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I mean first off good win uh cuz that

was the goal get the win get some rest

for Saturday but a lot of concerns with

this game because the Lakers they went

up 18 supposed to put a team like this

away they gave up a lead um on a night

where LeBron doesn't shoot well ad

doesn't shoot well and you get a win

because you have role players who

stepped up I mean you'll take that but

moving forward they got to play better

skip Kean this is not a team playing

like this that you want see going to

Denver you know they got thrashed in the

paint I mean they gave up 62 points they

got crushed on the rebounds and if you

play like this versus the Denver Nuggets

the defending champs in their building

you're going to go home early and by

early I mean you might get swept and so

yeah it was a good win there's some

positives that you can take from this

obviously you like what D'Angelo Russell

did Austin Reeds did uh but moving

forward they gotta play better and

you're right they were on the ropes if

Zion had have stayed in the game because

he was just Unstoppable and I'm thinking

like he was playing the game of his life

so it had to be some type of injury it

looked mysterious it didn't look like

much but something had to happen because

you having a game of your life you tie

the game up your life I mean game your

life and you you go up and you tie the

game up and you come out so I know it

has to be something but uh you know you

know good win for the Lakers moving

forward they need to be better though if

they want to at least push this series

Beyond four games with the Nuggets I

hear you so Kean are you more relieved

or happy which way are you are you the

win is a win is a win we got the win

skip you did I expected for I expected

for him to continue that 18-point ons

Slaughter with 53 to go in the third

quarter it didn't happen didn't okay

they closed the Gap they tied it up I

get all that LeBron didn't play well he

shot well from the free throw as you

like to say skip there are free throws

for a reason he was 10 of 10 he's gotten

better than that that's one up on with

the goat

conversation morning wa I thought you

didn't do goat conversations no but

so he didn't play well he didn't shoot

the ball particularly well you know you

look at him he was 620 from the field

but at the free throw line he cashed it

in he played bully ball you know and and

he did get to the cup many times and

went to the line that a plus Anthony

Davis has to play better y can't get

pushed around when he's down low he has

to finish he's already at The Rim he had

an opportunity to have a lot of M ones

last night but he couldn't cash in the

easy I'm already kissing the rim but for

some reason I can't put it in no but

then okay so now you say well the role

players as I said to you yesterday and

as I said throughout these

conversations those guys Austin Reeds

Haim MO along with DLo have got to

finish and they did DLo especially

knocked down crucial threes especially

late in the game in the fourth quarter a

minute some change ago he hit the one in

the corner Reeves assist knocked it down

go up by four the game was over at that

point right it was pretty much over with

so when I look at this matchup against

the Nuggets if you want to move things

forward they've got to clearly play

better but they got to go back and look

at the things that they've done wrong in

the last eight appearances against the

nuggets and fix that whatever that is

whatever that is they got to fix that if

they want to have an opportunity steal

one I don't care if it's the first one

or the second but you can't come back to

la02 because it's going to be hard as

hell if you come back to la02 to tie it

up it's curtain it's over with it's

curtain it's curtain and I think they

look I think they know that now look

Anthony Davis didn't play well last

night skip but he did have a back injury

okay he did to some degree and I don't

know how well he was feeling last night

he played y so you would think with the

rest that he's getting now over the next

several days that back will be much

better and he'll be able to withstand

the punishment down low the bruising the

pounding or that joker will put his butt

up on him and bounce him around he'll be

able to withstand that yeah I I I would

think so and then LeBron just got to

LeBron just got to shoot it better he

too again at times he was so out of

control and Speedy Gonzalez down the

lane he fell one time I was like LeBron

come on man cuz they I think he thought

that they was going to defend him and

they and he moved out the way it's

almost like the chair got pulled out

from the chair got pulled from

underneath him because he was coming

down was coming downhill so damn fast

agreed I'm like you got to you got to

start to be under control man and stop

taking bad shots and getting caught in

traps where you trapped you can't get

rid of the ball and you wind up just

taking a bad shot because you're holding

on to it too long get rid of the ball I

need some Pace I need the ball to move

around to different people's hands and

if they could correct that I'm giving us

some Fighting Chance man I don't care

what nobody say I know everybody out

there skiing that the Nuggets is

bringing out the broom again I don't

believe that okay all right my

turn to your point about the free throws

