WEBVTT - 05/31/21 DPS Best Of 0:00:00.760 --> 0:00:03.600 You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox 0:00:03.680 --> 0:00:08.399 Sports Radio. The Lakers lose yesterday, and with all of 0:00:08.400 --> 0:00:12.160 the stories like look the Kyrie and the Kyrie getting 0:00:12.160 --> 0:00:15.920 the bottle thrown at him and smushing the face of 0:00:15.960 --> 0:00:21.000 the leper con Obviously there's some ugliness there, But I 0:00:21.040 --> 0:00:23.240 think everyone knew the Nets are going to beat the Celtics, right, 0:00:23.239 --> 0:00:25.520 It's not a surprise. There's some other very good series 0:00:25.560 --> 0:00:29.760 Portland and Denver's a very good series. The Bucks molly 0:00:29.840 --> 0:00:33.320 wopping the heat and the heat culture going out and 0:00:33.320 --> 0:00:35.839 getting swept four games to none like that, that's a surprise. 0:00:36.400 --> 0:00:39.000 But Rob, I don't think I'm speaking out of turn. 0:00:39.760 --> 0:00:44.400 After the Game three performance, it was like the regular 0:00:44.400 --> 0:00:47.279 season means nothing. The Lakers are clearly not only the 0:00:47.280 --> 0:00:49.680 better team, but probably the best team in the West. 0:00:50.000 --> 0:00:54.040 Like this thing was a rap and then some screwy happened. 0:00:54.280 --> 0:00:57.800 Chris Paul looks magically healed right, like he went into 0:00:58.200 --> 0:01:00.000 like he went into the locker room in the valley, 0:01:00.200 --> 0:01:02.440 and mister Miyagi did that rub his hands together and 0:01:02.440 --> 0:01:04.440 put his chee in him thing, you know, you know, 0:01:04.520 --> 0:01:07.160 because he was so ineffective prior to this. It was 0:01:07.280 --> 0:01:10.720 It was like how because everybody thought Doug he should 0:01:10.760 --> 0:01:12.800 have taken the game off or so, you know what, 0:01:12.840 --> 0:01:15.360 I mean, to try to get fully healthy. And he 0:01:15.480 --> 0:01:17.480 played through it, but all of a sudden he looked 0:01:17.520 --> 0:01:24.080 like Chris Paul he did. And then and then Anthony 0:01:24.160 --> 0:01:25.760 Davis goes down with injury, and now all of a 0:01:25.760 --> 0:01:30.000 sudden the Lakers, who what was a hey, how quickly 0:01:30.000 --> 0:01:31.679 can we get this series over with? Can we get 0:01:31.720 --> 0:01:33.480 this thing over in five so we can go get 0:01:33.520 --> 0:01:36.160 rested too. They're gonna be lucky to get out of 0:01:36.200 --> 0:01:38.640 the series. How big? How big a trouble do you 0:01:38.640 --> 0:01:41.520 think they're in? I think they're in huge trouble. I 0:01:41.640 --> 0:01:47.600 just the injury situation. I never felt like uh wasn't 0:01:47.640 --> 0:01:51.800 going to reappear for the Lakers because of Anthony Davis's 0:01:51.920 --> 0:01:56.160 history and Lebron's age, Lebron James's age. I thought a 0:01:56.160 --> 0:01:59.120 lot of stuff had to go right for them. H 0:01:59.280 --> 0:02:04.600 Kyle KU's has what happened to him? Doug? He's like 0:02:06.280 --> 0:02:08.959 zero for the lady. I think la happened to him? 0:02:09.040 --> 0:02:11.600 What happened to him? He was supposed I remember they 0:02:11.600 --> 0:02:13.720 didn't want to let him go? He oh no, not 0:02:14.240 --> 0:02:17.800 him for a Kyle for Anthony Davis. Now, Kyle kuz 0:02:17.960 --> 0:02:20.639 was not going anywhere. You remember that, he was no, absolutely, 0:02:20.680 --> 0:02:23.600 I mean like, look coming into last year. Last year, 0:02:23.720 --> 0:02:25.959 the thought was like, all right, we got Anthony Davis 0:02:25.960 --> 0:02:28.680 and Kyle Kuzman, Lebron James. You can put us down 0:02:28.760 --> 0:02:31.840 for seventy seventy five a night from those three. How 0:02:31.880 --> 0:02:34.560 was the plan? A right, there's a plan and then 0:02:34.440 --> 0:02:35.720 there and then by the end of the year it's like, oh, 0:02:35.760 --> 0:02:39.000 we got Anthony Davison, Lebron James and occasionally got Kyle Kuzma, 0:02:39.200 --> 0:02:43.240 and it hasn't yet. He's he's looked like a