Lakers Lose Game 5, Rumors Fly On Offseason Moves

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Hello, Lakers Nation ORG. Welcome and to Lakers Nation ORG live. The Lakers come up just short in game five. Another painful loss to the Denver Nuggets ORG so close. Can't help. But leaving that game feeling like the Lakers ORG,let it slip away. An opportunity was there for a win, a couple of things here and there that ultimately led to the loss. That's how close these games against the Nuggets ORG have been. It's always down to one, maybe two plays. And unfortunately, so far, Denver tends to get the better on those. Denver advances and the Lakers ORG season comes to an end.Joining me is Sean PERSON Davis, Sean, not the result that we wanted to see, obviously. The Lakers coming up short, I look at the free throw line as a big reason why not able to knock down enough of their freebies in a game they lost by two to miss nine free throws. That is an absolute killer. And then, of course, that big offensive rebound. They gave away to Aaron Gordon late that turned into a Denver three, have to do better on that. That was also a big possession. That ultimately, I think, really decided this game. Of course, a lot of other things to get into. But your thoughtscoming off of a brutal, brutal loss.

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For a while now, I've kind of said like the most demoralizing play. Really, I said it's because of Golden State GPE. But I mean, this series also just makes it apply to Denver probably honestly more than Golden State GPE, more than anybody. That the most demoralizing playing basketball is an offensive rebound. And there were at least three times down the stretch where Lakers ORG did everything right for 23.8 seconds.And ball drops literally in yoke his hands the one time lay up right in front of the

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room.

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Ball gets bounced out. And I think MPJ hits one. I know it was KCP. And then Braun PERSON doesn't box out. Aaron Gordon, or it was over the back.Either one, don't care at this point. It doesn't matter. Aaron Gordon gets a rebound nonetheless. And Jamal Murray hits the three. Yeah.I mean, just don't have the bodies truthfully, right? And it goes back to what I said towards the beginning of the year, which is why this matchup is so frustrating for me. I said heading into the series, if we had to name the Lakers five best players, we would all say Dilo, Austin, Braun, Rue PERSON, AD.I also said, you can't play those five guys together against them But really is because like who's guarding MPJ And MPJ ORG all freaking series went nuts I mean tonight Michael Porter Jr. I thought out of my box going for me. I guess I got rid of it. I want to see those 25 points for MPJ 26 points

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26 points 8 to 12 shooting 5 of 7 from 3 for MPJ Yep. Yeah. I mean if 26 points 8 to 12 shooting 5 of 7 from 3 for MPJ ORG.

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Yep. Yeah. I mean, if it's almost to the point now where you just this offseason need to fully build your roster to be Denver ORG. And I don't care if that's a flawed process. But like you are going to run into Denver ORG at some point. And why not be prepared?Why not trust that Bron and AD ORG are good enough to get you a series when to get to anybody else? But like, you need more just in terms of personnel. Maybe you need more from a coaching perspective. I'm sure we'll talk about that a lot on tonight's show. But you need more from the roster in terms of the person on how they match up with Denver ORG. But credible shot by Jamal Murray PERSON.And yeah, just gutted. This is the second time this series. Like this team bothers the hell out. I mean, now officially that they did it already.

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I mean, this was this was, we talked about it during the game. This was you went into halftime with a three point lead. It wasn't enough. You lost the third quarter by five, which actually hasn't been as bad as it's been lately. You tied in the fourth.You lose by two. I mean, that's again, you think back on that Aaron Gordon made three out of the blue towards the end of the half.

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What's that?

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The Pan Watson made three.

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Yep, Peyton Watson make it three.

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Reggie Jackson hitting threes against you. I mean, things like that really added up to hurt the Lakers ORG in this one. But final tally, Anthony Davis PERSON couldn't give you much on the offensive event either after getting hurt. AD and LeBron PERSON both got hurt in this game. Anthony Davis, 17 points, 15 rebounds, four assists, two blocks. Again, we've seen much bigger scoring games from him,but he wasn't able to be much of a factor offensively after hurting his shoulder, neck area in that game. 39 and 11 for LeBron on 11 to 21 shooting. Austin Reeves, 19 points, four assists, three steals, two blocks. Sean, I know people will be very critical of Darwin PERSON. I think if you're

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going to criticize Darwin, it's, uh, why did Austin Reeves only play 34 minutes? I look at this.

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When I look at the box score for this game, I can't help one, but think this game was lost in 34 minutes for Austin Reeves and 14 minutes for Spencer Dinwiddie PERSON.

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Like, why?

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And give those five to Austin, and this is probably a Lakers ORG win.

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Take the Dinwiddie minutes out completely.

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Oh, yeah, you could remove completely. I'm saying this game was so close that if you flipped five minutes there,

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this is a Lakers ORG win, that's brutal. That's brutal. You were a minus five with Dinwiddie PERSON on the floor. Austin was a plus one. Yeah, you win this game. If you didn't commit so many minutes to Spencer PERSON,Dinwiddie PERSON.

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Tom Tibino would have played Austin 48 minutes. Oh, yeah. We'd be talking about playing him too much, honestly.

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Sean PERSON, in a do-or-die game,

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how the hell do you not play your,

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your main guys 40 minutes?

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Especially when he was playing well.

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That's just it.

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He was playing well. What do we do?

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Like, oh my God.

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Like, okay, this is such like a cliche term. And there's technically no way to describe it except like you just have to know it. Darwin Ham has his feel for the game at times is really like lacking because we said it during the game where Austin PERSON gets going. He has a couple of nice plays in the first quarter and they go with their normal rotation pattern. And we're like, why? What are we doing?Keep Austin PERSON in, ride the hot hand. They go to the line up we had kind of been asking for. The Gabe, Austin, Bron, Torian PERSON, AD lineup. Gets a bucket immediately, gets to steal immediately. And after a minute, we sub it out for no reasonand change Austin and Gabe PERSON. It's like, no, why? Play the lineup more. Like,

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I'll tell you exactly what happened there, Sean PERSON. That was the plan ahead of time.

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When when they sat down, the coaching staff sat down and they mapped dogs. Everybody does. They mapped out about when they're going to sub guys in and what rotations they're going to use and all that in their game plan. I guarantee you that was when they were supposed to make that change. But that's where you have to feel what's going on in the game. They had just, as you said, they had just had success. You have to stick with that.That's where you have to have that flexibility. Instead, the substitutions, I think, really hurt them in that one. All right, let's get in some of the comments here.

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Lee said Trevor PERSON kept saying, why not on last show? Reminds me of Westbrook PERSON. Say, why not us? I said Reminds me of Westbrook PERSON. What, say, why not us? I said somebody eventually someday will come back from down 03. At the end of the day, why not Master Lock, Trev PERSON? I get, you're upset, but don't be mad at me for saying, why not?Come on, it's a little bit of optimism.

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There's a video really quickly going around on social media uh Austin PERSON on the bench literally advocating for himself to come back into the game like he is on the bench I can tell you the exact time it is 9.51 this is where uh ruy had that shot at the rim they turned down and it leads to like a shot clock violation or whatever and only then and only then it's like Austin looked down the bench and like he he

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actually motions is like does this like what are we doing get me back in the game and then uh

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finally I guess they called down there and he's very frustrated obviously and freaking rightfully so

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man good grief I. I apologize.

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I can tell you this.

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And this comment is obviously

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really upset of Jeannie Buss PERSON for

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disparaging her dad's legacy if she brings back Darwin PERSON. Good series, the coach, good coaching the series goes seven. Okay. So there was a cruel irony here in that the Lakers badly needed a timeout late in this game and didn't have one in a season which we've been begging, Darvin PERSON, to use timeouts.And this time, it burned him because he actually used them. He had to burn an extra one early in the third when Anthony Davis PERSON got hurt. And I think that really came back to Anthem ORG. And then why do you not get your time out back if you win your challenge on the second challenge? That's surprising.But regardless, that really hurt them. The overall point, though, Darvin PERSON's done, right? Yeah. That's got to be it. Right? I mean, when you've got Austin Reeves PERSON, who the team is committed to,jumping and yelling and saying he needs to get back into the game, and you play him 34 minutes in this situation, I didn't think, look, the Lakers ORG offense, there were some moments that I was impressed with what they were running. There were moments you were impressed with what they were running. I'm not saying it's all bad from Darvin Ham PERSON,but you can't make mistakes against Denver ORG and the mistakes added up. Now, some of that, Darwin PERSON can't control free throw shooting, right? But how do you not play Austin PERSON? How do you not play them 40 minutes in this one? That cost you the game right there.

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Yeah, I tweet that out, man. I'm like, you got to play perfect again. The March of Air EVENT is already so small in the playoffs, but it's even more so against Denver ORG. And they were in every single game. The only game where I felt like it kind of got out of reach,I was like, eh, they're probably not winning this one, is game three. I never really thought they were going to win in game three, especially after they lost the lead at that point.

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If that makes sense. And the game one, I thought they had a shot and they kind of just blew it.

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But we're talking about then what? Three of the other five games that like were physically in your hands in this series.

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And just crucial mistakes.

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This is gross.

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Perfect. Oh, gross. Perfect. Oh, boy.

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The Lakers led for 69% of the series.

