Kirk Goldsberry

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1,036 appearances 4 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 3 Sep

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The Zach Lowe Show · Part 1: The 10 Players Facing the Most Pressure Next Season · 4 Aug 2026 podcast

If his number drops like 50 because of his injuries, I just don't see this team keeping up that standard that the fan base has come to expect in the Jason Tatum era.

So he has a lot of pressure on him.

Yeah, and there's multiple kinds of pressure in this draft.

And I think it's fair to say everything you just said.

I would add these guys don't get compared against each other very often, but a lot with LaMelo Ball and Walker Kessler, both going from these environments where winning wasn't exactly paramount

for the first few years of their career being sort of nice stories and deep on league pass for, for years.

Oh, that's over now.

Now you're playing in Los Angeles.

If reports are true, Luca Donchett's lobby to get you onto this team to the point where the front office gave out two unprotected first round picks and swaps to get you.

And you played five games last year.

So he has this market pressure that the Los Angeles Lakers are,

you know, the, the marquee franchise in this league can, can put on you more than any other team.

But he also has, I think this, this, this other pressure associated with the transaction that landed him there fair or not.

And he has to fix a defense that sucks.

He has to deodorize a stank that is a stank at the point of attack that

with Austin Reeves and Luka Doncic in a world with SGA, Stefan Castle, Dylan Harper, Anthony Edwards, Jamal Murray, Stephen Curry.

There's no shortage of guards that will punish you for having a weak point of attack defense in this conference.

They are expecting a better defense in Los Angeles, but really the only piece that is going to do that for them is Walker Kessler.

And that is a lot of pressure for this young man.

No.

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