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The Lakers Are Looking Contender-ish... · Kenny For Real

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Speaker 1: Hey, y'all, we gotta talking through. We gotta talking through man,
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Speaker 1: because as of late, the LA Lakers have been looking
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Speaker 1: very contender ish. You know on this channel that Seaword
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Speaker 1: contender is not one we throw around to every team
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Speaker 1: that looks good. So that's why I gotta say contenders,
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Speaker 1: because it's hard to ignore what they've been doing as
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Speaker 1: a recent man. And this is such a breath of
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Speaker 1: fresh air because I think that the first let's say
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Speaker 1: forty five games of the season or so, the Lakers
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Speaker 1: were a funding to watch. Of course, Luca Dante is
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Speaker 1: one of the best shows in all the basketball, Austin
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Speaker 1: Reeves is hitting a whole another level, and Lebron James
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Speaker 1: can He can go after U thirty on one miss shot.
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Speaker 1: But for the most part, it felt like a gap
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Speaker 1: year for the same Hell, they basically told us that,
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Speaker 1: right twenty twenty seven is a year that we want
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Speaker 1: to spend all this money, and even in twenty twenty six,
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Speaker 1: depending on what happens with Austin, then what happens with Lebron.
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Speaker 1: They have the most potential cap space and they didn't
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Speaker 1: do anything crazy over the deadline, so they kind of
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Speaker 1: told us this year is a fun year. It's kind
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Speaker 1: of cool, but for the most part, we ain't really
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Speaker 1: going forward. But they look really good, y'all. They look
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Speaker 1: really really good, So we got to talk about it.
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Speaker 1: through a lot of different things when it comes to
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Speaker 1: this Lakers scene as we talk about what has been
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Speaker 1: happened as a recent but I want to start off
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Speaker 1: right here. Even though this is not the biggest thing
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Speaker 1: on the priority list, I think it's one of the
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Speaker 1: coolest things. A couple games ago, after a win, JJ
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Speaker 1: Reddick said his post game interview, the best thing for
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Speaker 1: our team is Lebron being the third highest used player.
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Speaker 1: And anybody that has watched the Lakers, anytime you've hear
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Speaker 1: somebody talk about the Lakers that are into the analytics,
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Speaker 1: will let you know that they lose the minutes they
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Speaker 1: haven't los in the minutes this season where it has
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Speaker 1: been Luca, Austin Reeves and Lebron James, and it felt
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Speaker 1: like the good old classic. Too many cooks in the
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Speaker 1: kitchen and not a lot of them cooks slap they
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Speaker 1: puffy puppies, not not a lot of them cooks is
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Speaker 1: getting down in that defensive stance, and it did feel
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Speaker 1: like we kind of had an idea of what the
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Speaker 1: pecking order was going to be. Right, Luca doctis number one,
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Speaker 1: is one of the best players in the world, and
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Speaker 1: then like the way Alstin Reeves they come into the season. Hell,
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Speaker 1: you could argue him being number two. But the fact
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Speaker 1: that J. J. Reddick has publicly said this and we
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Speaker 1: have now the footage to prove it. Yesterday's game Yes
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Speaker 1: to Houston Rockets is the prime example of what the
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Speaker 1: third option Lebron James could potentially look like. I just
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Speaker 1: feel like he wasn't on ball a ton cutting off ball,
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Speaker 1: getting in the fast break. They said he dunk six times.
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Speaker 1: Hold on, let me see this, stot. Lebron James has
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Speaker 1: six dunks last night, the most in the game since
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Speaker 1: March ninth, twenty seventeen. Twenty seventeen. It's almost been a
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Speaker 1: decade since he had six dunts in a game, and
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Speaker 1: he did it at forty one years old. And that
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Speaker 1: first one, I think it was Marcus mart that threw
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Speaker 1: it to him when he had to reach all the
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Speaker 1: way back. What's that is that? From radatuey am I
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Speaker 1: getting my my movies mixed up with the dude to
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Speaker 1: sending at the table and he's old man and he
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Speaker 1: flies back to when he was a kid. That's how
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Speaker 1: I felt with Lebron went all the way back to
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Speaker 1: get their first lib. It's kind of nuts and out.
