Will Cain
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275 appearances
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3 series
first heard Feb 2025
last heard 2 Apr
Will Cain’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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You know, we talked about it on Saturday a little bit. I've seen it discussed like, oh, well, you know, LeBron is so great on the ball, which is true. I mean, he's, he's brilliant. And it's one of my favorite things about his entire career.
And it's kind of funny where it's like, well, some of these stupid podcasts, it'll be like, well, he doesn't actually have the scoring mentality of like, whatever. You're like, dude, whatever, you know, just the guy's a brilliant, brilliant basketball player. and he's put up plenty of scoring numbers.
It would tell you he's a scorer, but he's just such a terrific passer and his vision and all these different things. Like that's the bonus on top of everything else. All right. But with Luca now at this phase, like I think if LeBron stays for a couple more years, now granted, like the other day, I think it was last month. They were like, how much longer could you play?
And he was like at a high level. It was like five to seven years. I mean, it was insane, but whatever. I would expect him to answer it that way. So if he looks at his window with the Lakers and says, okay, this actually makes a little bit more sense.
I think this is, this is actually a really good basketball fit now for him with where he's at in his career because like Austin Reeves has been running point guard even if I probably like
the LeBron stuff now the Knicks thing was a little different because OG hurts his foot so he's out so now Josh Hart is on LeBron LeBron was brilliant his execution late in that game and Hart was also physically just overmatched on top of everything else so there's all these LeBron on ball initiating the offense possessions that I love but it was just a lot to ask of him to do that at this stage of his career so that's why Reeves is doing it so much so I do think that there's a basketball fit
That makes way more sense as opposed to like LeBron and Luka in his prime. So there's another part of the LeBron future that I'm going to ask after that. But from like the basketball standpoint, I know it's an incomplete roster and everything, but would you agree that it actually is an assist to him as opposed to being redundant early in his career?
Okay, two LeBron questions there. is he still on the Lakers at the end of the week? Yes.
Okay. Do you think that he opts out and then wants to do an extension with the Lakers this summer. I do.
Okay. I touched on this in the open too, where I heard it said, whether it was, you know, in, in reports or people talking about it on shows or just phone calls that you're making, it's like, oh, the Lakers, you know, starting to get sick of this whole clutch thing. And my point would be like, well, yeah, they got sick of it to get Luca. Like this is not, I don't think that that's,
the time like you can tell me that they're tired of clutch this is not a great example to show that they now have this backbone where they're going to push back against all of this stuff and that's why they traded Anthony Davis they traded Anthony Davis because they just got Luka fucking Doncic right but what is What is accurate about that dynamic, the angst that goes along with it?
Because, you know, some people are kind of going back and replaying it of like, well, when Anthony Davis asked for help and then, you know, that's LeBron 101. And then this trade deadline, you know, all the passive aggressive stuff that you know that you're signing up for here, which I think ultimately is like really easy to ignore and super pointless. And we make a big deal out of it.
I think the people that do it for a living are like, oh, cool. You want us to trade for a better player? Awesome. Thank you. Awesome. Yeah. Like, we'll see you with 710 for tip. What do you think is fair about that dynamic?
Yeah, that's why I chuckled. And we don't need to stay on that because we're talking about somebody in high school where I think it's just entirely different. Once you have an NBA jersey on, you're getting a contract, you're part of the conversation now, and we're going to talk about it. But I did think after that Philly disaster, it was nice to see JJ Redick get him out there from the MSG game.
I thought it was really smart by Redick to just do it so quickly. Like, hey, get another game. They had taken control. It was really a phenomenal Laker performance from start to finish, their defense and everything, and the crowd's chanting. And I think other coaches would just be defiant, be like, oh, you're going to make a mockery of this whole thing. Like you're chaining Bronny.
We're not going to put him in. And instead he puts him in. And again, the basketball part of it's fairly irrelevant, um, because he probably not an NBA player right now. All right. That's all I want to do on that. So I don't even want any followup to any of that stuff. Let's stay in the AD thing. Cause you know that he wants to play power forward. Um,
And it's funny because in theory now with the roster, with Dallas, granted it's dependent upon Gaffer and what Lively's availability could be if he's even going to be available towards the end of the year. that there are centers on paper that he should be playing with.
My guess would be Dallas and Jason Kidd will close with him at center the same way the Lakers did when they told him he wasn't really the center, but it just made way more sense. And if you look at that heat finals, when they won it five years ago, I was going through the minutes this morning. LeBron led the team in minutes of 236. Davis played 229.
The only other big that's on the radar here is Dwight Howard at 71 minutes in that series in particular. So, I understand his point, and some of it's a bit like I've had these injuries. It's like, dude, you've had injuries. Wherever you want to pretend that you were aligned and how you were introduced and everything, you were around him for years. What is this about when every number tells you?
And the reality is Dallas is going to close with him at center, I bet, in playoff games, even if they have the options of Lively and Gafford.
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