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And lost in five.

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And lost in five.

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They led for 69% of the series and lost in five. They were winning most of these games. They were beating Denver and lost in five. They were winning most of these games. They were beating Denver and lost in five. Oh, oh, Sean PERSON.

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If it's not Darwin Ham PERSON being fired, I don't know what I want to hear. Uh-oh, wait, wait. Is it?

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Okay, so this is the quote from dave mcmettiman hold on hold harvin ham PERSON it's been a hell of a two years sitting in this seat i'll tell you that

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it's been a hell of a two years

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It'll read potentially that doesn't sound like a coach that thinks he's coming back.

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That's my initial read.

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I mean, that is in no way Frank Vogel PERSON being told on the podium that you're being let go. No way is it that. But that doesn't sound like a coach who thinks he's coming back to me. That's my interpretation. I agree.

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Because, yeah, I agree.

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Giovanni PERSON said those free throws really cost us. They really did. Yeah, I mean, you can't. Again, with Denver ORG, you make mistakes. You lose. They shot 29% from three, and I'm rounded up to get there.They shot 67% at the free throw line. That's the game. That's how close it is. That's how close these matchups are with Denver ORG. Wicked Bronco, I blame you, Sean PERSON. Latrev PERSON shouldn't let him on playback, L.O.L.In all seriousness, thank you, Nuggets ORG for firing ham on to next season and hopefully Trey or Mitchell PERSON and MasterLock Ham for not playing Vando PERSON. That's another thing. Jared Vanderbilt PERSON was back,was available. Why? Like, why not play him? And Dinwiddie PERSON hit a couple threes, but I thought for sure, Vando was going to play. You would take some minutes away from Dinwiddie PERSON hit a couple threes, but I thought for sure,Vando PERSON was going to play. You would take some minutes away from Dinwiddie PERSON. Vando PERSON could get some minutes there defending. He's back. And they kept him on the bench. Oh, man.Especially when Rui PERSON was losing Michael Porter Jr. Again, why did Vando PERSON stay glued to the bench? Unless maybe he's truly not 100% and that was just, hey,technically he could play in a break glass in case of emergency situation. But let's let's let Denver ORG know he's back just to give them something else to think about. Maybe that's what was going on. I would hope,

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I guess. And guys, really quick, because I do kicked my my stand for a sec if I am looking like to my right or to my left I'm looking at my monitor or try to like make sure we don't lose any breaking news I am actively paying attention to Trevor PERSON I so make sure we get that clear sometimes people in the chat think I'm ignoring Trevor PERSON um but yeah with the bandothing um I guess the argument could be also that he hasn't played since February 1st. It's like, is it fair to Vando even to throw him into the fire for a play, for an elimination game five?

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Trevor PERSON, where do I need to look?

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Did you see it?

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Lakers Nation ORG account?

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Did you see it?

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What do I need to look?

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Oh, God. I'll just rate it to you. I have the Lakers Nation ORG account. Did you see it? What do I need to look? I'll just rate it to you.

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I have the Lakers Nation ORG account.

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Okay.

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The Lakers Nation ORG account.

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Here, I'll put it up on the screen.

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Who is it?

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Who is it? Darwin PERSON.

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Oh, I think I've seen it.

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Yep, I saw that. Okay, never mind. Oh, man.

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Darwin, Halma, the Lakers ORG moving forward. Stay healthy. You take a lot of flack for your rotations and all that. Rotations are secondary. The primary is health. AKA, it's not my fault.They were healthy. Or they weren't healthy. That's the translation for that. That's the translation. It's not my rotations that were the problem it's that guys got hurt yeah the guy he's gotten criticized all season for not taking accountability

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should we be should we be surprised at this point that on his way out, he's not, he's still not going to take accountability.

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It's all on injuries.

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It's not on the rotations. This guy, man.

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He had a healthy for multiple season.

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Dog,

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Braun played what 76 game?

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No,

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how many,

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no,

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Braun played 71, 80 played 76? Yeah. Oh my gosh, Brown played 71, 80 played 76. Yeah.

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Oh my gosh.

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Like, yes,

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the other guys have been a revolving door of injuries. That certainly happened. The Lakers ORG were the second most injured team in the NBA this season.That's a fact. But you can't dismiss the criticism of the rotations by saying, oh, we weren't healthy. The criticism of the rotations is justified. There's a reason why those rotations were getting criticized.

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And then a lot of the injuries early in the season didn't allow them to build continuity.

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Part of that, too, is you didn't play the rotations that would have provided continuity.

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You put Tori and Prince in the starting lineup for 50 some odd games. And that's so overplayed. I'm sorry I keep cutting you up. Like, bro, I'm tired of hearing that excuse. The, because look, look, and this is, so somebody asked, I did AMA on my Twitter page earlier, right? Or X page.

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And one of the questions was, where are my top five criticism of Darbyam PERSON?

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One of them was his personnel usage. Because, bro, the slump when the Lakers were in, like mid-December or January or whatever, you just completely misused almost all your players. Bro. Perfect example. This is, I don't know if I can find a better example than this.Actually, I can. Jack Zays PERSON is another one, right? Max Christie PERSON. In the stretch where Max PERSON was terrible.

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What now?

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You're fine.

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This isn't like crazy breaking news, but something odd. Finish your point, and then we got to talk about this.

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When Max Christie PERSON was terrible, you know why Max Christie is being used as a primary ball handler running and operating out of picking rolls, which is not his game. And then this two-week stretch where we got consistent X-Christine PERSON minutes because you were hurt and you put him in a role that make consistent sense for him. He was a good basketball player for you. Like dog, I don't want to hear the, oh man, the Brownsonian PERSON and the injuries. Braun played 71 games, 80 played 76 games, Dilo played 76 games, Austin played the whole year, Rui played 68 games, Tori the Browns, you know, the injuries. Braun played 71 games, 80 played 76 games, Dilo played 76 games,Austin played the whole year, Rui played 68 games, Torian played 78 games. That's what your top seven dudes? That's your top seven, six.

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I don't want to hear it.

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So here's the thing.

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You've got, like, Darwin Ham PERSON's not wrong about the rotation. This is not all on Darwin PERSON, but you just want to hear Darwin PERSON say, hey, I messed up some things with the rotations or whatever. Take some accountability for something.Is some of it on the players? Yes, for sure. Rui PERSON got lost how many times on Michael Porter Jr. Yeah. Right? There were lots of things that happened.LeBron didn't box out well enough on Aaron Gordon on the play that ultimately probably decided the game. You've got plenty of things that we can criticize the player for. It's on the players. It's also on the coaching staff. But here, look at this. Exit interviews

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tonight. I hope they're ready for a late night. This is abnormal, everybody. If you are new

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to basketball,

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this is not what normally happens.

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Lakers players conduct exit interviews with reporters tonight. Typically this would happen. I mean, tomorrow would be fast. Typically, it would be like day after tomorrow.

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Exit interviews will be happening. Yeah.

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Now, Lakers are doing exit interviews tonight in Denver ORG. That is really surprising. Again, this is not normal. I don't know what this means. Maybe it's just a scheduling thing, but this is definitely odd for the team to go this route.

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So really fast. The update, apparently the question regarding Darmannham and like the past two years,

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it was the question literally asked him to reflect on his last two years being a head coach.

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So that answer does make more sense now with that added context.

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Very true.

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Okay.

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Yes.

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So if he was asked to reflect, then yes, that does.

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Otherwise, it comes across, if he's just bringing that up, it comes across like,

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okay, he's reflecting as though, you know, he's reminiscing because he's leaving, right?

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Andrew Lee PERSON said absolutely brutal.

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That's not the way I thought we'd lose.

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I mean, it kind of lost at the free throw line.

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Yeah.

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Lost of the free throw line.

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Just miss free throws.

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Hurch PERSON there.

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Yeah, I mean, basically, so Aquaman PERSON said,

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we all know Ham PERSON is a D-minus coach,

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but those free throws are what did in the game.

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Yeah, free throws is what cost you the game. Is Tweet-Tek PRODUCT still a thing? I think so, right? I believe so.

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Kronos said, I'm still depth over three stars, but depth has to be two-way. And that's difficult to find.

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Two-way guys tend to get paid more if you can play both ends of the floor. But you're right. Ultimately, that was, I think, one of the issues with the Lakers this season. They essentially had to always mix and match and didn't always do a great job of it. But here's a defensive player.Here's an offensive player. Can we balance them out and create a cohesive team by having enough guys who can play defense, enough guys who play offense on the floor at the same time? Really, what you need is guys who can do both.

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That's what you have to have.

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That's what the best teams have. But again, those guys get paid. So it's difficult to build a team that way. But yes, that does need to be a focal point for this team moving forward, finding two-way players. Yeah.

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And I mean, like that's also what makes Denver ORG special, man. Like they have five guys, if not more. They are just all complimentary pieces that can contribute on both ends of the floor. And, yeah, I think, I think that there's, there are some very big decisions that the Lakers are going to have to make from a roster perspective and from a potentially coaching perspective as well this summer.

