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The Lakers Finally Made A Trade... · Kenny For Real

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  Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen. We had a trade. The Lakers have
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  Speaker 1: agreed on the trade to send D'Angelo Russell and Maxwell
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  Speaker 1: Lewis the three second round picks in the Berklyn Nuts
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  Speaker 1: for doing Finney Smith and Shake Milton. It's so weird
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  Speaker 1: because I just thought Daniel Russ was gonna be a
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  Speaker 1: Laker for life. Bro. He was gonna be in every
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  Speaker 1: single trade room and they were never gonna be able
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  Speaker 1: to get rid of him. And they did it on
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  Speaker 1: this random Sunday morning for doring Finney Smith and Shake Milton. Now,
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  Speaker 1: this is not no huge blockbus to trade. I don't
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  Speaker 1: want to treat it as such. But I do believe
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  Speaker 1: that this is something that could potentially grow into something
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  Speaker 1: else for the Lakers, and we'll talk about that now.
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  Speaker 1: I have been really critical of ropping Linca over the
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  Speaker 1: last two years because I don't think he's done a
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  Speaker 1: very good job of maximizing this last of Lebron James's window. Right,
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  Speaker 1: it's like we're gonna evaluate the roster. We're not gonna
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  Speaker 1: do nothing too crazy to it, but instead we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: fire the coach and hope this new guy could come
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  Speaker 1: in a turn. This mediocre roster to a championship team
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  Speaker 1: hasn't been the case, but I've been critical. I gotta
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  Speaker 1: get credit where its due. I think he cooked on
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  Speaker 1: this one. I think he absolutely cooked on this one
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  Speaker 1: because Doring Finney Smith is one of the type of
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  Speaker 1: players that I think the Lakers could really benefit from happen.
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  Speaker 1: When I watch the Lakers, there are few different things
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  Speaker 1: that jump off the screen to me. One is the
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  Speaker 1: lack of jump shooting. If you watch the Lakers, you
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  Speaker 1: notice they just don't have trust to jump shooters across ball,
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  Speaker 1: so much so that D'Angelo Russell felt like he has
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  Speaker 1: to force five threes a game and shoot thirty percent
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  Speaker 1: of them because they need some type of fluidity to
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  Speaker 1: that jump shooter. They need somebody to keep them honest,
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  Speaker 1: and it hasn't been the Angelo this season. So adding
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  Speaker 1: a guy like Dorthinny Smith, who is a forty three
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  Speaker 1: percent three point shooter this year on their career high attempts.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if that translates for the rest of
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  Speaker 1: the season, but historically DFS has been a great three
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  Speaker 1: point shooter. Adding a guy like that it's really beneficial
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  Speaker 1: because not only can DFS shoot, he shoots the type
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  Speaker 1: of threes that you kind of want him to. He
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  Speaker 1: shoots the type of threes that is really meta for
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  Speaker 1: today's basketball. He shoots the type of threes that the
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  Speaker 1: Lakers have been almost dead lasting generating this year. Them corners,
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  Speaker 1: y'all them corners is the easiest three point in basketball. Somehow,
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  Speaker 1: the Lakers are still really bad at it. They just
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  Speaker 1: don't generate those shots. Dorothanny Smith take a lot of
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  Speaker 1: them for that corner man. Forty four percent here we
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  Speaker 1: go round there for you, thirty eight and a half
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  Speaker 1: percent on this one. He can't hit hi above the
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  Speaker 1: break three hill. Not only can he do it, he's
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  Speaker 1: pretty damn good at it so far the season. But
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  Speaker 1: he hit he sits in those corners and again playing
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty four metal ball because this one little speck
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  Speaker 1: in the mid range, No, that's not DFS. That must
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  Speaker 1: have been a heave. He got the ball late, he
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  Speaker 1: was crashing the glass and the ball ended up in
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  Speaker 1: his hand. He ain't mean to take that shot. This
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  Speaker 1: is really the type of player that you want. Now. Again,
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  Speaker 1: the Lakers have not been good at generating these corner
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  Speaker 1: three pointers, but historically Lebron James teams or Lebron. James
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  Speaker 1: himself has wonted corners, stretcher shooters in the corner so
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  Speaker 1: he can operate again. He'll be forty in two days,
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  Speaker 1: so he's not, you know, doing some of the stuff
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  Speaker 1: he was doing when he was thirty three. But having
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  Speaker 1: a guy like DFS to be a corner sitter and
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  Speaker 1: shoot forty four percent is gonna keep so many other
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  Speaker 1: teams honest, so that Anthony Davis or Bron or Austin
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  Speaker 1: Reeves who's been looking phenomenal for the past couple of
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  Speaker 1: weeks or so, have more room to operate. The other
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  Speaker 1: thing that jumped off from the table and during Phinney
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  Speaker 1: Smith does is not this band aid that fixed both
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  Speaker 1: of these problems. I think he's just a guy that helps, right.
