Zach Lowe

And so there's just

Like, even if the Lakers have to send help somewhere and they're junking up the series with switching and doubling Durant every time, they don't care because they can double Durant.

Behind him are Clint Capella, Josh Akogi, and Ahmed Thompson in a traffic jam that the Lakers can navigate.

I just think

You, I don't understand why, why is Reed Shepard on the team?

Why did they draft him?

Their only path to offense is that triangle of players and to play it four minutes in a game that you didn't necessarily have to win, but no one wants to be down to zero.

It's kind of a crisis and you couldn't score at all.

And you had no offense other than, okay, someone just do, we'll do one thing.

And then someone dribble 50 times and get to the rim.

I just thought it was like unconscionably bad.

Was Reed Shepard playing hide-and-seek in the locker room?

What are they searching for?

He's sitting on the bench.

Does he have any other buttons?

Is that the only button?

Is it like the button that Zach Galifianakis has on Between Two Ferns, where it's just one button that you just tap over and over again?

It's like, anyway, I just was watching the game in complete shock.

To your point, they opened the second half with a functional basketball play, clearly a scripted one.

Kevin Durant came off a Josh Akogi pin down on the left side of the floor.