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The Lakers Are Looking Scary... · Kenny For Real

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  Speaker 1: Do you see how many wins is on Lebron James
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  Speaker 1: game log Right now? The Lakers are playing some of
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  Speaker 1: the best basketball in the entire league, and I have
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  Speaker 2: And the reason that it surprised is not because we
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  Speaker 2: knew that the top of talent.
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  Speaker 1: Of Lebron James, lucadnts will co exist no matter what
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  Speaker 1: people said on TV or people say it on Twitter. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: Lebron and Luca won't fit together. They was tripping. We
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  Speaker 1: knew that those two guys were gonna be able to coexist.
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  Speaker 1: In my mind, if this was gonna be a successful
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  Speaker 1: season for Luca Dontas and Lebron James, it would because
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  Speaker 1: they're blitzing everybody out of the gym offensively.
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  Speaker 2: They was going out there.
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  Speaker 1: They're dropping one thirties, one forties and you just can't
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  Speaker 1: keep up when the reality is it's been the opposite
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  Speaker 1: side of the ball when Luca got traded to the Lakers,
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  Speaker 1: it's a one hundred percent home run from Ron Polinka.
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  Speaker 1: But majority of people me included, it was like the
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty four to five season might be lost in
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  Speaker 1: the shuffle, and you will do that. It's really about
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  Speaker 1: getting Luca a generational talent in door and building around
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  Speaker 1: him for the future. And especially when we saw the
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  Speaker 1: Mark Williams trade get recid, it'd be like Jackson Hayes
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  Speaker 1: is the start of Senner.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, the real Luca led team is gonna start next
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  Speaker 1: season because they don't really have the necessary pieces around
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  Speaker 1: him to contend this year.
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  Speaker 2: You're wrong, You know what, In time, it made sense
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  Speaker 2: to have that opinion.
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  Speaker 1: You look at bron and his defensive struggles over the
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  Speaker 1: last couple of years.
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  Speaker 2: Granted he's forty years old right now.
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  Speaker 1: You look at Austin Reeves, you look at Luka Doncas,
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  Speaker 1: You're like, how would those three dudes coexist on the court.
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  Speaker 2: Defensively? They're amazing, They're amazing, They're amazing.
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  Speaker 1: You gotta get credit to everybody involved, the players, the coaches,
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  Speaker 1: to have everybody involved. But boy, I just got to
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  Speaker 1: talk about it again because I truly do believe that
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  Speaker 1: the NBA is better.
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  Speaker 2: When the Lakers are good to great.
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  Speaker 1: In my mind, when you think about the contenders, we're
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  Speaker 1: talking about teams that can win a championship this season.
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  Speaker 1: I have, in no particular order, this tier is the Calves,
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  Speaker 1: and is the Celtics, and it's OKC and the different
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  Speaker 1: Nuggets are sometimes in that tier and sometimes out of
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  Speaker 1: that tier.
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  Speaker 2: I still don't know to do it with them just yet.
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  Speaker 1: I truly do believe that we have to consider the
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  Speaker 1: Lakers in that tier as well. This team has Jackson
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  Speaker 1: Hayes start, and that's what I'm saying, but like that's
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  Speaker 1: they've been so damn good that we truly have to
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  Speaker 1: think about it because with it be the ad test,
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  Speaker 1: whether it be the analytics, they're crossing every single box.
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  Speaker 1: And not to mention, they got Lukadnts, a career playoff riser.
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  Speaker 1: They got Lebron James, one of the greatest players of
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  Speaker 1: all time, so like you have to truly believe in it.
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  Speaker 1: The first point I want to talk about, though, is
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  Speaker 1: coach JJ Reddick. I remember there was a part early
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  Speaker 1: in the season where there was a graphic that was
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  Speaker 1: like I'm making up these numbers Darvin Ham when he
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  Speaker 1: was a coach of the Lakers through twenty games, and
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  Speaker 1: then JJ Reddick as he was the coach through twenty
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  Speaker 1: games and the records right, I did it, and it's like, see,
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  Speaker 1: Darvin Ham really was a scapegoat with the reality is
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  Speaker 1: JJ Redick is just is just better.
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  Speaker 2: Like you got to get credit for to JJ and
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  Speaker 2: his coaching staff for being.
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  Speaker 1: Able to incorporate Luca as seamlessly as they have, Like
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  Speaker 1: the offensive fit never was in question for me. The
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  Speaker 1: people that were saying that Luke and Lebron can't co
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  Speaker 1: exist offensively, I don't know if they've watched Lebron James
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  Speaker 1: play basketball for the last couple years. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: if they really watched Luka Dantis play basketball last over years.
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  Speaker 1: If you don't think those two dudes will be able
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  Speaker 1: to change their game and necessary parts to coexist.