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Speaker 1: I forgot to say this up top. We're making this
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Speaker 1: video about the Lakers looking contender, Rish and I recognize
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Speaker 1: that they are probably going to lose tonight's game, and
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Speaker 1: I don't want you hitting my dms tweeting at me
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Speaker 1: saying Kenny jinkst them where they on a secondnive of
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Speaker 1: back to back where they had to fly from Houston
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Speaker 1: to Miami and they landed in Miami at five. This
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Speaker 1: is a schedule loss, respect to the Miami. He go
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Speaker 1: take a business, but this is a schedule loss. So
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Speaker 1: if they lose tonight, don't be like Kenny cursed us.
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Speaker 1: I right, cool? But the fact that Lebron James go
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Speaker 1: out there and give you six dunks on lobs and
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Speaker 1: six dunts off backdoor cuts is insane. And like I said,
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Speaker 1: the eye test shows that this has been the priority
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Speaker 1: since Lebron James has come back. But also the numbers,
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Speaker 1: this is cleaning the glass one of my favorite favorite
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Speaker 1: places to look at NBA stats and all things. As
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Speaker 1: you can see, Lebron James has always been at least
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Speaker 1: this is this season, by the way, always has been
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Speaker 1: a you know, ninety seven, ninety six percentile when it
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Speaker 1: comes to usage, obviously, how much he's involved in the
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Speaker 1: offense and how much he has the ball. Of course,
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Speaker 1: you got your outliers in his game and get Sacramento.
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Speaker 1: They won by a lot, so he was on your
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Speaker 1: sixty fourth percentile in this game they won versus Dallas.
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Speaker 1: Lebron was playing off the ball a ton either way
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Speaker 1: this recent stretch, right, look at these last five games.
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Speaker 1: Yesterday he had an eighteen percent usage And I don't
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Speaker 1: know for sure, but eighteen percent usage has to be
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Speaker 1: one of the lowest usage games of Lebron james career.
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Speaker 1: And guess what he walked out with a little thirty
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Speaker 1: ball A thirty the game before that, twenty two percent
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Speaker 1: uses twenty percent usage. We're basically seeing Lebron James be
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Speaker 1: one of the ultimate off ball players and still be
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Speaker 1: effective like these other games, you know, eighteen seventeen. But
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Speaker 1: look at the splits. He's taking the right shots in
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Speaker 1: the right time. Seven for thirteen for the field, seven
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Speaker 1: for thirteen for field. Seven, God damn Bron, seven for
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Speaker 1: thirteen for the field, seven for eleven for the field.
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Speaker 1: And this is pretty dope stuff because this is not
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Speaker 1: Lebron James sizing them up and doing the little fuck
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Speaker 1: you three, even though we do get a few of
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Speaker 1: those if he wants a while. This is him playing
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Speaker 1: in the Florida offense and getting secondary action work. This
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Speaker 1: is Lebron James. Like it's just kind of we've just
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Speaker 1: never seen this. It's basically what I'm saying. And for
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Speaker 1: a very long time, you know, whether it be from
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Speaker 1: let's say twenty twenty one to now, he just felt
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Speaker 1: like Lebron has made multiple comments about passing the torch,
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Speaker 1: finding someone that he can kind of still win games with,
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Speaker 1: but he didn't need to be Superman every single night,
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Speaker 1: and for a long time, we thought it was going
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Speaker 1: to be Anthony Davis. Of course they win the championship
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Speaker 1: together when Anthony Davis was phenomenal, but ultimately did end
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Speaker 1: up being ad And obviously look at Doncas because while
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Speaker 1: Lebron James usedge look like that, we know Lucas uses
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Speaker 1: number one in the league and for a good reason.
