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Marcus Thompson

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The Athletic NBA Daily
Luka’s worst game as a Laker + Draymond’s defensive mind

So the difficulty was trying to figure out a way to translate this thing into a writing format, which is, you know, how I got the video idea of just like, Hey, play the screen and have him talking over the video and explaining it. So yeah, I've always wanted to, I want to do that about like so much, like about so many things. Like I really want to do one on,

The Athletic NBA Daily
Luka’s worst game as a Laker + Draymond’s defensive mind

So the difficulty was trying to figure out a way to translate this thing into a writing format, which is, you know, how I got the video idea of just like, Hey, play the screen and have him talking over the video and explaining it. So yeah, I've always wanted to, I want to do that about like so much, like about so many things. Like I really want to do one on,

The Athletic NBA Daily
Luka’s worst game as a Laker + Draymond’s defensive mind

So the difficulty was trying to figure out a way to translate this thing into a writing format, which is, you know, how I got the video idea of just like, Hey, play the screen and have him talking over the video and explaining it. So yeah, I've always wanted to, I want to do that about like so much, like about so many things. Like I really want to do one on,

The Athletic NBA Daily
Luka’s worst game as a Laker + Draymond’s defensive mind

pick and roll right like this like you gotta give Mark Price for that though you know what I'm saying I would love to do that but Draymond he likes talking about defense and I do feel like even though it wasn't really a TV setting like he knows I pay enough attention that if I ask him the right question he'll have the right answer all you gotta do is talk to him in his language essentially he's always down to talk about it but you just gotta know like what to ask essentially

The Athletic NBA Daily
Luka’s worst game as a Laker + Draymond’s defensive mind

pick and roll right like this like you gotta give Mark Price for that though you know what I'm saying I would love to do that but Draymond he likes talking about defense and I do feel like even though it wasn't really a TV setting like he knows I pay enough attention that if I ask him the right question he'll have the right answer all you gotta do is talk to him in his language essentially he's always down to talk about it but you just gotta know like what to ask essentially

The Athletic NBA Daily
Luka’s worst game as a Laker + Draymond’s defensive mind

pick and roll right like this like you gotta give Mark Price for that though you know what I'm saying I would love to do that but Draymond he likes talking about defense and I do feel like even though it wasn't really a TV setting like he knows I pay enough attention that if I ask him the right question he'll have the right answer all you gotta do is talk to him in his language essentially he's always down to talk about it but you just gotta know like what to ask essentially

The Athletic NBA Daily
Luka’s worst game as a Laker + Draymond’s defensive mind

No, this is like this is the smartest, mostly because he doesn't have all of these great defenders around him. Right. Like that's to be the impressive thing. Like when they were winning championships. Right. He had Andrew Bogut. He had Andre Iguodala and Sean Livingston, right? He had KD. Pete Clay, defensively. I forgot, yeah, Pete Clay, our hound and the point guard. They had these pieces.

The Athletic NBA Daily
Luka’s worst game as a Laker + Draymond’s defensive mind

No, this is like this is the smartest, mostly because he doesn't have all of these great defenders around him. Right. Like that's to be the impressive thing. Like when they were winning championships. Right. He had Andrew Bogut. He had Andre Iguodala and Sean Livingston, right? He had KD. Pete Clay, defensively. I forgot, yeah, Pete Clay, our hound and the point guard. They had these pieces.

The Athletic NBA Daily
Luka’s worst game as a Laker + Draymond’s defensive mind

No, this is like this is the smartest, mostly because he doesn't have all of these great defenders around him. Right. Like that's to be the impressive thing. Like when they were winning championships. Right. He had Andrew Bogut. He had Andre Iguodala and Sean Livingston, right? He had KD. Pete Clay, defensively. I forgot, yeah, Pete Clay, our hound and the point guard. They had these pieces.

The Athletic NBA Daily
Luka’s worst game as a Laker + Draymond’s defensive mind

Now he's working with guys like Moses Moody, And, you know, Brandon Projimski and no real center, right? Because they don't really play him with Kavon Looney, who's a really good, you know, inside defender for a guy who's 6'9". He doesn't have a 7-footer next to him or a natural rim protector. So to me, this is like, I mean, I'm with you, man. Like, just do this.