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But we will, we will be here to break out all that good stuff for you here. Oh, yeah. That's a good thing to get into. By the way, guys, this does not mean the end for us here at Lakers Nation ORG. Obviously, the podcast will continue. We've got plenty of still to break down.We're going to be doing playback streams over for the playoffs. We'll still be getting together doing that stuff. We've got a lot coming up. Obviously, a big, big summer for the Lakers ORG. We've got the draft on the way. We'll have free agency. We'll have trades, all doing that stuff. We've got a lot coming up. Obviously, a big, big summer for the Lakers ORG. We've got the draft on the way. We'll have free agency.We'll have trades, all kinds of stuff for us to get into. So this is by far not the end, but an unfortunate finish to the Lakers playing this season. We won't see the Lakers take the floor again until Summer League, which doesn't start up until July 12th. Yo said, imagine if you had a 6-5, 3-D wing that's athletic and far along in his development and does the little things right at 20 years old.

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Max Christy PERSON, I'm assuming?

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That stayed glued to the bench. By the way, now a big subplot of the summer, Max Christie PERSON, restricted free agent. Are the Lakers ORG able to bring him back? Yep.

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That is, I mean, I really do hope that Max PERSON is able to come back and they are able to bring him back. Yep. That is, I mean, I really do hope that the Max is able to come back and they are able to keep Max PERSON around because I think like you could be at you could be looking at your long-term two guard for the franchise. But, you know, again, we'll get a lot into the contracts of things of that nature as we get into the summer.

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Giaz said Dennis Schrooter and a true backup five would have made the difference in this series that MLE was a waste. It was a waste on Gabe Vincent PERSON and that you didn't have him for essentially the whole season. I thought we saw defensively what he could do in this series. I thought he had some good moments defensively.

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The shot just wasn't consistent.

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This shot was not there. And I think that was coming back from injury. But yeah, it ended up, the MLED did not wind up providing value. The mid-level exception did not provide value for you this season. That definitely hurt the Lakers ORG. That hurt the Lakers ORG.The one guy they could spend on gave them nothing during the regular season. And then in the postseason, he was okay defensively a few times, but didn't give you what you were hoping to get there. And then a true backup five, yeah, I mean,that was just a big mistake by the Lakers ORG, to not get a true backup center. That certainly could have mattered in this series. In a series where you're defending Nikola Yokic PERSON, that puts a lot of pressure on AD when you don't have another player behind himwho can credibly defend. Yeah. That reallyibly defend. Yeah. That really hurt L.A. this season two. We're driven by the search for better.

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I want to get this clear. I'm almost guarantee you that the pick is going to be gone.

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But my biggest argument for keeping the pick this year is you can get a low cost potential rotation big on your roster for cheap.

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Like that is the that's my biggest pitch like bro. Because otherwise like my thought process here, Trevor PERSON, I'm curious that your thoughts would be then. Use your limited free agency assets or your limited trade assets to help get more complimentally complimentary wings or maybe retool your back court or whatever. But the one thing that you should be able to relatively easily fix is your backup big spot. And not only can you like fix but you also can give it like a level of like longevity too and like not like keep making that revolving door like continueto go because jack says who knows if he's still here or not right but like at best he's a still a two year option in terms of like trying to solidify the backup big and he not even really solidifying the back of big spot for being honest. Christian Wood's same kind of deal where you draft a guy at 17. You get to keep them here and pair them next to AD in the long term

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at that backup big.

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That is what I do with the pick. I get it. We are going to hear it in a billion and five trade rumors this summer.

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Oh, yeah. Every trade rumor.

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Every trade rumor is going to involved the 17th pick. It's quite simply because we're the Lakers ORG, right? But I really, really, really would consider keeping the pick and using it on a big. That's just my thoughts.

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Yeah, I mean, if you do keep the pick, I'm definitely, I think there's bigs that are interesting in this draft that you should look at. Zach Eadie PERSON might be there. There's a few guys who could be there.

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Eves PERSON and a see a couple of the guys.

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Yeah.

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Okay, so here's the first exit interview. We're starting to get some stuff coming out here.

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Spencer Dinwiddie PERSON, this could just be a normal post-game presser,

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but Spencer Dinwiddie said he would love to be a Laker next season if the Lakers ORG want to keep him and said the Lakers ORG are championship robust and big changes are coming this summer for the Lakers. He's absolutely right. Big changes are coming. They have to. They have to.Big changes are coming this summer. This is going to be a big summer for the Lakers ORG. I don't know if that means Trey Young, if that means Donovan Mitchell PERSON, if that means something else. The reality is we just watched a number of guys play their last game as a laker i don't know who but we just watched the last game as a laker for a number of guys because this team's going to make

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changes so let me ask a question out of between these players i'm just give me a number how many of them are back you don't have to like reveal any of whoever right just give me a number you got d angelo russell

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oh your name i thought of the whole team no sorry i was going to say de angela russell austin rhea

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rhea choreen prins jackson hayes and gay vincent how many of those players are back on the team? Jackson Hayes PERSON has a player option,

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so he's a little different situation. But I'm going to say half of them. Okay. Half of them are gone. I think at least two of them are going to be put into a trade. And I don't know what happens with Jackson Hayes PERSON.But, uh, Trey PERSON said, I need something really bad to happen to Darwin besides fired. Vanderbilt and Wood PERSON backand go zero minutes. Damn, Trey PERSON. The same tray. I can't go there, right?Like, you can say it's time for the Lakers ORG to move on, but I don't want anything bad to happen to Darwin PERSON. I don't want anything badto happen at any of his player. Like, they're playing a game. I can't go to like, I want something bad to happen to Darvinham PERSON. I don't want anything bad to happen any of his player. Like, they're not, they're playing a game. I can't go to like, I want something bad to happen. No, of course not. I want good things for Darwin PERSON.I think he's a good guy. Did he work out as a coach for the Lakers ORG? No, but that doesn't mean I want bad things to happen to the guy.

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I wish no ill will on somebody that has not physically harmed to me.

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Now, different story once it gets physical. But, you know, that hasn't happened yet. I wish no ill will on somebody that has not physically harmed to me now.

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Yeah. Different story once it gets physical, but, you know, that hasn't happened yet. It will not happen. Will not happen. Good grief. We will not happen.All right.

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Let's see what else we've got here.

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Trying to keep stay updated with the.

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Mamba PERSON mentality said, wow, what a wild ending. Almost pushed to a game six. Wonder what the future holds. Reconstruction, not blow up. We will get into that later. Lakers ORG forever.What do you think LeBron PERSON does? I think LeBron is still a Laker ORG.

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I would be, I'm still like 80, 20, 90, 10, the LeBron James is a Laker next season.

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Despite that Kerry Champion PERSON tweet that a friend told her.

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Yes. Oh, my God. Yes. I, I, I, I, I, B.S. I almost said the actual word. LeBron James is either a Laker ORG or he is retiring.I really have a hard time saying LeBron leaving L.A. GPE to go somewhere else.

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And Rich Paul said today he thinks LeBron's playing two or three more years.

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Yeah, he did say that. It's on the Laker Station account on the Lakerstation.com ORG site. So go check that out. And if that's the case, then I think it's staying the Lakers ORG. The only team that has cap space that makes relative sense would be what Philly GPE? But again, I don't think Bronn leaves L.A. and Philly GPE's a nice place. But I don't know. I think Braun is a Laker next season at the end of the day.

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And I do think that because I've seen people saying blow it up, I don't think that's in the Lakers ORG DNA to do that. Because they would blow, if LeBron went to the Lakers ORG and either said, I'm leaving or trade me, sign me to a contract and then trade me, then maybe you could get into blowup territory or something. Otherwise, you don't have your pick because I thinkfairly certain. The Pelicans are not going to take the 2024 pick. I think they're going to wait until 2025. I hope they do take the 2024 pick because I think the 2025 is more valuable. But I think the 2025 pick is going to be gone. 2027 picks are going to be gone. Hard to blow it up in that situation too. And I don't think the Lakers want to be the team to lose LeBron James PERSON like that.So I think they try to rebuild Obron, LeBron PERSON, and AD and see what they can do with some different pieces. That's what I think. I agree. Tyler said LeBron should personally fire Ham PERSON himself. I mean, look, LeBron might try to distance himself from this, Sean PERSON.And I'm sure he will. He's going to say it's not my decision. But there is zero chance when the Lakers are talking contract with LeBron PERSON. He's got that player option that the topic doesn't come up about what do we want us to do with darb unless they just go ahead and fire him already the topic is coming up what do you want us to do with darbin him like that's it's going to have to i think brawn brawn whether he wants to or not whether we

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want to admit it or not lebron james definitely does have some pull in wester he wants to or not, whether we want to admit it or not, LeBron James PERSON definitely does have some pull in whether or not Darwin PERSON, and it's really because of his player option. And because he's LeBron James PERSON still at the end of the day, but like that's really what it is.Ryan PERSON made a, our good buddy, Ryan Ward from Lakers Nation ORG, made a really good point on X. He said as regards to the, uh, the Lakers doing their exit interviews tonight, Ryan PERSON says, yeah, that is very weird.

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Why not just do it in L.A. tomorrow?

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Definitely really, really strange.