guy 0:02:43.400 --> 0:02:47.160 who who Lebron still gives the side eyed two, is 0:02:47.200 --> 0:02:50.400 not really bought into, doesn't really know where he's supposed 0:02:50.400 --> 0:02:53.040 to be with these guys. Now, do I think he 0:02:53.040 --> 0:02:58.360 could have statistically a very good UM series here and 0:02:58.480 --> 0:03:00.720 could pick it up because he knows how to play 0:03:00.760 --> 0:03:03.160 when they play Lebron ball, right, like give it to Lebron, 0:03:03.240 --> 0:03:06.320 he makes every pass and every play like sure, but 0:03:06.440 --> 0:03:08.400 that that's kind of what it's gonna have to take. 0:03:08.480 --> 0:03:13.120 And then the question becomes, one, can Lebron do that anymore? Physically? 0:03:13.680 --> 0:03:15.840 And then too does his body hold up because this 0:03:15.880 --> 0:03:19.959 is only the second time he's been hurt. So yeah, 0:03:20.000 --> 0:03:23.160 I think the whole thing is fascinating, not just what's happened. 0:03:23.200 --> 0:03:27.160 And this is the way that dynasties or quasi dynasty's end, 0:03:27.240 --> 0:03:30.120 like go back. Everybody points to the fact that that 0:03:30.240 --> 0:03:34.440 Kobe and and Shaq hated each other at the end 0:03:34.480 --> 0:03:36.480 of their three peats. They did, they did, they didn't 0:03:36.480 --> 0:03:40.320 get along, but Rick Fox got hurt, Karl Malone got hurt. 0:03:41.000 --> 0:03:43.400 That was part of the reason why they were so 0:03:43.520 --> 0:03:46.720 limited when they you know, when they split early with 0:03:46.760 --> 0:03:49.120 the with the Pistons and they went back to Detroit, 0:03:49.240 --> 0:03:52.680 like I never came back. Nobody believed that. If you remember, 0:03:52.720 --> 0:03:57.040 I covered that series, Dug and I remember media members 0:03:57.120 --> 0:03:59.920 after you remember, because the Pistons should have won Game two. 0:04:00.160 --> 0:04:02.520 Kobe hit that three and then they won an overtime, 0:04:03.240 --> 0:04:05.800 and people are like, Okay, that's it. You know, the 0:04:05.880 --> 0:04:07.960 Pistons got there one win. That's going to be the 0:04:08.080 --> 0:04:11.200 end of it. That Pistons team was a really good team, 0:04:11.240 --> 0:04:15.360 not with great players per se, but just together and 0:04:15.680 --> 0:04:17.440 that was the beginning, and that was the end of 0:04:17.440 --> 0:04:19.799 the Lake that run. With the Lakers, and and everything 0:04:19.920 --> 0:04:23.600 changed after that. So like, look, you can we can 0:04:23.720 --> 0:04:26.800 go back through pick the dynasty and with the exception 0:04:26.880 --> 0:04:31.760 of Jordan retiring, right, I mean, what ended even the 0:04:31.800 --> 0:04:34.840 Warriors dynasty where they won two in a row. Like, look, 0:04:34.839 --> 0:04:38.080 they're beating that, They're beating the Raptors if everybody outside 0:04:38.080 --> 0:04:41.039 of Steph Curry doesn't get hurt, right, Kevon Looney's hurt, 0:04:41.240 --> 0:04:43.560 and of course Clay gets hurt in Game six, they 0:04:43.560 --> 0:04:47.360 were still competitive in game to six games without Kevin Durant. 0:04:47.680 --> 0:04:49.960 He could have made it. If Steph Curry made that shot, 0:04:50.000 --> 0:04:52.839 they could have won that game dog the game seven, 0:04:52.839 --> 0:04:54.640 am I right, he got a look at the end 0:04:54.640 --> 0:04:56.760 of that game. But the point is, like, if Clay 0:04:56.800 --> 0:04:59.840 doesn't get hurt, they might win the series. If KD 0:05:00.080 --> 0:05:03.279 doesn't get hurt, they definitely win the series. Injuries have 0:05:03.400 --> 0:05:07.440 brought down injuries, and most injuries because of age, but 0:05:07.520 --> 0:05:12.359 some just injuries have brought down more of these dynasties 0:05:12.440 --> 0:05:16.200 or quasi dynasties than anything. And I just wonder if 0:05:16.200 --> 0:05:19.039 that's that's what happens to the Lakers. And it really 0:05:19.320 --> 0:05:24.600 the juxtaposition of the Clippers who seventy two hours ago. Whatever, 0:05:24.640 --> 0:05:28.040 you know, go back to Friday afternoon, We're dead and 0:05:28.080 --> 0:05:30.520 the Lakers were like, dude, we don't have to play 0:05:30.560 --> 0:05:33.880 the Clippers again. They dodged us in the first in 0:05:33.920 --> 0:05:35.880 the second round, we don't have to play him again. 