Are the Lakers better? | Pacific Division Grades
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Good morning, everybody. Dave Dufour, Zena Keita, Espera Henney, the gang's all here. Little summer pod. What's up, guys? I've missed you guys. It's been a while. I know. You know, it's funny. I sent you that text the other day and I was like, I feel like we haven't talked in forever. And obviously we text like every day.
Yeah. And the funny thing is my response was, well, I feel like I've talked to you guys every day because I've been listening to you guys. You guys have been keeping me up to date with everything with Summer League and offseason so dude i feel like i have said this every single time we've potted but xena i miss you man i know i'm happy we got the vibes the gang is all here vibes have not been missed like we are gonna be diving right in today yeah but s is the only one that's seen the odyssey
When are you going, Dave? I'm going to go tomorrow night. Same. I had somebody say, don't spoil it for me when I asked if they read it.
Which is hilarious. Come on now. I was like, it's a 3,000-year-old spoiler. Did you get it in high school? If not, then you missed your chance.
I don't know if a lot of people did read it in high school.
Even if you didn't read it in high school, it's been made in so many different ways already.
Armando Sante.
Sure.
Oh, I don't know. Oh, brother, where art thou?
Was the Odyssey.
Oh, right.
Okay. Yeah. Yeah. So I'm looking forward to seeing that. Guys, let's talk a little bit of off-season stuff. It's summer. I don't know. The Pacific Division is very interesting. This is a nice way to just split these things apart so we don't have to go for two hours. But, Zena, you cover the Warriors. We've been talking about them as the old folks home of the NBA. They're not technically out of the LeBron race, although definitely much less smoke around LeBron going to the Bay right now, right? But it didn't Go ahead. No, please. I was going to say, it didn't stop them from doubling down on being old. Al Horford's coming back. They re-signed Porzingis. Their big moves were keeping guys. They drafted a player who looks to be pretty good, at least offensively, in Yaxel Landenberg.
I know his size is going to be important. They lost... Quentin Post, which is... That's one of the wilder signings of the offseason, if we're being honest here. And good on the Warriors to not match that, by the way. It feels crazy. That feels like a guy... They really couldn't anyways.
It would have been silly for them to do so. Yeah, I mean, you're right. It's so funny because... you re-sign Kristaps Porzingis you re-sign Al Horford and obviously Jimmy Butler coming back Draymond Steph like you're like oh continuity this is good that continuity just happens to be a little bit aged but that's okay um I like the fact that I agree with you on the Quentin Post like they didn't bring him back I like the fact that they signed Charles Bassey if y'all remember at the end of the season Charles Bassey had to come in play some 10 days for the Warriors and he's athletic He's an athletic big man. He can finish above the rim. And that was one of the things that was really fun to watch him move in space around Stefan or around whomever and get to the rim.
Like that's going to be huge. Beside, you know, coming from behind Christophs Brzingis and Al Horford that aren't necessarily the most agile. But hey, Al Horford was still blocking shots like volleyball games out there last year. So we'll see. The Yaxl thing is fun. And it's, I would say even just- Summer League Finals MVP. I was just gonna say, the Summer League Championship Game MVP, Warriors haven't won Summer League since 2013. It's been a minute, right? Yeah. And there were quite a few people out there that you're like, okay, I like Davon Smith. He kind of popped on my radar. But Graham Ike, he's gonna have probably a longer way up to the mix of the bigs. But of course, Yaxel, you like what you see.
being able to create in space, being able to go off the dribble, the little side dribble, you know, put up the three with ease. Like you like the fact that his shot comes in rhythm so naturally.
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