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Speaker 1: So I'm gonna quickly go through and see has Lebron
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Speaker 1: James had another game where his uses was eighteen I'll
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Speaker 1: be back, I'm still going, but that is the lowest
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Speaker 1: usage game he's had as a Laker. So if that's
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Speaker 1: the lowest usage game he's had a Laker, I'm just
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Speaker 1: assuming that unless Kyrie Irvin had it going when he
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Speaker 1: was in Cleveland, or we got a game where Wade
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Speaker 1: had a little fifty ball and he was killing. Look,
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Speaker 1: why am I not showing you this. I'm just going
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Speaker 1: back as shorting twenty three is the lowest in twenty fourteen.
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Speaker 1: The year before that, twenty that eighteen percent usage might
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Speaker 1: be the lowest usage game of Lebron's career. And again
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Speaker 1: he walked out with a thirty piece and ooh, never mind,
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Speaker 1: we got a game and twenty eleven it was a
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Speaker 1: game where they won by eight against the No, don't
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Speaker 1: tell me this is the game I think it is.
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Speaker 1: Oh No, this series didn't happen for Lebron. That series
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Speaker 1: didn't happen. We'd not counting that shit as long as
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Speaker 1: you look past the worst series of Lebron's career that
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Speaker 1: that is. Let's just say, hold on, let's just add
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Speaker 1: this at this. That is the lowest usage rate game
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Speaker 1: of Lebron James's regular season career. Damn, we had a
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Speaker 1: fifty percent US into the game. All right, we're getting
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Speaker 1: off track, We're getting off trick. Bron has looked really
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Speaker 1: good in this this lesson row, and it opens up
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Speaker 1: the game so much more where Lebron is the third option,
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Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. And I don't have the
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Speaker 1: numbers for this, but I guess I could try to
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Speaker 1: find it really quick. I know last night they ended
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Speaker 1: up losing the minutes where all three of their guys
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Speaker 1: were on the court. They lost it by two. For
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Speaker 1: some of their more recent games, the previous Houston Rockets game,
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Speaker 1: the game before that, they were winning the minutes where
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Speaker 1: their top three guys were on the court. And I
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Speaker 1: think that's just progress if they can use the momentum
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Speaker 1: in this last fourteen to fifteen games and get ready
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Speaker 1: for that postseason. My goodness, one thing that was pretty
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Speaker 1: impressive about again, just these last two wins against used
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Speaker 1: to Rockets. I can make a whole different video about
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Speaker 1: what the hell's going over there in Houston. Is just
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Speaker 1: not looking great, even though they had moments, bits and
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Speaker 1: pieces last night that made you feel like they might
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Speaker 1: have won the game. One of the Achilles heels that
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Speaker 1: I was thinking about about this Lakers team as they
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Speaker 1: go into the postseas and had a lot to do
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Speaker 1: with going against teams that were uber athletic in comparison,
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Speaker 1: and I feel like the Houston Rockets are one of
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Speaker 1: those teams. With I'm and Thompson, we can go on
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Speaker 1: and on about all the athletes that they have on
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Speaker 1: the team. And earlier in the season it felt like
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Speaker 1: that they played on was that Christmas? That might have
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Speaker 1: been Christmas? They played on Christmas, and it just felt
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Speaker 1: like the Houston Rockets just bigger, faster, stronger than that
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Speaker 1: Lakers team. And then they just had these two back
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Speaker 1: to back this baseball game series, if you will, and
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Speaker 1: the fact that the Houston Rockets were uber athletic, didn't
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Speaker 1: matter anymore, and that's kind of scary for the rest
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Speaker 1: of the teams because that just felt like one of
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Speaker 1: the things you can hang your hat on if you
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Speaker 1: were a Rockets team, if you were a Minnesota team
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Speaker 1: that beat them last year in the playoffs, we were
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Speaker 1: just faster, stronger than you, and we're gonna use that
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Speaker 1: to our advantage. And it just didn't happen these last
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Speaker 1: couple of games before we get back into them contendering.