0:05:36.160 --> 0:05:40.280 To now, the Clippers feeling like they have complete control 0:05:40.440 --> 0:05:43.560 of their series, and the adjustments that Tyrone Low's made 0:05:43.800 --> 0:05:47.360 in combination with Luca having whatever is going on with 0:05:47.400 --> 0:05:51.320 his neck, like it it's that thing looks over as 0:05:51.320 --> 0:05:53.600 opposed to Lakers are now like, holy crap, we could 0:05:53.640 --> 0:05:56.279 lose to the Suns, who we wanted to play because 0:05:56.320 --> 0:06:00.160 it's a positive matchup for us. Yep, no doubt about it. 0:06:00.360 --> 0:06:04.960 I think Laker fans are very very concerned and the 0:06:05.080 --> 0:06:08.520 tables that quickly have turned. And if the Suns go back, 0:06:08.800 --> 0:06:11.400 you know, the Phoenix Game five and they were able 0:06:11.480 --> 0:06:13.920 to win that and there's no Anthony Davis, then then 0:06:14.640 --> 0:06:18.160 the Lakers goose will be cooked. I mean, that obviously 0:06:18.279 --> 0:06:22.040 is a huge game. And um, I picked the Sons 0:06:22.040 --> 0:06:26.040 in this series to start, Doug. I did because you're 0:06:26.080 --> 0:06:28.760 that guy. You're that guy. I am that guy. I 0:06:29.200 --> 0:06:32.080 picked the Sons, and I really believe the Suns are 0:06:32.080 --> 0:06:34.320 gonna be if they're if the full strength, you really 0:06:34.320 --> 0:06:37.560 believe I did, because I didn't think the Lakers would 0:06:37.600 --> 0:06:42.159 be at full strength, really I did. I was like, 0:06:42.400 --> 0:06:45.040 this just you didn't know who was gonna get hurt, 0:06:45.080 --> 0:06:47.279 but you felt like somebody's gonna get hurt. Yes, I 0:06:47.360 --> 0:06:49.400 felt like they were not going to be able to 0:06:49.440 --> 0:06:53.880 complete the series without a piece missing, and the Suns 0:06:53.920 --> 0:06:57.640 and wronger like, look we're getting and and people do 0:06:57.640 --> 0:06:59.919 it in my royal day as well, which I don't know, 0:07:00.080 --> 0:07:02.520 like they do the fireworks thing. I remember there was 0:07:02.520 --> 0:07:06.080 a fourth of July. I was in Drumwright, Oklahoma, and 0:07:07.640 --> 0:07:11.120 all these guys are like volunteer firefighters, so that's like there, hey, 0:07:11.160 --> 0:07:13.800 I can light whatever fireworks possible, and you know, you 0:07:13.880 --> 0:07:17.040 spend like most of day drinking and cooking out. And 0:07:17.080 --> 0:07:19.720 this is before I had kids, and I just remember 0:07:19.760 --> 0:07:21.560 all these guys going off into a field to light 0:07:21.560 --> 0:07:23.960 off these big fireworks, and that was my thinking. I 0:07:24.000 --> 0:07:26.200 was like, I don't know who's gonna get hurt, but 0:07:26.280 --> 0:07:28.320 somebody's gonna get hurting this sort of thing, and I'm 0:07:28.320 --> 0:07:30.680 gonna do is I'm gonna remove myself and I'm gonna 0:07:30.680 --> 0:07:32.760 go stay even though I like seeing things blow up 0:07:33.120 --> 0:07:36.200 right like like like like I like seeing fireworks, like 0:07:36.240 --> 0:07:38.920 any red blooded American man, I like that. That's fine 0:07:39.000 --> 0:07:41.400 with you. I'm out the way. But I'm like, no, 0:07:42.040 --> 0:07:44.200 I don't know which one of you guys is gonna 0:07:44.280 --> 0:07:46.360 end up losing the digit, but it's not gonna be me, 0:07:46.480 --> 0:07:48.520 So I'm gonna remove myself. That's how you looked at 0:07:48.520 --> 0:07:51.800 the Lakers series to begin with. I really did, and 0:07:52.040 --> 0:07:55.680 I just thought the Sons are young and and people 0:07:55.800 --> 0:07:58.800 discounted them the whole way, as if all the games 0:07:58.800 --> 0:08:01.320 they won during the