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Speaker 1: All right, what's going on, everybody? What is going on? Welcome, welcome. Welcome to the postgame show. Lakers over the Heat, 138-117, the final score, Lake Show. God, I'm not going to lie here. I might argue that that's the most impressive win that the Lakers have had all season. So some talent on the other side. I know Miami's only sitting at 2-4 on the season, 2-5 actually after this loss, but... That was an impressive win from at least my perspective. I thought it was of the seven games, eight games the Lakers have played so far, they're sitting at 6-2. I would make the argument that's the best win that I've seen from the Lakers because there was so many different players involved. Of course, Luka as well, more than one player, about five players in one right there. Okay, let me give everyone a quick idea what we got going on. I got my notes here. I'll start out the show just going over Luka and just some of these just absolutely ridiculous numbers from Luka Doncic. There's no answer for the man. I mean, I don't know what you want me to tell you, but there really genuinely just is no answers for Luka Doncic. And a Miami Heat team, you know, guys that have a defensive background and a defensive pedigree and a franchise and an organization that, will rely on defense when they need to and air expulsor and everything else. As impressive as a game that I've ever seen from Luka Doncic. Maybe I'm a little bit dramatic on that one, but honestly, just watching an NBA basketball game on November 2nd, pretty damn impressive on a Monday night. So we'll spend a good amount of time with Luka tonight. Best win of the season I talked about in Lakers 6-2, so maybe make a little bit of a case. Some of the other Ws that the Lakers have had And, you know, whoever you play, just get as many wins as you can. Sitting at six and two, we'll spend some time on that. The Lakers offense and these role players that all kind of chipped in in tonight's game. So whether it was Walker Kessler, whether it was Mamu, whether it was Zaire Williams, who had some big threes, hit three of them. Grimes had a couple of buckets. Jake LaRavia, I thought, gave the Lakers some good minutes. So we'll kind of go through the box score of everybody that contributed tonight. Walker Kessler, three straight double-doubles in a game like tonight where you've got to go up against some legitimate big men, held his own and definitely held his own tonight. I thought for Walker Kessler we'll spend some time on him. And then Austin Reeves, we'll talk about Austin Reeves tonight, ends up shooting 10 of 15 from the field, 27 points. We'll spend a little bit of time talking about the Lakers next game too. They've got the Sacramento Kings. So that's going to be what we've got for our post-game show tonight. Quick reminder and a quick favor here. Help us get to 40,000 subscribers. We're sitting just under 36,000 right now. Every subscription matters, and it counts, and it helps grow the channel, and it's absolutely free. So if you want Lakers content, Lakers coverage, you guys know I'm putting up a ton of content. Please support the channel by subscribing. All right, let's get started here. Luka freaking Doncic. I'll have to tell you guys here. You know, I think there's times you watch just greatness, and you got nothing really to say. You know where, to me, this was the greatness of Luka Doncic tonight. And I'm going to pop up some of the stats here so we can look at this together. And I'll tell you what was the greatness from Luka Doncic tonight. It was watching the opposing team. And I said this a little bit earlier, and here's Luka Doncic right here. I said this a little bit earlier. Luka Doncic or the Miami Heat have the type of team where it's like You know, they take pride in playing defense. They respect the franchise and the organization understands, hey, in order to win, you've got to get stops. You've got to play defense. Again, I know Miami has not got off to a good start, so we'll leave it at that. They're 2-5. But what did Luka have yesterday? I want to say he had 45 yesterday and then 42 tonight. I could be wrong, but I think it was around those numbers. Here, I'll tell you right now. We'll look at the Raptors game from yesterday. And there was an absurd stat that I saw on Spectrum. Yesterday against the Raptors, he had 45 and 15 with six assists and five steals. And then tonight, he had 42, 13, and seven with two more steals for him. Shot 58% from the field. Hit 40% of his threes. And Lakers win both of these games. So a second of a back-to-back. I mean, I should just add those numbers up. Luka's last 24 hours, he's got 87 points. Um, he's got, uh, 22 assists or 22 rebounds. And what is that? 19 assists, something along those lines with seven steals. I mean, it just absurd. Like, I don't really know what to do with Lucas stats. I really don't know what to do with it, but I'm watching Miami say, all right, let's try to double. All right. That ain't working. All right. Let's try to, um, let's try to kind of leave them one-on-one and just take tough shots. All right. That's not working. All right, let's try to get him off the three-point line and get him in and around the basket. All right, that's not working. All right, let's get him away from the basket and have him shoot jumpers. Yeah, that's not working. Like, I saw player after player that just discouraged, absolutely had nothing to– they had nothing left in them. Like, it's just– You know, you had your heart ripped out of you, your soul taken away by Luka Doncic, and that was Luka for 48 minutes tonight. Incredible. Like, honestly, just absolutely incredible how he controls a game and how he controlled tonight's game. So, again, I go back to these last two nights with Luka Doncic. Just think about the numbers that I just shared with you guys. The numbers I just shared with you guys is a player that, is dropping 42 on one night and 45 in another night and