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Speaker 1: This site is something I used. Once we get to
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Speaker 1: this part of the team, we've got three weeks or
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Speaker 1: so left in the year playoffs. Atus dot Com has
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Speaker 1: it so that the Lakers have a seventy three percent
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Speaker 1: chance to end up as a three seed, which is huge.
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Speaker 1: They have the tiebreaker over the Houston Rockets. I think
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Speaker 1: they have the tiebreaker over the Timberwolves and the Nuggets.
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Speaker 1: So as long long as they could continue to just
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Speaker 1: do what they've been doing, it feels as though they
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Speaker 1: are going to be the three seeds, which is pretty
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Speaker 1: impressive compared again earlier in the season, where it may
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Speaker 1: not felt like, you know, they were in this same
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Speaker 1: echelon as some of these other teams. They also got
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Speaker 1: it that they look like the sixth the favorite to
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Speaker 1: be the sixth seed looks like the Minnesota Tempolve. So
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Speaker 1: obviously when he get said the last year it wasn't
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Speaker 1: pretty for La, maybe things have changed a little bit.
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Speaker 1: Moving on from Lebron and the credit that we get
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Speaker 1: for him in this little stretch, he's forty one years
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Speaker 1: I can't. I know some people be like Kenny, you
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Speaker 1: beglaze Lebron, But I forty one years old and still
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Speaker 1: be able to do this stuff is objectively ridiculous. And
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Speaker 1: if you don't believe so, then you just a hater.
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Speaker 1: I just got to say that moving on to the
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Speaker 1: next player that we should we should give our credit to,
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Speaker 1: of course it gotta be that man Luke or Dung
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Speaker 1: chicch NBA Dunk Central has these stats, a little forty
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Speaker 1: ball one Reaboude away from a forty a double, thirty six.
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Speaker 1: This game against the Bulls, you're fifty one one. It's
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Speaker 1: just away from a tip a double and all of
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Speaker 1: these he's been absolutely insane. And one thing about Luka Dacic,
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Speaker 1: and this this was even the case, you know, coming
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Speaker 1: off his his he's been dealing with calf stuff all
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Speaker 1: these longest what they talked about in the broadcast and
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Speaker 1: at first used to rocket game where they were saying
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Speaker 1: that he looks so much better because he's no longer
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Speaker 1: dealing with that calf ailment. But even when he was
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Speaker 1: dealing with that calf stuff, Luca is such a talented guy,
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Speaker 1: one of the best players we have in this world,
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Speaker 1: and he has such high usage that even in his
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Speaker 1: bad games, the games that he don't look insane, his
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Speaker 1: counting stats will still say thirty ten and let's say
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Speaker 1: eight or so, right, So a lot of the times
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Speaker 1: when I'm watching Luca Dontis, I'm not thinking about the
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Speaker 1: count sets. Even I just showed you asn example of
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Speaker 1: how ridiculous he's been. I'm not looking at the counting
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Speaker 1: stats because I know that regardless on a good or
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Speaker 1: bad game, Lucas gonna get his numbers. It's about the
10:34
Speaker 1: other stuff. And I feel like as of recent the
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Speaker 1: other stuff has come together where not just the statistical
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Speaker 1: output shows best in the world or one of the
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Speaker 1: best in the world, it's the actual impact and it's
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Speaker 1: just reminiscent of obviously his run his last full year
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Speaker 1: in Dallas where he was just on their whole another level.
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Speaker 1: And I feel like, whether it be because of the
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Speaker 1: calf or whatever or whatever, the first part of the season,
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Speaker 1: getting the counting stats, of the counting stats, it didn't
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Speaker 1: feel like Luca was playing at this level. And now
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Speaker 1: the stats in the eye tests are showing the same thing.
