171. LeBron’s still got it

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the weekend. That was a hugely important Laker win for so many different reasons, not the least of which is the fact that because the Pelicans lost tonight, they now have a two and a half game lead on the ten seat, which is immensely important for what they're trying to accomplish. I guess if they intend to to try to get out of the playing tournament, having that game at home is obviously a very big deal. This was

a thirteen point win. You'd have to go all the way back to January seven against the Atlanta Hawks for the last time the Lakers won a game this convincingly. That's how rare this kind of thing has been. We're gonna break it all down tonight. I want to spend a good amount of time on Lebron and and just because he deserves it for what he's putting forth here

in the last couple of weeks. We're also gonna talk a little bit about Russ and his struggles and a little bit of a you know, seeing it juxtaposed against what he was sent away for is obviously frustrating in a lot of different ways. We're gonna talk about Taylor Horton Tucker, who flashed some crazy All Star place tonight. We'll talk, we'll dig into him a little bit, and

then if you guys stick around for the end. I want to share my thoughts after rewatching Brooklyn Philly in some of the nitty gritty details about that matchup and what it might look like in a playoff series. But I have to start with Lebron. So he finishes with fifty points, seven rebounds and six six assists a team for twenty five from the field. He is now currently leading the NBA in scoring, which is ridiculous. I talked

about this the other day. There are four players in the NBA right now averaging at least twenty nine points on at least true shooting, which is insane. That's just the We're in a golden age of NBA talent. You could argue there are six or seven guys that are top tier superstars right now. With the rise of Nicola Yokich, and with the rise of Joel Embiide, and with the rise of Luca don Chech. That's how deep the top

of the league is. And we are having some all time great seasons that are being put forward by Janie Santana, Coopo, by Joel Embiat, young superstars in their absolute primes. Then we have Kevin Durant, who's also on that list of guys, who's averaging at least twenty nine and at least six true shooting. He is not quite as old as Lebron. He is a little older, but he's very much in his prime. He's putting forth an all time great offensive season, and Lebron is right there with them. It's you know,

Lebron went on his show. I think it was the shot, but I can't even remember where I saw this clip, to be honest with you, but it was recent and he was lamenting his reputation as a score and the fact that he never gets credit for that kind of thing. And I understand the sentiment behind where those people come from, the people that feel like Lebron is not a great score, because what Lebron does lack is just that really really

fine tuned polish. Obviously, if you watch a guy like Kyrie Irving dribbled the basketball, and you watch a guy like Kyrie Irving and his footwork and his shooting ability, it looks a little sharper. I wouldn't even say a little. It looks a lot sharper than what you see from Lebron. But too often that simple detail, that one esthetic detail, is used to undercut everything else about what makes Lebron score.

Because even though he's not the most polished guy in the league, he absolutely is skilled, as you've seen, especially there down the stretch, that crazy fade away he made over Kyle Kuzma over his right shoulder. That's an extremely difficult shot. That running, one legged, fading, floating double pump shot that he banked in off the glass in the third quarter in his run. That is an incredibly difficult

shot that takes a great deal of touch. Obviously, what he does behind the three point line takes a great deal of skill, So there is skill there, even if it's not the prettiest and most polished skill in the league. And then obviously there's the physical element. The dude is like shock as a forward. He has this unbelievable physical set of physical tools that he can use to impose his will on the game. But the most important part of it that people glance over is the way that

Lebron uses his brain to score the basketball. And he does so in two ways. One is with passing his willingness as a passer. Throughout his career, his his relentless pursuit of making the right read on every single play has made it so that teams are reluctant to send

help at him a lot of the time. Not all the time, but a lot of the time, especially when his teammates have it going the way they did tonight, and in those situations because he has passed himself into single coverage, he is facing less individual defensive attention that helps him score. Another huge part of it is understanding angles. How many guys have you guys seen in your lifetime at any level of basketball, including the NBA. The example I think of all the time, it's like Ben McLemore.

