March 21, 2025 • 36 mins
Jovan Buha from The Athletic hops on to talk about Bronny's big night, the Lakers' potential playoff seeding and more. The Clippers are on fire and host the Grizzlies tonight. Crosstalk with Petros and Money.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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You guys do a fantastic job. Has it been that long?
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Speaker 2 (00:29):
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Speaker 1 (00:30):
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this little roll on his neck for a while.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
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Speaker 4 (00:55):
Guy, he's got some muscles over that.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
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Speaker 1 (01:01):
Absolutely does an amazing job cover in the Lakers for
the Athletic Bouha's block on YouTube gets the super chats
and all that. He's amazing leader of the Late Night Gang.
He is Jovon Booha joining us here, Boo a five
seventy LA sports Yovan, what's going on?
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Mar Boo?
Speaker 4 (01:17):
I'm doing well.
Speaker 5 (01:18):
That was like the best intro I've ever gotten, So
I appreciate you.
Speaker 6 (01:21):
Guys.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
Well, let Petrol hear you say that, because then that
might cause a whole beef and I don't need that.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
Yeah, you gonna switch this out and now it's kep.
Speaker 6 (01:27):
You got a.
Speaker 5 (01:27):
Reference the Late Night Gang. He's got a reference to
super chats. You guys are on top of it.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
Guys, super chats are on just in case you're wondering.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
Oh yeah, for reper Adams Clippers Talk as well. You
can do a super chat for Adam if you so please.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
Jovon joined me on Clippers Talk just like a couple
of weeks ago to help preview the two game mini
series Clippers and Lakers. I don't know what the outcome was.
I can't remember, but yeah, Jovan's a friend. He's a
great guy.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Booha, What are we supposed to make out of this?
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Seventeen points from Brownie James last night and just give
me the norm moving four? Was this an anomaly? What
do we make about what he did against a guy
named Ryan Rawlins of the Milwaukee Bucks, Stop hating.
Speaker 5 (01:59):
I think it's an anomaly in the sense of like
he's not going to be in the Lakers primary rotation,
that there was a reason why last night was a
season high in minutes for Bronnie, a season high or
career high in points for Bronnie. But I do think
it speaks to the legitimate progress that he has made.
And I try to avoid the whole discourse with it
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just in terms of whether it was deserved or not,
or you know, whether he should be here or not.
I think we've exhausted that topic to a point of like, Okay,
he's here, so now can he prove himself? And I
think he has shown, even going back, like a couple
of months ago, that game that he played in Philly,
where he looked lost and just uncomfortable out there in
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that first quarter. That's what triggered the stephen a lebron beef,
or at least it going to the level that it's
gone to where steven A after that prompted him to
call out Lebron as a father. From that point one,
we've seen Bronnie. He has looked much better, and he
has looked much better in.
Speaker 6 (03:03):
The G League.
Speaker 5 (03:04):
He has consistently been putting out better numbers there. But
even going back to the Denver shift that he had
last week and then this week now against Milwaukee, like
he is beginning to look more like an NBA player,
and I think that was not the case earlier in
the season. So I think that's a testament to Bronnie
and the work that he's put in. I think it's
a testament to the Lakers and their player development and
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the South Bay G League team. So I think he's
still ways away from being a rotation player, and I
don't think that's going to happen this season, but he
is on the trajectory to getting there, and I think
that this was a step in the right direction. And again,
like there are plenty of NBA players who have played
who have never scored seventeen points in a game. I
know the context was the Lakers were short handed and
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they needed somebody to score. But it could have been
Gabe Vincent, it could have been Jordan Goodwin. There was
plenty of other guys even on the floor that could
have been the primary guys, and it was Ronnie. So
I think it's a testiment to him in his growth
over the course of the season.