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Speaker 1: I think as of recent he's been way more locked
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Speaker 1: in defensively. I think part of that has to do
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Speaker 1: with winning. Obviously helps a player like in a little
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Speaker 1: bit more, but JJ Reddick is running more zone than
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Speaker 1: any time in the season, and I think against a
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Speaker 1: team like the Eastern Rockets, that zone becomes pretty important
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Speaker 1: because they don't have any shooting like other than Kevin Urrat,
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Speaker 1: the other guy that we thought was a shooter who's
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Speaker 1: leading the league in three percent shots to my boy,
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Speaker 1: tar reesan Ain hit a three point shot in like
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Speaker 1: a month, right, So Luca Dons is locked in on
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Speaker 1: that side of the ball, and he's just playing the
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Speaker 1: last five minutes or so of that Houston Rockets game.
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Speaker 1: If you didn't even watch that game and you've got
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Speaker 1: an opportunity to watch just the last five minutes, you
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Speaker 1: are going to be amazed at a guy like Luca Dodgas.
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Speaker 1: He's been incredible, straight up incredible, And for another night,
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Speaker 1: there's somebody in the crowd that is talking trash to
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Speaker 1: Luca and will I will continue to tell y'all stop
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Speaker 1: talking to that man, because all it takes is one court,
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Speaker 1: sat person, one person on the other team to get
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Speaker 1: this boy going, and he is about to go on
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Speaker 1: the whole another level. He got a steal I think
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Speaker 1: it was in the first quarter of this game, and
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Speaker 1: while he's running down court on a fast break, he
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Speaker 1: looks at the person court side that was talking trash
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Speaker 1: and then scored and then came back to talk to
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Speaker 1: that guy, like holding the level. Now. In this tweet
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Speaker 1: they mentioned MVP. They say MVP, and personally, I still
12:15
Speaker 1: do have Shay gives Alexandri as my MVP. It's still
12:18
Speaker 1: fourteen to fifteen games left, but I feel pretty good
12:21
Speaker 1: about Shade being the MVP of the league. I think
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Speaker 1: Luca does have a true conversation to be in that
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Speaker 1: I think he has a conversation to be number two.
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Speaker 1: But as of today, I'm still running with Shae as
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Speaker 1: the MVP. With that said, I just don't know how
12:31
Speaker 1: we get here in discourse, is Luca Donson's a lock
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Speaker 1: for All NBA First Team? Now, for what is worth?
12:40
Speaker 1: Those two gentlemen right there, Steven A. Smith and Keinjack Perkins,
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Speaker 1: for what is worth? They could have went onto the
12:45
Speaker 1: segment and said, absolutely, why are we even talking about this?
12:48
Speaker 1: I don't know. I didn't watch the damn segment. But
12:51
Speaker 1: the fact that that is a lower third that we
12:53
Speaker 1: are talking about, no, I'm sorry, not we that they
12:55
Speaker 1: are talking about? Is it served to me? I talked
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Speaker 1: about this on Small Ball Kennedy be There are four
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Speaker 1: first team locks in my opinion, as long as all
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Speaker 1: of these guys hit the quota for sixty five games,
13:05
Speaker 1: which is a whole other issue because Kay Cunningham is
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Speaker 1: down with a collapse long and he may not his
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Speaker 1: sixty five. And I don't know how you can have
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Speaker 1: an All NBA team with out Kaid, even if anyway
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Speaker 1: Shay and I didn't no particular, here are the four
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Speaker 1: locks of All NBA First Team, Shay, Jokic, WINBYT, and Luca.
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Speaker 1: Anybody that submits a ballot without those four guys on
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Speaker 1: All NBA First Team, I just I don't know. I
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Speaker 1: feel like we gotta take their ballot away. How can
13:26
Speaker 1: we watch Luka Doncis on the lightly basis that come
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Speaker 1: up with this? Now, I too also get really annoyed
13:34
Speaker 1: when Luca's not locked in defensively, I too also get
13:37
Speaker 1: really annoyed when Luka doncas just complaining into the referees.