If you watched Ben McLamore do a workout, you would think he's the most skilled player you know. You think he's a top level skill, top top tier skilled level shooting guard in the league. The problem is is that he just never understood the angles and how to utilize that skill to create shots. That's kind of what Lebron has absolutely down to a science. If he gets just that little bit of an inch of a step on you, he knows when he can press the issue when he

cannot press the issue. He understands the idea of leverage and getting even bigger, stronger defenders out of position so that he can get to where he needs to go. There are so many elements to what makes Lebron such a great score, and so many people gloss over those elements to try to undercut it as stat padding or he's just bullyball, He's just bullying people. And what they don't understand is he does have a great deal of skill. He does use his passing ability to get open. He

does have a scores mentality. He has that understanding of the intricacies of how to locate and identify opportunities in a defense to get to your own shot. And I hope that at some point, either soon or maybe it's after he retires, I don't know, but I hope that at some point Lebron gets the respect that he deserves, which is that he absolutely no question belongs on the

Mount Rushmore of NBA scores of all time. You have to put him on that list and it will be signed, sealed, and certified as soon as he passes Kareem at some point in the next season. I was really happy for him that he had that kind of night, you know, and and I'm hopeful that over time he will convert people into understanding what he brings to the table. For those of you who are just joining us, this is Lakers Tonight, presented by FanDuel Here. On the volume, we

were just talking about Lebron scoring. I wanted to take a second to talk about his engagement level because I thought it was immensely important at the beginning of the game. I've been incredibly critical of Lebron over since the All Star break for his lack of intensity on the defensive end of the floor and the way that that percolates down the rest of the roster and has caused some of the defensive issues that we've seen from the Lakers. It's caused some of the un serious demeanor that we've

seen from the Lakers. Those things are all related. That's part of following your leader. And one of the things that's frustrating to me about that is I understand the idea that Lebron is in his nineteen season. I understand the idea that it insane to ask him to be one of the best players in the league after all of the mileage that he has on his body. I get that. But even under those qualifiers, what he was giving wasn't enough, and it was directly impact in the team.

I understand the sentimentalit, like I understand why, like tonight, he tried in the first half and they were down seven after after two quarters. That's got to be frustrated when you're one of the best basketball players on the planet and you push your foot down on the gas and it's not enough against the Washington Wizards on your home floor. That's frustrating. So I acknowledge and understand why

it's difficult. I know why he struggles with that. I'm just saying it's not enough anyway, because had they lost tonight for whatever reason, some shots don't go down, he gets thirty five instead of fifty. You know, to Allen doesn't get to hit some of the shots he hits. You know, Malik doesn't hit some of the shots he

hits in the fourth quarter. There's a version of that story where they lose, but at least then you go back to the locker room with the dignity and the respect of the fans because you try and again, no one's asking you to leave your absolute heart and soul out there. That's unfair at this point in your career. But what he was giving wasn't enough. And like we talked about it earlier, with where they are situated in the standings right now, they're actually still is a little

bit of a chance. Look at Brooklyn. Brooklyn last night going into the game was below five hundred. But all it takes is get your talent back on the floor. And play good basketball and play into your strengths. Now I don't think they have enough, but hell, you're gonna put the mileage on your body anyways, chasing Kareem, go for it? Why not try? Did you know that next Wednesday will be one month to the day since Anthony Davis sprained his foot. We're pretty close, probably about two

weeks away from getting Anthony Davis back. You could probably get seven or eight regular season games in with Anthony Davis in preparation for a playoff from why not go for it especially? And this is the most important part, it seems to me. Although I'm a little worried after he had to take some time off after Golden State, he's starting to look a little bit more athletic as time is passing by. I don't know if that's related

to his conditioning and just getting back into shape. I don't know if that's some healing going on with this knee. I don't know. A big part of it will be like, if we get the report from Shams tomorrow or from from David McManaman that Lebron doesn't plan on playing on Sunday, then forget all of this. But if he really is starting to trend in the right direction physically, and if Anthony Davis is right around the corner, why not. If you lose, you lose, you go home, you rest up,