Speaker 4 (04:03):
Yo Van, is it fair to say that right now
he looks the part of a late second round pick
or has even maybe exceeded what expectations would typically be
put upon a late second round pick after having seventeen
points in a game last night, Because I've seen a
lot of second round picks from the Clippers not be
able to do that in their first season because they
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don't have any first round picks. Unfortunately, at the moment, like,
that's not nothing to me? That is somewhat of a rarity,
is it not?
Speaker 6 (04:31):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (04:32):
And I would even point to you know, Milwaukee is
an above average defense, so I think that their perimeter
group defensively is not good and the bulk of their
defensive success comes from the front court with the honest
and brook Lofez. But like Bronni did a lot, this
wasn't like a situation where he was racking up garbage
time points and the game was like a thirty point blowout.
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It was like he did a good bulk of his
scoring in his offense ve production within the first three
quarters while the game was still relatively competitive, like there
was a couple points there, it would go. Milwaukee distanced
themselves in the first quarter, but then the Lakers had
several big runs where they cut it to single digits.
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It was kind of like eight nine points, and Browny
was part of that and doing this with brook loothez
on the floor with Giannis on the floor, Like it
wasn't a game where both teams rested all their guys
and he was just going up against like third string players.
He was going up against real players and he did this.
So to your point, like I would say, he's ahead
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of the second late second round guys in his draft
class and looking more maybe like a higher end second
round pick right now, so I mean the bar is
relatively low. But again to your point, like I mean
Dalton connect what was the Lakers first round pick, and
he's had a pretty good season by by rookie standards,
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but like he only scored seventeen points that he actually
didn't get there until late in the game. So, like
all things considered, I think it was a pretty good
performance for Brownie, and I don't want to make it
something it's not, but I also want to give him
his props and not just treat this like, Okay, it
was just against like Milwaukee's third string in like the
fourth quarter, Like no, he was doing this with like
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legitimate NBA players and defenders on the floor, And he
hit a pull up three, He got to the rim
a couple of times, he hit a midi like he
was in his bag, and I think you're starting to
see that. And again, I think we're still probably another
year or two away from him potentially being a rotation player,
but the fact that that's even a possibility, I think
it is a testament again to his development in the
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way the Lakers have approached their development with him.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Jovan Bouja joining us here on a five seventy LA Sports,
Adam Alston, Tim Kates, Kevin Figures sitting in for Rogan
and Rodney. Another guy who's really turned heads over the
last month or so has been Jordan Goodwin and someone
who people feel can actually be a really good rotation player,
even as the Lakers to make this run into the postseason. Now,
correct me if I'm wrong. As of right now, he
does not have a solid roster spot. I think he's
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a two way guy. They would have to convert him
and make him into a regular roster player. Do you
see that potentially happening, because whenever he's on the court,
it seems like good things happen when Jordan Goodwin's out
there for them.
Speaker 5 (07:16):
I do. I think it's a matter of time of
So he's got, if I'm not mistaken, four games remaining
as a two way player until he reaches his limit.
The Lakers have thirteen games remaining until, you know, at
the end of the regular season, so that there's a
little bit of a gap there. I think the tentative
plan was to wait until the final day of the
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regular season or the penultimate day and waive either Cam
Reddish or Alex lenn and convert Jordan Goodwin. But how
important he has become and really indispensable, I would say
to this group, like, I think he's firmly in the
top nine, and there are knights where he's like more
of a top seven guy than a top nine guy.
And out playing some of even the more established bench
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guys like he has become a huge piece for them.
And I think it's the defense, where he's constantly leading
the team in steals and deflections. He's a versatile defender,
he could switch across multiple perimeter positions. He's a sneaky
good rebounder, especially on the offensive end. He's constantly in
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the paint tipping balls out or grabbing offensive rebounds. And
then even some like to nerd out a little bit
here in the short role. But when he is the
screener often for Luca, he's a good playmaker out of that,
and they get these four on three and three on
two advantages with him, and he can make some good decisions.
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And often he's in that spot because teams are putting
their worst defender on him because the one thing he
can't do is to shoot right now, although he has
been shooting the ball much better, but over his career
he's been a below average three point shooter. But what
happens is teams will put their worst defender on him.