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then still putting up the assists and the rebounds and everything else. I mean, just does a little bit of everything, and it's special. I know we always kind of try to talk big picture with the Lakers, and there's always concern and you're jumping ahead and you're saying, you know what, what's it going to look like versus a good team? What's it going to look like in the playoffs? What's it going to look like in the Western Conference? Sometimes you just sit back and just appreciate greatness. I'm seeing this dude already kind of climbing all these stats with the Lakers. It's like, he's only X amount of games away, 40 point games. How many has those lakes? Next he's going to pass is Jerry West. I'm like, what Luca got here 15 minutes ago. What do you mean? He's already going to pass Jerry West. And I think there's just, you know, these type of Lakers stats with these legends, with these all time greats. And Luca's just quietly like, yep, let me just pass another one. Yep. Let me just pass another one. Yep. Let me just pass another one. Um, And very, very early in his career, obviously. So, you know, obviously what he's doing with the Lakers so far. But how do you not kind of start this postgame show without just talking about Luka Doncic and what he was able to do? I had a clip this morning. We were talking a little bit about it. I think what was unique about this show as well, what's going to be unique about this game is I spent a little bit of time this morning There was a clip from Channing Frye, which, by the way, I said it then and I'll say it again. I don't know if this style where it's so much usage from one player, I don't know if that's going to win you a championship. And I genuinely don't. We'll have to wait and see if what Luka Doncic, you can only have so much on the shoulders of one player here. But what was nice about tonight's game, too, is... Look at the team overall. We'll look at some of these team stats here real quick because the team shot well and the team played well, and that to me was just as encouraging as seeing what Luka did. Lakers, 57% from the field. Against Miami, second of a back-to-back. Miami hasn't played since Friday night. Okay, let's take a look at another one here, three-point shooting. 44% for the Lakers from the three-point line, and I'll point out who some of those players were because I think that's important. Yet a number of different players that contributed for the Lakers tonight. All right, so look at some more here. The assists, 39 assists for the Lakers. That's damn impressive. By the way, they forced 19 turnovers. We know Lakers have been having some issues with turnovers. Got it down to 16, still too high. I think in a perfect world, you're between 12 and 15, something along those, maybe between 12 and 14. Back in the days, that number used to be 12. I just don't think that happens in the NBA just because of the pace of the game and everything else. But 39 assists for the Lakers. So, really, and
here's kind of the crazy thing here. They got Bam out of Bayou. They got Giannis. Look at points in the paint. 60-38. That's a Lakers advantage. They led the game 94% of this game. I mean, kind of complete domination. Here was a good thing in tonight's game, which was different from yesterday's game and the game against the Golden State Warriors. They didn't just, like, give up this unbelievable lead. they gave up a lead from that first quarter to the second quarter. But for the most part, I think the Lakers were really in control of this game. And I didn't think there was much that Miami could do. And every time Miami was trying to make a run and every time strategically they were doing something, like I said, Luka Doncic would just, he would grab your soul and, and, and they looked defeated because when they thought they had a good possession or when they thought they were starting to make a run, Luka was like, eh, it ain't gonna happen. And obviously Luka did what he did. So, The Luka Doncic piece of this, I explained. I will go back to the box score here for a quick second because I want you guys to see something. I mentioned three-point shooting. Jake LaRavia had one. Matisse Theibel had two. Luka obviously had six. Reeves shot four of five from the three-point line. We'll do Reeves a little bit later. We'll talk about him. Mamou had two. Zaire Williams had three. He only took six shots. All three of them were from the three-point line. And that's what they want him to do. Quinn Grimes had one. So that's one, two, three. Four, five, six, seven guys hit a three-pointer for the Lakers tonight. There's no hesitation. I was listening. I was at the Lakers game yesterday and listening to J.J. Redick in the postgame basically saying, if you hesitate, if some of these guys are not ready to take a three or they don't want to take it or they're intimidated, something along those lines, right? I'm taking you out of the game. So certainly he found a group tonight that was ready to fire away, ready to shoot, ready to do their job, and they did. Some of these other role players, by the way, I thought it was nice to obviously see Zyre Williams back in just 15 minutes of play. Nine points, and I thought hit some big threes, some timely threes. So nice job from him. I thought Mamu had one of his better all-around games for the Lakers, 13 points, four assists, and three rebounds. Great to see him. He's got a nice little connection, it seems like, with Luka. They're both on the same page. I mean, Mamu yesterday, I was listening to him, And, um, I was in the locker room yesterday, have an