regless season didn't matter. I mean, 0:08:01.360 --> 0:08:03.760 that's all I heard was, Oh, who are you afraid 0:08:03.800 --> 0:08:06.440 of in the West, Not Utah or not the Sons. 0:08:06.480 --> 0:08:09.120 And I'm just like, really, those games don't count at 0:08:09.120 --> 0:08:12.520 all what they were able to accomplish. Devin Booker, nothing 0:08:12.600 --> 0:08:17.560 he did matters full strength. The Lakers are beating Phoenix 0:08:17.920 --> 0:08:20.440 full strength. They're better than Phoenix. It's a bad matchup 0:08:20.440 --> 0:08:23.120 for Phoenix. I would disagree with you there, but the 0:08:23.240 --> 0:08:26.320 thought that somebody's gonna get hurt, that one I understand. 0:08:26.400 --> 0:08:29.360 And no stredamis that did in fact come true. Be 0:08:29.480 --> 0:08:31.880 sure to catch the live edition of The Dan Patrick 0:08:32.000 --> 0:08:35.120 Show week days at nine am Eastern six am Pacific 0:08:35.400 --> 0:08:39.000 on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeart Radio app. I 0:08:39.080 --> 0:08:42.920 believe that you can't win something in the first half, 0:08:43.440 --> 0:08:47.640 but you can damn sure lose it. And I understand 0:08:48.800 --> 0:08:53.000 what I think I respect about NBA coaches above most 0:08:53.000 --> 0:08:56.440 guys who sit in these chairs, is if you coached 0:08:56.559 --> 0:08:59.559 or played in professional basketball, you understand how much is 0:08:59.679 --> 0:09:04.600 really going on, Like the coaching is so far away 0:09:04.640 --> 0:09:09.719 above that of what happens in college basketball or even 0:09:09.800 --> 0:09:12.600 at the lower levels of professional basketball, like it is. 0:09:13.360 --> 0:09:16.520 I mean, you know, David Blatt obviously kind of stepped 0:09:16.520 --> 0:09:18.480 in it here because he talked about it being like 0:09:18.480 --> 0:09:21.679 a fighter pilot. But there really are those many decisions, 0:09:22.360 --> 0:09:24.080 and sometimes you have to manage a lot of times. 0:09:24.080 --> 0:09:25.680 You have to manage this in the fourth quarter of 0:09:25.679 --> 0:09:28.720 a game, do you take I mean, we saw this 0:09:28.760 --> 0:09:31.200 with the Hawks in Game two in New York, the 0:09:31.240 --> 0:09:34.000 only game the Hawks have lost the Knicks. It felt 0:09:34.000 --> 0:09:35.760 like they kept Trey Young out when he's running a 0:09:35.760 --> 0:09:38.080 fever too long in the fourth quarter and then by 0:09:38.080 --> 0:09:40.640 the time they bring him back, Uh, you know, a 0:09:40.679 --> 0:09:43.400 couple of his teammates miss open shots and they can't 0:09:43.480 --> 0:09:45.960 ultimately close the gap and beat then I thought that 0:09:46.040 --> 0:09:47.680 was the case too, and watching that game, I was 0:09:47.720 --> 0:09:51.200 surprised he wasn't out there. So we can see it 0:09:51.280 --> 0:09:54.120 a lot in the fourth quarter. Lebron takes a break 0:09:54.120 --> 0:09:55.959 in the fourth quarter, right, they all these guys they 0:09:55.960 --> 0:09:58.560 take because to push him all the way through. A 0:09:58.559 --> 0:10:01.560 lot of times those last or four minutes, they just 0:10:01.600 --> 0:10:03.800 they have you gotta have something in the tank. As 0:10:03.880 --> 0:10:06.079 much as you think it's like a video game where 0:10:06.080 --> 0:10:08.880 they don't get tired, so it doesn't you know, and 0:10:08.520 --> 0:10:10.600 I knew know that in video games they have some 0:10:10.679 --> 0:10:12.960 that where they get fatigued. It's really hard for a 0:10:13.080 --> 0:10:15.440 video game to mimic that of the NBA. And how 0:10:15.520 --> 0:10:18.040 much does fatigue play a part in what you do 0:10:18.080 --> 0:10:21.000 and how you do it. There's a science behind sports science, 0:10:21.720 --> 0:10:24.840 so I'm not disregarding it. But every game is different 0:10:24.920 --> 0:10:28.559 unto itself. Every game is different. Like my dad, my 0:10:29.360 --> 0:10:32.839 dad died almost six years ago, and he was a 0:10:32.880 --> 0:10:36.000 good college basketball coach. He was a very good AU coach. 