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It is very strange. Like I said, I don't think I've ever seen that before. It's possible it's happened, and I just don't remember it, but I don't recall ever seeing that. It's very strange. Yeah.Cliff said the Lakers ORG played their hearts out. Nuggets ORG are just the better team. Proud of our guys just sucks to lose another close one. Absolutely. I thought the Lakers ORG, this was not for lack of effort. You know, we questioned what the Lakers ORG mentality was.Did they believe they could beat Denver? I thought the Lakers ORG played this was not for lack of effort. You know, we questioned what the Lakers' mentality was. Did they believe they could beat Denver ORG? I thought the Lakers ORG played like they believed they could win this game. And frankly, I think they deserve to win this game. Have they just made a few free throws, you know? And by deserve to win this game, I mean, they competed at the highest low. It's on them for missing the free throws and all that.But they attacked this game. They went after it. They played it like they could win. And I think they definitely should have won this game. But again, the free throw line is ultimately, and a few other areas where they ultimately lost it. Yeah.

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Wicked Bronco.

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You can't tell Vando couldn't have played at least 10 minutes and locked up Michael Porter Jr. Or Murray PERSON. Also, why did Dilo play more than Ree reeves reeves PERSON is proven he's more clutch bye by dilo and darvin that was a foul on tory and prince's shot yeah why i i thought either

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ron got fouled or torying PERSON got fouled but you know who cares at this point yep yeah vando

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yeah i'm surprised they didn't know, put them out there for any

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minutes, just stuck with the same line. Like, it'll be one thing if Dinwoodie, Vincent PERSON, were playing

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great, but they weren't. Why not throw it? Unless he just really was not ready. And it was more about

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kind of subterfuge here where you're, you're just trying to get the Denver Nuggets ORG thinking

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about, well, maybe Vando PERSON could play. And then what do we do if and that type of thing otherwise Christian Wood was available Vando PERSON was available neither one played surprising uh Sempice PERSON says everyone say it with me one two three goodbye Darbinam Sean PERSON doesn't get to pick our next coach Ruey and Delo PERSON no show as expected. Okay, so before we get to the Rui and Delo PERSON thing,part of this discussion, though, when we talk about Darwin PERSON, part of the discussion needs to be who would take over? Yeah. Because there has to be, if you are, if you're going to Jeannie Bus, right? And I know fans all say Fire Darvindham PERSON and I get it and I'm not saying that's wrong. But if you're going toGenie Bus and saying, Jeannie PERSON, we're going to ask you to pay Darvinham for two more years to not coach this team. You're going to have to bring somebody else in and they're going to, so you're going to pay Darwinplus somebody else to coach they're going to, so you're going to pay Darwin PERSON plus somebody else to coach this team, you better have somebody in mind that is clearly better than Darwin Ham PERSON. So that's going to be a factor getting into this summer and what happens with Darwin PERSON. Who is it that takes over? And again, I'm not saying that as though I want an answer to that question right now. I'm sure people will throw names out.But that is an important part to this that a lot of times we don't think of. We just think Darwin PERSON did bad. Fire him, get someone else. The financial aspect of this is important. And if you're going to Jeannie Boss and saying you're going to have to pay two head coaches now, you damn will better have somebody that is worth spending all that money on.

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Well, look, for one, if that decision does ultimately happen, the process of mine would be way better in terms of like evaluating, like trying to find out stuff from the coaches about the coaches, especially if they're an assistant. I mean, right now my number one choice would be David Alderman PERSON, maybe you're able to poach him away from Denver. But like Trevor PERSON makes a good point. And I'm not advocating for Darwin PERSON, but like he makes a point, man, especially where like a lot of the most intriguingcandidates are now gone. Looking at Joey Fernandez, looking at Kevin Young PERSON, you might have considered hiring. I don't know. If you don't get David Alderman PERSON, then I think you look at some of the other candidates, you know, like, eh? I don't want Mike Boonehoser PERSON.I don't want JJ Reddick PERSON. Love JJ, but like, I would be a hypocrite to want JJ Redick PERSON considering I don't really want Rajan Ronda to be the head coach, assistant coach. Sure, why not? But I'd be a hypocrite if I said, yeah, to JJ JJ Redick considering I don't really want Ray John Ronda PERSON to be the head coach, assistant coach, sure, why not? But I'd be a hypocrite if I said, yeah, to JJ Redick PERSON. No, Mark Jackson PERSON, no.I mean, I'm just naming all the names that we were going to hear.

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Thank God, John Howard PERSON got hired, so we don't even have to think about that. Jeff Van Gundy Stanley. No. Any other popular game

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missing like they're

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and would you do a first time head coach again?

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That's where it gets

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you know

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I thought

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Go ahead.

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Sorry, so this is coming in Mike Malone PERSON on Darvinham Lakers ORG fans will react very negatively to this I know but Mike Malone PERSON said, I think Darwin PERSON Ham is a hell of a coach. That's not an easy job. I think Darwin does it withclass. He's a good man, good coach, and I wish him all the best. Hopefully he'll be around there for a long time because he deserves to be. The reaction from Lakers ORG fans, I know, is going to be that Mike Malone just wants the Lakers ORG to stay down. That is Mike Malone trying to make sure that the Lakers ORG do not improve. But this is a coach thing. This is what coaches do.Coaches tend to speak well of other coaches. Taylor Jenkins did it in Memphis GPE, and people got upset when he spoke highly of Darvinham PERSON. Coaches tend to talk about other coaches in high regard. They don't want any of it. It's the fraternity, right?They don't want negativity out there to think. So they're going to speak very highly of other coaches, period. So I know people will say, oh, this is Mike Malone PERSON, trying to make sure that the Lakers ORG don't fire Darvindham because they know that would be their way to improve and all that kind of stuff.I think this is, you ask any coach in the NBA ORG right now for their opinion on Darvindham PERSON, and they will tell you he's great. Publicly.

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Yeah.

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I mean, again, like that's kind of just what you're supposed to do,

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like you said, like the fraternity. Unless like you have like actual beef and there's like an actual problem there, very rarely like you said, do you see, you know, people or excuse me, head coaches, not vouch for other ones. I'm really quickly going back just to wrap up with the conversation about the coaches. once. I'm really quickly going back just to wrap up the conversation about the coaches.

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If my thinking and philosophy, if you will, in like the first time I coaches thing,

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you just hire whoever the best one is, where the best candidate is, truly. You just hire whoever the best candidate is. And maybe that's just not the Laker ORG way, but I think that is how it should be, where you are hiring truly whoever the best candidate is based off the interviews, based off like the work you've done leading up to

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the interviews, et cetera. Again, maybe that's not the Laker ORG way. I doubt that's maybe what they do, who knows.

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But that is what my belief is personally. And why I don't knock a first time head coach personally.

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Yeah, I mean, I get it. I just, you've had some issues with first time head coaches. Luke Walton PERSON didn't work out. Now, Darwin Ham PERSON hasn't really worked out. We'll see.

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Is that a youth thing? Is that a Laker ORG thing? Or is that like for wrongly identifying?

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Sure. Yeah. Is that a all first time head coaches are bad or are not, or a first time head coach is not the way to go for this particular job? Or is there something else at play here? That's sure. That's worth considering.Rui Hachamura says we got to keep building this past 30 games. We had a great stretch. We beat most of the teams in the league except Denver ORG. I think he said cut off, but I think we're on the right track. I'm guessing is what he said. Yep.I feel like we're on the right track.

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Austin Reeves PERSON here gave himself some credit, fine through adversity, stuff like that says. Obviously, there's always things I can do better to help us win, but every single night I go out there on the court. That's my main goal is to win. At the end of this year, I can say that's why I did.Shout out, AR GPE. Mix Master Mike says awesome.

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Now, Darwin PERSON is likely fired. I can't wait. This team will be a lot better with a competent coach. I do. Like, what do you think the chances are? If you had to put a percentage on it,chances that Darvindham is fired this offseason by the Lakers ORG. 60, 40.

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Like, I lean more towards he gets fired, but I'm not confident in it personally yeah I mean I would

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chat I would love to say 100 and yeah fans will not like that they oh my god I'm going to get

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freaking slandered in the comments people are gonna hear 100% they're gonna misaggregate that quote

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and say I am advocating for Darwin PERSON to keep his job. When I have the entire show said no.

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But I don't feel confident.

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Where do I need to look?

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Where are this time?

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Max Christie PERSON.

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I really wanted to be out there for sure.

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It sucks seeing us eliminated because I felt I could have helped the team.

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I mean, yeah.

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He's not wrong. He's not wrong.

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He's not wrong.

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Where's the quota?

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I'm trying to find it so I can quote tweet and say, yeah, you're not wrong.

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It's out there bouncing around on X right now. Why use our last time out to challenge and not gain possession because of it? Darwin PERSON did that to appease the noise. We needed that last time out. I mean, it was going to be free throws for Yokic PERSON. AD ORG was very demonstrative.Darwin got a lot of flack for not trusting in his star player in LeBron PERSON and using the challenge before. I'm not surprised he used it then. It sucked. They were out of timeouts at that point, but that was because, in part because AD got hurt and they had to burn a timeout early in the third quarter. And then they Denver went on a run that basically forced Darwin PERSON to use a timeout to when he didn't want to. So it was unfortunate, but again, you were going to give up two points to the nuggets that then didn't want to. So it was unfortunate, but again, you were going to give up two points to the nuggets that then didn't result. Because it became Laker Ball PERSON out of that timeout,out of that challenge. So you essentially saved probably, I mean, assuming Yocuch PERSON was going to make both free throws, you saved two points with that challenge. Now, did the immediately following play, I think the Lakers made sense then the Nuggets ORG scored, so it didn't really end up working, but it worked in that it prevented two points with that challenge. Now, did the immediately following play? I think the Lakers' best and then the Nuggets scored,so it didn't really end up working, but it worked in that it prevented two points from being scored. Face reality.