he did make 10 out of 10 and I say to

that what I said to 41% from three it's

about damn time we're near 21 and

finally he's making free throws that

better hold through the next four games

or five games or six games or whatever

it's going to take he's going to have to

keep making free throws and start making

threes again in big games because he did

not shoot it well from three last night

he was one of five okay now I'm gonna

say this again I really like this

basketball team I've liked it from the

start and I loved what Gabe Vincent

started to bring to this team last night

because I started seeing little flashes

of that guy who scored 29 points against

your Celtics last year in game three in

Miami knock down a couple crucial threes

and the same guy who scored 25 points in

game two at Denver last year in the

finals which was the only game that

Miami won he is capable and he's finally

getting legs underneath him so I I like

that and yet to both of your points with

621 left in the third quarter I tweeted

in all caps bring on the Nuggets because

the Lakers were up by 18 at that point

and from that moment on they proceeded

to give up a 38- 20 run 38 to 20 it's

wrong it's just it's scary wrong to me

because you're better than that I think

maybe I'm wrong maybe maybe they're

flawed to the core but I think LeBron

was out a little bit of that time but

they couldn't get it back and little

Alvarado came in and then jump start my

nerves man well he gets on their nerves

gets on D's nerves get on my nerves

Paul well he and DLo got into it early

and then every shot every shot DLo made

he's looking at the bench talking to

their bench he had something going with

them but whatever if you had told me

going into this game that LeBron and AD

would combine to shoot 12 to 36 I'd say

curtains for this game right and yet

Zion I'm a big fan and I was I was Zion

over jaw coming out in that draft and

then it was going back and forth and

Jaws had his issues off the court but

it's always been kind of 5050 between

those two last night was his first

postseason game and that was a coming

out parte for him because he was cooking

them into your both your points I mean

you you got blasted in points in the

paint 62 to 3 are are you kidding

L it was all him it was all him it was

all him so he's got 40 points and we get

to the flasho moment and he just goes up

and scores e easily over ad and I'm

thinking uhoh this feels wrong again

because it's 95 all and he comes down

and it doesn't look like he came down

awkwardly or dangerously did it it

didn't to me and he's got a little bit

of hitch in his step just maybe a tiny

bit of gimpy little limp in him as he's

going to the bench and he sits for a

second there's a there it is again and

he's he's angry and he's angry and he's

angry and then he just picks up the he

pulls Jersey over his face then he goes

and sits on the bench and then he throws

the towel and he gets up and he runs to

the locker room and I'm thinking if you

can run to the locker room why could you

run back out onto the floor power walk

right power okay all right but but I'm

saying I I don't know and and it's look

I always tell you and I'll tell you now

when we talk about injuries I don't know

there's only one human in this world who

really knows what happened is that human

yeah what what went on inside his left

leg I don't know I don't know it was if

it was a hamstring it can go all the way

up to his butto okay but but Kean if it

were a hamstring he wouldn't have moved

the way he

moved little more gimpy I've had a

hamstring tweaked my hamstring like that

down be to the point though it could be

to the point where it's not as

as you would think because they call it

a hamstring it can just be a simple

tweak and he not comfortable and he

doesn't feel like he can stretch it out

and run that's what it could be I'm with

you like that okay no you can walk like

that no I had a string no you can walk

like that not walking like that I told

you in the hallway basketball players a

little different than football players

so anything it can be a nail y'all done

for the week it can be a little bitty

hang nail y'all done for the week wait

wait you're talking to wheelchair Paul

here right I I came back in the game he

did chair Paul I came back in the game

so funny you mention that skip somebody

somebody uh I was talking to somebody

last night after the game when this

happened and they said Paul Paul Paul

should have gave him the

wheelchair I got I got it still okay and

bring it you did come back in the game

man was nothing wrong with him yeah I

came back so what's wrong with Zion okay

something might be wrong with him why

would you I had a twisted meniscus I

understand I've had injuri I've had

injuries I played with Tor MCL I get it

but it something's wrong with it man

yeah something something's wrong

with this is he couldn't go this is your

Superstar coming out party I understand

that but something is obviously wrong

with him SK what are you doing can you

not just be a football player and suck

it up and just come back on the floor

though that's that's this that's not

stop and go stop and go you can rap it

you can rap your hamstring as a football

player and go out there and play with no

problem at all it's hard because he's

got to jump he's at different movements

and motions and if he didn't feel good