0:10:36.280 --> 0:10:37.520 I'm not going to sit here and tell you he 0:10:37.559 --> 0:10:39.880 was read at Arbak right, like he wasn't great at 0:10:39.960 --> 0:10:43.000 drawing up plays. It wasn't, but he did. Every coach 0:10:43.040 --> 0:10:44.920 has some pearls of wisdom when they've done it for 0:10:44.960 --> 0:10:47.079 twenty years. Otherwise what that will they do him for 0:10:47.120 --> 0:10:51.040 twenty years? And his expression was always every game is 0:10:51.080 --> 0:10:55.520 a story or a game unto itself. And today we're 0:10:55.559 --> 0:10:58.480 talking about the Clippers not just being back in the series, 0:10:58.480 --> 0:11:00.599 but with Luca don chick have a something weird in 0:11:00.679 --> 0:11:04.400 his neck? We have They looked non competitive in the 0:11:04.440 --> 0:11:07.600 second half. Luca would looked like he couldn't do anything. 0:11:08.120 --> 0:11:10.760 And whether it's because he couldn't move and guard anybody 0:11:10.880 --> 0:11:13.640 or the real Maverick showed up. I mean it was 0:11:13.679 --> 0:11:17.160 a non competitive second half. But I go back to 0:11:17.200 --> 0:11:22.240 Friday night and the Clippers weren't ready to play. They 0:11:22.280 --> 0:11:24.959 were They're down two games and none. They're super tight. 0:11:25.480 --> 0:11:27.720 You know, they don't have Serge Ibaka, he's out with 0:11:27.720 --> 0:11:31.080 a bad back. They get down fourteen to two to 0:11:31.120 --> 0:11:34.000 start the game. You're like, oh, oh, it's ugly. I Doug, 0:11:34.160 --> 0:11:36.560 it was like here we go and I think Luca 0:11:36.640 --> 0:11:38.760 had what eighth straight points to start to get It 0:11:39.160 --> 0:11:42.520 was like here we go again. This is a rat Yeah, definitely. 0:11:42.679 --> 0:11:46.520 They're up twenty eight to eleven, complete control of the game. 0:11:46.880 --> 0:11:49.520 And Rick Carlisle. And I'm not in any way trying 0:11:49.559 --> 0:11:52.080 to tell you Rick Carlile is an idiot because he's 0:11:52.120 --> 0:11:56.400 won NBA championship. And Jess saw Rick up close when 0:11:56.400 --> 0:11:58.640 he was a coach in Detroit. Remember when they started 0:11:58.679 --> 0:12:01.240 to turn around. Larry Brown was one who won the championship, 0:12:01.280 --> 0:12:05.000 but Rick started, you know, that transformation. And I also 0:12:05.160 --> 0:12:08.040 covered Rick when he was a player dog with the nets. 0:12:08.679 --> 0:12:11.600 I covered Rick. So this is in no way to 0:12:11.640 --> 0:12:14.959 go like he's an idiot. Okay, but and I hate this. 0:12:15.920 --> 0:12:18.839 They did what they always do in taking Luca out 0:12:19.280 --> 0:12:23.000 at like the six minute mark, right, They're up twenty 0:12:23.040 --> 0:12:25.240 three to eight, and all of a sudden he's got 0:12:25.280 --> 0:12:27.840 guys checking in for Luca don Chick, who's made his 0:12:27.880 --> 0:12:31.800 first four buckets. They're up twenty eight to eleven, complete 0:12:32.000 --> 0:12:37.320 control of the game and Antley Submount. Now you might 0:12:37.400 --> 0:12:40.000 say to yourself, like, what's the big It's a first quarter. 0:12:40.120 --> 0:12:42.960 Everybody makes a run the NBA. That's true, Okay, Goo 0:12:43.160 --> 0:12:45.839 go back and look, you get that thing over twenty 0:12:46.000 --> 0:12:48.240 and it's almost always a rap. You get it over 0:12:48.320 --> 0:12:51.560 twenty five Good Night, Drive Home, Go Home Safely. The 0:12:51.559 --> 0:12:54.520 Clippers felt like at that point they were so tight 0:12:55.040 --> 0:12:57.440 they wanted to just let's just get this thing over with. 0:12:57.960 --> 0:13:01.560 Luca checks out and it's like, really, wait, you're gonna 0:13:01.600 --> 0:13:04.000 take the guy who's dominating the series out of the game. 0:13:05.760 --> 0:13:09.120 I think they lost the series in that short stint 0:13:09.160 --> 0:13:11.800 of time. Let's welcome in Michael Lee, who does a 0:13:11.800 --> 0:13:15.040 