The Athletic NBA Daily
Luka’s worst game as a Laker + Draymond’s defensive mind

Now he's working with guys like Moses Moody, And, you know, Brandon Projimski and no real center, right? Because they don't really play him with Kavon Looney, who's a really good, you know, inside defender for a guy who's 6'9". He doesn't have a 7-footer next to him or a natural rim protector. So to me, this is like, I mean, I'm with you, man. Like, just do this.

The Athletic NBA Daily
Luka’s worst game as a Laker + Draymond’s defensive mind

Now he's working with guys like Moses Moody, And, you know, Brandon Projimski and no real center, right? Because they don't really play him with Kavon Looney, who's a really good, you know, inside defender for a guy who's 6'9". He doesn't have a 7-footer next to him or a natural rim protector. So to me, this is like, I mean, I'm with you, man. Like, just do this.

The Athletic NBA Daily
Luka’s worst game as a Laker + Draymond’s defensive mind

If you go watch old Draymond, he was so fast. He just, it was this, it was running around and so physical and like an explosive in his kind of way. I don't, like he's not, he never was jumping out of the gym, but there was just a veracity about him. So when you watch him, like 2016 Draymond, when you watch him, you could see the difference physically. So that's my thing.

The Athletic NBA Daily
Luka’s worst game as a Laker + Draymond’s defensive mind

If you go watch old Draymond, he was so fast. He just, it was this, it was running around and so physical and like an explosive in his kind of way. I don't, like he's not, he never was jumping out of the gym, but there was just a veracity about him. So when you watch him, like 2016 Draymond, when you watch him, you could see the difference physically. So that's my thing.

The Athletic NBA Daily
Luka’s worst game as a Laker + Draymond’s defensive mind

If you go watch old Draymond, he was so fast. He just, it was this, it was running around and so physical and like an explosive in his kind of way. I don't, like he's not, he never was jumping out of the gym, but there was just a veracity about him. So when you watch him, like 2016 Draymond, when you watch him, you could see the difference physically. So that's my thing.

The Athletic NBA Daily
Luka’s worst game as a Laker + Draymond’s defensive mind

Like, yo, how are you doing this? It's akin to like you going out playing with some youngsters, right? And they clearly have the athletic advantage, but you are so far ahead of them intellectually of the game, it makes it hard for them to beat you. So he's still got a lot of juice left. I think he's such a master at wielding his length, his 6'7", 7'2", wingspan. And he's still really strong.

The Athletic NBA Daily
Luka’s worst game as a Laker + Draymond’s defensive mind

Like, yo, how are you doing this? It's akin to like you going out playing with some youngsters, right? And they clearly have the athletic advantage, but you are so far ahead of them intellectually of the game, it makes it hard for them to beat you. So he's still got a lot of juice left. I think he's such a master at wielding his length, his 6'7", 7'2", wingspan. And he's still really strong.

The Athletic NBA Daily
Luka’s worst game as a Laker + Draymond’s defensive mind

Like, yo, how are you doing this? It's akin to like you going out playing with some youngsters, right? And they clearly have the athletic advantage, but you are so far ahead of them intellectually of the game, it makes it hard for them to beat you. So he's still got a lot of juice left. I think he's such a master at wielding his length, his 6'7", 7'2", wingspan. And he's still really strong.

The Athletic NBA Daily
Luka’s worst game as a Laker + Draymond’s defensive mind

And as far as centers go, he's very agile. It's not like he's old and beat down. He's just no longer the... He was a small forward playing center. Like those days, it was like, now he's a power forward playing center, right? That's a big difference. But it's upstairs. And it's like, it's a combination of his intellectual capacity.

The Athletic NBA Daily
Luka’s worst game as a Laker + Draymond’s defensive mind

And as far as centers go, he's very agile. It's not like he's old and beat down. He's just no longer the... He was a small forward playing center. Like those days, it was like, now he's a power forward playing center, right? That's a big difference. But it's upstairs. And it's like, it's a combination of his intellectual capacity.