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Michael Pina

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
822 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

The Zach Lowe Show
A Look Inside the Lakers Sale and the Buss Family Dysfunction

And so just like the defense knows exactly what's coming, which is probably going to be Kevin Durant, high pick and roll, or maybe without Perrin Chagoon, usually.

The Zach Lowe Show
A Look Inside the Lakers Sale and the Buss Family Dysfunction

Or Kevin Durant just drawing two because...

The Zach Lowe Show
A Look Inside the Lakers Sale and the Buss Family Dysfunction

the defense is just unafraid of him swinging the ball and they're, they know that they're trust their ability to rotate behind the play or Alper and Shangoon two man game with usually Durant, honestly.

The Zach Lowe Show
A Look Inside the Lakers Sale and the Buss Family Dysfunction

And I just think that that predictability is, it has not worked out well for them.

The Zach Lowe Show
A Look Inside the Lakers Sale and the Buss Family Dysfunction

And, you know, their spacing is really bad.

The Zach Lowe Show
A Look Inside the Lakers Sale and the Buss Family Dysfunction

And what they count on usually is, you know,

The Zach Lowe Show
A Look Inside the Lakers Sale and the Buss Family Dysfunction

a lot of isolation basketball with either KD or Shangoon Jabari Smith being counted on to hit wide open shots, which sometimes he does.

The Zach Lowe Show
A Look Inside the Lakers Sale and the Buss Family Dysfunction

Sometimes he doesn't.

The Zach Lowe Show
A Look Inside the Lakers Sale and the Buss Family Dysfunction

Sometimes he's run off the three point line and has to hit a two dribble pull up.

The Zach Lowe Show
A Look Inside the Lakers Sale and the Buss Family Dysfunction

And that's your offense.

The Zach Lowe Show
A Look Inside the Lakers Sale and the Buss Family Dysfunction

But there are plays where like there was a play in the Spurs game where, you know, Shangoon gets it at the elbow and, you know, Kevin Durant is denied.

The Zach Lowe Show
A Look Inside the Lakers Sale and the Buss Family Dysfunction

um, on a DHO.

The Zach Lowe Show
A Look Inside the Lakers Sale and the Buss Family Dysfunction

Uh, and they basically doesn't know what to do.

The Zach Lowe Show
A Look Inside the Lakers Sale and the Buss Family Dysfunction

And there's like nine seconds on the shot clock.

The Zach Lowe Show
A Look Inside the Lakers Sale and the Buss Family Dysfunction

And he looks over at Jabari and Jabari sprints over, takes the ball and he hits a step back, uh, mid range jumper over blue coordinate.

The Zach Lowe Show
A Look Inside the Lakers Sale and the Buss Family Dysfunction

But it's like, that wasn't, that's not what he may have dug.

The Zach Lowe Show
A Look Inside the Lakers Sale and the Buss Family Dysfunction

He knows that's not sustainable offense.

The Zach Lowe Show
A Look Inside the Lakers Sale and the Buss Family Dysfunction

And I don't like when I watched them play, um,

The Zach Lowe Show
A Look Inside the Lakers Sale and the Buss Family Dysfunction

throughout the basketball game their half court offense they'll run stuff like they'll run things they can get amen thompson moving like amen thompson will rip screen and dive he will uh you know they'll run a flare screen for reed shepherd that shifts the defense and then he can flip it back to amen and amen can drive a closeout and he's so he's got the quickest first step in the

The Zach Lowe Show
A Look Inside the Lakers Sale and the Buss Family Dysfunction

So we can get into the paint at will, but they don't really do that.