Then the Lakers will bring that guy into the fray,
have him screen for Luca, and then either that guy
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switching on to Luca, which gives Luca a mismatch, or
they have to double and blitz Luca and then all
of a sudden that creates an advantage where he passes
the good win and then good wins off to the races.
So he's been awesome. I think it's going to be
interesting to see how the Lakers handle this. If I
were them, I would say, you know, screw the money
and whatever savings there would be, and not converting him earlier,
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and just wave whoever you're gonna wave and convert him
as soon as possible, because I think they're going to
need him down the stretch here, and you don't want
to get into a situation where he sits like the
final nine games, gets out of rhythm, is a bit rusty,
and then you're going into the playoffs like hoping he
can help you. I think you want to convert him
the second maxed out his games, and it seems like
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that would be like end of next week early the
following week. So I think for the Lakers, like it's
a slightly tough decision from a financial perspective, but from
a competitive and like basketball standpoint, I think they have
to do it asap.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
Yovan. Let's talk about Brownie's side kick and Luca dontritch
here for a moment. Okay, I'm kidding Luca, though, what's
scary to me, as obviously a Clippers fan, is that
he's not playing his best yet. He's only shooting just
under forty one percent from the field and they're still
winning ballgames. Where is he in the ramp up to
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getting back to all world you know, all first NBA team,
Luka Doncish, And how have you seen his fit so
far with the Lakers.
Speaker 5 (10:28):
I think he's increasingly looked more comfortable and more dynamic,
but to your point, like he's still not fully Luca.
Speaker 6 (10:37):
I will look.
Speaker 5 (10:38):
At got it here. The last ten games, he has
scored thirty or more in seven of them, and that
includes that forty five point performance in Milwaukee where he
kept that game relatively close until Milwaukee eventually blew them
out in the third. But he's he's like his command
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of the offense has always been there. But but I
think it's like you're seeing now his timing with teammates
on kickout passes or lob passes or or pocket passes,
like he's just he's in sync with this group, and
I think the biggest thing has been the shot not
quite being there, but it has started to fall more consistently.
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He's got seven games now with four or more you know,
seven straight games with four more threes. In five of
those he's hit five or more threes, So like the
three point shot has come back. The inside the arc
has not quite been there, but you know, he's I
think that that's that's kind of like the final level
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for him. But he's getting to the free throw line
a lot. He's made up for it looking at it
here again, like six of the past seven games he
shot double digit free throws, so he's finding ways to
still score and be effective even one he doesn't have
his shot going, So to your point, like the conditioning
that stuff, it's still work in progress. He got his
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knee banged up, his ankle banged up, so he's dealing
with multiple lower extremity injuries. I still think he's playing
his way into like tiptop game shape. But even with that,
this dude's like a walking thirty point triple double, so
it's kind of hard to nitpick. I also think defensively
he's fit in really well. He's had five straight games
with two or more steals. So like he plays passing lanes,
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he's a smart defender. He fits into the Lakers defensive
style and scheme. So I think he's been awesome, and
I think that's if you are betting on the Lakers
in terms of their long term outlook, just for this season,
I think Luca looking more and more like himself progressively
is the primary thing to buy into, because this is
a guy who can be the best player on the
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court on any given night, often is in that conversation
for the best player on the court any given night,
and like he can still get to another level that
I think would really propel the Lakers to potentially conference finals,
final and maybe even a championship.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
So yeah, so in that vein, So we know that
the Lakers their odds have gone way up since getting
Luka Doncic in the mix. But we know he's dealing
with injury issues, and so is Lebron James and Austin
Reeves sat out last night with an ankle in DFS
and all these guys. How important is seeding when it
comes to the Lakers being able to compete and make
a deep run into the postseason. It's exceedingly rare that
a team you know who doesn't have home court advantage
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one through four makes a deep run. But with Luca
and Lebron, assuming they're healthy enough, you'd like their odds
against almost anybody if those guys are healthy and hitting
on all cylinders. And it just makes me wonder how
JJ Reddick in the organization will handle their minutes as
the season winds down, gauging how important it is to
have home court versus having these guys as healthy as
they possibly can be for when the postseason starts.
