your switch with physicality. So think of it
Speaker 1: this way in a traditional pick and roll coverage, I'm
Speaker 1: just trying to get over the top of the screen
Speaker 1: and get downhill and engage that screen defender, which is
Speaker 1: going to bring over a different help defender to handle
Speaker 1: the role man, which is gonna open things up on
Speaker 1: the backside for wide open shooters. It's a lot easier
Speaker 1: to do that, especially if you're a big playmaking guy
Speaker 1: like Lebron that sees the floor so well. When it
Speaker 1: comes to switching, those pick and rolls are just gonna
Speaker 1: result in this, which especially with Lebron James and Anthony
Speaker 1: Davis when they're guarded by Dylan Brooks and Jared Jackson,
Speaker 1: who they feel comfortable switching that matchup onto either guy right,
Speaker 1: And so as a result, all of a sudden, it
Speaker 1: stagnates everything and you're just kind of passing the ball
Speaker 1: around the perimeter, and the only time you're ever going
Speaker 1: to actually get anything good going offensively is if you
Speaker 1: just drop your damn shoulder and go by the guy
Speaker 1: and start engaging help defenders, and you're either going to
Speaker 1: score at the rim or you're going to draw help defenders,
Speaker 1: and that will get you those wide open kickouts on
Speaker 1: the backside. It's much more labor intensive. Attacking pick and
Speaker 1: roll coverages is very much a brains thing. Attacking a
Speaker 1: switching coverage is very much a bronze thing, especially for
Speaker 1: Lebron James and Anthony Davis in the way that they play,
Speaker 1: and many times this season we've seen this particular coverage
Speaker 1: give them issues. As a matter of fact, if I
Speaker 1: was coaching to play the Lakers as an opposing coach,
Speaker 1: and I was coaching them in a series, I would
Speaker 1: go heavily into switching because that is the thing that
Speaker 1: has caused them the most problems throughout this season, mainly
Speaker 1: just because of Ron James and Anthony Davis and their
Speaker 1: inconsistent effort. You guys might remember that game that Lebron
Speaker 1: James hurt his foot. First half switching everything small guys
Speaker 1: in Lebron James and Anthony Davis. The whole time, they're
Speaker 1: just passing the ball around the perimeter. No one's attacking.
Speaker 1: They couldn't score. Second half, Lebron James and Anthony Davis
Speaker 1: just possession after possession after possession, relentlessly posted up, lived
Speaker 1: at the rim, and dominated the Mavericks on their way
Speaker 1: to win. That's the way they have to play, and
Speaker 1: they're just not consistently consistent enough in their physical aggression
Speaker 1: there So I tweeted out for the game that the
Speaker 1: Lakers are way better than the Grizzlies. Let's just flat out,
Speaker 1: I think I personally think the Lakers are way better
Speaker 1: than the Grizzlies. So therefore, if they play with the
Speaker 1: wreckers at force, they should dominate the game. And that's
Speaker 1: exactly what they did. Lebron James and it Austin Reeves
Speaker 1: in the first couple of possessions were going downhill at
Speaker 1: the rim, attacking the basket with force, got back to
Speaker 1: back layups that set the tone for the rest of
Speaker 1: the game. And then for all the chirping from between
Speaker 1: Dylan Brooks and Lebron James, one of the things that
Speaker 1: I credit Lebron James for there, and this is something
Speaker 1: that he's dealt with in the past. This is not
Speaker 1: the first guy that is a lower echelon NBA player
Speaker 1: who's decided to pick on Lebron James. There have been
Speaker 1: many that have tried and it's pretty much been the
Speaker 1: same result every single time. But the difference is Lebron
Speaker 1: didn't buy into it. Dylan Brooks basically tried to bait
Speaker 1: him into shooting his way to forty points. Lebron came
Speaker 1: out played team basketball. Dylan Brooks, on the other hand,
Speaker 1: took like eleven damn shots in the first quarter because
Speaker 1: he got wrapped up into that battle. And as we've
Speaker 1: talked about a lot on the show, Dylan Brooks is
Speaker 1: literally one of the most inefficient shot makers in the
Speaker 1: entire league this year in terms of pick and roll isolation.