fantastic job covering the NBA for the Washington Post. He 0:13:15.080 --> 0:13:17.280 joins us here in the Dan Patrick Show, Rob Parker, 0:13:17.320 --> 0:13:21.800 I'm Doug Goli Michael. There's obviously other big stories to 0:13:21.880 --> 0:13:25.720 talk about. But am I crazy for being harshly critical 0:13:25.960 --> 0:13:28.840 of a really good coach doing what he always does, 0:13:29.160 --> 0:13:31.800 but not reading the moment and the chance to stick 0:13:31.840 --> 0:13:37.200 the dagger in the heart of the Clippers? Yeah, a 0:13:37.240 --> 0:13:39.360 little bit. I mean I think that you know, if 0:13:39.360 --> 0:13:41.880 you're up by nineteen, which is what they were, in 0:13:41.920 --> 0:13:43.960 the way that Tim Hardaway Junior has been playing, the 0:13:43.960 --> 0:13:46.040 way a lot of their reserves have been playing, you 0:13:46.080 --> 0:13:48.480 gotta trust with what's been working. They went up to 0:13:48.600 --> 0:13:51.560 oh In La using the same as Zach formula, and 0:13:51.640 --> 0:13:54.440 they crushed the Clippers there there's no reason to think 0:13:54.440 --> 0:13:56.160 that the way the Clippers came out and performed that 0:13:56.160 --> 0:13:57.560 they were all of a sudden going to turn around. 0:13:57.600 --> 0:13:59.679 But they did. So I think it's that's quart of 0:13:59.679 --> 0:14:01.640 a high insight thing way to look back at it 0:14:02.040 --> 0:14:03.760 um and say, yeah, they lost it there, And you 0:14:03.760 --> 0:14:05.679 could say they did, But I don't think that Rick 0:14:05.720 --> 0:14:08.000 Carlisle was wrong and doing what was working the first 0:14:08.000 --> 0:14:09.560 two games and looked like it was gonna work again 0:14:09.559 --> 0:14:12.600 in the game three. Yeah, you know what in that series, 0:14:12.640 --> 0:14:18.640 the first three games, Dallas shot fifty one percent from three. 0:14:19.280 --> 0:14:22.040 I mean, so I think it was skew where people 0:14:22.080 --> 0:14:26.200 thought that was normal or regular man. But but Rob, 0:14:26.480 --> 0:14:28.880 they couldn't guard him. The Clippers couldn't guard him. No, 0:14:29.000 --> 0:14:31.400 he couldn't figure out. They couldn't figure out a matchup 0:14:31.440 --> 0:14:33.760 to the light. When anytime they brought in Zoobach, you know, 0:14:33.840 --> 0:14:36.880 he's going right at Zubach, you know, or prezingis was going, 0:14:37.160 --> 0:14:39.720 you know, stretching Zubach out right. They just they couldn't 0:14:39.840 --> 0:14:42.600 figure it out. Something else happened in that in that 0:14:42.680 --> 0:14:45.720 game too, during that stretch when when when Lucas said Kawhi, 0:14:45.800 --> 0:14:48.480 Leonard said, not you know, forget this, I'm taking over 0:14:48.560 --> 0:14:50.880 right now. And he scored. He had like seven straight 0:14:50.920 --> 0:14:53.280 shots and they couldn't stop him because he didn't shoot 0:14:53.280 --> 0:14:54.560 the first couple of minutes of the game. He was 0:14:54.600 --> 0:14:57.320 just kind of cruising into the game and getting feeling 0:14:57.360 --> 0:15:00.320 it out. And then once he said nah, I'm going 0:15:00.360 --> 0:15:02.560 out like this, and everybody else in the team just 0:15:02.560 --> 0:15:04.840 started getting their confidence and you can just sort of 0:15:04.880 --> 0:15:07.040 see it right now. You know, it's funny answered the 0:15:07.080 --> 0:15:09.800 first two games, everyone's ready to bury Kauhi and everyone's saying, 0:15:09.960 --> 0:15:11.640 how dare do we ever think he was the best 0:15:11.680 --> 0:15:13.680 player in the game? What are we doing? Why don't 0:15:13.640 --> 0:15:16.200 we anoint this guy? If you want a championship? Always 0:15:16.200 --> 0:15:19.200 a bum la la la la. Hey, what has he 0:15:19.240 --> 0:15:22.320 been doing? This is whole the whole series. He's been 0:15:22.520 --> 0:15:26.520 off the charts. Can I give you this, Michael, You 0:15:26.880 --> 0:15:29.120 just said it. He was eight for eight to start 0:15:29.160 --> 0:15:31.760 the game. Game