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  Speaker 2: Remember Luca Nanci's.
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  Speaker 1: His teams before Carrie got there, with some of the
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  Speaker 1: slowest teams in basketball. Kyrie got there and said, I
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  Speaker 1: want to play fast, and Luca's like, I can play fast,
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  Speaker 1: and he did. Like Lebron James has been able to
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  Speaker 1: play off the ball He's been begging for somebody to
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  Speaker 1: help him play off the ball for years. That's why
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  Speaker 1: you saw DiAngelo Russell UST's rate be so high. That's
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  Speaker 1: why he believed in Austin Reeves so much because he's
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  Speaker 1: been wanting to kind of play this off the ball
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  Speaker 1: row and now they've been able to do that.
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  Speaker 2: But back to JJ Reddick.
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  Speaker 1: Before, before JJ Redick was the coach of the Lakers,
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  Speaker 1: I had been on this podcast a few times. We
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  Speaker 1: had had conversations over the phone over text, and one
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  Speaker 1: thing that you would know about JJ Reddick is that
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  Speaker 1: this man is a heavy analytical guy. He's like the
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  Speaker 1: prototypical New Age era person watching the game, slash coaching
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  Speaker 1: the game, whatever, whatever. He is all about generating the
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  Speaker 1: best shot, players being in the right position offensively to
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  Speaker 1: generate the highest percentage.
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  Speaker 2: Like that's what he is or who he was.
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  Speaker 1: Has there a reason he said in the post game interview,
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  Speaker 1: and I forget which game it was, that like I
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  Speaker 1: could come up with as many analytical plans as possible.
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  Speaker 1: I could come up with any game plan possible, but
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  Speaker 1: the only thing that matters is that my team plays hard.
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  Speaker 1: Because it don't matter what you draw up it don't
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  Speaker 1: matter what your scheme is. If the players ain't playing hard,
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  Speaker 1: then it just doesn't matter. So for JJ to go
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  Speaker 1: from the super and I'm sure the analytics are still
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  Speaker 1: a big part of what he does, but for him
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  Speaker 1: to be so analytical, to be like, at the end
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  Speaker 1: of the day, ball players got a hoop, It just
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  Speaker 1: shows just have a progression for him as a person
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  Speaker 1: and as a coach. Last night they played against the Pelicans.
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  Speaker 1: I watched that game live, but I had to watch
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  Speaker 1: it again this morning. And there are a lot of
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  Speaker 1: different things that the Lakers are doing, and some of
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  Speaker 1: the stuff I can't even compute it with my little
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  Speaker 1: pe brain. But one thing that stands out more than
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  Speaker 1: anything when I watch this team defend is that they
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  Speaker 1: are completely okay with just letting people who cannot shoot
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  Speaker 1: be wide. So I can pile up this list and
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  Speaker 1: these sometimes gonna be a still immage. Sometimes it will
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  Speaker 1: be actual gameplay in this game. Bruce Brown checked in
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  Speaker 1: about five minutes ago. Bruce Brand is the guy that
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  Speaker 1: they determine whether to be j J's coaching staff. They
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  Speaker 1: determine Bruce Brown, we're gonna sell out we or we
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  Speaker 1: don't give a damn about where Bruce Brown is doing
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  Speaker 1: when he's at the perimidve. Now we know Bruce Brown
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  Speaker 1: is a great cutter. He's as a six three forward,
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  Speaker 1: six four four ward. We don't like when he's in
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  Speaker 1: a dunker spot. We got to guard him there. But
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  Speaker 1: when he's right here, look at this, they don't care
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  Speaker 1: anything about what he's doing. Vanderbilt is playing high because
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  Speaker 1: he know Luka Doncas don't got the foot speed. So
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  Speaker 1: Luca Dontas is gonna have him shade to vanderbul sad
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  Speaker 1: because we don't care about what Brucey Brown is doing
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  Speaker 1: out here. Let's let yeah, oh you want to go middle, Oh,
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  Speaker 1: good defense, looka Bruce Brown first caategy. Bruce Brown basically
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  Speaker 1: couldn't play this game. Me and the guys are watching
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  Speaker 1: these two Clippers games live, and I said to the guys,
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  Speaker 1: I hope that my wife trusts me the way James
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  Speaker 1: Harden trust is Chris Dune because the amount of shots
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  Speaker 1: Chris Dunn got from James Harden was ridiculous. And I
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  Speaker 1: love Chris Dunn. He's one of my bulls, goats, the
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  Speaker 1: boy that they sell out to.
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  Speaker 2: Let him be open.