Speaker 1: He just never converts those possessions at nearly the same
Speaker 1: rate as any of the full time ball handlers around
Speaker 1: the league. So when he goes high usage, it actively
Speaker 1: hurts Memphis. But I thought they set the tone with
Speaker 1: that playing with force against the switching and attacking the
Speaker 1: rim as much as possible. Defensively, they gave John ran
Speaker 1: a ton of problems from two point range. We're going
Speaker 1: to talk about the Lakers John Moran's run in the
Speaker 1: fourth quarter in a second, but during the actual portions
Speaker 1: of the game, when the game was in question, I
Speaker 1: believe he was two for ten inside the arc. A
Speaker 1: lot of Jared Vanderbilt ducking under picks and bothering John
Speaker 1: Moran as he's trying to get downhill, Anthony Davis coming
Speaker 1: high out of his drop. They're really bothering John Moran
Speaker 1: at the rim and with that little short range floater
Speaker 1: that he takes, and they're giving him a lot of issues.
Speaker 1: They have caused Desmond Bang to take extremely difficult shots
Speaker 1: and he's been inefficient basically throughout this entire series. Jared
Speaker 1: Jackson is the only guy that's been consistently effective offensively
Speaker 1: for them. And all the role players played well, which
Speaker 1: is to be expected. Role Players tend to oscillate back
Speaker 1: and forth based on their confidence, and they always play
Speaker 1: more confident at home. Specifically Ruey Hachimura. This is a
Speaker 1: real assent from him because he played excellent on the
Speaker 1: road as well. There's a lot of people saying like
Speaker 1: that was a big narrative coming out of Game one. Oh,
Speaker 1: Ruey hatch Mura had twenty eight. That'll never happen again. Okay,
Speaker 1: he was great in game two. Okay, he was great
Speaker 1: in Game three. Here's the thing, Laker been on this.
Speaker 1: He's been great for weeks now, and I've gone into
Speaker 1: it in depth in previous shows, so I won't go
Speaker 1: into it again. But he is buying into all the
Speaker 1: dirty work he has cleaned up that hitch that he
Speaker 1: had in his three point shot that was causing him
Speaker 1: to leave all of them short. Now he's knocking down
Speaker 1: that three point shot. And there's always a pathway to
Speaker 1: connecting isolation scoring from individual workout to five on five
Speaker 1: practice to trying into games to actually being confident with
Speaker 1: it in games, and it is a process. You have
Speaker 1: to be able to knock down that shot hundreds of
Speaker 1: times a day in the gym by yourself, then you
Speaker 1: need to test it against individual defense. Then you need
Speaker 1: to try it in practice, then you need to try
Speaker 1: it in games. And we had seen all these videos
Speaker 1: of Ruy working with Phil Handy and working on all
Speaker 1: these moves. A lot of people compared him to Kawhi
Speaker 1: Leonard when he was younger, which was obviously a bad
Speaker 1: comp but it's not like that hard work wasn't gonna
Speaker 1: eventually pay off. It just takes time and it takes confidence,
Speaker 1: and he's starting to build that. And this is real.
Speaker 1: I believe that this assent from Ruey is real, and
Speaker 1: it is something that is a very encouraging sign for
Speaker 1: the Lakers, not just for this year but in the
Speaker 1: future because he is the ideal running made alongside Lebron
Speaker 1: James and Anthony Davis. Say, big strong forward that can
Speaker 1: handle some of the big forward defensive responsibilities, that is
Speaker 1: good defensively, good on the glass, and can knock down
Speaker 1: shots both off the ball and on the ball. He
Speaker 1: brings a ton of value for this team. I thought
Speaker 1: Austin Reeves and d Loo would play well off of
Speaker 1: the force that Lebron James and Anthony Davis generated, and
Speaker 1: they did. It was I thought it was a very
Speaker 1: dominant effort from the Lakers, and I thought that manifested
Speaker 1: in that first quarter. Now, right after the first quarter,
Speaker 1: the Lakers did what they are known to do every
Speaker 1: single time they switch from underdog to favorite in their mentality,
Speaker 1: they immediately let their foot off the glass. Gas I
Speaker 1: tweeted after the first quarter, I expect the Lakers to
Speaker 1: do the absolute bare minimum to get through this game,
Speaker 1: and that's exactly what they did. I'm not trying to
Speaker 1: undercut what John Morant did in the fourth quarter, but
Speaker 1: this is not like what the Lakers did in Game two.
Speaker 1: The Lakers hit the Jets early third when they were
Speaker 1: down twenty, and they worked. They worked it all the
Speaker 1: way down to like six, and they were in this game.
Speaker 1: Down the stretch, the Lakers just completely relaxed. The dead
Speaker 1: giveaway is when they're giving up transition baskets on max.