Speaker 5 (13:47):
Ideally they would like to have both, right, Like they'd
like to be the two seed and have everybody healthy,
but if forced to pick, they are prioritizing health overseeding.
Like we've seen that with them punting a couple of
games recently at Denver than last night RISUS Milwaukee, they
rested forfeits of their starting lineup. Granted, two guys in
Lebron and Rui we're actually out due to injury and
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I've missed you know, two plus weeks now at this point,
but they rested some starters. They rested in both of
those games to at least two key bench guys. So
like they have been punting some games recently, just from
a strategic let's get guys some rest. I also think
there's been like a compounding nature to missing Lebron and
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Rui and Austin having to do more, Luca having to
do more, Jackson Hayes, Dorian Phinny Smith, Jared Vanderbilt, like
all these guys, I've had to pick up that collective
slack without Lebron and Ruey there in terms of defense
and offense and just like kind of all facets of
the game. So I think that and they just played
six day six games in eight days, which is they're
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the only team this season that has such a stretch
because of the LA wildfires and rescheduling. They just played
preconsecutive back to backs, which no team as that type
of stretch this season. So like the league has tried
to go away from four games in five nights, Lakers
just had two basically stretches of four games in five nights.
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So they had to be selected with that and be
careful with how they approach it. I think down the
stretch they're going to try and get the best seed possible.
They're going to also, I think, more so than seating
I think it's throughout getting the reps with Lebron and
Luca and Austin together, and like, can we get them
twenty to twenty five minutes a night together and really
just build that chemistry, and like you can't replicate on
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court reps in practice or in film or in meetings,
like you need those on court minutes. So I think
they're trying to prioritize that more so than even the seating.
But first and foremost, it's health. And I think if
you look at how jumbled the West is and how
some of the top teams in the West don't have
as much experience, like a Memphis or Houston, I think
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the Lakers are looking at it like, if we end
up being the four seed, the five seed to six seed,
we still like our odds of beating any of these
teams in the first round and at least making the
second round, if not going further. So I think ideally
they get fully healthy and they can kind of just
ride it out and go into the playoffs with some momentum.
But if they have to tick between the two, I
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think they'd rather be the sixth seed and be healthy
than be the two seed. And like barely be getting
into Game one of the.
Speaker 4 (16:27):
Playoffs, Levonne. I want to get your appraisal on what
could be perceived as a hot take for me, and
maybe it's not hot. Maybe it's warm. It's like Mick
cronin post game. He won, but he's still warm, like
he's not hot because they at least won yesterday. There's
still something there. So this picked up a little bit
of traction and went somewhat viral. I said, as of today,
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right now, not talking about where they've been in their careers,
I would probably take Austin Reeves over Devin Booker because
of what he's shown without Lebron at times, without Lebron
and Luca at times, and how he's been playing over
the last two months. To me, he's having a moment
out there where he's really progressing as a player. He's
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better with his on ball creation than I've ever seen.
He's still young enough to be developing, and his offensive
game to me, is just grown by leaps and bounds.
How crazy of a take is that? How do you
read that?
Speaker 5 (17:22):
I don't think it's like mental asylum crazy. I look,
I've been an Austin guy since his rookie season I like,
midway through his rookie season, I was making the case
that he's the third best player on the team. And
remember this was a team that had Russell Westbrook on it,
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and I was like, this guy needs to be starting.
Like it was just very clear that this undrafted kid
out of Arkansas had already ascended to being the Lakers'
third best player. It took him a while to fully
get there in terms of gating, Like, you know, Frank
Bogola kind of gained some trust with him later in
the season, and then Darvin Ham for whatever reason, Like
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there are moments he turned over the keys to Austin
but never fully committed to him, and you know, benched
him at various points, and like it just didn't really
make sense the approach in my opinion. But like, I've
been a big Austin guy, and I think he has
become a true number three over the past few months
and it really established himself as like, like I think
he's a top five number three option in the league.