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Speaker 1: But the basketball anyway, Oh, I said earlier, I didn't
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Speaker 1: know if, if, what these guys said. Kenjick Perkins did
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Speaker 1: not have him on first team. All right, all right, Perk,
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Speaker 1: all right, Perk, I gotta watch it. I don't. I'm
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Speaker 1: gonna watch it. Okay, I didn't plan on watching it,
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Speaker 1: but I got I gotta figure out what the because
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Speaker 1: I don't see an argument for him not to be
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Speaker 1: and from the clip that not the clip, but the
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Speaker 1: words that I'm seeing. His vote is for Caid and
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Speaker 1: his vote is for Jalen Brown, who are both deserving
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Speaker 1: to potentially be on first team, but not at the
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Speaker 1: expense of Luka Doncic. If one of those guys is
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Speaker 1: going to make All NBA, it will be for that
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Speaker 1: fifth spot, if you ask me. But that's anyway. Watching
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Speaker 1: the clip not gonna show you. He didn't really have
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Speaker 1: much of an argument, he said, that Caid and Jalen
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Speaker 1: Brown's impact are better than Luka Dancic's, which I can't
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Speaker 1: agree with anyway, Shout out to Luca Dancas. He's been
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Speaker 1: on a whole nother level. And we did something on
14:38
Speaker 1: the pod numbers on the board maybe three to four
14:40
Speaker 1: weeks ago, right, and the idea behind it was what
14:44
Speaker 1: is the floor in the ceiling of all playoff teams? Right?
14:47
Speaker 1: So we say, ok, see thunder. The ceiling is obviously
14:50
Speaker 1: they can win another championship. The floor is like, you know,
14:53
Speaker 1: if they get a bast second round matchup, they could
14:55
Speaker 1: get out. You know, will we put money on it? No,
14:58
Speaker 1: but that is that is what the floor is. And
15:00
Speaker 1: we got to the Lakers and everybody said the floor
15:02
Speaker 1: is the first round exit, right, because yeah, the floor
15:04
Speaker 1: is the first round exit, and all the other guys
15:06
Speaker 1: says second round as their ceiling. And I was like,
15:08
Speaker 1: I feel like the ceiling has to at least at
15:10
Speaker 1: the least this is before they were on their big run,
15:12
Speaker 1: has to at least be a conference finals because they
15:15
Speaker 1: have Luca Dantis and while the other parts of the
15:17
Speaker 1: roster may not mess completely, just having a man like
15:20
Speaker 1: Luca who has showed us in a thousand playoff series.
15:23
Speaker 1: It feels like at this time that he can just
15:26
Speaker 1: piggyback a team of four wins out of seven. I
15:28
Speaker 1: was like, it's got to be at least the conference finals,
15:30
Speaker 1: and now the way they've been playing, I'm maybe revising
15:33
Speaker 1: that to say the ceiling might be, especially when we
15:37
Speaker 1: talk about this next guy who I saw the report
15:42
Speaker 1: or not the report The guys told me about DeAndre
15:45
Speaker 1: Aiden saying that he looked in the mirror and realized
15:48
Speaker 1: that he wasn't that guy. And I had not seen
15:49
Speaker 1: that report at all at the google it for myself,
15:51
Speaker 1: and it seems like over the last week DeAndre Aiden
15:54
Speaker 1: has come to his senses, and you feel that on
15:57
Speaker 1: the court. We're even in the game. A couple of
15:59
Speaker 1: nights ago, I think he like eight total points one
16:01
Speaker 1: of his best games. Just straight up, he's been locking
16:04
Speaker 1: in defensively. He's been showing actual like emotion defensively, which
16:08
Speaker 1: I think is kind of kind of dope because you
16:09
Speaker 1: could tell he really cares. And before the season started
16:12
Speaker 1: he told us that's who he was gonna be, but
16:13
Speaker 1: he kind of got lost in the shuffle a little
16:15
Speaker 1: bit about you know, realizing, hey, I'm a former first
16:18
Speaker 1: overall pick that I deserve this many touches. I deserve this.
16:21
Speaker 1: In reality is the NBA is quick to pass you by.