opportunity to be there. And the way he was complimenting, actually, I posted the video. I posted the video, I think on a short here and on, on Twitter and X or on X and Instagram and the way he compliments and the way he just like, he's like in awe about Luka Doncic. And I'm sure Luka appreciates that. And I think those two will continue to grow together and mama will continue to have a good role for the Lakers. Um, A couple other players to point out, Quinton Grimes with seven points, four rebounds, and four assists. I think most Laker fans want to see a little bit more from Quinton Grimes. You haven't seen all that much. I'll take the four rebounds, the four assists. I think that's obviously definitely, definitely good stats for him. I know points we want to see more from him. Just checking to see if he had any steals or blocks. Nothing there. Colin Sexton with five assists and six points for him. So a lot of these other role plays. let me actually also point out a role player. I was going to point this out a little bit earlier and I forgot to do so, but now's a perfect time to do it. Um, the other player that I will say is, um, I will point out, uh, Jake LaRavia, you know, LaRavia will never get talked about. He just won't like, it just, uh, it just won't get talked about. It just, you know, we pay a lot of our attention towards other players and, You got these stars or Luka Doncic is kind of the head of the snake and everything else. Man, I loved watching Jake LaRavia tonight. 26 minutes of play. And the stats are not crazy or anything like that. Did end up seven points, four rebounds, two block shots. I don't want to see four turnovers from Jake LaRavia. That part is terrible. And I know, you know, obviously you don't want to see that. But damn, this dude is just like he's all over the place. He's hustling. You know, they had him guarding. Bam Adebayo, that's who was technically guarding Bam Adebayo tonight was Jake LaRavia. And again, I know there's so many other storylines in a game that it's tough to kind of give him, tough to carve out some time for him. But you also got to be, I think, fair to Jake LaRavia. I thought he was great tonight. I just thought his hustle was good. His energy was good. He stoned his body all over the place. Offensive rebounds, some of those offensive rebounds led to a Luke of three Um, I thought he, I thought he provided some good minutes for the Lakers. So I just want to point that out here. And as I say, bam, I mean, I'm sure bam had pretty good numbers. Let's see five, a 10 from the field, 16 points, nine rebounds. I very, you know, that's not a great night from bam out of Bayou. Right. So I think the fact that, uh, Jake LaRavia kind of held his own to the best of his ability, I think is impressive and a good for, good for Jake LaRavia for making that happen. So I got to get into, um, Austin Reeves, uh, Uh, Walker Kessler, I'll spend a little bit of time on as well. So I'll get to that in just a second, but let's, uh, let's start taking a look at, uh, some of the comments here and, uh, and we'll go from there. Let's see what we got here. Um, let's see. Let's see. Let's see. Okay. Here's one here. Heavy, heavy minutes for Luca is pathetic with this 20 plus lead with four minutes to go in the fourth. So I am going to tell you this. I will say that yesterday Redick had said,
you guys remember what happened yesterday, Lakers and the Raptors. And by the way, it's damn impressive to go back to back the way they did in these two games. And I will make the argument that this is probably their most impressive win of the season. I thought just the way they played and the way they controlled the game and the way they just– the game was never in jeopardy. And I would say Miami, obviously more talented than the Clippers or more talented than some of these other Ws that they had. More talented than Utah. Portland obviously beat the Lakers. Warriors, Lakers got one. They got one. Played the Clippers twice. So it's not like they've had the toughest schedule up to this point. But I think this, you know, if you watched the game yesterday, you did realize that J.J. Redick had to go back as he pulled all the starters out he had to eventually go back. And he said yesterday that he won't make the same mistake again. He'll be a little bit more strategic when to take out some of these players. So I wouldn't call it pathetic. I would call it, hey, let's not put my team back in the same situation where Luka Doncic basically unties his shoes. He's got to tie him back on. Austin Reeves has given his headband to a fan. He's got to ask for it back because they got to go in. So I think he was just a little bit more strategic from that perspective and didn't want to screw up the game. If I'm looking at Luka's numbers, 36 minutes tonight. Yeah, I mean, listen, am I worried about Luka's minutes on November 2nd? I'm not. Will I be worried about Luka's numbers a little bit later? Sure, of course. Why not? Why wouldn't I be? All right, let's get some more here. LaRavia, solid minutes tonight. I agree. I 100% agree with that. Jake is not a starter tonight. You know, ideally, of course, he's not. He's a player that you bring in off the bench. And I think that might talk a little bit to, you know, the Lakers kind of trying to figure some stuff out. I don't disagree that he's in an ideal world. He's not a starter. But for now, however, however, J.J. Redick is going to use some of these guys. I think eventually Zaire Williams will be back in the starting lineup. So I think Zaire obviously hadn't played here in a couple of games. They're slowly bringing him back. He plays 15 minutes tonight, so it's not like he played big minutes. But he had a good impact. I thought he had a really good impact in this game. All right, let's take care of some of our supers