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What's that?

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Bang, bang play.

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Yeah.

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Face reality, Dinwiddie and Austin Reeves PERSON, four missed free throws and AD injury is the game. Yeah, I mean, essentially AD couldn't do much offensively. Like, think about that, Sean PERSON. You lost by two to Denver and you basically didn't have Anthony Davis PERSON on the offensive end of the floor anyway for the final almost two quarters because it happened fairly earlyin the third. You didn't have AD on the offensive end, at least as I recall, it was fairly early in the third. You didn't have AD on the offensive, at least as I recall, it was fairly early in the third. You didn't have AD on the offensive end for a quarter plus. Man, and you still, you could argue they should have won this game.

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I think the AD injury was the turning point in the game, for sure, especially because he had to use the timeout, which ultimately did kind of come back to bite you. Yeah. because he had to use the timeout, which ultimately did kind of come back to bite you. Yeah, really, really sucks. And unfortunately, the AD ORG got hurt.And those free throws, man, it felt like the Lakers couldn't buy a free throw in the third quarter. I mean, didn't when he missed this two in a row. Braun PERSON missed a couple. I think Braun ultimately finished like five of seven from the line uh uh r misses two of three free throws getting fouled on the three point attempt he misses two of three um but yeah just just frustrating man a brutal way to lose for sure i mean like you said you were all these things we talked about the miss free throws the missed open three

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oh my goodness um 80 getting injured the not having really timeouts to use all that and you lose on a jamal murray jumper again um lebron speaking now says he has not put any thought into next season. I'm not surprised that he's saying this.

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He's just looking forward to getting home to his family and then we'll begin preparing for the Olympics EVENT.

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Sean PERSON, I'm so worried. I'm so worried.

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That Bron gets injured in the Olympics or that Braun PERSON calls it quits?

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That LeBron playing in the Olympics along with AD ORG. They played 71 and 76 games this season. That's not happening next season. That's not happening.

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Their whole off-season training program is going to be,

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even if they play the Olympics EVENT and then completely shut it down and then try,

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it's so close to when they would have to start ramping back up for training camp.

Speaker 52943.84s - 2958.76s

That's, I look, go, go team USA, go win the gold, all that. But that's good, that's going to be tough for the Lakers ORG. You're going to, there's no way. LeBron and AD play this many games next year. No way. No way.

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Nope.

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As far as him saying, he hasn't thought about next season.

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That's expected.

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And honestly,

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the fact that he's going to play Team USA

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gives me more optimism than like retiring is not in the frame of mind here.

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Yeah.

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And this is,

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I'm not so,

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but he's, I'm sure he probably has thought about next season. But there is zero chance he was going to give you an answer. Yeah, I mean, here, Kobe Price PERSON tweeted out. LeBron PERSON was asked specifically if there was any thought that tonight would be his last game with the Lakers ORG.He said, I'm not going to answer that. Appreciate it. Yeah, there was no way. There's zero chance. He's going to tip his hand on what he's going to do. And not just, he may know 100%.I'm back with you.

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I'm not leaving. He may know that right now. He will not say that.

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Because if he says that now, he gives up all of his leverage. He's going to want to hold the Lakers feet to the fire and say, hey, you've got three first round picks you can trade. What's this team going to look like next year? I don't care what this team looks like in 2029. What does it look like next year?There was no chance. LeBron was going to tell everybody what his plans are for next season. No.

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I mean, and why would Bronn PERSON do that right now?

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Just thinking about it from Brons PERSON' perspective, that doesn't make sense.

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Chaco Thunders PERSON said that's a dumb question, putting a player on a spot.

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Yeah, like that.

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You have to ask it.

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Yeah, but again, I mean, Braun PERSON, Braun's going to give you that answer.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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But here's the thing, right?

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You ask that question because one time out of 20, 30, 50, a guy will just say, F it, and we'll answer.

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And then you're happy that you asked it. You have to ask the question.

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It's part of the game. You know he's not going to answer, but on the off chance that he does, yeah.

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You can't.

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Yeah. Can't be that guy.

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It doesn't ask.

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Yep. Okay. Let's see what else we've got going on here we've got j sol PERSON said you know it's fixed when they don't even bother looking at that obvious foul on the last three last second tory and three i don't know i mean i can at this game and say it's fixed.

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Yeah.

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Like, what's the motive there?

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If you're the NBA ORG, let's, the Lakers ORG.

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The most popular franchise outdraw the Denver Nuggets

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every single night. Yeah.

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The NBA is losing millions of dollars with this result.

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I mean,

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I mean,

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tens of millions are lost with this result.

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No going to state either.

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Like, yeah,

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this is a big deal.

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I don't, I don't think there would be, what, what's the reason to fix it for the Denver ORG nuggets? Yeah.

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That doesn't make sense.

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Were there mistakes with the referees?

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Sure. Did Prince PERSON get fouled? You could argue it, sure.

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Was Bronn PERSON? I don't think there was some agenda that was against the Lakers ORG here.

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Bron PERSON was getting hammered all night

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long. Yeah. Not drunk, but

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hammered by Aaron Gordon. You know what I meant.

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After the game, maybe.

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Maybe now.

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Had to throw in a bit of humor there. Had to cheer up the mood. Brandon said, I learned that LeBron and AD ORG can still be a title one-two punch, but the other pieces need to be right and healthy with the service will big with AD.

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Bro, I got freaking roasted on Twitter for saying that through game three, yeah,

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through game one through three, my might be game one through four.

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I had said,

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Braun and AD were on the level of Yokojimuri PERSON as a duo,

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but the role players were bad legitimately

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through the first few games of this series.

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And that was the difference in the early parts of this series.

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And that's why Denver ORG had that lead. And the game where the role players step up, L.A. GPE wins. And, you know, just frustrating. But Bron, what Brond did this season, LeBron did this series, AD ORG did this season, what AD did in this series,

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minus tonight for that's due to injury, was remarkable. And yeah, like, that's why I think the rebuild it,

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not even rebuilding, but like tearing it down and air-claw's approach is false because I think you've got to just keep riding with this duo and saying, all right, we're going to finally figure this damn thing out and we're going to get the correct piecesnext to, next to Braun and, and Anthony Davis PERSON.

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Yeah.

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I think the benefit of playing Denver

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in the first round is that you now know decisively this team isn't it? This team doesn't have it. Not to get where they want to go. And that's where you know changes will be made. Had they found a way to,and they weren't far off. Had they found a way to win this series? Then that changes. But they didn't. So now you know, even though it was close, they really were not far off. Had they found a way to win this series, then that changes. But they didn't. So now you know, even though it was close,they really were not far off from winning this series, and it's the same thing as last year. They were, it was about as close of a sweep as you can get. I know people say, well, who cares?They didn't win in the end. I know. I know. But they're not that far off. But now you know, decisively, this team is not that far off. But now you know, decisively,this team is not quite good enough. So there's going to be big changes.

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DeLo says that he hasn't thought about what he's going to do this all season, but he acknowledges that he has leverage and is planning on using it. That is per Yilvan, Boo-aw of the Athletic ORG.

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Only in theaters May 3rd.

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Read it PG-13.

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Ouch. Acknowledges he has leverage

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And he's planning on using it

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I really need to see the video

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Because that phrase is that frames Dilo

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So Kobe Price

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Of the SoCal News Group

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I also had that quote said

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But acknowledge the leverage he has And said he plans to take advantage of it. Yeah, I mean, that always that just means that he's going to try to get the best, the most amount of money that he can. He's got a player option. What is that, what that allows him to do? The Lakers ORG can't trade him essentially unless he picks up that player option, unless you get into a sign and trade.And that's really, really tricky. So he holds the cards. And this is why, and we talked about it a bunch and people got upset, but this is why the Lakers ORG had to, regardless of how he was playing,didn't matter. They had to explore the trade market with him at the trade deadline. That was set in stone. The second his contract was set up the way that it was, that they were going to explore the trade market with him.They didn't find a deal that that made sense. And now the downside to not trading DeLo at the trade deadline, not finding a deal that made sense is now Deelow PERSON holds the power. The Lakers ORG can't replace him. Assuming LeBron PERSON stays, the Lakers can't replace Deel PERSON if he walks away.They don't then get that money freed up to go spend on somebody else. They're too far over the cap. So now it's in DeAngel Russell's PERSON favor. And if you're the Lakers and DeLoh PERSON wants a new contract, you've got to be careful.Because if you don't think Deelow PERSON is the guy you want long term, and I know it's an argument we can have, it's a discussion we can have back and forth, but if Deelow PERSON is not the guy you want long term and you want to sign him to a new deal, just so you don't lose him for nothing and you can trade him down the road,you have to be really careful what kind of a contract you give him lest you accidentally turn him into a negative value contract. If you do that, oh, then you're really setting yourself back.

