Andrew Schlecht

Like there, there, there isn't like an obvious bust at the top of the draft.

You usually have one player where even though you like still believe in them, cause it's just a rookie season, you already start to have some like real fears about them.

And I think any of these players, like,

Even after that top four, Ace Bailey, Trey Johnson, Jeremiah Fears, Yegor, Colmer Boyles, like all those teams can feel really good about those players and talk themselves into their future, even if maybe they all don't have like superstar ceilings.

But there really hasn't been like a obvious bust, like a player that you're really, truly worried about.

Wow.

Yeah.

My good this week, Andrew.

if I can find it is the Lakers specifically what they're doing in the clutch, because in the clutch this season, the Lakers are far and away the best team with a plus 26.2 net rating.

They have a 20 and six record in those games.

This has been one of the stories of this Lakers team all season.

And early in the season, when things weren't looking great, we were talking about their negative point differential.

You know, the clutch play was like this nice little thing that Lakers fans could hold on to as everyone made fun of their team.

It was like, Hey, we're pretty good in the clutch though.

But now that the Lakers are solidifying their position in the West with his eight-game winning streak, their clutch play adds to what has become a much more dangerous-looking team heading into the playoffs.

And so, as I like to do, I wanted to try and contextualize the Lakers' clutch play historically.

So I went on NBA.com, where you can go all the way back to 96, 97, okay?

That means we got 30 years of clutch time data, including this season.

Where do the 2026 Lakers' clutch time net rating rank in those three decades?

In those 30 seasons, there were 31 teams with a clutch time net rating above plus 20.