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I think you could quibble with like where exactly he
is in those rankings, but if we're talking just offensive,
he's probably in the top three and maybe even number two,
Like he's that high up. However, I think Devin Booker,
he was the number one on a team that made
the finals in twenty twenty one. I know, like him
and Chris Paul, but the Devin was the primary offensive
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engine that the primary scorer.
Speaker 4 (18:49):
Does he still that guy to you because he has
it lately?
Speaker 6 (18:52):
To me, he doesn't. He does.
Speaker 5 (18:54):
Like I think when you factor in the contracts of
Austin is making less than thirteen million dollars, you can
make the case that Austin is the better value. And like,
if I was building a team, I think that building block,
you're getting way more bang for your buck compared to
I don't know Booker's salary, stop my head. In just
in terms of like who's the better player, I still
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lean Booker. I think he's like for ranking guys, I
would have him ahead of Austin. But I mean, look,
you just outplayed Booker in that that Phoenix game, and like,
so that's where I don't think you're crazy necessarily with that.
I just think I would I would still take Devin
Booker over Austin.
Speaker 6 (19:34):
But the fact that we're even.
Speaker 5 (19:35):
Having this conversation and like it's not insane, is just
shows like how far Austin has ascended. And he's a
legitimate number three who I also think can scale up
to be We've seen him be the number two, next
to Luca, next to Lebron, next to eighty when one
of the other stars is out. We've seen him even
be the number one. He had forty five against Indiana
last month. I just had the big game in Denver
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where he nearly led them to the win in without
Luca and Lebron. So like, he can't even scale up
to being a number one on a given night, which like,
there are some number threes that are just the number three,
whether you make them the number one or not. So
like his scalability is versatility. How great he is I
think deserves to be celebrated. I would still between him
and Booker. Take Booker, but again, I don't think you're
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like insane for saying that.
Speaker 4 (20:22):
So I'm in cuffs but not a straight jacket. I'm
not getting atlebotomy. I'm not getting electric shot therapy. Okay,
that's fair.
Speaker 5 (20:28):
You're not on shutter Island.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
Perfect.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
That is Yovan Booja covers the Lakers for the Athletica.
You can follow him on all of his socials at
Jovan Booja. Check out his YouTube channel. Does Boja's block
every single game, after every Laker game, does a phenomenal
job full up covering the Lakers, damn straight. Jovann boohoo ha.
Thank you then helping Jovah for taking the time with us. Man,
we know you're really busy, so we appreciate it.
Speaker 5 (20:53):
Appreciate you guys. Talk to you soon, all.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
Right, thank you.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
There he is Jovann Bouja. By the way, Devin Booker
making fifty million dollars this year, Austin reeves. Yeah, the
chasm between their salaries versus the chasm between the production
not that white.
Speaker 4 (21:08):
I'm saying, even with taking contracts out of it, I
think moving forward, this take may age well. Now, if
Booker gets back to where he was a couple of
years ago, it's gonna look awful.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
Oh you're gonna be an old takes exposed for sure.
Speaker 4 (21:22):
Oh yeah, it will be a freezing cold take and
I will be getting that lobotomy like at the end
of one Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
But for now, I just would I'm safe. I just
would have said you had like one too many drinks
as all. That's that's that would have been my one.
Speaker 4 (21:35):
The problem is it's just Heineken zero point zero for me.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
Now, Kevin, I'm glad to see Booha greaves with me
that Bronny's coming in to form. Bronnie's really developing in
the G League and could turn into a really good
role player here surely, speaking of crazy see Fred.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
Rogan found his way back to the the radio stations.
