Durant & Beal return to crush Lakers | What is wrong with the Timberwolves?
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How did Kevin Durant and Bradley Beal perform in their return?
They've got their full starting unit out there for only like the fourth time all year. And what do you know? They blow out the Lakers 127 to 100. The three guys, you know, Booker plays the most minutes, plays 34 minutes. I think only 27 for Beal, 30 for KD. So just a nice, easy night for everybody, which is kind of what we want for the Suns, right? Like this is a team that's built for the playoffs. They should be crushing teams like the Lakers that can't really score.
that's exactly what you want is your big three being able to come in, handle business, and then sit down in the fourth quarter and allow the young guys to cook. And that's exactly what happened. I mean, this is probably the best iteration of a big three living like right now. Yeah. You know what I mean? Like there's not, there's not, there's few teams that have been able to bring in a new talent, a big name talent and work it out. And the funny thing is, Their move actually had nothing to do with the big three that was already there. It was about Tyus Jones coming in and becoming the thread between the three of them and being able to have him be the floor setter with this team. And not, you know, not to put anything away from the big three, but there's something to be said about their rookies too. Ryan Dunn and Oso Iguodaro have been so solid of presences and they play well. so much older than they are just being responsible with the ball and making the right decision.
And I'm sure that that is a byproduct of being around these three superstars in Beal, Booker and Durant.
Well, they get big minutes out of Iguodoro filling in when Nurkic was kind of banged up and in foul trouble. And I mean, and Ryan Dunn has just been a good story all year long. Nurkic, you know, hit a three, another three made by Yusuf Nurkic in this game. I think we were contractually obligated to point out every single time he makes one because it was going to be rare. But on the other hand, the Lakers, J.J. Redick, made history in the game or after the game, I guess you could say, becoming the first Lakers coach in their history to lose an NBA Cup game. Zena. Oh, wow. Darvin Ham undefeated on the way to the NBA Cup championship.
I actually did not know that.
There you go. Lakers not eliminated yet. They still have a chance to make it to the elimination round. So it's still early for the Lakers. But here's the issue for the Lakers. They struggled to score. They lost this game, really, like the third quarter. It got out of hand. They lose that quarter 36, 18. And, you know, it's not hard to when you look up and down the box score, even to just peep at the box score and say, well, Cam Reddish gives you zero points. Rui gives you seven.
yeah and that's in your starting lineup and yeah you know cam you know he's in there for defense but you just don't have enough offense to be able to have a defensive specialist out there the problem that the lakers are facing right now is there's so much give and take with so many different players with cam reddish the give is obviously good defense you can put him on your biggest assignment and you can you can make sure that he can handle that however you
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What happened in the Suns vs. Lakers game?
1:19
2
How did Kevin Durant and Bradley Beal perform in their return?
1:19–5:53
3
What are the issues plaguing the Lakers this season?
5:53–15:45
4
What positives can we take from the Timberwolves' recent game?
15:45–16:28
5
Who is Rob Dillingham and what impact has he had on the Timberwolves?
16:28–18:30
6
What challenges are the Timberwolves facing this season?
18:30
7
How are the Milwaukee Bucks performing without Giannis?
11:43
8
What are the future prospects for the Pelicans?
1:19–25:05