JJ Redick

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214 appearances 3 recordings 3 series first heard Apr 2025 last heard 4 May

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The Zach Lowe Show · Playoff Drama! NBA First-Round Action Heats Up With Rob Mahoney. · 28 Apr 2025 podcast

Didn't it look like they were trying... Randall kind of hugged Luka, and I was like, I think they're trying to foul up three. They should have fouled up three, and they didn't, and they almost fucking paid the price for it. Where do you want to even start with this? The Lakers are on the brink. Luka's getting roasted. Nico Harrison is... Got the sneer going somewhere, maybe?

Which I have never seen in my life. And... What an insane game. You start wherever you want. I don't even know where to start.

No one needed another playoff appearance like Julius Randle needed another playoff appearance because his playoff numbers before this series in a very small sample were so atrociously bad, they looked like they were implausible. And the sample size got bigger. And Julius Randle, he's guarding LeBron. He's attacking all the right matchups.

Even when he attacks what I would consider the suboptimal matchups, he's getting stuff out of it. He's throwing the right pass. No turnovers in 25 points in 43 minutes against the Lakers on Sunday. And Ant... You mentioned it like, you know, the game slows down is a cliche that we use all the time.

This is a case where I think you can actually see it happening because this is a very simple series for Ant. The Lakers are switching almost everything. He's picking whatever matchup he wants. A lot of times it's Luka. He seemed to get a soft spot for attacking Rui Hachimura down the stretch yesterday. I don't know what he likes about that matchup, but he roasted him.

And when that matchup happens, he gets the ball and the Lakers load the floor from every angle. They try to confuse him. LeBron is like a cornerback on the sidelines, like stunting here, stunting there. He's like ferocious. And Ant just sort of digests it all. And there were a couple of times where he didn't wait at all. He just got the matchup, put his head down and went.

And there was a level of decisiveness that I, I, there were no dancing, no prelude, no, no, anything just go. Then there were other times where he like dribbled into the lane, help converged, took a dribble back, kept a live dribble, help went away. And then he'll just spin into like a nice 12 foot shot over Luca. It was calm. It wasn't seeking highlight plays every time.

It wasn't being reckless like Jalen Green's being reckless in the Warriors Rocket Series. It was like a veteran, calm, just masterful performance. And defensively, he's been good. Chris Finch has gone all out putting Randall McDaniels. and Ant on Reeves, LeBron, and Luka, and switching any time they try to get in actions together. They've been on point with that.

We haven't seen Ant's been guilty a lot of times of lazy box outs and falling asleep off the ball. Part of it is that the Lakers haven't forced a lot of that pressure on him, but he hasn't made any of those mistakes. Incredible Ant performance. The Lakers are just going to be complaining about the refs. You can talk more about Ant, but I do want to hear your reactions to both the

alleged trip by Jaden McDaniels? It's not alleged. I mean, his foot hit Luka's foot and Luka fell over and the overturned foul.

Well, and this is the issue, and I don't want to overplay this issue and transfer it onto every foul and non-foul that happens, but I'm glad I talked about this with Goldsberry last Thursday when I talked about the physicality of the playoffs and how I just thought... This is a completely different sport from the regular season to a level that I don't think I can remember. And I used dangerous.

Like I said, someone is going to get injured or there's going to be a fight. And this is the problem with this is that when plays like this happen and by the letter of the law, it's probably a foul. And you see calls like a little nitpicky call here or there. And you see teams being like, how are you going to call that? Yeah.

When I just got tackled by four guys and you let it go, and it's a completely legitimate argument. Every time there's a touch foul late in the game, teams are like, I don't understand. Hand-checking is completely legal now. We're getting mugged. And then you call this. It's a legit argument. And I do think the refs have lost control of a lot of these series. And I don't...

Everybody loves the physicality. I like the physicality. Nobody wants to see 40 free throws. There actually have been a lot of free throws. So it's not like they're calling nothing. They can only call so much. I get the flow of the game stuff, but this is like, this is football out there.

And maybe in, you know, I mean, I don't want to say the history of the Lakers franchise because they're going to have some big, big decisions to make. And they do have home court. And it's always easier to come back 3-1 down home court. Look, that was a foul. It was a foul. Absolutely, indisputably a foul. he's also already falling down. And if you told me, well, it's a no call.

We just let it go. I would have been like, well, that's kind of consistent with how you've called most of these playoff series. The trip by the letter of law, I guess that's a trip. He did. Jada McDaniels does take like a weird half step forward, but I don't think Jada McDaniels is sitting there thinking as Luca is bringing the ball up with 35 seconds left in a pivotal playoff game.

How can I like accidentally trip Luca and get away with it? And then you still have the inbounds pass that you throw away. And end up almost throwing the game away. Yeah. I do want to talk about Luka because I jokingly brought up Nico Harrison and you left. Here's what I'm tired of.

And it happened in the Phoenix series that they ended up winning the year they made the conference finals in the second round. It happened in the Celtics series, the finals that they ended up losing. And it's happening again now.

And my gripe is, why do you have to get humiliated at the beginning of every single playoff series before you show the world, like, yeah, I can actually put in a little bit more of an effort on defense. Because if you go back and you watch game one and two of that Phoenix series, He is so bad defensively that it's laughable. And then all of a sudden, he becomes passable.

Celtics series, same thing. This is why Brian Windhorst screamed on television, which Brian never does, about like, hey, you have shown us you can actually do this when you care. And yet again, here we are. We're four games into this series, and he's just helpless defensively. Off the ball, too. Like his little lunges, like gambling, not even gambling, just sort of like,

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