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So how Rob Palenka PERSON manages this situation will be critical,

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not just for this summer for the Lakers ORG,

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but this may be a major factor for the Lakers for years to come.

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How do they navigate DeAngelo Russell PERSON,

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the player option that he's got, and potentially giving him a new deal? Is there a way to talk him into picking up the option? I don't think so, but picking up the option and then getting traded. He hasn't, Gelo has until June 29th to decide what to do with that player option.

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Yeah, and I mean, like to your point, honestly, getting a negative value contract for Daniel Russell PERSON this summer would be worse than just letting him walk in my opinion.

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Rui Hachimura, this part of the Lakers Nation ORG Twitter account, our X account, says this is the

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team we can win a championship. We just got to keep building. You see all the teams that are winning. They've been building for years and years and years. Just reiterating the same point on we got to keep building.

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My one kind of pushback on this comment from Rui Hachimura PERSON is these other teams, teams like if we were to like look at the teams and like try to name a few

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of the teams that we might be talking about.

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So you think like a Boston, O.KC, Denver, Minnesota, even to some regards, Miami ORG went healthy,

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right?

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None of those teams have an aging superstar.

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That is the problem.

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You're like we're not talking about hell hell, even 35-year-old LeBron James PERSON.

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We are talking about actively going to turn 40 in like six months or seven months or

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whatever, right? So that's really the problem in there. I get what he's trying to say and I understand where he's coming from, but you're in a, you're in a different situation, which is actually the unfortunate part because in any of those other situations, I would agree with them. But that's not the situationthe Lakers ORG are in currently.

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Well, and if I'm assuming Rui would probably like to stay in Los Angeles,

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I would assume as well.

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This is exactly what he needs to be saying because he knows, he knows that if the lake, if big changes are coming, his name's going to be out there in trade talks. Yeah.

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So it helps him to say,

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no, no, I believe in what we've got. He knows he's going to be in trade talks. People are upset with DeAndra. What did you think about DeLo's game tonight?Two for 10 from three, six of 15 shooting overall, six assists, 14 points. I said I didn't think the Lakers could withstand a bad Deandro Russell PERSON game. Is this a bad DeLo game?I think so.

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I honestly think this is just, I won't even go as far as it's a bad dealer game. I don't know if this is a comment about dealer or about Ruby PERSON, but this is honestly how I would sum it up. It just wasn't good enough. And that's what Key says here in the chat. I will give you this.I really appreciate.

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Oh, oh, here we go.

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Breaking news drop.

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Here we go.

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Hit the button, please.

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Find the button.

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Breaking news.

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Shams Tarania. Lakers ORG finished to the season

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has left coach Darwin Ham PERSON's future

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in serious peril some stakeholders indicate he is highly unlikely to return your reaction John your reaction john his shot shan his shot shan's mind was blown so much he he froze

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i think i'm back now gain regaining consciousness finally um reback yeah i've got you back? Yeah. I've got you back. Um, yeah.

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So Shams PERSON saying drop our bomb.

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That's that could be it for, for Darwin Ham PERSON.

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Um, that when stories like that come out this fast that that's the writing on the wall.

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That's the next thing we're probably going to hear,

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and it may be a few days or whatever,

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is that he's going to be gone. Is that he's gone. Like that's what's happening here. Here I'm looking into the article itself.

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I am as well. I'm trying to.

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Are you, you're just skimming through it? Yeah, I'm trying.

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Okay, I'll take a question. You skim through it. Let us know if there's anything in there that's important. But'm trying to. You're just skimming through it? Yeah, I'm trying. Okay, I'll take a question.

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You skim through it. Let us know if there's anything in there that's important. But that's big, folks. That's big.

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Again, the Lakers ORG don't want to go.

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Sorry.

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So in the article, Sean Strania PERSON describes as, I'm just going to read this little blurb. Throughout the series and most of the season, team officials and players believe that hamsterating rotations, game plans, and most of the season, team officials and players believe that hamstrueating rotations, game plans, and lack of adjustments led to an underperforming group. It created discontent within the locker room, which became palpable across the franchise.I hope I did not glitch out there towards the end.

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No, you're good. Yep. I mean, that's all true.

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That's all true. Last last thing last thing on that the lakers blown 20 point leading game to the Denver ORG series served as a final straw of sorts this is per shamp's rana in his article for the athletic um yeah the tie he also describes as the tie turning and there's a bunch of respect for him as a person and players that appreciation for his pro career in times the assistant coach. But as one player said recently, we need to be coached to. That is an insane thing. Wait.

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What?

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To say.

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That is wild.

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What?

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A player said we need to be coached? That is,

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oh my gosh. That's the quote.

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We need to be coached.

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I am posting it on X as we speak. Oh my goodness. So I'm, yeah, hold on. Let me get this posted.Trevor PERSON, take a question. If you'd go back to that.

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Oh my goodness. Wow. That's posted. Trevor PERSON, take a question. If you'd go back to that. Oh, my goodness. Wow. That's, I mean, that's pretty damning. If a player is saying, we need to be coached, too. Like, that's, uh, wow. So if, look, if you've been doing this for a while, you've been around this for a while,you've been following NBA ORG news, you've been following sports news in general, you've been around this for a while, you've been following NBA news, you've been following sports news in general. This is the kind of stuff that comes out as a precursor to a coach being gone. Just like what we saw yesterday with Frank Vogel PERSON and Phoenix and all the kind of rumbles that came out about,oh, now KD doesn't like his offense and all that kind of stuff, that's no happening here with Darwin PERSON. Sounds like that's probably going to be it for Darwin Ham, which means the Lakers will most likely have a new head coach next season. All right, let me get to this. McKell said hard-fought game, where were Jared or Gabe in the second half? Murray Hertz PERSON.Well, summer, maybe we look into a DeMar Drummond trade or Katie for picks. Dilo and Rui PERSON. Either way, ham is gone. I don't think the sons are actually going to trade Katie. I think they should. I think they should really look at it because their cap situationis such a disaster. And Keith PERSON and I talked about it on the front office show today. But if you guys have to check that out, please make sure you do the front office show on YouTube ORG. But as far as the Lakers go, Darvindham PERSON gone, that's sure what this sounds like. This article from Shams Tarania PERSON and the news coming out here.At least it didn't happen while Darvaham PERSON was at the podium. In fact, Sean, I bet that there was some type of message past two shams. Do not publish this while Darwin PERSON's at the podium. You have to wait till after because the Lakers ORG were embarrassed when that happened to Frank Vogel PERSON. And rightfully so.

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They should have never done Franks PERSON. It calls him Quinn Snyder PERSON.

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It calls him Quinn Snyder PERSON. That calls him Quinsider. Coaches are going to be pissed off with stuff like that. So I that? It calls some Quinsider. That calls some Quinsider.

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Coaches are going to be pissed off with stuff like that. So I guarantee you something was said to Shams PERSON. Do not publish this until after Darvindham PERSON has talked. But that's, I think that's it, Sean PERSON.

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I think he's done.

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All right.

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This one says missing free throws and Braun PERSON half-assing on the offensive glass cost us. LeBron not coming up with that rebound against Aaron Gordon was an absolute killer. It was. But LeBron PERSON, I can't look. That was one play.LeBron PERSON played pretty damn well for most of the game. You got to use your body and box out. He's been the biggest culprit of doing that. You lose games that way. He bit us by not locking in and your best player shaking my head. It was a tough play.It was eerily reminiscent of Austin not getting that ball against Aaron Gordon. They got kicked out for Michael Porter Jr. PERSON 3. And what was that game too? You just, those are killers. Offensive rebounds, Sean PERSON calls them the most demoralizing plays in basketball. They absolutely are in the NBA. Offensive rebounds tend to lead to open threes. And open threes are death. That's exactly what happened. This comment says, Trevor's, oh, no, hit harder than Breen PERSON's bangs.

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I do say that a lot.

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Oh, no, referee.

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Oh, no, referee.

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Yep. It's become my catchphrase during the games over on playback.

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I'm still stuck on this Darwin quote on this quote from the Shams PERSON article. Yeah.

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Okay, what is it? No, no, no.

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Just the, you want me to reread it? It's the one we already talked about with the.

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Oh, we need to be coached too. So it was, why is it we need to be coached too? What was the precursor to that? What came before that? My back.

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I don't know what's going on.

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Yeah, you're back.

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Okay, so I'm just going to read the whole blurb here really quickly. The Lakers blown 20-point lead in game two of the Denver series served as a final straw of sorts after a successful first year as a coach in which he, as coach, in which he showed signs as a leader of players to tie turn for him to season. There was tremendous respect for him as a person and players had appreciation for his pro time, pro career and time as an assistant coach in Atlanta and Milwaukee ORG. But as one player said recently, we need to be coached to. So from my perspective, it kind of just feel like Darwin Ham PERSON really was just the players coachwhere like gets along well with the players.