16:24
Speaker 1: You don't deserve nothing, regardless of what your draft capital
16:26
Speaker 1: was or what you got picked. It's like, this team
16:28
Speaker 1: needs you to do this, and I think as of
16:30
Speaker 1: recent he's been pretty damn good. Now do we expect
16:35
Speaker 1: do we expect that to be the case for the
16:37
Speaker 1: rest of the season? Pust postseason, That is one of
16:39
Speaker 1: the biggest caveats. But I read this morning. Let me
16:41
Speaker 1: give my credit words due is toc Franco on sub stack.
16:45
Speaker 1: He does these recaps of all Lakers games and so on.
16:48
Speaker 1: He had in his newsletter today the Lakers scored an
16:51
Speaker 1: elite rate at an elite rate one point two one
16:55
Speaker 1: to nine points per chance and actions involved in outbrand
16:58
Speaker 1: Shagoon as a defender, which is something again for the
17:00
Speaker 1: used to rockets to worry about. But a lot of
17:02
Speaker 1: that has to be DeAndre Aiden and he shot. You know,
17:05
Speaker 1: he ended up with twelve of his first sixteen points
17:07
Speaker 1: in the first half, and a lot of that action
17:09
Speaker 1: is them running that pick and roll against alt Prn
17:10
Speaker 1: Shing goon. Him and Luca have kind of got this
17:14
Speaker 1: nice little thing with Luca through the ball at the rim.
17:16
Speaker 1: I remember this game. The last game is kind of blending,
17:18
Speaker 1: and it ain't like DeAndre Aden had a chance, but
17:20
Speaker 1: DeAndre just jumped up and got it and ended up
17:21
Speaker 1: laying it in, So I think he deserves a lot
17:24
Speaker 1: of credit. I also like that over these games, man,
17:28
Speaker 1: it feel like a Lakers clays fest. But that's been
17:29
Speaker 1: doing this, Chine. We enjoyed basketball over these last couple
17:32
Speaker 1: of games. The Lakers and have figured out ways to
17:34
Speaker 1: win in different ways, and I truly do admire that.
17:39
Speaker 1: And guy, I don't know how we'll translated to the postseason,
17:41
Speaker 1: right I said they're looking contender rich Hill. They could
17:42
Speaker 1: also lose in the first round. Who the hell knows.
17:45
Speaker 1: But the fact that this team that notoriously is one
17:48
Speaker 1: of the slower teams in the league and don't get
17:49
Speaker 1: a bunch of fast break points can go against the
17:51
Speaker 1: team that is uber athletic and say, hey, we gonna
17:54
Speaker 1: run you out the gym in the fast break. And
17:56
Speaker 1: that means even more when you consider the identity of
17:58
Speaker 1: the Houston Rockets as being an all offensive rebounded team
18:01
Speaker 1: now recognized since Steven Ninas has went down as an
18:03
Speaker 1: offensive rebounded team. That kind of that neutral, but their
18:06
Speaker 1: identity is still what they're trying to push right, So
18:08
Speaker 1: like the Lakers are still running even though this team
18:11
Speaker 1: is crashing so heavily, and that's how we get to
18:13
Speaker 1: the point where Bron ends up with a thousand fast
18:15
Speaker 1: break points in this one. It's just been a true
18:17
Speaker 1: pleasure to see again. They had always been a fun
18:19
Speaker 1: team to watch in the Luka Doncic era, but the
18:21
Speaker 1: fact that that's now translating too more wins and more
18:24
Speaker 1: passionate basketball for everybody. Lebron James full on did a
18:29
Speaker 1: Dennis Rodman. Lebron did one of these and they last game,
18:31
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, like trying to go for
18:33
Speaker 1: a loose ball. He's forty one, and also like maybe
18:36
Speaker 1: the best player ever. You don't dive on the floor
18:38
Speaker 1: like that at forty one with all the miles in
18:40
Speaker 1: your body. Yes you do, because you're Lebron James. And
18:42
Speaker 1: though this regular seas a game may not matter right now,
18:44
Speaker 1: it might matter eventually, and now that they have the
18:46
Speaker 1: type breaker ended up mattering anyway. Lastly, I'm gonna give
18:50
Speaker 1: credit to Marcus Smart, who I didn't know how much
18:54
Speaker 1: Marcus Smart had left in the tank. But one thing
18:56
Speaker 1: you knew about Marcus Mamart is that he was gonna
18:58
Speaker 1: give effort. The ball always him in them clutch situations,
19:01
Speaker 1: and lately he has been knocking down and clutch shot.