four, he started six for six. And 0:15:31.840 --> 0:15:33.640 let me give you his numbers in this play in 0:15:33.680 --> 0:15:38.760 the playoffs, sixty five percent shooting from the field, fifty 0:15:38.840 --> 0:15:42.960 percent from three. I mean, you're right, he has been 0:15:43.240 --> 0:15:48.120 unbelievable in the playoffs. And I say this I mean, 0:15:48.320 --> 0:15:51.720 I was talking to Exacta just recently and I was saying, 0:15:51.840 --> 0:15:53.440 he said to me something I have to agree with. 0:15:53.880 --> 0:15:56.760 You give me last year's Raptors with last year's last 0:15:56.800 --> 0:15:59.720 years Kawhi Leonard. They probably go back to back last 0:15:59.800 --> 0:16:02.600 year in the bubble, they probably go back to back. 0:16:02.640 --> 0:16:04.440 And you see how good the Raptors were last year 0:16:04.520 --> 0:16:06.920 going to the Game seven and conference me. I mean, 0:16:06.960 --> 0:16:09.720 and you have Kawhi Leonard on that squad, they they 0:16:09.840 --> 0:16:12.160 at least get out of the East. I mean, right, 0:16:12.360 --> 0:16:14.000 I think I think, I think, I think if Kawhi 0:16:14.120 --> 0:16:16.600 wins this series and they and they do what they 0:16:16.680 --> 0:16:19.360 people expect them to do, we might we might be 0:16:19.400 --> 0:16:22.040 redefining who Kawhi is. What I love about the playoffs. 0:16:22.040 --> 0:16:25.880 Every game is like some sort of a you know, um, 0:16:26.000 --> 0:16:33.280 you know timefend. Yeah, okay, um, okay, let's let's get 0:16:33.320 --> 0:16:35.560 to the Lakers. I mean, you want to talk about 0:16:35.560 --> 0:16:39.000 things changed quickly. I'm telling you, Michael, I live in 0:16:39.040 --> 0:16:42.880 Los Angeles. Twenty four hours ago, they were they were 0:16:42.880 --> 0:16:45.280 getting ready to put the other banner up. They were like, oh, 0:16:45.440 --> 0:16:48.640 where we're gonna put eighteen up? We're gonna put it out, 0:16:48.880 --> 0:16:53.280 ye remember in Game three, Lebron's posting up and the 0:16:53.320 --> 0:16:56.400 benches in full cloud mode. They're laughing, they're gigging, Like, man, 0:16:56.440 --> 0:17:00.280 they are having a great time. What a connected basketball team. 0:17:00.400 --> 0:17:02.800 Look at Lebron in your eighteen He's having such a 0:17:02.840 --> 0:17:05.920 great time. Even yesterday early in the game, a spinning 0:17:05.960 --> 0:17:08.760 transitioning dung City. He felt even surprised by the fact 0:17:08.800 --> 0:17:13.040 he could still do that. And on the alley off 0:17:13.040 --> 0:17:15.840 the backboard, Yeah, and then yeah, they throw it out 0:17:15.880 --> 0:17:18.880 the backboard to him. Caruso to Lebron, like, these dudes 0:17:18.920 --> 0:17:24.080 are having fun. And then Anthony Davis goes down and 0:17:24.480 --> 0:17:28.480 meanwhile the Suns had woken up. Um, what should your 0:17:28.520 --> 0:17:30.720 level What would your level of concern be if you 0:17:30.720 --> 0:17:34.440 were a Laker fan? If eighties hurt is on eleven 0:17:34.440 --> 0:17:37.160 out of ten or out of ten, I mean, it's 0:17:37.200 --> 0:17:39.879 it's the ultimate level of concern because you look at it. 0:17:39.960 --> 0:17:42.160 I think the Lakers to like one in six this 0:17:42.240 --> 0:17:45.159 year with Lebron without ad this year, that's not a 0:17:45.160 --> 0:17:47.840 good record. And you're playing a good team, and you're 0:17:47.840 --> 0:17:50.560 playing a team that we still haven't seen Devin Booker 0:17:51.040 --> 0:17:53.320 after Game one have the type of performance we know 0:17:53.359 --> 0:17:55.679 he's capable of and you know, going back to Phenix, 0:17:55.680 --> 0:17:57.520 you're probably he's probably going to be ready in prime 0:17:57.800 --> 0:18:00.359 to have that kind of game um that we expect 0:18:00.400 --> 0:18:02.800 from him, knowing what kind of story is um. So 0:18:02.960 --> 0:18:04.800 I think that there's a lot of reason to be worried, 0:18:04.920 --> 0:18:07.760 you know, because even as great as Lebron is, he 