Speaker 1: When you're seeing like Austin Reeves get an offensive rebound
Speaker 1: put back or Anthony Davis get an offensive rebound put back,
Speaker 1: and next thing you know, John Morant's laying in the
Speaker 1: ball on the other end and Anthony Davis has barely
Speaker 1: crossed the three point line. Like again, credit to jaw,
Speaker 1: he was playing with a ton of force. He was
Speaker 1: clearly feeling himself talking to the crowd a little bit.
Speaker 1: But you know, at the end of the day, the
Speaker 1: Lakers have just completely mailed that in at the end,
Speaker 1: and that's what they're going to do. And for the record,
Speaker 1: that's why I have been super hesitant to pick the
Speaker 1: Lakers as some sort of legitimate like team that could
Speaker 1: come out the West. That's why I've been favoring Golden
Speaker 1: State and Denver so far to this point in the playoffs.
Speaker 1: And it's because the Lakers. I believe you will get
Speaker 1: beat if you play with that level of oscillating effort.
Speaker 1: I talk about this all the time, but the margin
Speaker 1: of victory in the playoffs is super tiny. Sometimes you
Speaker 1: end up winning or losing a series on one game,
Speaker 1: and sometimes that one game can swing on one sequence.
Speaker 1: How many of you guys remember the twenty eleven finals
Speaker 1: and the Miami Heat being up one to oh, up
Speaker 1: big in the fourth quarter, but relaxing a little bit
Speaker 1: and blowing a game to the Dallas Mavericks that ended
Speaker 1: up costing them the series. Back in twenty twenty one
Speaker 1: when they lost to the Suns, Anthony Davis laid an
Speaker 1: egg in game one, got outplayed by DeAndre Ayton. Then
Speaker 1: they won games two and three. They would have been
Speaker 1: up three to OHO if they approached it with the
Speaker 1: necessary force in game one, then you could have bought
Speaker 1: yourself time for Anthony Davis to return from a groin injury,
Speaker 1: because you're probably gonna find a way to win that series. Anyway.
Speaker 1: It's time and time again. I have seen series gets
Speaker 1: one one way or another based on one game, based
Speaker 1: on one sequence, and you have to be laser focused
Speaker 1: consistently to avoid those. There's a chance that this series,
Speaker 1: if it stretches out longer, that they're going to look
Speaker 1: back at game two as a missed opportunity or a
Speaker 1: similar situation like that will arise later on in the playoffs.
Speaker 1: But this series is trending about the way I expect.
Speaker 1: I expect the Lakers still to win in six. My
Speaker 1: guess is they win Game four, lose Game five, and
Speaker 1: then win Game six. I think they should approach it
Speaker 1: with the necessary effort to win Game five because they
Speaker 1: need the break. They need rest for their older players
Speaker 1: and their legs. But we'll see what that ends up happening.
Speaker 1: I expect them to drop one because that's just in
Speaker 1: their basketball character, all right. Moving on to Clippers stun So,
Speaker 1: this series is basically over to Kawhi Leonard sitting out
Speaker 1: presumably the rest of the series. I think Chris Haynes
Speaker 1: reported today that there's no timeline for his return. I
Speaker 1: wanted to talk about Russ for a second because this
Speaker 1: is something that you know, as you guys probably know,
Speaker 1: I'm relatively new to this industry. It's my second season
Speaker 1: covering the NBA for the volume. It's my third full
Speaker 1: season covering the NBA in various capacities, and so I'm
Speaker 1: learning just like anybody else who's relatively new to this.
Speaker 1: And I will say that I reacted to emotionally, I
Speaker 1: think just as a fan obviously, as you guys know,
Speaker 1: I'm a fan of the Lakers. To my frustrations with
Speaker 1: Russell Westbrook, and I associated too much of his struggles
Speaker 1: with his ability as a player and not enough with
Speaker 1: the fit, the obvious lack of a basketball fit with
Speaker 1: the Lakers. Not to be clear, this is this is
Speaker 1: not all on the media and not all on the fans.
