LeBron James

Rough timing for DeAndre Ayton's quote from the McMenamin article to drop because he followed that up with two points and four boards in 23 minutes.

In a loss.

To his former Suns team last night.

And the Lakers were minus 24 in those minutes.

And yeah, to peel back the curtain, I did have the Raps as the 12th ranked team to begin with, but the Lakers played last night.

So I wanted to start with that.

And they lose a close one in a game where the Suns hit.

22 from deep this game started with a Royce O'Neal three and it ended with a Royce O'Neal three for the Suns um they just got blitzed by three I guess they were outscored by 33 points last night against Suns yeah you just as far as this Lakers team goes we know they just have to outscore another team their defense just ain't going to be all that good they're not going to turn it on all of a sudden in the postseason this is a bottom 10 defensive team so the question is

Can old guy LeBron do it?

You look at LeBron, you say, OK, yeah, he's LeBron.

So he can chip in.

Luka can be him.

And Austin Reeves has to get back to that guy who he was in his first postseason when he was awesome.

It was I'm him against the Memphis Grizzlies that Austin Reeves, which was only a couple of years ago.

He's had a couple of bad ones in between.

But you look at them and you say, OK, those three guys can put it together and win a playoff series contender.

No one siren.

If we're sirening, sirening it like our man, Zach Harper, it's at the bottom.

Yeah, one comment I saw from a Lakers fan on one of their forums was, quote, Outside of the first few games of the season when the chemistry and morale was great, this team is so joyless.

I don't even get feelings anymore when they lose.