0:18:07.840 --> 0:18:10.040 hasn't had one of those takeover tight games. I'm not 0:18:10.040 --> 0:18:11.679 saying he's not capable of it. We know he is. 0:18:11.960 --> 0:18:13.640 We know what he can do at this time of year, 0:18:13.960 --> 0:18:15.639 but it's so much easier when you have a d 0:18:15.800 --> 0:18:18.280 out there to draw the attention there everybody else. And 0:18:18.359 --> 0:18:20.600 the question isn't the is Lebron gonna bring it? It's 0:18:20.640 --> 0:18:22.600 who else? And the Lakers is gonna bring it? You know? 0:18:23.040 --> 0:18:25.959 Um those two games that they dominated and made everybody think, 0:18:26.000 --> 0:18:28.000 oh yeah, the Lakers are back, They're about to repeat, 0:18:28.240 --> 0:18:31.200 it's because Ad played at that level. Ad was that dude, 0:18:31.560 --> 0:18:33.560 and you know, it's wherever everyone wants a joke and 0:18:33.600 --> 0:18:36.199 call him a Disney in the bubble, but he was 0:18:36.320 --> 0:18:39.760 demand in that postseason run, hitting that big shot against 0:18:39.800 --> 0:18:43.760 Denver finals, everything, He's the guy that elevated that franchise. 0:18:44.160 --> 0:18:46.080 You know, because I mean Lebron got hurt that first 0:18:46.160 --> 0:18:48.280 year in LA, they didn't make the playoffs. They go, 0:18:48.320 --> 0:18:50.000 they win a championship the first year with a D. 0:18:50.400 --> 0:18:53.879 So whatever the highest level of concern is, that's what 0:18:53.960 --> 0:18:55.960 it is. If AD's not gonna be one hundred percent 0:18:56.000 --> 0:18:59.560 this series. What's your take on Milwaukee and they they 0:19:00.320 --> 0:19:04.200 I mean Miami from last year? Was that just the fluke, 0:19:04.320 --> 0:19:07.400 the bubble fluke for the heat because they weren't even 0:19:07.400 --> 0:19:11.879 competitive in this series against Milwak. There are a lot 0:19:11.920 --> 0:19:13.520 of there are a lot of factors and then well 0:19:13.600 --> 0:19:16.399 Miami wasn't good this year, you know, from covid to 0:19:16.680 --> 0:19:19.679 Dicto Ladipo's injury to just just not be having that 0:19:19.760 --> 0:19:22.800 same rhythm or fire as they had. Um Tyler Hero 0:19:22.920 --> 0:19:24.520 wasn't the same as he was last year and the bubble. 0:19:25.040 --> 0:19:27.240 They don't want to give away Tyler Hero at any 0:19:27.320 --> 0:19:29.840 cause they would have had James Harden if they gave 0:19:29.880 --> 0:19:33.359 away Tyler Hero. Yeah. No, there are a lot of 0:19:33.359 --> 0:19:36.240 factors that that that that prohibited them from really elevating. 0:19:36.280 --> 0:19:38.320 But I'm more impressed by the Bucks. I think the 0:19:38.359 --> 0:19:40.879 conversation is more about them and just what the addition 0:19:40.880 --> 0:19:43.560 that Drew Holiday has done. And also just given the 0:19:43.640 --> 0:19:46.239 defensive presence in PJ. Tucker, I mean, based on the 0:19:46.240 --> 0:19:48.760 way they look, I mean, Brooklyn's gonna have his handful 0:19:49.119 --> 0:19:52.760 because you know, Janice is still playing at the MVP level. 0:19:52.800 --> 0:19:54.800 Even though he didn't make Top three, he still was 0:19:54.800 --> 0:19:57.520 on that level. This year. Chris Middleton seems to be 0:19:57.560 --> 0:20:01.040 in a real comfortable space, just mainly because Drew Holidays there. 0:20:01.160 --> 0:20:03.399 Chris Midleton knows that he doesn't have to be a 0:20:03.480 --> 0:20:06.159 superstar if Jannis isn't. He knows that he can just 0:20:06.200 --> 0:20:08.600 be Chris Middleton because Drew Holiday is gonna take out 0:20:08.600 --> 0:20:11.720 the other team's best player. And so way Brooklyn has 0:20:11.760 --> 0:20:14.320 been looking on the defensive end, you know, and the 0:20:14.400 --> 0:20:18.280 way Milwaukee is playing defense, I mean, right now they 0:20:18.320 --> 0:20:21.399 like the better team, especially with the edition of p J. Tucker. 0:20:21.760 --> 0:20:25.639 So Milwaukee exercising demons right there, and they look like 0:20:25.960 --> 0:20:28.720