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But like in terms of some of the tactical stuff that you need, the players are like, and what doing it i mean in lamest terms like it's kind of what sky hawkins PERSON says here he's a nice guy but he can't coach and we need somebody that can actually coach that's kind of what i got from

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that yeah 100% it's a nice guy but he can't coach that that's it. Okay. Wow. Wow. Legend said swap Austin Reeves for Jalen Suggs PERSON, please. I don't think the magic want to move on from Jalen Suggs PERSON. I don't think that's a thing.Madison PERSON said real fans ride with L.A. Fake fans get out. Ideal offseason. Oh, I've got a lot of time to get into the ideal off season. We'll have plenty of ideal offseason videos. I'm not ready to go in depth into the ideal off season, though, just yet.I need to process this first and we get a better lay of the land and all of that i've been very locked in on each game and i'm not ready to dive into what the ideal

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off season looks like just yet here is another quote um i want to assume it's the same you can

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share the screen if you want okay hold on let me uh i found it from twitter so i want to make sure

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like it's accurate first and find it in the actual article.

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Give me one sec. All right. I'll get into this one. Steven said, dang, that one hurts. It definitely did. Mario said don't let the Pelicans ORG get a shot to draft flag.That means you can't, don't take next year when the Pelicans have the 2025 pick. That's for sure sheesh said it doesn't feel right it's weird to think we're not going to see any lakers games for a while the actual lakers we'll see the lakers in summer league but the lakers won't play again till October. All right.

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So this is some summer talk for you, if you will, if you want to indulge in this one.

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So this is again from the article.

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The Lakers are expected to be aggressive in market with the land of Tray Young PERSON.

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One of the more intriguing names out there.

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The Lakers ORG room could be split on him as they try to make the most of Tray Young. One of the more intriguing names out there, the Lakers room could be split on him

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as they try to make the most of this precious time

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in which James and Davis are still playing at an elite level. There'll be one of the many names that is expected to be discussed.

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Not a surprise.

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Yeah, anything else like newsworthy,

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I will continue to update.

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So that is one of one of the names.

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Yeah, I mean, Trey Young PERSON may be one of the biggest names that's out there, but I don't expect him to be the only player. I think the Lakers are going to be looking at a lot of players this summer. There's going to be a lot of guys they're keeping their eye on. Trey Young will be one of them.But the fact that they're already saying it's split, that's what happened with Alex Caruso PERSON.

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Oh, well, the cruise.

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The room was split. Also Russell Westbrook PERSON, too. But the room was split on what to do there. All right, go ahead. What do you have here?

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There was a sense among people within the organization that Tori and Prent PERSON and Camerasia a 24 year old minimum contract signing feel like it's important that he's very much highlighting that were given opportunities to fail and play through their mistakes during the regular season, a luxury that Reeves, Dilo, and Hachimura PERSON and others weren't afforded.

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Definitely kind of got that. But we have heard that too.

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That's something we heard back in February. That's been a pretty common thought around the team that the guys Darwin PERSON has coached before had more leeway than the guys he didn't.

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That happened with Dennis Schrooter, happened with Torian, happened with Cam Brennish PERSON. Yeah. Hold on. Okay. All right, Mamba PERSON mentality said still don't understand the challenge system, didn't get the timeout back. Apparently you only get it back on the first challenge.The second challenge, you don't get it back. Yeah. Which is interesting. A bit.

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I don't know.

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I think the challenge system still needs overhauling.

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Jose, no wood, no vando, no foul, gasped LeBron PERSON, hurt AD, by ham.

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Yeah, Darwin Ham PERSON is out of here, I think. That sure seems like that's how this is going to go. Darwin PERSON's going to be done. Drew, so the guys played hard, but the nuggets are so damn tough. Wow, what a game. Time for us to rebuild. I don't think they're going to rebuild. I think they're going to try to reload. I think they're going to try to build out this team aroundLeBron and AD. Once again, they've got three future first round picks and they're going to try to make some moves this summer to win right now. That's what I think is going to happen here. That's what I believe. There's also a quote going around that says the Lakers are very open to the prospect of helping LeBron fulfill his dream of playing with brawny by potentially drafting him in June. In the second round?

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I'm hoping in the second round.

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You're not using the 17th pick on him. Oh, God, if they use the 17th pick on him.

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They use the 17th pick on him. I don't know why I that would be yeah

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oh no oh no would be right then people let a lot of people saying oh no in the chat yeah that would not be good a second round pick sure I think they have like the 55th pick or somethingfrom the clippers you want to use that one cool go for it the 17th pick you can't do it pick or something from the clippers. You want to use that one? Cool. Go for it. The 17th pick, you can't do it. No. Can't do it.Wow. Koa said, waited until they were down three to call a timeout, kept playing Spencer Dinwiddie instead of Austin Reeves, didn't submit a defensive player after Braun PERSON's first free throw. I actually hate this dude. Ham PERSON. Yeah, I mean, he waited until they're down three because he was running out of timeouts already. That was why. He was hoping he could avoid having to use the timeout.And then the Nuggets ORG went on enough of a run to where he had to. As far as kept playing Spencer Dinwiddie PERSON, yeah, that was definitely frustrating that Dinwiddie got as many minutes as he did instead of Austin PERSON. Austin should have played 40 minutes in that game. Again, this is, I believe very strongly, this is a Lakers win if you take five of Spencer Dinwiddie's minutes and give him to Austin Reeves PERSON.Just that much of a change, the Lakers ORG win this game. Yeah.

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I agree.

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Okay, this is from ESPN ORG. Dave McMedman PERSON. Ham PERSON's job is very much in jeopardy. League sources tell ESPN ORG, but the Lakers ORG plan to conduct a post-mortem on the season in the coming days before making a decision on him's future.I mean, that's kind of the right decision.

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Yeah.

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This, this, this just means you're probably going to land at Darwin PERSON being fired. Just they don't want to be tonight. That's it. He's out. He's fired. They're going to say,we're going to take time to deliberate and think about it and all that kind of stuff. I would get, and there's a total guess. I would guess within a week, we're going to get breaking news, Darwin PERSON,I'm fired.

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So I'm actually now with the recent news of like 955, right? Yeah, the dark.

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Right. Switch that 6040.

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Yeah.

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It's gone.

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It's, he's gone.

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All right.

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This one says, Wesley PERSON says, I'm glad we went out fighting.

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Time for some changes this offseason.

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Starting off of the firing Darwin Ham PERSON. Yep. That's, I'm glad we went out fighting. Time for some changes this offseason. Starting off the firing Darwin, Ham.

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Yep, that's, I think that's coming.

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I could be surfing said,

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Rui was not good tonight.

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Why not sub in Vando PERSON to see how he does?

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Dinwiddy minutes were insane. If we win, we win if AD doesn't go down. Yes. Yeah, if AD doesn't get hurt, you get offensive production on him, they win. Here's to a roller coaster season. Better luck next yearby Darwin, hello, Cancun. Yeah, Ruiz did not, I don't think Rui PERSON had a good performance. He had a few plays but overall I didn't think Rui was great in this one.I was surprised Vando PERSON didn't get an opportunity. I was surprised. Especially in elimination game.

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You know, maybe Vando PERSON really was more like of a break glass. Yeah.

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Yeah, maybe that was it. Just break glass in case of emergency. That was the situation. I'm double checking to see if there's any other comments coming out. Lakers are expected to be aggressive for Trey Young PERSON. The whole Lakers ORG will be willing to draft brawny thing.That's floating around too. Powell Gasol said the playoff round has been closer than a 401 result suggests. That's true. All right, we'll do a few more. I know we've gone way into overtime. We'll do a few more before we call it tonight here just to see if there's any other news that comes out.Chris said tough season. Things to happen. Ham PERSON fired. Delo PERSON shipped and all three bench players shipped. Well, one of the things to keep an eye on, Christian Wood PERSON,Jackson Hayes, Cam Reddish PERSON, they all have player options for next year. It wouldn't shock me if they all pick up those player options because I don't think they're getting anything above a veteran minimum next season if they get a contract for next year. It wouldn't shock me if they all pick up those player options because I don't think they're getting anything above a veteran minimum next season if they get a contract for next season. I think Jackson Hays PERSON will get a deal somewhere.Christian Wood and Cam Reddish PERSON, I'm not so sure about. I wouldn't shock me at all if those guys pick up their options. Our bench has been awful this season, got sunned again. Delo PERSON shipped. I think Delo PERSON could just walk. That would betragic. That would be

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pretty bad.

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I think

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in order for Deal to get shipped, you basically need him to pick up a straight as a player option. He does.

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Yeah. He would have to have a team he really wants to go to. And he would have to, he would have to pick up his player option in order to help facilitate that.

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So you're saying Dilo really wants to play with Luca PERSON. Right.

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Yeah, yeah. It would have to be something like that. Yeah.

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Yeah. So Dela really wants to play with Luca PERSON. So, you know, let's finally make the kairi deal

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happen come on get it kairi for him i was wondering when you're going to catch on that was my point

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i thought you were just going to stack together some salaries or something you're not getting kairi for

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him um dustin said tough loss tough season thank you all for a hard work and the content you guys

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have put out will be interesting to see where we go from here.