here. Thank you very much. Thank you. Appreciate you very much there. Got a 10 spot here coming in from Jose. Jose, I appreciate you. Slee, great win tonight. Luca is a killer. Can we get one of your vintage fist pumps for today's win? Some of these people with these fist pumps. It's funny. It's funny to me. Anyways, I got you, brother. Thank you very much. I appreciate the super. Was it when I got... It's just, you know, you know. I know, not as much anymore. Not as much anymore. I appreciate this. By the way, the whole killer thing, Luca is a killer. Um... You know, I think there really truly are just a handful of killers in the league. There really is. There really is truly just a handful of killers in the NBA. And he's one of those guys. You know, it's funny. I'll tell you guys a story. So yesterday, you know, I'm in the locker room and you're seeing some of these guys and it's like some of these dudes they have. I mean, you guys remember LeBron back in the day. They completely chiseled, right? Like these guys, no body fat at all. Luka just walks in like he's just strolling like a walk in the park. He's like, yeah, I just dropped 42, 45, whatever he had. I mean, he really truly is. It's unique. It's very unique. And he does it his way. And it's his style. And it's not like you're looking at his body and being like, oh, this is the most fit guy in the world. He's his own speed, his own pace. However you want to look at it. And he is he's a bona fide killer like he really truly is. He's one of those players in the league where you look at another team and they just look like they're looking at each other like I don't think there's anything we can do. There aren't too many players in the NBA that could do that. You know, there really isn't. It's like you think of guys like when KD used to get it going. It's like just get out of his way. And I think is a good example of, you know, when Anthony Edwards gets it going, you just get out of his way. Jokic around the basket. There's times there's nothing you can do. Shea, it's like a combination of all these different things you can't. But Luka's as unique of a player we'll ever see in the league. He really is. And I think the point that you said here about the killer, you're 100% right. And shout out to Jose. I appreciate you with the super there, brother. I appreciate you very much. All right, let's get some more comments in here. JJ is going to waste a year of Carr's career. If he only plays him in garbage time, 10 minutes a game, Would be enough. He needs actual playing time to develop. Okay, we'll talk about that. Do I want to do that right now? Yeah, let's do it right now. Let me answer this question here real quick. Guys, I don't know what you want me to tell you, but they are trying to win here. So I think Cameron Carr is going to get some opportunities. But don't be shocked if Cameron Carr is not getting 10, 15 minutes a game. Don't be shocked about that. He's raw. And there's going to be other players out there that JJ Redick's just going to feel more comfortable with. I don't mind. Yes. Try to get this guy some minutes here and there, but you also can't, you can't force it, right? Like you just can't force playing a guy. And listen, I'm all in on the, you got to develop your players. Like that's today's NBA. You're a hundred percent, right? You got to develop your players, but he was literally just yesterday. I think he was cleared to play and, Give the man a second and let J.J. Redick
kind of make those decisions of how he's going to use him. I would tell you just as important is the is the do zero minutes once a do comes back. So once a do is healthy is how they're going to use him, how many minutes he's going to get. I think all that stuff's going to be important. So I would just say, you know, I wouldn't worry all that much right now about Cameron Carr. What I would worry about is are you winning games? Are all the role players that you just brought in? Are they getting more and more comfortable? Is, is the rotation starting to gain some continuity? Are you winning games? You're supposed to be winning is Walker Kessler and Austin reason. Some of these are in Quinton Grimes and some of these other players, are they playing the right way and feeling more comfortable? I just think there's more things to worry about right now than his Cameron car getting some minutes. So that's what I would say to that. And I, and I, I'm with you on the you got to develop your youngsters. And, you know, we've talked here when they waived Delta Connect, it was like, there's another wasted first rounder. I'm with you. You really have to do that. But at the same time, let them be strategic with how they do it. and let them kind of figure out how that's going to happen. And I would focus just as much on Adu Thiro and Thiro getting minutes when he's healthy because I actually think they need Adu Thiro more this year than they would need a guy like Cameron Carr. What Thiro brings to the table is going to be different than what Cameron Carr does, and I think they need more of what Thiro would bring. Okay, let's take a look at some more. Oh, no, no, let's not go calm. Let me get into some of this other stuff here. Walker Kessler here real quick. Let's look at Walker Kessler. Three straight games, Walker Kessler with a double-double. All right? Let me show you here. Here's Walker Kessler against the Golden State Warriors. 10 points, 13 rebounds, 5 blocks. I know they lost that game. Yesterday against Toronto, 16 points, 15 rebounds, 3 blocks. And then tonight against Miami, 15 points... and 15 rebounds, no block shots, a couple of steals. I know guys want to, everybody wants to see him with some block shots. Um, I think Kessler's had a nice little run here. This is a kind of a nice, impressive run for him. And I think this is probably the category that he needs to always be in. All right. Maybe you're not going to grab 15 rebounds a game, but damn, you're pretty damn close to it. I mean, his last three, 13, 15 and 15. Um, I think ideally the points would get into that 18, 19-point range. I think that would be phenomenal for the Lakers. But they're also putting up– they scored 138 tonight. So how much do you need from Walker Kessler if you're putting up 138? I think more importantly for Kessler is just kind of establishing the whole, hey, the defensive identity, everything runs through me. I'm the anchor down here. You bring anybody, you get your guy off