Speaker 4 (21:50):
Today, thought Timson Arkhams asylum over there. Put the joker.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
Joker has nothing on him.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
It is Tim Kates, Kevin figures Adam alslin in for
Rogan and Rodney here on a five seventy LA Sports.
I mean, how could we possibly have the great arbiter
of the Clippers in studio with us, Tim and not
talk about the Clippers once all day today?
Speaker 2 (22:07):
So we got to get the clip Clippers pretty good
so far the Clippers.
Speaker 4 (22:12):
How dare you first my cats? And now you're going
after the Clippers over there by the way, do you
get it? I'm doing fine.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
Everything's fine in action at the end to it, don't
Tonight against the Memphis Grizzlies, and they've been hot, they've
been on a heated themselves, how about it recently? So
we'll talk about the Clippers coming up next to here
on the Home of the Clippers AM five seventy LA Sports,
Tim Kates, Kevin figures Adam Alston sitting in for Rogan
and Rodney.
Speaker 4 (22:34):
Damn you, Tim.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
Kevin figures Adam Allston, Tim Kates and for Rogan and
Rodney here on AM five seventy LA Sports stretch run
here of the show. And I can't believe we have
the host. What is Fred say of the pregame? They
have time the post game and his Clipper YouTube channel.
Speaker 4 (22:52):
He can't ever get the name right. It's Clippers Countdown, Fred, Yes,
and we're starting I don't know, like three hours from now, right,
Clippers Countdown.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
That's why he's all suited and booted right now, Adam
Auslin is.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
He's getting ready to head out to into it Dome
where they can just scan his eyeball and let him
in and grab whatever goodies and snacks and free merchandise
he wants, and they'll just charge his credit card.
Speaker 4 (23:10):
We have the technology now, and you know what, it's
pretty damn streamlined and smooth. The first couple of days
there were some hang ups there were some glitches in
the matrix, in the system they had there with facial recognition,
as you would expect. But now it into a dome.
I don't hear anyone complaining about that. Some people still
just aren't used to it. Yeah, and you're like, oh,
sign of the Beast or whatever, like this is too crazy.
(23:31):
I can't do it. But you don't have to anyways,
it's not required to use. Yes, the facial recognition. It
just makes things easier.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
So I can just walk into the Clipper store, the
team store, it into a dome and grab five you know,
Qui lannerd jerseys and walk out, and then I'll be
charged eight hundred dollars each on my credit card.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
That's how that works.
Speaker 4 (23:48):
Basically, I don't know if they're that expensive. You don't
have to go through you don't have to go through
a shopping line.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
There are no lines.
Speaker 4 (23:56):
This is the point. Steve Balmer wants you back in
your seats immediate, like Tim Kates's.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
The seats are your toilets either one.
Speaker 4 (24:02):
They all count right, well, they have more toilets even
so there's whole line. So you're always watching the game.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
Now, can you watch the game while you're sitting on
the toilet. That's that's the question.
Speaker 4 (24:10):
There may be some areas like that, like the old
tool Time episode Home Improvement where he had the man's bathroom, right.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
Somebody told me that the cabanas or the suite on
the ground level, I don't know what they're calling them
there at the end, lounges, lounges. If you're in one
of those, the TVs are not on the game.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
Is that true?
Speaker 3 (24:28):
Because they don't want people sitting and watching the games
on the TVs inside those areas, like if you were
in a suite at Crypto or somewhere else, like so
far you're sitting on a couch watching the game on TV.
They want people in their seats watching the game, not
watching them on TV.
Speaker 4 (24:41):
I can't confirm that, but there may be something to that.
He wants more energy in the building. He wants to
create a home court advantage, and to his credit, it
has worked. Guys. After starting Oh and Forward into it home,
where Steve Balmer joked in the locker room after they
lost their fourth straight game there to start off the season,
he said to James Harden, like I'm gonna tear the
this whole thing down and build a new one, because
(25:01):
apparently there's some type of bags usual here.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
He can do it. I believe he absolutely could do it.