clearly something's wrong with him you

honestly think that he would bow out

with with three minutes left in the game

I don't think he would do that but I

will tell you this this probably was the

most mysterious injury I've ever seen

but he could have but he could have P I

mean yeah he could have pulled his

hamstring usually when you pull

something when you strain something like

we saw Giannis do like we saw multiple

players do you you grab something like

he literally went up came down and

grabbed his jersey put it over in space

because he can feel it but what I was

about to say you a ain't thought your

natural reaction tell you like oh your

natural reaction won't your natural

reaction won't tell you that if you

already injured it and you fought

through it now all of a sudden you

reinjured it and now you know I can't go

anymore if you look at Anthony Davis uh

in this game couple days ago he got

pushed in the back by nass Jr we had to

go back look at the clips to find out

what injury was at because when he came

off the screen all of a sudden he's

limping and everybody's like what the

hell is wrong so your natural reaction G

show the injury he's limping what did we

see Zion do he didn't grab at nothing so

he didn't he didn't look down at nothing

like a natural you've been like hurt

before yeah you you grab a shoulder you

grab a hamstring you so that's why I was

like it was kind of mysterious the way

it all went down yeah it it looked weird

but I'm telling you he did something

look he went up laid the ball up and

walked two three turned around looked

stared him

down and then just put his this jersey

over his face right just walking like

but but the walk looks okay to me right

right hey Kean on the ad play his back

didn't spasm clearly until the next

sequence yes okay cuz your back will

it'll be tweak but it won't it won't

grab correct you're correct about that

what I'm saying to you guys on this is

he what if he heard it in the beginning

of the third quarter or somewhere along

the lines and now all of a sudden he

reinjured it to the point where he knows

damn I can't go okay I I hear all that

but we always talk about do you have

that dog in you or not I get it and and

Michel with 200° temperature I get it

understand you know how it is you played

with the torn whatever it was right y

okay you just do this man got out of his

wheelchair and finished the game okay

you just

do you should have been in the dead

wheelchair stop man roll with no PA you

had to go to the restroom man I did I

did meniscus come on man all right so

from that point

forward now it's a basketball game

because they've lost their heart and

soul player the guy who's been

dominating so now it's like a Level

Playing Field all of a sudden who's

going to make the play to win the game

and I'm going to suggest that ad did

make the play that won the game because

this is Yep this is 17 seconds left and

LeBron's having a rough night and he's

having a rough four fourth quarter what

was he one or six from the he play well

okay he did not play well yeah no I'm

sorry one for eight from the floor in

the fourth quarter but he's pushing and

he's trying and he goes over here to the

left and he takes an ill advised shot it

was just a bad idea and it's like a

three foot short airball and guess who

goes and gets it guess who goes and gets

it coming to help you why would you pin

yourself in the corner I I don't know

but listen that was a grown man rebound

I think it's over is it over Nance junr

n j yeah and listen that's saved the

game yeah that's a two-point game at

that point and if Nance comes down with

the basketball they're going the other

way down two and I don't know what's

going to happen from that point on yeah

and when he was going into the corner

all I could do is Skip was on my he just

hit a shot like that no he didn't hit

that shot a couple minutes ago no he

just made a jumper he made a jumper that

shot over her Jones he made a jump yeah

it wasn't that right there this is a

fade away this is Fade Away going out of

bounds with two people chasing and I for

whatever reason I knew he was going to

miss this and all I could think of was

skip I swear to you I'm about to text

you at the same time Paul it was oh man

what are you doing and yet ad comes down

with the basketball and marches to the

free throw line and makes both of them

yeah and and it saved you because it

felt like that was game over even though

they they gave him a couple of easy twos

on the other end and Austin Reeves had

to make a couple of free throws the

inbound ball scared me

too I did not have to call that if I'm a

ref I could have just swallowed my

whistle on the inbound when

LeBron swallow just see once Zion

started walk to the locker room it

really took the air out of the building

it it really did cuz he's like like we

say he's playing a game of his life and

and you hope that he's fine and he's

okay and you just felt like okay once he

walked to the back the Lakers should win

this game easily okay and they did and I

want to give you props you did call this

yesterday and I surprised you didn't say

it in your opening Salvo but you did say

the Lakers going to shoot a whole lot

more free throws that they did because

they do they they do they were second in

the league in free throw attempts to

Believe It Or Not Orlando I don't know

how Orlando led the league in free throw