you try again next year. But why not go for it? And I hope they do. The bottom line is what you saw from Lebron defensively tonight, which was nothing crazy. He wasn't out there like Draymond. He just put a respectable effort on that side of the floor. And that is enough for this team to look competent. And that's all I ask for from Lebron. It's literally it. I don't even care if he takes a few possessions off

here and there, that's not the issue. It's that unbelievable, you know, embarrassing, let letting go of the rope that was taking place right after the alcar break. That's what can't happen, regardless of how many miles you have in, regardless of how great your resume is. But a big night for Lebron and I'm glad we were able to get to see that, and we gotta enjoy this for as long as we can. I wanted to move on to Russ because he obviously had a really rough game.

He's had a handful of decent games as of late. I I I almost cracked myself up sometimes with the bar that I evaluate Russ with, I pretty much say he played okay if he didn't actively sabotage the team. One of the most frustrating parts of this season has been not even just Russ fans, but the pockets of fans that have tried to convince us that he's been

good when he very much has not. The good games have been the outliers, the games where he has, like, you know, a thirty point triple double like you did against the Rocket, those are the outlier performances. More often than not, that hasn't been the case, and that's typical for an aging star. That's what happens. You tend to have a handful of moments where you can kind of look like your old self, but for the most part

you can. And even in that Houston Rockets game, which was one of his better games, as you saw in the video I tweeted out earlier, he was bad and crunch Time took two really bad jump shots, smoked three layups right at the ram, two of which were remarkably easy layups. You know that's that's just kind of the reality of where we're at with the Russell Westbrook experience right now. Vandel sports Book is an official sports betting partner of the NBA, and with FanDuel same game parlays,

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me too? As I really look back at this, which is normal to do when you're playing against the team that you traded these guys too, that you traded these guys four, you know there there is a case to be made that the two worst trades in NBA history involved Russ at Westbrook. And it's wild because a normal terrible NBA trade is like what you saw with the Boston Celtics and the Brooklyn Nets in the early two

thousand tents. It's we want to win now, so we cash in a ton of assets for some older established players. They come in were relevant for a little while. That Brooklyn Nets team was you know, they were winning at home, trailing two games to one. You know, they had a chance to tie that series before Lebron dropped forty nine on him and knocked them out. That was a good basketball team. They cashed in for that moment, and then they fell apart, and then it became one of the

worst trades ever because they lost all those assets. That's usually what a bad NBA trade looks like. Or it'll be like James Harden, you know, like the Harden trade. We thought, yeah, maybe James Harden might become a superstar, but he just played horrible on the Finals, like we didn't know what he was gonna be like. Usually, that's what a bad NBA trade looks like. What is so unusual about these trades. Let's go back to Chris Paul.

The Houston Rockets are so unbelievably good that they had the one of the in my opinion, the most talented roster of all time, that two thousand seventeen, two thousand eighteen Warriors roster. They had them on the ropes. That's how good that Houston Rockets team was. But because James Harden had a personal beef with Chris Paul, they shipped Chris Paul and two first round picks and two pick

swamps for Russell Westbrook. So not only was Russell Westbrook the not the best player in the trade, but there were assets attached to it. And here we are again. Since December, Kyle Kuzma is averaging twenty one point eight points, nine point four rebounds, and four assists on percent true shooting. In the same span, Russell Westbrook is averaging sixteen point eight points, seven point four rebounds in six point one

assists on forty eight point one percent true shooting. He's below when we wait everything with his three point shots in his free throws. That's how ridiculously bad he's been in this stretch. And Kyle Kuzma is a much better defensive player. There are thirty one NBA players this year that have attempted at least five shots in the restricted area per game. Russ would be dead last in that group.

