Ted Nguyen
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard 20 Dec
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Uh, well, we got it. We got it in the first couple of games against Boston, but you can see that there is a steep decline and he was really bad against Denver. Um,
So I know exactly what you're talking about here, but we can't just... Those first couple games against Boston, he was... I mean, it's off the charts what he did against Milwaukee, but he was... There was a toughness thing there, too, where Boston was really unsure of themselves, and Jimmy was kind of almost laughing at the dudes, being like, you're just not wired the way I am.
But to your front office guy's point, there's no lie in there. It wasn't in the finals.
All right. Would you do Austin Reeves in a pick for Zion?
I mean, granted, we're going to figure out the money.
See, the thing is, is I actually think LeBron, like one of the good things about getting D'Angelo Russell out of there is it, You can't have LeBron play point guard all night, but when I watch the Lakers, I think of the playoff version of them because I know this is going to sound crazy to me. I like this Lakers roster.
a little bit you know not i i think there's a lot of different options and reeves being on the ball more makes him better d'angelo not being there in those slow possessions where everybody's just waiting to see whatever it is that he wants to do because like with d'angelo it's don't don't hit me over the head with the shooting numbers like look at these possessions like oh cool high pick and roll you're gonna stall with the basketball you're gonna lean down it's like you're doing the limbo and everybody's sort of like waiting and you're just waiting for like the one cut that's an assist and
Having Finney Smith, I know the Spurs, like Chris Paul put on just a master class of surgery matchups against them, which was nice to see from my guy. But when I look at the Lakers, I'm like, all right, I actually like a lot of the pieces here. AD's been terrific. Finney Smith's a good pickup because they needed to change their perimeter defense.
I think I like the possessions of LeBron playing point more than the other ones, but we're not going to see it in January and February. Like, is there a version of this that's kind of sneaky where LeBron paces himself and he has something in him to be able to do this for multiple weeks?
And then I'll watch his rotations on defense and I'll go, man, like, are you going to do that in the playoffs too? Because I don't know that they can survive. This sounds crazy, but as great as he is offensively, the numbers are still great. He's passing and all those different things.
For the Lakers to be at least taken seriously as maybe an upset alert team in the playoffs, in the West, my guess would be he's not going to have the same approach defensively. And maybe he plays more point guard. I'm not talking myself into the Lakers winning the West here. I'm just trying to figure out how viable they are to be matched up with some of these other teams.
It's not the three teams like last year or four teams.
Like I'm really worried about them.
Yeah, that's what it feels like, the first half of this. So I don't know if I just did a good Lakers. Was that a positive Lakers segment or a negative one? I think it was positive. Here's, I think, the other part of the story of just where we're at roster-wise and how much talent there is in this league. I was doing the top 100 for the Ringer last night, and I was looking at different rotations.
Portland stinks. And yet, you're like, look at all this depth.
No, but there's just teams where I'm writing down going like this is their fifth or sixth guy. They're not even good. Like this team isn't isn't any good. And there's like, I don't know, two or four guys I kind of like on this team. It just feels very different from 20 years ago where you were like, that's their third option. Like this is an NBA team's third option. Like this team's doomed.
And yeah, I just think there's way more talent, but we'll see what happens before the deadline. Anything else? I kept you here quite a bit, so I could let you go now.
Yeah. I still wonder like if it ends up becoming this moment where you can dictate all these things or if the actual value of the picks is diminished, you know, where it
the first thought when you tweeted that out was like look at all these teams that are going to be controlling the first round it's 14 picks for the other 24 teams but there could be another side of it where the team that wants a pick's like well i don't have to i don't have to pay your price i'll just call the other team because you can't like oklahoma city can't keep drafting this many guys especially as they start making more and more commitments financially here um
unless they were going to get really aggressive and go like the Oakland A's path of this and re-sign their guy, trade him, and then draft a replacement. But when you're flirting with titles, you're flirting from the NBA championships, nobody wants to be that cute. I would have a hard time believing that that's what they would actually do. You're the best.
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