Speaker 1: There is a reason why Russell Westbrook was on whatever
Speaker 1: it was, five teams in five years. Russell Westbrook earned
Speaker 1: his reputation. The level of defensive effort he's playing within
Speaker 1: this series is not the level of defensive effort, not
Speaker 1: even in the same stratosphere that he brought even for
Speaker 1: short bursts with any of his previous teams. This is
Speaker 1: like this, There is a very real reason why things
Speaker 1: did not go well with the Lakers. He was unwilling
Speaker 1: to embrace the dirty work and was not willing to
Speaker 1: polish up the skill set he would need to be
Speaker 1: a successful off ball player, and it caused a bunch
Speaker 1: of problems. That said, Russ is still a very very
Speaker 1: good basketball player. The combination of rim pressure and his
Speaker 1: playmaking are a very very potent duo, and when you
Speaker 1: combine that with his other worldly defense that he's been
Speaker 1: displaying in this series, it makes for an extremely good
Speaker 1: basketball player. But again, it was about the fit with
Speaker 1: the Lakers. They did not need the ball in his hands,
Speaker 1: which is precisely why Rob Polinkash never allowed should never
Speaker 1: have allowed that trade to happen to begin with. But
Speaker 1: he was he was going to a team where he
Speaker 1: was going to be asked to play off the ball
Speaker 1: a lot, and when he did have the ball in
Speaker 1: his hands, he was going to be playing on a
Speaker 1: team that did not have much shooting. And those are
Speaker 1: the two things that are going to be vitally important
Speaker 1: to Russell Westbrook being a successful basketball player. He needs
Speaker 1: the ball in his hands and he needs to be
Speaker 1: surrounded by shooting. And like, look like, I don't care
Speaker 1: what you want to say. I don't care that Phoenix's
Speaker 1: point of attack defense isn't very good. I don't care
Speaker 1: that you know, Phoenix is probably playing with some minimal
Speaker 1: effort because they know they're going to win the series
Speaker 1: because Kawhi can't play. I don't care that Kawhi and
Speaker 1: Paul George are out. And so Russell Westbrook has the
Speaker 1: ball in his hands the whole time. When you got
Speaker 1: and you throw a statline like that up in the
Speaker 1: NBA playoffs, you can't scoff at that. That's real production.
Speaker 1: You cannot scoff at what he's the plays he's making defensively.
Speaker 1: He there's another one today where he got called for
Speaker 1: a foul on the baseline where impossibly he blocked Kevin
Speaker 1: Durant on a jump shot. How many times have you
Speaker 1: seen Kevin rank get blocked on a jump shot? Ever?
Speaker 1: And hasn't Russ done it to him like three times
Speaker 1: already in this series? Like that's freaking crazy, man. And
Speaker 1: so like again, Russ is not my favorite player. There
Speaker 1: are a lot of things about him that drive me
Speaker 1: crazy as a basketball fan. I'll admit that. That said,
Speaker 1: like one of the big lessons I learned is I
Speaker 1: let my personal fan hood get in the way of
Speaker 1: the way I analyzed Russ, and I did not properly
Speaker 1: diagnose enough the way that the fit issues actually contributed
Speaker 1: to his to his problems. And I do believe that
Speaker 1: he has several productive years left in the NBA, it
Speaker 1: just needs to be with teams like this that actually
Speaker 1: need him to have the ball in his hands and
Speaker 1: are surrounded with the requisite shooting to space the floor
Speaker 1: for his rim pressure to be a factor. And I
Speaker 1: will say as a basketball fan, even though this series
Speaker 1: is over, as a basketball fan, I have really really
Speaker 1: enjoyed watching Russell Westbrook this year with the Clippers moving
Speaker 1: on to Bucks heat. So Jimmy Butler is phenomenal in
Speaker 1: this game, was really doing a good job attacking Drew Holley.
Speaker 1: Duncan Robinson kind of had a resurgence in this particular game.
Speaker 1: I feel terrible for Victor Oladipo. I have no idea
Speaker 1: what the actual word was on his injury, but that
Speaker 1: really bummed me out. But this is all I have
Speaker 1: to say. I h look, the Bucks half court offense
Speaker 1: did not look good in this game, even though Chris
Speaker 1: Middleton made some shots early like he just if you
Speaker 1: were asking an NBA offense to run everything through Drew
Speaker 1: Holliday and Chris Middleton against a locked in defense, especially
Speaker 1: one that has some of the defensive personnel pieces like
Speaker 1: Jimmy Butler and bam Adebio that Miami has, You're gonna struggle.
Speaker 1: Like that's just the reality. Like I talk about slotting
Speaker 1: all the time. But like Drew and and Chris, like
Speaker 1: when they're slotted behind Giannis, they make so much sense.
Speaker 1: But when you slot them up into Drew being your
Speaker 1: primary guy and Chris being your secondary guy, suddenly they're
Speaker 1: very underqualified and you're and you're gonna see that now.