attempts but they did and yet the Lakers

win the free throw line they get 29 to

15 free throws for the home team and

Willie Green was not happy about it

after the game I told somebody I was

talking to him over the phone I said I

was talking to Rav actually I said Paul

said the Lakers was going to shoot way

more free throws and LeBron was going to

get way more calls both on the offense

and the defensive loved it he he got a

lot of what he took two charges in that

game did yeah

he took one from Zion and you want to

talk about elephant versus elephant boy

that that is that is a collision see

here's again with he took that from Zion

get up though you wasn't that hurt

LeBron get up you two 272 get get your

and I think it did hurt him for man get

up man you LeBron you jump in front of

that Mac Truck that's go you going to

feel you going to feel the pain from the

shoulder in your chest way the way he

was rolling around I thought he got shot

Z is about 300 lb muscle no I I know

like I'm shocked that LeBron even took

that charge so you know he did he didn't

shoot well but I will tell you this he

did he made necessary plays for he did

absolutely you know he didn't shoot well

but he like taking a charge he took two

charges and he had he had some nice

dimes hey he had three Steals and two

blocks I'll give him will give him that

n assists n assist and rebounds good

dimes he threw out there no and they

needed every one of them and your man

DLo he comes and he goes but he came he

he mostly came right okay he knocked he

knocked that shot in the corner uh with

whatever it was less than a minute to go

up by and put us up by four when we was

up by one we needed that and he knocked

it down it didn't hit it didn't touch

the rim it was all net it was also do we

have that I thought it it was a great

pass it was a great pass by re re and if

I can remember that was the sequence

where LeBron just Austin but he put that

defender in the bind that Defender

there's no way in the world he should

leave he should leave DLo wide open like

that right Paul yeah no no not at all

you know what I like about DLo that he's

giving him he he's playing with a

certain type of like Swagger dude you

know what I'm saying like he's he's been

confident this whole year because like

even alado got in his face that part he

wasn't he really didn't budge you know

what I'm saying you like that from your

your role players yeah that stand strong

that really stand in there because you

expect that from your stars leaders so I

mean he had the littlest guy run up on

him and he like yeah yeah like he baited

him into a technical even though he got

one I like what DLo is bringing to the

game as a role player he's really I've

told you we'll get deeper into this when

we talk about Denver but Austin Reeves

needs to have a little bigger role to

close games and he said after the game

that he was very happy that LeBron was

confident enough in him in that that

last sequence has 51 seconds left LeBron

said here you do this do it this time

I'm going to let you have the ball and

he just got out of the way and it was

Austin who got in the lane and kicked

the ball out that's what I told yall a

few weeks ago LeBron's got to trust

these guys he got to allow these guys to

make plays he can't control every

situation and that's the best version of

the Lakers when he does that and I like

the fact that you defer to him and you

allow the two guys that you need most if

you trying to make a deep run into the

playoffs to allow them to make plays and

give them confidence because more times

than

not Anthony Davis not going to shoot 6

for 20 and LeBron's not going to shoot

six for 16 and you're going to win so

that that was great for them all right

final

point you saw what happened in

Sacramento we all thought golden state

was going to win we'll get deeper into

the game in just a moment but you know

what could have happened if Zion does

not mysteriously get hurt if they close

the game with Zion scoring 10 more

points and they win all of a sudden you

know what would have happened then you

would have to come home and face your

ultimate Nemesis didn't happen skip why

bring that up that if Zion going score

10 more points in four minutes to go in

the game then we deserve to lose okay if

you do go and win this year's

championship you will look back at the

flasho moment was Zion's injury right

yes you will we won't no we won't trust

me well I will I'm going to remind you

they was exchanging buck at that point

so how could you just say that Zion go

with four minutes to go he's just going

to take it completely over he's he's

going to go on a 10 Run Okay I want you

on record you think you would have won

the game if Zion did not go out of the

game look here's what I'm going to say

before you move on to pay some

bills it didn't happen we won the game

oh that's what happened I know what my

what we will be talking about is if we

go on to Win It LeBron James took him

from the e seed to the world

championship that's we will be talking

about that'll be an amazing feat it

would be a feat it wouldn't make kind of

a go that's right be the seven feels

like the eight I don't know from what I

saw in the second half last night I'm

not sure now about these Lakers but

let's talk about those Warriors thanks

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