If it wasn't for Damian Lillard trying to play through an abdominal injury for a part of the season this year, Dame was dead last Russ Smith is three point two shots in the restricted area per game. That's how bad he's been this year. Kyle Kuzma very clearly was the best player the trade, and he was attached to a really good role player in Contavious Caldwell Pope, another really good role player in Montrez Harrold, and a first round

draft pick, and the Lakers took back more salary. Now, to be clear, it's Genie Buss's fault that they didn't pay Alex Crusoe, but we also know, because Alex admitted it, they offered him six millions. So if they didn't take more money back in the Russell Westbrook trade, there simply would be more money available to try to counter the

bulls and try to make a deal with Alex Crusoe. So, as far as I'm concerned, maybe it's a partial casualty, but it's absolutely, at the very least a partial casualty that Alex Caruso was part of this trade. And it's just wild to me that twice in the last the

last handful of years teams have made this mistake. And it goes to show you that the reputation that Russell Westbrook passed around the league vastly, vastly super recedes what his on court product is, you know, and and it's and it's just frustrating for the fans to watch because it's like in that game tonight, everything for the Lakers was humming on all cylinders except for Russ. It was

actively hurting the team in so many different ways. Those were gut punches, those mislayups he had in transition, him getting into the lane and picking up his dribble, which is the turnover damn near every single time, it's one of the you know, it's wild, and you know, I think it's over this, this sequence of Russ getting traded for more than what his value is worth. My guess is that the Lakers will finally have to attach assets

to him this summer. But man, what a wild ride this Russell Westbrook experience has been as a basketball fan, I can't remember anything like it. I I can't ever remember watching a player as infuriating as Russ. And it's funny because I've been accused by many people, mostly Russ stand of using Russ for engagement baiting or you know, making it about something that it's not and I'm gonna just make this as perfectly clear as I possibly can.

I generally forget that one of the time I tell you guys exactly what I think, I am authentic with you, But I would argue the most authentic opinion I have is the way I feel about Russ. He offends my basketball character as a basketball as a person who grew up around the game of basketball, and right now, I trained kids, I coach kids. I I live and breathe the game of basketball, and the way he plays the game is offensive to me. It's real. I'm not making it up. I have to be honest in the sense

that it affects me. It's a bias, for sure, but I've also gone to great lengths this year to try to circumvent that bias. You guys have heard me on this show. Like I said, I hold him to a ridiculously low bar. When he doesn't actively shave point, it's I credit him after the game. I try hard to be positive about Rus. It's just really really difficult for me. One last Lakers note before we move on, h Taylor Horton.

Tucker continues to show ridiculous All Star flash. He had to move on Corey Kissberg on the right wing right in front of the Lakers bench, where he just did a standard ripped through and then a pullback dribble and Kissberg went out of bounds and he made the shot. And then they're that one in the in the late fourth quarter where he did that like to dribble spin move, which is one It's like it's almost like a full court post uff. It's what Lebron uses all the time.

But he like initiates contact with that first dribble, spins and hits you with his left shoulder, and then takes his second dribble into the lane and then I think he might have pumped baked or it might have been I can't remember what it was, but he had an acrobatic finish in the lane. He in retrospect, if there's there are a couple of silver linings to try to gather from this season, this disaster of a season. One of them is Austin Reeves and finding him the way

that the Lakers did. Another one Stanley Johnson and getting him on a team control veteran minimum contract for next year. I actually really like when you and Gabriel, he showed a lot of really interesting flashes. Tonight, he made a corner three. His ability to run up and down the floor and hang with the pace of the game is amazing,

but a huge net positive here. I would have traded Taylor because I didn't think Anthony Davis was gonna sprain his foot, and I thought the Lakers needed more talent in order to go after what they were going after. But now in retrospect, now that we know Anthony Davis was hurt, now that we know this team can't go anywhere, I'm glad we get one more year to look at Taylor. And maybe we tried him at the next trade deadline,

because that's just what the sixth situation dictates. Maybe he gets moved this summer, I don't know, but at the very least we get to look at him a little while longer. Because this kid just continues to make me

a believer. He's a little bit tunnel vision. He goes through like a couple of weeks spans where he's looking for his teammates and the flow is good, and he it's when he has the ball in his hands as a primary initiator, he's actually a pretty good pass or he's looking first teammates when he's playing off ball as a scoring guard, then he starts to get tunnel vision.