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  Speaker 1: Here's a play where James Harden and a of the
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  Speaker 1: great ball henders across basketball will try their very best
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  Speaker 1: to hunt Luca Dauntons. It's a combination of him not
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  Speaker 1: being a great primive defender and also a combination of
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  Speaker 1: we want him to work defensively, so he might be
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  Speaker 1: a little bit more.
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  Speaker 2: Tired than the offense side of the ball.
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  Speaker 1: Here's a screen from Chris Dunn to get Luca, and
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  Speaker 1: they get the switch, right, They get the switch, but
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  Speaker 1: the reality is they don't give a damn about what
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  Speaker 1: Chris Done is doing, so you don't really get the
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  Speaker 1: switch because game Vincent is right here, and then of
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  Speaker 1: course Chris Dunn is going to break up a three.
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  Speaker 2: Shout out to Chris don, I love you.
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  Speaker 1: The game before that, it was Jada McDaniels and Jade
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  Speaker 1: mcdanie's has been having a phenomenal month and a half
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  Speaker 1: or so. Julius randalls back, so things might shift, but
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  Speaker 1: he's putting the ball on the floor, he's creating for himself,
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  Speaker 1: and I was actually really enjoying his game, and this
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  Speaker 1: one the Lakers decide that.
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  Speaker 2: I we just we're gonna guard him, but we also
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  Speaker 2: are not.
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  Speaker 1: As you see Jackson Hayes is his defender at this
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  Speaker 1: moment in time, but Jackson Hayes is gonna lead that.
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  Speaker 2: And you do get the kickout to Jada McDaniels.
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  Speaker 1: You get a hard close, but that's a shot that
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  Speaker 1: you want to be taken if you're JJ Reddick. The
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  Speaker 1: game before that, this is nationally televised game, so everybody
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  Speaker 1: saw this, and I can just show you the screen
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  Speaker 1: shot Dante Ex to start up this taking a million
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  Speaker 1: threes in a row, because they didn't really give a
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  Speaker 1: damn about Dante X being on this floor. The game
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  Speaker 1: before that, you know who it was Aaron Gordon, and
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  Speaker 1: Aaron Gordon shot a really respectable four of seven for three.
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  Speaker 1: But it was Aaron Gordon, and I don't have a
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  Speaker 1: screen shot for it. It was also Russell Westbrook, Like
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  Speaker 1: when these dudes were open and took a three. If
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  Speaker 1: you're JJ Reddick, you feel good, and that's what Aaron
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  Speaker 1: Gordon have a career year from three. But it's like,
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  Speaker 1: you're gonna have to beat us. You're gonna have to
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  Speaker 1: beat us, Aaron, this is the shot y'all get. And
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  Speaker 1: if he makes him, he makes him, and we're good
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  Speaker 1: and we can go on and on and on. During
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  Speaker 1: this defensive stretch where they are just completely okay with
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  Speaker 1: giving up these open threes. The players that you just
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  Speaker 1: don't trust, Now they're about to go through a stretch
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna really get a real grasp of who they
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  Speaker 1: are as a team. Because it's Nicks, It's Celtics, it's Nets.
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  Speaker 1: They put up a good fight, It's the Bucks, it's
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  Speaker 1: the Nuggets again, and then you got this stuff. So
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  Speaker 1: like this little stretch, this five game stretch, will tell
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  Speaker 1: us a lot about this current Lakers team. But in
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  Speaker 1: this stretch, and I mean, people have been trying to
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  Speaker 1: discredit it because it has been the Clippers who are
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  Speaker 1: just falling.
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  Speaker 2: Let yesterday little twenty three point lead to the Sons
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  Speaker 2: of All team.
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  Speaker 1: It has been the Pelicans who aren't very good outside
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  Speaker 1: of Zion. I'm so happy Ziona is back. It was
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  Speaker 1: the Timberwolves without Rudy Gobert, Julius Randall, it was the
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  Speaker 1: Mavericks without Anthony Davis, and so on and so forth.
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  Speaker 1: But I do want to remind you that during this stretch,
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  Speaker 1: they also have wins against Boston.
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  Speaker 2: Do y'all remember that win against Boston.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, if y'all do they have a win
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  Speaker 1: against the Warriors and the like, they can only play
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  Speaker 1: the team in front of them, for sure, But it's
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  Speaker 1: not like they've gone against some good teams and they faltered.
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  Speaker 1: Like holding the Celtics to ninety six points is amazing.
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  Speaker 1: I can't even express to you how ridiculous that is
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  Speaker 1: as a defensive showing. And that's just the defensive side
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  Speaker 1: of the ball, because the offensive side has started to
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  Speaker 1: come around to after a slower start for Luca Dons.
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  Speaker 2: To remember, Luca dont has missed six weeks of basketball.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know a single person in the world that
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  Speaker 1: could come back after missing six weeks and be the
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  Speaker 1: same version of himself.
