Los Angeles Lakers Head Coach J.J. Redick said he was “embarrassed” following a 41 point loss to the Miami Heat. Dave DuFour and Es Baraheni are joined by the Athletic’s Jovan Buha to discuss the aftermath of the loss, the recent play of LeBron James and Anthony Davis, and where the Lakers go from here. Then, Caitlin Cooper, from “Basketball, She Wrote”, joins the show to talk about the Pacers recent struggles and what is bothering Tyrese Haliburton. Finally, Es and Dave check in on presumptive number one overall draft pick Cooper Flagg and share some funny quotes from the night in basketball.Host: Dave DuFourWith: Es Baraheni, Jovan Buha, Caitlin CooperExecutive Producer: Andrew SchlechtAudio Producer: Grayson MoodySubmit your questions to The Athletic NBA Daily mailbag: https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5939460/2024/11/25/nba-podcast-mailbag-athletic-daily/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Good morning and welcome to the NBA Daily for December 5th, 2024. Coming up, we got Yovan Buha on to tell us why the Lakers stink right now. We got Kaitlin Cooper to tell us why the Pacers stink right now. And then S, I think we're going to look around the rest of this stuff from the night. And does everything else stink too?
Yeah, I guess.
Good morning, everybody. Good morning. As good morning, Yovan. Not very often that we start the show off with a guest, but this is about as close as we're going to get to an emergency podcast without a trade or a coach getting fired. And it's because the Lakers just stink right now. They lost yet another game. They're two and six in their last eight.
Lost is a pretty way to put it.
They got mollywhopped. Is that the word? Is that enough of a word, Yovan, to describe the beating that they took?
drubbing beat i mean embarrassing was the buzzword of the night uh so the lakers are they're completely spiraling right now as you just said they start the season 10 and 4 and for most of that stretch they were in the top four in the west they were one of the surprises of the season uh jj reddick's getting coaching uh you know coach of the year buzz ad's getting some buzz for like not quite mvp but at least in like yeah
back of the ballot conversation well he was self-proclaimed defensive player he's talking about himself as defensive player of the year like but but you could do that when you're winning uh since then that's right and really the biggest thing has been the increase in competition if you look at a lot of the wins that they had early in the season they were beating up on uh the jazz the spurs the pelican the mash unit of the pelicans they got the wizards really
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