Speaker 1: I do believe that Giannis is really hurt, but I
Speaker 1: also watched him play in game one after he got hurt,
Speaker 1: and he's still moving pretty well, which tells me that
Speaker 1: this is probably a pain tolerance issue. So from that standpoint,
Speaker 1: the way I look at it is like Yannis probably
Speaker 1: plays if they're down two to oh right, but it's
Speaker 1: one one and you just dominated them without Yannis and
Speaker 1: you lost the game. I believe that Jannis is almost
Speaker 1: a sure thing to play in game four, and I
Speaker 1: believe the Bucks will win comfortably in Game four. I
Speaker 1: personally will not be worried about the Bucks until a
Speaker 1: report comes out that Yannis is not playing in game four.
Speaker 1: And most importantly, and those of you guys who are
Speaker 1: longtime listeners of the show will remember this rant, but
Speaker 1: I've always called game three the buzzsaw game. There is
Speaker 1: a uh a play kind of a weirdness to the
Speaker 1: early phase of a playoff series, as teams are feeling
Speaker 1: each other out, but by game three, you're generally a
Speaker 1: little bit familiar with each other and you're going home.
Speaker 1: And like for all of these series, that game three,
Speaker 1: that first time playing at home, especially in the first round,
Speaker 1: it's like the first playoff game at home. There's this
Speaker 1: like tangible energy. It's one of my favorite games to bet.
Speaker 1: And once again this year, the home team in Game
Speaker 1: three is five and three, and the only losses are Philly,
Speaker 1: who got swept because they're not nearly as talented as
Speaker 1: phil excuse me, Brooklyn who's not nearly as talented as Philly,
Speaker 1: and they got swept. That Denver team against Minnesota, which
Speaker 1: again just quality win for Denver, and that's a big
Speaker 1: part of why I've been so impressed with Denver. And
Speaker 1: then the last one I believe was I'm blaking on
Speaker 1: it right now, but there was one other team that
Speaker 1: won in their home game in Game three, but the
Speaker 1: other five all one, Like it's just an extremely difficult
Speaker 1: game to win. That's just the reality. Oh it was
Speaker 1: Clipper Suns is what it was, which once again Kawhi
Speaker 1: Leonard didn't play so two of the three times the
Speaker 1: home team in Game three loss, they were at gigantic
Speaker 1: personnel disadvantages that they were going to be basically incapable
Speaker 1: of overcoming. So again, great win. Fun watching Jimmy this game.
Speaker 1: This series is certainly going to be more entertaining now,
Speaker 1: probably a little bit, considering that Philly and Boston might
Speaker 1: beat the shit out of each other in the second round,
Speaker 1: it's probably helpful for those two teams that Milwaukee has
Speaker 1: a little bit more of a battle in Round one.
Speaker 1: But I'm not I remain literally zero percent worried about
Speaker 1: Milwaukee last, but not least. And I'm only gonna talk
Speaker 1: about this for a second because I didn't actually watch
Speaker 1: much of this game. But the Sixers Joel Embiid, in
Speaker 1: his knee injury again played through it. My guess is
Speaker 1: he'll probably try to play through this one too, But
Speaker 1: as we saw against Miami last year, if he misses
Speaker 1: the first two games and they dig themselves into two
Speaker 1: a hole, it's just too much of a gap to
Speaker 1: dig when you're playing to dig out of when you're
Speaker 1: playing against a team like Boston. If it was anybody
Speaker 1: else in that second round series, that feel a little
Speaker 1: bit better it. But if embiid is not ready to
Speaker 1: go in Game one, they're not winning. It's really that simple.
Speaker 1: But the most encouraging thing to come out of that
Speaker 1: first round series was Tyres Maxey. I've talked a lot
Speaker 1: about how Philly before the Phoenix trade I thought had
Speaker 1: the most talented top four in the NBA. Tyras Maxie
Speaker 1: is one of those guys. As up and down as
Speaker 1: the James Harden experience has been, Tyres Maxy has been
Speaker 1: excellent in the first round so far, and that's encouraging.
Speaker 1: All right, guys, that is all I have for tonight.
Speaker 1: We are going live after Warriors Kings Game four tomorrow
Speaker 1: with Colin Cowhard, so keep an eye on the feeds
Speaker 1: for that, and then we'll be back Monday morning breaking
Speaker 1: down the rest of the games from Sunday. As always,
Speaker 1: I appreciate you guys for rocking with us for the
Speaker 1: super successful first week that we had, and I will
Speaker 1: see you guys tomorrow. The volume