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  Speaker 1: It felt like they were too small on the defensive end,
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  Speaker 1: specifically when it comes to these wings, like they have
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  Speaker 1: basically one wing stopper and that's like Rhachi Mora, and
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  Speaker 1: nobody really looks at Rui as a stopper. He's just
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  Speaker 1: the guy that his task were doing it dorth Phenney Smith,
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  Speaker 1: And I'm not gonna act like I've been watching every
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  Speaker 1: single Brooklyn Nets game. So I'm talking about DFS in
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  Speaker 1: the vacuum. Dorth Finney Smith helps with that problem as
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  Speaker 1: a six seven, two twenty rangey wing. It's something they
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  Speaker 1: just haven't had more than one of for basically the
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  Speaker 1: entirety of this Lebron James era. He helps. Again, not
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  Speaker 1: a complete fix to the Lakers problems, but he helps,
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  Speaker 1: he helps, he helps, and with them only giving up
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  Speaker 1: three seconds. And listen, I love the Internet because it's
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  Speaker 1: my job, and I hate the Internet at the same time.
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  Speaker 1: And part of this is my fault. Maybe I got
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  Speaker 1: a goddamn type of paragraph for every single tweet I
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  Speaker 1: quoted this saying three second time and there's a portion
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  Speaker 1: of Lakers fantom and that thinking that I'm saying that
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  Speaker 1: they overpaid, when the reality is I think they kind
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  Speaker 1: of on a bargain. DFS was a guy that was
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  Speaker 1: other teams offered last season first one draft compensation for him.
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  Speaker 1: Now he's one less year on his contract, so you
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  Speaker 1: take some of that away. But three second round picks
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  Speaker 1: for a guy like DFS is an absolute steal. And
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  Speaker 1: the one thing I'm trying to figure out, and I
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  Speaker 1: guess we've all had an answer to this until somebody
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  Speaker 1: other than the damn Brooklyn that's to make a trade.
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  Speaker 1: Is is this the market right now? Is a good
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  Speaker 1: role player and Dennis Shrewder, is that gonna be the
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  Speaker 1: mark of him? Gonna be just two seconds? Is that
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  Speaker 1: gonna be market for all of the other good role
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  Speaker 1: players of basketball? Three seconds for doing for the Smith?
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  Speaker 1: Is that the market? Or is that just the Brooklyn
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  Speaker 1: that's saying, hell, we two damn good for all good
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  Speaker 1: who got the best offer? Right now? We just accepted
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  Speaker 1: who got the best offer in this moment. So I
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  Speaker 1: don't know, we need somebody else other than the that's
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  Speaker 1: the trade, a role player, and we're gonna we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: see what the market really is. And with the second
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  Speaker 1: apron and all of these tax implications, I don't know
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  Speaker 1: if first round pick is gonna move too often this
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  Speaker 1: dead line. But there are some players out there that
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  Speaker 1: I thought would give you, get you like, I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: a heavily protected first, a fake first, give me a
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  Speaker 1: fake first him. They didn't get that, So again a
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  Speaker 1: win for Rob Polinka. And with this, with them not
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  Speaker 1: giving up an extra first round pick, they steal. In theory,
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  Speaker 1: it's been rumored they're willing to trade these picks. They're
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty nine and twenty thirty one are still actively available,
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  Speaker 1: and they still do have contracts to make some stuff
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  Speaker 1: stuff with Hey shout out to what's the name of
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  Speaker 1: the site spots spo track out because they got it
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  Speaker 1: already updated during forty Smiths here. But with some of
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  Speaker 1: these contracts like a Gay Vincent who we don't talk about,
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  Speaker 1: Gave Vinson in the second, Jared Vanderbilt who doesn't play
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  Speaker 1: basketball anymore, or Christian Willody doesn't play basketall anymore, Like
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  Speaker 1: they're still room for them to make another a bigger
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  Speaker 1: move with these added salaries in those first round picks,
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  Speaker 1: And I'm just so intrigued on what that looks like.
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  Speaker 1: It's been rumored for one hundred years that the Lakers
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  Speaker 1: want more size, they want more bigs. So like you
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  Speaker 1: do have a Clincapella, a Yonis Valentunis and Nicola Vucevitz,
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  Speaker 1: these are all guys they can afford with this draft
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  Speaker 1: capital and with this salary filler. So I'm just curious
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  Speaker 1: of if that's gonna be the direction they go in
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  Speaker 1: and losing the guy like D'Angelo Russell doesn't hurt too much.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, the Lakers fans have been trying to get
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  Speaker 1: that brother out of there for years. At this point,
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  Speaker 1: because Gave Vincent has been playing better, believe it or not.