And there were several plays today where you could tell even Lebron was getting discouraged just by some of the shots Tailand was taking as he was kind of getting out of the flow. But I am still a big believer in Tailand, and I'm glad we get to evaluate him for a little bit longer before we decide whether or not we're gonna move on from him or not.

Al Right, before we get out of here tonight, I wanted to take a couple of minutes to take a look at, uh, some of the things that I learned when I dove into the tape from that amazing basketball game between the Brooklyn Nets and the Philadelphia seventy Sixers last night, which, by the way, the the NBA regular

season completely lacks urgency. It's the biggest flaw. When you put on that game last night and you're watching Sixers Nets, there's a feeling to that game and like a tenasy tent, uh, you know, an intensity that is lacking in like of NBA regular season games. And I'm not sure that it can ever be fixed because of the length of the

regular season. It's one of the reasons why I'm actually open to some of the ideas the league has about potentially shortening the regular season, adding a mid season tournament, anything that you might be able to do to make individual regular season basketball games more meaningful. I think another big part of that is spacing games out a little bit because load management is a concern. Uh James Harden missed a huge matchup with the Miami Heat earlier in

the week, which was directly related to hamstring management. If you had teams playing twice a week or three times a week at the max instead of these, you know, seven games every fourteen days kind of deal, I think you might have more stars appearing in the games, which would give you a better television product. That's a whole other thing, but I just I took a minute last night to appreciate what was a rare example of a

very intense and very important regular season basketball game. If you go on my Twitter feed and you scroll down, I took the entire first quarter and I cut it up and gave some notes on what I noticed in the game. I encourage you to go to look at that if you're interested in getting into the weeds a little bit, but I wanted to share just a couple of quick notes from that game. So, first of all, in retrospect, looking back at that game, watching it in detail,

James Harden kind of has two personas. He has his engaged persona in his disengaged persona. His engaged persona is extremely difficult to deal I think about like in two thousand nineteen when he had that game winner on the road in Golden State. He's animated, he's talking shit, he's actively looking for a shot all over the place. He's getting into the paint. He's super, super aggressive. There is a tenacity to him. But the disengaged James Harden, he

it's like it's like he's floating through the game. It's like he's actively hoping that somebody else will do the job for him. He'll make a simple read out of the top of the key, and he's not even really putting any pressure on the defense. I thought it was really, really really bad on the defensive end last night, especially in that first quarter one. Things are falling apart. The same James Harden, who actually defended pretty well in his first few games with the Sixers. So it's like again,

his entire his entire persona. It seems to be directly tied to these kinds of moments, whether it's post he's in pressure, or a game like last night, or he's going up against his former team and they're looking at him in the eyes like screw you, man, We're gonna show you how stupid you were for not wanting to be a part of what we're building here. And that kind of seemed, that vibe seemed to shut James Harden down. You know, there's it's like the difference between going down

fighting and going down floating. James Harden is gonna go down floating when things get tough, and we have so much, so many examples of that that I don't think it's up for debate anymore, to be honest, the next thing I wanted to hit on him was the foul drifting from em beating heartened obviously look bad for all of us watching it live, but on rewatch it was even

worse than you guys think. There were probably a half dozen possessions in that first quarter where either in beat or Harden had an opportunity to make a normal basketball play that had a good chance of working and they bailed on the normal basketball play to do something. Jane, there's a play Joel empiads isolating Nick Clackson on the

right elbow. He's got a live dribble or he's gotta he's in a triple threat and Clason's play off of it, and and Beat could just go up into his jump shot, but instead of doing that, he did weird little pump fakes and like fake rip throughs, like four times trying to elbow Nick Claxton in the face so that he can draw foul, and he ended up turning the ball over. I'm like, as I'm watching the tape, I'm looking at my laptop, like, play basketball. Just play basketball. You're literally

