Andrew Schlecht

They could get a paint touch with J-Dub.

They could get a paint touch with Shea.

They could get a paint touch with even Jared McCain and AJ Mitchell.

All those guys were getting wherever they wanted all night.

And that's a huge problem.

And then Aiton, too.

Both these guys, Smart and Aiton,

are kind of they're supposed to be like the fulcrum to the defense it's just really hard to rely on like those two guys they weren't supposed to be that and now they're kind of being counted on to do that and then when you're playing like these super elite teams it's hard to level it's really really hard to level up um so yeah it's it's gonna be an uphill battle

for the Lakers they're just going to have to be absolutely surgical with Luca LeBron and Austin Reeves offensively and like those guys outscoring everybody else is gonna I mean that's how they're gonna win games and they they did that throughout the entire month of March it's like we have evidence that they can do it now it's like can they do it in the playoffs and can they do it consistently against great teams is something that they need to answer

You know, like the last guy that I really felt that did that was Herb Jones.

Wow.

Wow.

Herb is really good.

He's got everything that you would want in a defender.

He's quick.

He's big.

He's got really long arms.

He's super smart.

I think to me, Herb Jones is probably the ideal kind of defender.

He's really strong, too.