the three-point line and you try to get him to drive– and everybody rotate properly, and I'll clean this mess up in the middle. That's really what you're asking Walker Kessler to be for you. But three straight games. Look, 10-13 with five blocks, 16-15 with three blocks, and then 15-15 with two steals and no block shots. So you take those averages over those last three games, all right, I don't think there's too many Laker fans who are going to complain all that much about it. Is his offensive game too raw? Yes, I agree with you. Does he need to be better with his free throws? Yes. I agree with you on that. Are there areas to his game he can improve? Absolutely. He's 24 years old. He's going to be with the Lakers for a handful of years. And I'll tell you one thing that I could tell with Kessler right out the gate. He's got a motor. I like that. There is no taking plays off. There is no I'm not going to hustle. There is none of that. He's there to try to win games. And, you know, I mentioned this yesterday in the postgame show. If you guys haven't listened to Kessler in any of, like, these interviews or postgame shows, take a listen to him. I mean, he's a great listen. His knowledge of the game. He's got a dry sense of humor. You know, he's having fun out there. Like, there's a lot to like about Walker Kessler. And I do think Walker Kessler obviously still got kind of a ways to go of what would be the perfect version of him, but I'll take these stats. I mean, these stats, minus the blocked shots tonight, I'll take these stats. And again, there's a lot of times, you know, I listen to Stu Lance and listening to Billy Mack, and there are a lot of times when I'm listening to these guys, they will say something to the effect of like, hey, you don't get a blocked shot for that, but that bucket doesn't go in because of the way he contested a shot, and that's obviously kind of in the DNA of Walker Kessler as well. So I think that part is important to point out. Okay, more of your comments, and then I want to talk Austin Reeves as well. So get ready to give– here's what I want from listeners tonight. I want you to– well, actually, no, let me read a couple of these, and then we'll get into it. Give me a couple Austin Reeves compliments tonight, okay? Throw a couple Austin Reeves. Even if you're one of those people that, you know, gas prices are going up, you blame it on Austin Reeves, all right? Your AC is not working. You immediately say, well, this is Reeves' fault, okay? Um, just, just find a way, find it deep down to find, get a couple compliments in there for Austin Reese tonight. So I want to spend a little time talking to Austin Reese. We'll do that in just a second. Better than Hayton and Hayes. Giannis is overrated. Glad he's in Miami. I like Kessler. Kessler is impressive. Um, I'm gonna, I'm going to, uh, let's see. Let's see. Kessler just needs to be more aggressive. But he's been solid these last few games. Kessler was solid today. You can tell
Giannis was scared to take it to the bucket versus Kessler. Never seen Giannis scared to take it to the bucket. I'm probably going a little too far on that one. But let me get some more in here. Giannis could not bully Kessler. Okay, that part I can see that. I will never trade Kessler for Joker. I don't care if Joker... I don't know if you really mean that one. All right, let's get a couple more here. Great center for Luka. Doesn't need the ball to make a difference. That's a great point there, Jason. You're 100% right there. And that's, I think, kind of what they were looking for, right? Can you get somebody to play defense? Get somebody to be your anchor on defense? Get somebody that doesn't need the ball. Get somebody that's not going to whine and complain, hey, I need the ball if you want me to do this. That ain't Walker Kessler. And frankly, his offensive game isn't good enough for him to do that. So maybe if he was better... Maybe if he was better as an offensive player, he would whine more about that type of stuff. Good comments here on Kessler. I agree with you guys here. Get another one here. Grimes has been kind of disappointing, but I'll give him time to get used to playing with the Lakers. I agree with you. And Grimes was kind of the one I was most excited about. I thought Grimes would be a good fit for the Lakers. But the good thing is there's plenty of basketball left, and he'll hopefully figure some stuff out. Zaire has been the best pickup next season. To Walker Kessler. Let's see what he's got here. I'm glad Kessler is with us. We need to give this team some time. Okay. All right. We're going to talk Austin Reeves here in a second. I haven't looked down. I haven't gone all the way down. I'm just assuming you guys are lobbing Austin Reeves compliments left and right. I mean, I'm just waiting for the moment that I go down and people are going to be like, Reeves, the closest thing to Michael Jordan that I've ever seen. I'm waiting for all those because I know they're coming. I know they're coming. All right, we're going to talk Reeves in just a second. Before we do so, we got some great partners that we, of course, want to give some love to on the channel. Some great partners that support the channel. And I hope you guys will support them as well. If you ever need an injury attorney, wallacewins.com. Very, very easy to talk about Brad Wallace and the Wallace firm. They could help anybody in the state of California. Big Laker fans. And they've helped our listeners before. So a serious injury, wrongful death case. Probably the best advice I can give. If you're in some type of legal situation, you're not 100% sure what to do. It's an intimidating process. Look, I... I don't want to be in that process. I don't want to be in that situation. But damn, can it give you some comfort? if you say to yourself, well, I could turn to somebody that is a pro that goes through this stuff every single day. I had somebody one time reach out to me on