19:03
Speaker 1: So shout out to him. Shout out to Lukenard, who
19:06
Speaker 1: since he's come back, come to the team, he still
19:09
Speaker 1: do the same stuff that every team is pissed off
19:11
Speaker 1: by him. I think he cares more about his efficiency
19:15
Speaker 1: than like getting good. Like sometimes he pass up a
19:18
Speaker 1: really really good look but not a perfect look, and
19:19
Speaker 1: he'll wait till you get a perfect look. And sometimes
19:21
Speaker 1: if you're gonna be a fifty percent three point shooter, damnit,
19:23
Speaker 1: shoot shoot the shot that's not even close to being perfect,
19:25
Speaker 1: because we trust you. Sometimes it does feel like he
19:27
Speaker 1: doesn't shoot it enough. But like there was a stretch
19:30
Speaker 1: when Brown was out, Let me see if I can
19:31
Speaker 1: find these numbers as well, where they were running that
19:33
Speaker 1: unit with at least two of the white guys. It
19:37
Speaker 1: was like Luca and Canard or Austerevees and Canard, and
19:40
Speaker 1: those units were actually really good. Yeah, hold on, hold
19:42
Speaker 1: on office and everything, but I think it is a
19:44
Speaker 1: good representation of certain things. Or like in the two
19:47
Speaker 1: hundred minutes that Luca and lukenard Luca and Luke have
19:50
Speaker 1: played together plus nine, I mean a lot of that
19:54
Speaker 1: is like, my god, they're just scoring at a crazy rate.
19:57
Speaker 1: But that's pretty elape. What about lucanar By him self? Ooh,
20:01
Speaker 1: that was just helping impact winning all right? Anyway, the
20:06
Speaker 1: Lakers were a team that I have not been taken
20:07
Speaker 1: seriously all season long, and now you kind of have
20:10
Speaker 1: to at least a little bit. At least a little bit.
20:12
Speaker 1: I still believe that, okayc I still believe the young
20:18
Speaker 1: Spurs because they just don't lose. And they might be
20:21
Speaker 1: a regular, but they just don't lose. And I'm gonna
20:24
Speaker 1: give Denver the benefit of the doubt, even though I
20:26
Speaker 1: feel like I could make another Denver video about all
20:28
Speaker 1: the hell the stuff they got going on. But I
20:30
Speaker 1: feel like those three are probably my top three contenders
20:33
Speaker 1: out West. And then the Lakers are in conversation like
20:35
Speaker 1: them versus Minnesota? Who would you prefer in the playoff series? Again?
20:38
Speaker 1: Last year Minnesota took care business and got it done.
20:40
Speaker 1: But I don't know. Denver's in a weird spot because
20:43
Speaker 1: it's now this feels like a podcast. I'm rambling Denver.
20:47
Speaker 1: The one thing about the Denver Nuggets, as we talk
20:49
Speaker 1: about their defense throughout the Jokich MVP caliber era, the
20:54
Speaker 1: one thing that you felt good about is that when
20:56
Speaker 1: it mattered the most, if you were in a close
20:58
Speaker 1: game against them, they were gonna win. They knew how
21:01
Speaker 1: to get timely stops, they knew how to score. And
21:04
Speaker 1: now it's out the case where now they get into
21:06
Speaker 1: close games and it's like it's not even a coin
21:09
Speaker 1: flip at this point. They're so bad in the clutch
21:11
Speaker 1: all of a sudden. So maybe that's enough for me
21:13
Speaker 1: to anyway, I'm always going through these things. Let me
21:16
Speaker 1: know what you think. Shout out to the Lakers,