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  Speaker 1: Believe it or not, Aye Vincent has been playing better,
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  Speaker 1: and that is saying a lot because he's averaging four
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  Speaker 1: points on thirty seven percent shooting on the season. Kenny,
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  Speaker 1: how could he be playing better if this is where
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  Speaker 1: he's looking at. He started off so so bad that
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  Speaker 1: like he was at the bottom of a whale and
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  Speaker 1: he's trying to claw his way out. Just looking at
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  Speaker 1: his last ten twenty four minutes per game, seven points
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  Speaker 1: per game and thirty I'm sorry, forty five percent from three.
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  Speaker 1: So again, losing Diedge, little Russell. You can have Gave
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  Speaker 1: Vincer or even Shake Milton. I don't know how much
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  Speaker 1: they're going to really utilize him. Shake Milton come in
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  Speaker 1: and kind of feel that role a little bit, as
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  Speaker 1: Gabe Vincent has been doing for the past. What's thatt
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  Speaker 1: a ten ten games sample size? Shake Milton is an
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  Speaker 1: intriguing player to add to the team. I'm not gonna
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  Speaker 1: act like he's his savior or anything, and I'm not
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  Speaker 1: again act like I've been watching a ton of Brooklyn
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  Speaker 1: Nets basketball, but I think that JJ redill probably give
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  Speaker 1: him a little bit burn see what he's about with
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  Speaker 1: this current team. So far on the season, shooting thirty
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  Speaker 1: nine percent from three on about two and a half attempts.
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  Speaker 1: He's not historically a great three point shooter. He's been
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  Speaker 1: definitely wishy. Washington could shoot forty percent one year, thirty
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  Speaker 1: two percent next year, and four and thirty eight sent
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  Speaker 1: one year before that, so you never really know. But
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  Speaker 1: it wasn't too long ago he was with the seventy
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  Speaker 1: sixers and I really liked him as an off the
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  Speaker 1: bench player, So maybe he can rebte a live some
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  Speaker 1: of that with the Los Angeles Lakers. So I think
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  Speaker 1: this is very interesting because over the last couple of
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  Speaker 1: weeks you saw basically JJ redd to change some of
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  Speaker 1: their defensive identities. So let me give you a few
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  Speaker 1: examples of what's going on defensively with the LA Lakers
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  Speaker 1: over the last couple weeks or so. And in that
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  Speaker 1: last couple of weeks they are the tenth best defensive
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  Speaker 1: basketball small sample size, we're talking about the seven game stretch,
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  Speaker 1: but still I want to show you some of the
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  Speaker 1: adjustments JJ and Anthony Davis have done. So this first
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  Speaker 1: game is October twenty sixth. This is that game that
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  Speaker 1: Broun took over in the fourth quarter. And the only
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  Speaker 1: reason I'm taking I'm using this as an example is
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  Speaker 1: because it's against the Kings, and they also just played
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  Speaker 1: the Kings last night, so you know the Kings are
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  Speaker 1: a heavy dribble handoff team. If you watch any Kings basketball,
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  Speaker 1: you notice what you're gonna see here. Alex Lanne gets
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  Speaker 1: it and when he does his dribble handoff with dearon
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  Speaker 1: Fox switch, Anthony Davis is now here. Anthony Davis is here,
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  Speaker 1: And that was the game plan for the early part
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  Speaker 1: of the season. And now you see this is last night,
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  Speaker 1: this last night, in this plenty of example of this
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  Speaker 1: in today in that game where when you see him
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  Speaker 1: be involved in the pick and roll or the dribble handoff,
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  Speaker 1: he's not switching. He's not coming to the point that
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  Speaker 1: they got absolutely cooked on this back door Ruyhachimore, what
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  Speaker 1: the hell? But you will see how he's playing pretty
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  Speaker 1: much drop coverage. We just to go call a drop
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  Speaker 1: coverage almost exclusively over this stretch, and a lot of
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  Speaker 1: that is because they don't have the athletes to really
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  Speaker 1: help him if he is at the point of attack,
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  Speaker 1: and they need Anthony Davis to basically be present as
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  Speaker 1: you can see. So I think that this is part
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  Speaker 1: of the change that has helped them be better over
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  Speaker 1: the last stretch defensively. Again, y'all know this is dribble
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  Speaker 1: handoff Centro in Sacramento. But here's another example of that
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  Speaker 1: exact thing where a couple of weeks ago, a couple
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  Speaker 1: months ago, he would be right there to catch dearon
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  Speaker 1: Fox and stay at Nope, they got cooked again gotly.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe not the greatest example because they keep scoring, But
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  Speaker 1: I'm just showing you how the change in the scheme
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  Speaker 1: has happened defensively for JJ Reddick in the Los Angeles Lakers,
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  Speaker 1: and I think that has really opened the game up