one of the best basketball players in the world. If you play basketball, people can't deal with you. It's when you do this Jankee stuff. Yeah, it has there are days where it works. Hell are you shot thirteen three throws in the first quarter, But we all know that doesn't work in the postseason. Lean into what you're good at, which is basketball. There's another player, James Harden, did the same thing several times twice right at the end of the game. Right at the end of the first quarter

where he had reads. James Harden is a great passer, one of the best passers in the league. I know he saw the open man, but instead he was diving into bodies, trying to draw contact, trying to get a foul because again he's floating through the game. And mark my words, if Embeat and James Harden go down foul drift ng, they'll go down. But if they go down playing basketball, they have a chance to win. I am

still a believer in that core. The other thing I thought was interesting was the way the role players approached the game. And this was typical when you bring in a guy like James Harden, who is a high usage perimeter initiator, and you have guys like Tyres Maxie and who Tobias Harris, who were very very important parts of their offense before the trade. They now have to find out how they fit and I thought too often because they were relegated to off ball rolls when Harden and

Beat had the ball. When they did get the ball, they really tried to force the action and both Tyres Maxie and and and Tobias Harris took a lot of bad shots over the course of that game. Several of which involved opportunities to make easy reads to move the basketball. Meanwhile, on the other and Seth Curry, this was the example that I that stood out the most to me. He's playing off of two really high usage perimeter players, but

he let the game come to him. He he there was two plays where he used a dribble handoff and a pick and roll to get down to the elbow and he just simply pump faked and Tyres Maxie went way past him and he had wide open seventeen foot jump shots, which is a great shot for Seth Curry. He built his rhythm on that. Then he made a wide open three coming off of a dribble handoff, so he got into the game with easy shots rather than

forcing the action. Then he was in a really good rhythm, and then he could start kind of confer a shot more during the staggered lineups when either Durant or Irving was off the floor. There's a little detail there that Tyres Maxie Tobias Harris have to figure out over the next couple of weeks. In general, the Sixers, if you will go back and watch that film that I put on my Twitter feed, the amount of easy reads that the Sixers missed, not just the role players but James

Harden and Joe elm Bad. The amount of easy reads that those guys missed forcing the action was crazy, and I thought it was a huge part of why their offense was stilted and a huge part of how Brooklyn kept getting out in transition. Meanwhile, on the other end, Kevin Durant welcomed any extra defender that came in consistently made the right read, yet he still was able to

get to his shot. The Nets offense just had a way better flow, and as KD mentioned after the game, a huge part of what they did was pushed the ball and transition. When you got lazy guys like James Harden and slow guys like Joe el embiid, if you can run up and down the floor, you can beat them down the floor a lot of times before they can set their defense and get a lot of quality shots. That way to put a bow on it. You know, I said some pretty strong words last night, like I

and I believe them. I do believe Brooklyn would win that series, but after rewatching, I do think Philly is capable of playing a lot better than they did. But again, they got absolutely trounced last night, so they have to play a lot better in order for that to work out,

and Brooklyn's got reinforcements coming Ben Simmons. You know, A huge part, like the one big glaring negative from Brooklyn in that first quarter was Bruce Brown really really struggled offensively and he was put in a short role position where he had to finish around Philly's size a lot, and he struggled with it. There were multiple possessions where

Bruce Brown panicked and threw a garbage around the basket. Now, obviously, if it's game seven of a playoff series, maybe Ben Simmons does have to But I trust Ben Simmons offensively a lot more than that role. Andy's a much better defensive player. There's some little kinks that gotta work out, like you can't play Drummond if you're gonna play Ben Simmons. We saw that being an issue with Bruce Brown even last night. So there's little details I gotta work out.

But I'm that that Brooklyn Hett's team is gonna just continue to get better when Ben Simmons gets integrated into the picture. But Philly far from their best punch last night. They definitely have more. I don't know if it'll be enough, but they're definitely capable of playing a lot better than they did. All right, guys, that is all I have for tonight. Thank you so much, sincerely for coming to hang out. As always, we will be back on Sunday

night post game Laker Sons. Hopefully Lebron plays, Hopefully we get a good game. I will see you guys. It