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  Speaker 2: So he came in.
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  Speaker 1: He started off slow where Lebron told him to fit out,
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  Speaker 1: don't fit in, And I thought that that first couple
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  Speaker 1: of games he was trying to fit in, and that's
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  Speaker 1: how you get the hardest loss. And man, hey, this
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  Speaker 1: resume looked craze even crazy if they got those two
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  Speaker 1: wins regards the fit offensively has been pretty damn good.
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  Speaker 1: Wherebron says I'm a natural wide receiver and Luca's a
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  Speaker 1: natural quarterback. It feels like once a game we get
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  Speaker 1: in a full core pass from one to the other,
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  Speaker 1: and it has been incredible that way. But I think
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  Speaker 1: one thing that is going underrecognized. Hold on, let me
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  Speaker 1: see if I can find these numbers, is how ridiculous
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  Speaker 1: the Luca only minutes have been And it's not a
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  Speaker 1: shot at broun Ovis, but to be able to say
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  Speaker 1: that we have times in the game where we have
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  Speaker 1: two of the greatest offensive initiators ever on the court together,
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  Speaker 1: we have a time in the game where it's just
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  Speaker 1: Braun and then we have a time there's there should
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  Speaker 1: never be a moment in time and these seven hundred
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  Speaker 1: minutes is before they played on the same team, right,
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  Speaker 1: this is when Nthey David still on the court. There
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  Speaker 1: should never be a time where at least one of
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  Speaker 1: them is not one of them is not on the court.
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  Speaker 1: And the only time we have that is like last
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  Speaker 1: night they Bui out the Pelican. So come on, Bronni,
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  Speaker 1: we don't have Lebron James senior. We got Lebron James
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  Speaker 1: Junior on the court. So to have it so that
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  Speaker 1: your offense will always have a supercomputer at the.
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  Speaker 2: Ham is just disgusting.
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  Speaker 1: And in the afterny one minutes Luca has played without
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  Speaker 1: Braun the season, the team has an offensive rating about
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  Speaker 1: one twenty four, and then the defense is as I
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  Speaker 1: don't even know how to explain a one or four
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  Speaker 1: defensive rating, like you can't even compute that. My only
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  Speaker 1: complaints about what I've seen over for this team over
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  Speaker 1: the last couple of weeks is that they do a
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  Speaker 1: pretty poor job closing out quarters at times where like
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  Speaker 1: they will be up by fifteen with three minutes left
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  Speaker 1: and then they go into halftime only up by five,
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  Speaker 1: and then the turn of Luca and Lebron have been
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  Speaker 1: turnover machines during this.
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  Speaker 2: Little time frame.
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  Speaker 1: But other than that, everything else has been looking really
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  Speaker 1: really good. Give flowers to Bron Bron again. For him
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  Speaker 1: to be forty years old and for him to care
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  Speaker 1: this much defensively is I can't even put into words.
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  Speaker 1: I guess he just had his fifty thousandth point last
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  Speaker 1: night on a three point shot against the Pelicans or
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  Speaker 1: shout out to him.
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  Speaker 2: But for him to be this locked in defensively is great.
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  Speaker 1: It's been a while since I've been like super eager
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  Speaker 1: to watch Lakers games like I've watched a lot of
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  Speaker 1: Lakers because I love Broun. And again, I'm one of
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  Speaker 1: those people that like, you can't take Bron for granted,
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  Speaker 1: he won't be playing forever. Well, maybe he will based
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  Speaker 1: on the way he's playing at forty, but I've watched
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  Speaker 1: so much Lakers over the last three to four years.
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  Speaker 1: I just don't know what it's gonna happen. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know what it's gonna happen when Bron's gonna be gone.
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  Speaker 1: And sometimes I will watch the Lakers and just be like,
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  Speaker 1: I'm doing it for my job and I'm doing it
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  Speaker 1: to watch Bron, but I don't really like the team.
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  Speaker 1: This is the first time I've really enjoyed the Lakers
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  Speaker 1: as a whole since they won the championship, and I
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  Speaker 1: can only expect this is gonna get better throughout time
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  Speaker 1: because Luca dogs right. Next year, They're probably gonna do
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  Speaker 1: some things this offseason to use that first round pick
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  Speaker 1: that they traded for Mark Williams, use it to get
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  Speaker 1: somebody else into the dough, do some more moves around
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  Speaker 1: the edges of this team, and theory should be more
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  Speaker 1: catered to lucaslash cater to win in more games next year.
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  Speaker 1: So it's all on the up and up. Man, the
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  Speaker 1: Lakers are really back. That's crazy. The Lakers are really bad.
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  Speaker 1: Shout out to Nico Harrison