Dan Woike

Um, you know, and I think there's been some unevenness because of that.

Certainly this roster changed dramatically.

Um, when you integrate a player like that, none of this is to say it's the problem.

Well, that's not what I'm saying, but like, like it is, I think, um,

there's obviously a pretty big difference when that happens.

I do, though, think that one of the things, and I've talked to a handful of Laker players about this privately, it's why I wrote it last week, and it remains true today, there is a very big difference.

And there's a very big difference between teams that try to play hard and teams that play hard.

Mm-hmm.

Like it is for the teams that try for better or worse, it's play acting.

Like you're, you're doing your best.

I don't even think it's like, I think it's like an actually born from a genuine place of like, it's not performative.

They wanted to be as physical as Detroit tonight.

They wanted to play as hard as Detroit tonight.

That's not who they are.

And it is who Detroit is.

And so what you see is you see inconsistency.

To me, people that are surprised by these blowout losses and the one-sided nature of them, by and large, have all come in very similar types of games.

And it usually has to do with the fact that they don't have the energy or the effort.

I mean, sometimes these words are mistaken for desire, like it's a want-to thing.

But I think motor is a skill.