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Well, thank you, Dustin. I truly do appreciate that. As I always say, like this is, obviously, this is the end of the Laker ORG season. This is not the end for us. You know, it's funny is I always get, I get friends, I get family members. When the Laker season ends, I get people say, oh, you get to take a break now. You get to, you get to rest a little bit. And I'd say, no, not at all.

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In some capacity, it gets busier.

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Yeah. From June, from mid-June to mid-July, that is probably our busiest time of the year by a decent margin.

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With maybe only the trade deadline being right there, with the draft, free agency, the trade market, summer league, we are insanely busy that time. So there's going to be a ton of stuff coming up. And that is my long-witted way of saying, if you're not doing so already, hit the subscribe button on the Lakers Nation ORG YouTube channel. We're going to keep you up to date on everything. I'll be doing my ideal off-season videos.We'll be breaking down what the ideal summer is going to look like for the Lakers ORG. We'll be talking about the draft. Players of Lakers ORG can target, trades they can make, breaking down all the rumors that come through, all of that. Sean, we've got a busy, busy summer coming up.

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Yeah, it's going to be a massive summer. So make sure you guys are subscribing to the channel and following us on social media

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platforms as well, where you guys can also stand tuned with a bunch of Lakers ORG news. Yeah, like it's going to get busier. Actually, ironically, one of my players are like, well, you know,

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Coach on, or at least if the Lakers lose tonight, you know, like you're done for a while. I'm like, yeah, maybe I won't stay up as late, but like, you know, in some capacity it gets busier.

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And we are going to do some playbacks for playoff games that, obviously the Lakers ORG won't be playing, but we'll do some playback streams and things like that to still get together, hang out, watch some games together, all that kind of stuff too. Yeah, we're not going anywhere. All right, Benny said, no Vando PERSON minutes.AD getting hurt costs the game. Yeah, AD getting hurt, free throws, that offensive rebound for Aaron Gordon. If any one of those things go the game. Yeah, AD getting hurt, free throws, that offensive rebound for Aaron Gordon. If any one of those things go the Lakers ORG way instead of the Nuggets way, I think the Lakers win the game.

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And we're going back to L.A. for game six on Thursday.

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Yep.

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And really, really fast.

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I think the entire staff is probably gone.

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Like, I know Phil Handy's guy is April.

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I don't know if Phil PERSON survives another firing.

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That is, that's pretty much expect.

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Like, that's the way it typically goes.

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When a head coach gets fired, their staff goes to, with some exceptions, like we saw,

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we've seen a few assistant coaches and stuff stick around,

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Phil Handy PERSON being one,

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but typically when a head coach goes,

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their staff goes to.

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I do wonder if Phil Handy PERSON is going to throw his name in for head coach.

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I'm sure he will,

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but like,

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eh,

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like at this point,

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I don't know.

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The Beard Bros. Game Show podcast said,

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love the Lake Show, tough end of the season.

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We'll be back.

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We will.

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They'll be back.

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We'll see what it looks like. Team is going to look very, again, the only thing I know for sure is that you just watched a number of guys play their last game as a Laker ORG. And probably the coach, too. There will be big changes.

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Big changes are coming.

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It's going to happen.

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They're going to happen. All right, shoe dude said thanks for the season, Trevor PERSON and crew.

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The Nuggets ORG ran the same play again. No double coverage. I hope him gets fired tonight. Free throws cost the game. He's not getting fired tonight. We know that.It's not going to get fired tonight. Sean PERSON, what do you think about this one? Team exhausted, play Vando and Wood PERSON. What's up with doubling off Porter PERSON? It's idiotic. You talked a lot about doubling off of Michael Porter Jr. PERSON during the game. What were the Lakers ORG doing there? What was the thought process?

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I just think that if you are going to, so I'm still a ban of doubling, or was a fan past since now, of doubling Yokage in the the post i think that's the best way to work with them right i think the lakers got great results um they forced a bunch of turnovers and i mean yokech PERSON is just a less effective uh post player when you do send doubles and you do it correctly my concern and my problem was if you are doubling one pass away and it is an mpj it is jemal Murray, you have to over exaggerate the communication and say like have to be like three steps early almost so that when you do double, you arrive on the catch. And yeah, I just don't think the Lakers ORG were early enough.I think they were more often time, more often than not late on their rotations. And that's how MPJ and Jamal PERSON a couple of times, too, were able to get some wide-up and threes.

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Yeah, definitely hurt. Definitely hurt when they were able to get those. You know every time Michael Porter Jr. PERSON got open that he was going to knock that down. Sean PERSON, we do need to make some picks here for sleeper. We're going to do some of those in just a moment here yeah get that set uh unfortunately we can't pick any laker players now unfortunately but great sponsor for a sleeper wecertainly appreciate it when you guys support the companies that help support us yeah obviously jaylen brunson point five points that's an easy one. We'll take that. Use the code Lakers Nation on the screen, $500 first-time deposit match. What about our guy, Josh Hart PERSON? He's been coming up big for us. Didn't score last time.

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What's the assistant rebound number at?

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His assistant rebound is at 16 and a half. Honestly? But he's getting so many boards. It's carrying him there.

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Honestly, I like more on the rebounds and assists personally. How do you feel?

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Yeah, I'll go with that. I'll go with that. And then let's do one more here. What about Jared Allen PERSON? Oh, I guess he hasn't hit on the double double lately. Let me take a look here.What if we go with Kyrie PERSON? 25 and a half points against the clippers. He went for 40 last game.

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Yeah. What are we thinking there? Is Kyrie PERSON going to continue the hot streak or does the, do the clippers adjust, you think?

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I like the 35 and a half PRA, points, rebounds, and assists combined. All right. I'll go more there. I'll go more there. I'll go more there. All right. So that's our entry.You guys can play along with us. Use the code Lakers Nation over on Sleeper ORG. You can use the QR code that's on the screen or the link in the description. Super easy to do. This entry would be a $53 win on a $10 entry. So go check it out.Play along with us over at Sleeper ORG. All right. I was somebody in the chat said thank you for providing us a place to vent after the games. That is what we do. We get to vent a little bit.We get to hang out. Talk some hoops. Nights like this aren't always great, but it's going to be an eventful summer and i enjoy getting to do this with all of you that's for sure that's for sure um man shan i can't even believe how

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much came out already tonight dar Darvin PERSON mostly gone. DeLo's going to use his leverage. Max Christie PERSON says he thinks he could have helped the team if he had been able to play.

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There's a player that says they need to be coached. That does abode well for Darwin PERSON. The Lakers are going to be in the mix for Trey Young PERSON.

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The Lakers might consider drafting Brony PERSON.

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Yep.

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So much.

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Oh my gosh. I've got so much to do tomorrow morning that we're going to so many news topics that we're going to get out there. Wow. Again, I mean,

Speaker 75336.98s - 5355.5s

just great. There really isn't a better time to subscribe to the channel than right now if you haven't already. And again, who will Mike Wolf also uh also knows trevor lane's uh stan if you will um says who will you guys be cheering for the rest

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of the way out trevor and sean um my my number one is anyone but Boston anyone but the Clippers ORG.

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That is now my main priority.

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I don't care who it can be Denver against the Clippers ORG. Whoever is playing the Clippers ORG, I want them out. Boston GPE. I think the East LOC is a dumpster fire. I think they've got a clear path to the finals.I hope the Knicks ORG. The Knicks ORG are really my only hope that somebody can trip them up. I want those guys gone. If Boston and the Clippers ORG are out, I'm okay. I don't care who wins. I'm good.But I particularly wouldn't mind seeing the wolves get it. And I wouldn't mind seeing the Knicks ORG get it.

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Those two. Mine would be Minnesota and Dallas. Okay. Dallas is up there too for me. I honestly don't. I don't want to see O.K.C.Actually, I forgot about O'KC ORG.

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Anybody in the West except Denver ORG. And then I particularly don't really care about the East LOC teams. I guess maybe Indiana, but like I don't really care about the East LOC teams. I just maybe Indiana, but like, I don't really care about the East teams. I just want to see somebody take down the Celtics ORG. That's what I want to see.

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Yeah, if it's, look, if the Nuggets are going up against the Celtics ORG, I am.

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Go Denver ORG. Go Denver ORG. Go to big time. Big time. Yeah. Who. All right, everybody.We do appreciate you joining. Supersized episode of the show. Obviously, a lot went down tonight. We've got a lot to talk about. I'm going to put out some more individual breaking news videos tomorrow. That's going to be coming.So make sure you do subscribe to the channel, YouTube.com slash Lakers Nation ORG. If you're listening to the podcast feed over on Apple Podcast ORG, Spotify ORG, wherever you listen to podcasts, give us that five-star rating and review. Again, this is not the end.This is only beginning because right now, right now, it starts building next season's Lakers ORG. It starts now. Thank you again, everybody, for joining. Wish we had a better result tonight, but I appreciate all of you being here.Every step of the way, appreciate all of you watching the shows. Appreciate all of you, all the videos, the live shows, the podcast, everything. You guys are awesome.You guys are amazing. So as much as you guys come in here and you're thanking us, thank you, thank all of you for allowing us to do this. We can't do this without you guys.

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Yeah. I mean, it can't say any better than the goat himself. So yeah. All right, everybody.

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Until next time. See ya. And stay safe.