Dave DuFour

what boxes need to be checked aside from actually, Oh, let me, I got ahead of myself here.

J Dub.

Yeah.

Jalen Williams.

I think that it's safe to say he's back.

Like he just looks just like himself.

The, the, the confidence shooting looks better.

Confidence finishing at the rim was excellent against the Lakers.

Like now maybe that's just, you see Deandre eight and inside and it's like, Oh buddy, I'm hungry.

But he, I thought he looked really good.

You got to be better than 139 to 96.

This looked like a loss that they would have had in the first two months of the season.

And I wouldn't even say that they let go of the rope because maybe this isn't like that.

The Thunder just really shot the ball so well in the first quarter that they delivered a knockout blow.

But this is where I think the Lakers, just to swing back to the Lakers like we have to do before we close,

This is where I do worry about the over-reliance on the zone defense.

They have to play zone because of their personnel.

And if a team gets hot, it's good night.

And it takes a while for all these teams to catch up.

Any boxes left to check for this team in the regular season?