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  Speaker 1: with them defensively. Even if I gave you three examples
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  Speaker 1: and they scored in all three regardless, you feel me,
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  Speaker 1: you feel me? Okay? Cool? And I think one of
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  Speaker 1: the reasons why really really like this deal is I think, again,
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  Speaker 1: maybe it's a little bit too late for this, but
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  Speaker 1: the idea of Anthony Davis and Lebron being on the
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  Speaker 1: same team. You kind of just need to make the
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  Speaker 1: right moves on the exterior. You don't need that third
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  Speaker 1: star necessarily. So when I see them give up three
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  Speaker 1: second round picks and two players they couldn't give a
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  Speaker 1: damn about to go get a guy that can help
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  Speaker 1: that exterior part around Bron and Ad, I'm really excited
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  Speaker 1: about those type of things. Again, it may have came
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  Speaker 1: a little bit too late. I don't think DFS goes
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  Speaker 1: into the Lakers, and now I'm looking at them competing
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  Speaker 1: with OKC or Dallas when Dallas is healthy. I don't
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  Speaker 1: think that's the case. But I do like how this
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  Speaker 1: elevates them at least a little bit. And we talked
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  Speaker 1: about a little bit earlier could open up the gate
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  Speaker 1: for something bigger to happen. And again, when I say bigger,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not thinking go get Jimmy Butler. I'm not thinking
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  Speaker 1: go get Jack Lavine an All Star adjacent player, but
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  Speaker 1: just go get more players that fit with Broun in AD.
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  Speaker 1: And I've never been a general manaja hell, unless we're
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  Speaker 1: talking about on the goddamn PlayStation, right, So maybe it's
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  Speaker 1: harder said than done, but I feel like that and
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  Speaker 1: theory is so simple. But I mean gms have just
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  Speaker 1: struggled with or I guess Rod Polinka has just struggled
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  Speaker 1: with it for the last couple of weeks or the
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  Speaker 1: last couple years. Now, let's flip it on his head
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  Speaker 1: and talk about the Brooklyn that side again. I think
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  Speaker 1: this is just them saying that we just too good
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  Speaker 1: for own good right now. We need to go out
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  Speaker 1: there and basically trade every single player that is helping
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  Speaker 1: us win right now. And DFS advanced stats to season
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  Speaker 1: are ridiculous. Again, I'm not completely locked in, but it's advancedatiating.
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  Speaker 1: When he is on the court, they are significantly better
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  Speaker 1: than when he's off the court. So let's get the
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  Speaker 1: gut that. Let's get him out the locker room. He's
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  Speaker 1: to damn good of a vet because Tankathon right now
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  Speaker 1: has him seventh, and they're still room for them maybe
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  Speaker 1: to get up to six. Like I feel like they're cooked.
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  Speaker 1: They're not gonna be able to catch the Jazz, the Hornets,
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  Speaker 1: the Raptors, the Wizards, or the Pelicans. So they're basically
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  Speaker 1: fighting for the seventh, sixth best odd or they would
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  Speaker 1: just have to lose thirty in the row, which nobody
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  Speaker 1: wants that on their record. Nobody wants to be known
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  Speaker 1: to the team that lost twenty eight games in a row. Right,
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  Speaker 1: So again, maybe it just a little bit too late.
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  Speaker 1: Like this ragtag group of dudes, it was so very cool,
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  Speaker 1: but D'Angelo Russell is like again, Lakers Nation. They got
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  Speaker 1: their love hate relationship with Angelo Russell. He ain't got awful, right,
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  Speaker 1: he didn't fit with bron He may not be the
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  Speaker 1: piece to be your third best player on the bron
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  Speaker 1: led team, but he ain't god ass awful. Danzel Russell
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  Speaker 1: might walk in that locker room and just help them
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  Speaker 1: again win more games than they want to win. So
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  Speaker 1: that makes me pose a question. Does this open up
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  Speaker 1: to a three teamer who was d Angelo Russell traded
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  Speaker 1: early enough? Where for the next trade that line February sixth,
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  Speaker 1: can he be moved again? I don't have those answers,
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  Speaker 1: but I'm curious, and what does this mean for the market? Godly,
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  Speaker 1: I'm so curious as a guy who's rooting for a
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  Speaker 1: team with a bunch of players that I want to
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  Speaker 1: see get traded. If this is what the market is,
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  Speaker 1: I don't love it. Let me go get a second
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  Speaker 1: round pick for twenty thirty one. That sucks. Let me
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  Speaker 1: know what to think about the trade. Who wins, who lost?
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  Speaker 1: Overall grades as of today, I'm giving it a smooth
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  Speaker 1: A for the Lakers, and I'll give it a smooth
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  Speaker 1: the minus for the Brooklyn Nets. And if they flipped
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  Speaker 1: Danzelo Russell again, that could go up. Let me know