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wants to try to get to the basket or try to cross over a guy or try to draw a foul or something along those lines. I know that's part of his game. I'm not telling you that that's not part of his game. But in the process of Austin Reeves trying to do A, B, and C, he churns the ball over a ton. and guys are getting hands on the ball, and guys are getting deflections, or guys are trapping him and he's not 100% sure what to do, or he's just too small and he can't look over guys like Luka Doncic does or some of these other greats that are in the league. I think part of Austin Reeves' struggle so far this year, it's primarily the turnovers, but I also think he's trying to do too much. Yeah, it's not a good idea to try to dribble through traffic. It's not a good idea to try to dribble through really, really good defenders. And yes, I know sometimes he's rewarded for it because he gets to the free throw line, or he can get some separation from a guy and then puts up a bucket. I know. I saw it today. He did it with Klay Thompson. I think one, he got an offensive foul, but there's other possessions. He's drawn fouls and everything else. I know this is all kind of part of Austin Reeves' game. But I like those couple of possessions today where it was like, hey, I'm just catching and firing. as if he was Klay Thompson, or as if he was one of these other role players with the Lakers, that I'm a damn good shooter. If I can get a good shot off, let me just get a good shot off. I feel like he's making his life too difficult, is what I would say. So the 10 of 15 from the field is phenomenal from Austin Reeves tonight. That's a really, really good number in 34 minutes of play. 27 points off just 15 field goal attempts is a phenomenal number. But I'm going to go back to There's a little bit of Austin Reeves right now that I'm watching when I'm struggling. Number one, maybe not looking to pass as much and facilitate, and I do think he's a good passer. And number two, just trying to do too much with the ball. Simplify it. Make your life a little bit easier. You know, a lot of these teams are kind of, hey, let this guy, make sure this guy puts the ball down and make him dribble and trap him when you need to and be extra aggressive on him. They got plenty of film on Austin Reeves, so that's what I would say on Reeves. Thought there was some good tonight. Much better than his last couple of games. But I also think, obviously, those turnovers are a killer. And right now, that's a big part of his game, and he's going to have to change it. He's going to have to change it. I mean, that's an area of his game where, to be honest with you, there really just isn't much negotiation on it. He can't have games like that. Okay, now I'm going to go to the bottom of the comments. You better have some compliments. I mean, I'm not asking for you guys to say he's the greatest player in the league, but just a couple compliments we could throw in here for the guy. All right, let's see what
we have here. Agree, keep it simple. One-to-one turnover ratio is ridiculous, okay? Not really a compliment there. Correct, catch and shoot would serve AR well. I'm not saying you got to do it every possession. I'm saying when you got a good shot, go, take the shot. I mean, clearly the Lakers, that's kind of their game plan right now. Best shot available, fire. I mean, literally, you got J.J. Redick. threatening the team yesterday and basically saying, if you don't catch and shoot and you're not ready to shoot, I'm going to take you out of the game. I think that should apply to Austin Reeves, not take him out of the game, but I think that the mentality of, I know Austin Reeves can dribble. You ain't Luka. And there's other teams out there that are going to, you know, they'll make their adjustments. You can make adjustments to Austin Reeves. You can't make adjustments to Luka. So I think the catch and shoot was shooting well. By the way, if he starts catching and shooting and actually hitting his threes, Now you're kind of in more of a rhythm. And if Austin Reeves from there on the catch and shoot threes, now defense has got to kind of figure out, all right, do I back up a little bit? Like he opens up his game a little bit more. His averages don't look like he's struggling. I don't know. Watch his game. I think, I think his averages are a little bit deceiving. I think it's very difficult for him to get a bucket at times, or at least, you know, it's obviously it's a lot of work, which is fine. All good. Not that big of a deal. But the turnovers, you know, turnovers are not exactly his strong suit. His ball handling is laughable for a guard. He fumbles the ball way too often with his usage rate. He does too much. Dude, you're supposedly second option. The better teams will make us pay come playoff basketball. Was this the compliment I said throw out here? Was this the compliment? I see one more here. AR is trying to justify the contract to the haters. If I'm being honest with you, the