Jason

And that did amount to a certain amount of decline from LeBron this season.

But like, I, I thought from the very start, we talked about it before the season.

I thought the Lakers would win right around 50 games as a regular season team.

I thought a lot of people galaxy brain themselves.

I saw all sorts of projections.

They're going to be a playing team.

There was projections that had the missing the playoffs entirely.

I think, I think Bill Simmons had them out of the playoffs entirely.

And like, there was just a lot of teams are like a lot of people that were just like, Oh, the Lakers are going to be bad.

And that didn't make any sense to me because they were the same team from last year, more or less with a handful of upgrades.

And they won 50 games last year.

So I thought a lot of people overthought that.

Now, where I was wrong was I thought they had no shot to win the title.

I, from the beginning of the season, was like, here's a 50-win team.

They'll be right there in the top four in the West.

And then they'll lose in the first or second round.

That's what I thought.

they flashed a level in March because of how great Luca was because of how good Austin was because of LeBron slotting into that third role where it was like, Oh man, like I actually think they can beat the best teams in the league now.

Okay.

So you resoundingly slam the door on that.