more you try to uh, justify the contract, the more I think he's going to struggle. By the way, I don't know what he can do to justify that contract. I mean, that's, that's a deep contract. That's a, that's a very, very, uh, expensive, uh, expensive, uh, contract. Miami has no back court turnover machine. Um, Reeves knows how to parallel park. Okay. That one's good. Um, There we go. That's all I was asking for. Just, you know, one compliment, Kenneth. That's all I was looking for. Reese says, great. All right, now I see what you guys are doing here. When I say give him a compliment, you guys are just giving him compliments outside of anything that's basketball. That's pretty funny. That's some creative people on here. Austin has been constantly turning the ball over and his handling is questionable. Yeah, I know. I mean, that's obviously... That's obviously a big, big piece of some of the frustrations with Austin Reeves. Okay, good stuff. That's actually a great dialogue right there. And it's going to be, this is the best thing that I can say, and I really do mean it when I say it. I think he can make his life a little bit easier by being a little bit more of a catch-and-shoot player when he can. And listen, maybe sometimes you're saying, Like you guys said, he's trying to justify that contract, whatever the case is. Okay, let's look forward here a little bit, and I'm going to be honest with everybody. I have absolutely no idea what the Kings are doing, even though I think I heard them say on the broadcast tonight that they won their first game tonight. Did you guys see Draymond Green and Dylan Brooks? Jesus Lord. Draymond had a look in his face. Let's just say no thank you. I'd be a little intimidated by that one. The guy's got crazy eyes sometimes, man. Anyways, well, here's what it is. Him and Dylan Brooks were getting into it. Let's take a look at the Sacramento Kings. They won at Dallas by 15. What? All right, let's take a look at the Sacramento Kings game. who are one of the worst-run franchises in all of sports. I think we could all agree with that. They beat Dallas, so let's take a quick look at them. Let's see who they got. Sabonis, DeAndre Hunter, Precious Achua, Zach Levine, Akuf Jr. Oh, is this Darius Akuf Jr.? That guy's not bad. That guy's actually pretty decent. Man, this ain't exactly the most intimidating roster. Malik Monk, 24 points coming off the bench. All right, so Lakers are going to win against the Sacramento Kings, so we don't have to worry about that on Wednesday, I know. Let's see who they've lost to so far this year. Sacramento, what a, you know, just an awful organization. Clippers, Portland, Memphis, San Antonio, New Orleans, Memphis, and they get their first win against the Dallas Mavericks tonight. So that's their first W. So Lakers got a Sacramento coming up on Wednesday. It's a home game for the Sacramento Kings, so that's the next game for the Lakers. I mean, I'm just trying to be as nice as possible. They are truly one of the worst organizations in all of sports. I mean, I don't understand. I don't understand how you can be that bad, and I guess maybe the best way to describe it is you have an owner that will just refuse us to make any– make any, I don't know, changes if you want to call it, or maybe it's too much in the way, whatever you want to call it. All right, NBA scoreboard. Look at some scores around the NBA. Thunder over the Cavs, okay. Cavs playing with all their guys in this one. Let me just double check here. So Shea, A.J. Mitchell. Shea with 43 tonight. All right, we know obviously all their injuries. Yep, they got everybody. Cleveland can't beat the Oklahoma City Thunder without a lot of their players. All right, scores around the NBA. Let's do this real quick. Pistons over the Hornets. Hawks over the Pacers. Knicks beat the Nets. Wizards over the Magic. 76ers over the Bulls. Kings, I mentioned, over the Mavericks. That's right. They got every team played
tonight because election tomorrow. So every single team played tonight. Timberwolves over the Bucks. Rockets over the Celtics. Spurs over the Jazz. Blazers over the Nuggets. Look at Portland, man. They keep winning here. Warriors beat the Suns. I want to say Warriors now 4-3, win four in a row after their losses. Raptors beat the Clippers, and then Lakers over the Heat. If you're a standings, you want to know where everybody stands. Here we are in the West. Houston is 7-1, Memphis 6-1, Portland 5-1, Lakers 6-2, and then the Oklahoma City Thunder and San Antonio Spurs both have 5-2 as well. So that's where the Lakers are in the Western Conference. That's where everybody stands. East, Philly 7-1, Detroit 6-1. And then the Boston Celtics sitting at 5-2. Look at Anthony Davis and the Washington Wizards, top four. All right, not too bad there, not too bad there. All right, we will spend the rest of the show looking at a handful of comments here, and then we're going to call it a Monday. Good start to the week, fun to do the show this morning, and fun to obviously be hanging out with you guys here for the postgame show. If there is one position or player to put us over the top sleeve, Give it to me, brother. Well, I think it's, you know, I don't think a backup center puts you over the top, but I think a really good starting forward probably would. Power forward would. So, you know, how they're going to get that player, I'm not sure. I think right now, based on, you know, where the Lakers are sitting, I think there's a little bit of they'll probably try to get a backup center because it's going to be a lot cheaper. But do I think they have a starting four? I don't. So, you know, how they get there, I'm not 100% sure. All right. Hey, Slee. JJ took AR off the ball and used Sexton Moore as a primary ball hander, which made AR look better. Yes, I agree with that. There's a couple other possessions, too. They tried using Quinton Grimes, which is not smooth. They tried having Zaire bring the ball up. Not smooth. But, yeah, I think there's something to that. I think there's something to... I think there's, again, I think, I think teams are not concerned with, I don't think they're concerned with Austin Reeves bringing the ball up. Like I think they're going to put pressure on him. So I think there's something to that. I think there is, what are some different ways that you can get Austin Reeves to be a better version of himself? And I think clearly the Lakers got to find ways of doing that. So. Matisse Theibel is my favorite new Laker. He does a couple things that I really like. Theibel does. Number one, his catch and shoot. Damn. I mean, that ball not even in his hands yet, and he's already going with his release. Kind of reminds me a little bit of Nicholas Batum. Remember Batum back in the days? I think there's kind of similarities to some of their games. I think there's a little bit of a comp there. And he also plays great defense, and he's just got a great
feel for the game. So I think Theibel has definitely, definitely– has shown his value at such a minimal price. So I think there's going to be a lot of Lake fans. Whether that's their favorite player or not, I think they're going to show some love to him. Let's see what else here. By the way, a quick little side note here. You know, if you guys happen to go on the Pac-12 network tomorrow, I think they stream all their games live on YouTube. So a little San Diego State Fullerton tomorrow. If you guys just happen to tune into that around 7 o'clock, maybe your boy here is doing a little color for San Diego State Fullerton tomorrow. Maybe. Just maybe. It is cool the way they have it. Like straight up, Pac-12 Network has their own, you know, obviously has their own network. And they stream these games live. And I'm going to do a little color tomorrow. So it will be the first time I'm doing color TV. I did the radio thing and then landed a couple of these for TV as well. So that's going to be fun to do. I'm looking forward to that. So if you're looking for me tomorrow night, you can find me. Call a little basketball here. You guys know this is my lane here. This is what I enjoy doing. So something to keep in mind tomorrow. All right, let's see what else we got here. Green definitely stabbed my back. Some of it. You know, sometimes you get fed like on YouTube. You'll get fed like, you know, altercations, biggest altercations, biggest fights, even though we know they're not fights. Draymond's like half the video. I'm like, wait a minute, this thing was 17 minutes. I feel like I've seen Draymond Green nine times already. I mean, the guy loses it. He definitely loses it. Six and two right now are the Lakers. Got a chance to go seven and two on Wednesday. Who do they play after that? I think I mentioned this to you guys, but Lou Williams had mentioned in one of their podcasts they do, the Run It Back TV. He said something like, you know how many times as a player you got to March and April and you're fighting for positioning and you're like, damn, if we'd have just won those couple of games that were in October and November. When he said that, I was like, yeah, man, that's a great way to look at it. Lakers right now just That schedule is favorable to them early on. Take advantage of it. Try to take advantage of some of that continuity and everything else. I think that's obviously going to be important for the Lakers. All right, let me see this. I just want to see the schedule here real quick. So they go Sacramento. Then they're home again against Portland. So they get another shot at Portland. They'll have a couple of interesting games, right? You got Portland, who's already beat you and has a really good record. You got Detroit, at Detroit after that. So Friday, Sunday, they go Portland and Detroit. I think that's going to be a good, kind of a good weekend for the Lakers, a good little test for the Lakers to see how they're doing with those two games. So Portland and Detroit. Then they're going to go on this little Eastern Conference road trip here. So we'll go from there. Did you see LeBron take a sip of wine mid-game? Oh, LeBron. Look at LeBron. Look at LeBron. Listen, when you're LeBron James, you kind of can do whatever you want to do. You can do whatever you want to do. Okay, I think we are good. Are we good? Got everything here? Slee, do you think LaRavia will continue to start or Zaire Williams be back? I think once he gets to a point where Zaire's ready to go and kind of get back into his regular... 25 to 30 minutes a game, I think it's going to be Zaire. So why not? Listen, I I tried giving, um, I tried giving some love to Jake LaRavia today's cause I thought LaRavia did a good job. So I actually, I genuinely thought Jake LaRavia did a good job for the Lakers today. I think he deserves it. All right, let me get the last one in here and then we're done. I like mom. We're bringing the ball up before he generally isn't guarded by someone more skilled than him. That's true. Like you're not going to have too many bigs that are trying to pick them up. And mom was a skilled player, right? He's got a handle. He's got a stroke. He can get to the basket. He can put the ball on the floor. So he's got kind of a very, very unique skill set for his size. Definitely a basketball player and some athlete in him as well. All right, everybody, that's all we got for tonight. Lakers over the Miami Heat, 138 to 117. No show tomorrow. I'll be back on Wednesday morning. Thank you for being a part of the show. please subscribe to the channel if you've yet to do so. I hope you guys have a great rest of your Monday night. I'll see you guys on Wednesday morning. Thank you, everybody.