Speaker 4 (25:05):
He has the body. He's the richest owner of North
American sports. But since then they've only lost six games.
I think they're twenty four and six or twenty six
and six. All you need to know is since November
they have the third best home court home court record
record home record right now, and it's added into a dome.
And the reasoning is because Balmer built it that way,
because he wants the fan experience to be the best
(25:27):
out there. And you have something and tim you can
appreciate this that is completely unique to into adult the wall.
It is fifty one rows straight up, no seats or
no suites, and this is to have a louder section
and it's near the opponent's bench so you can get
in their heads a little bit more and you're creating
(25:49):
more noise. And when you're there, it's very distinct where
the noise is coming from from the wall. And it's working,
in fact, to the point some people on Twitter are
saying this should be illegal. Tear down the wall like
missing ten free throws. Yeah, I've gone into that area.
It is super loud there. The fans are really rowdy.
It's a college basketball like atmosphere. It is really cool.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
Is it true that if you wear an opposing team's uniform,
they have a security guard that would literally pick you
up and throw you out of the section.
Speaker 4 (26:17):
It's not like your DJ Jazzy Jeff.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
Okay, First listen to a Steve Bomber.
Speaker 4 (26:21):
They don't allcle fill you, but they will politely escorts
you out. You have to be a Clippers fan to
sit there. There are rules, and say, nom, there are
rules smoking.
Speaker 3 (26:30):
My daughter, who is sixteen, went to a Clippers game
two months ago in January with their school great time
man and they were sitting up in the upper section
and they had somebody from the Clippers say, hey, we
need to fill in the wall. We need Clipper fans
in there, and she said, I'm not a Clipper fan,
so I'm not gonna be in the wall. But they
were providing T shirts, I believe for people who wanted
them to go sit in that area. These kids, at
(26:52):
least I went to that game and some of them
took up the offer to go down there, and they.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
Had a great time. Yeah, they got to sit down there.
They knew the rules.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
Sit and make sure you're cheering, you're positive for the Clippers.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
They have team.
Speaker 4 (27:05):
Yeah, it's all well organized and it's it is a
real home court advantage because I think the opposing teams
add into a dome or shooting the lowest free throw
percentage out of any arena in the.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
League right now. So it has worked.
Speaker 4 (27:20):
It has worked. They're missing free throws the Cleveland Cavaliers.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
See.
Speaker 4 (27:23):
What's interesting is I never found this out before, but
the road team gets to decide which side of the
floor they start shooting on, and so they practice their pregame.
That means they know where they're shooting on the second half. Well,
most teams choose not to shoot against the wall because
they know in the second half it's going to be loud,
it's going to be rowdy, interesting, there's gonna be sykeouts.
(27:44):
But the Cleveland Cavaliers didn't pick up on this. They're
shooting against the wall. The other night there in the
Clippers big victory over the Calves, who had the best
wrecord in the league, and they missed like seven free
throws in the second half of the ball game. And
then afterwards Calves fans are like, this is unfair, No,
you'd be able to have a wall. Yeah, it's very unique.
It's very cool.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
Well, the Clippers themselves have been on a bit of
a height streaking. You mentioned that victory they had over
Cleveland the other night. This is kind of a team
that a lot of people left for dead. Might be strong,
but we didn't know what the situation with Kawhi was
going to be. His minutes have increased, his effectiveness has
gone through the roof. He's been amazing now all of
a sudden, working synchronously with James Harton and Norman pile Back. Healthy,
(28:24):
How dangerous is this Clipper team? Uh?
Speaker 4 (28:27):
I think healthy, especially with a healthy Kawhi Leonard. With
the way he looked against Cleveland, which was prime Kawhi Leonard.
Imagine what you saw in that game movement wise, just
as explosive as ever great burst out there. I think
that was game twenty six for him so far this season,
and there's still eight or nine games above five hundred,
and they've only had Kawhi for twenty six games. If
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you got that guy healthy in a seven game series,
you can put fear into anyone in the Western Conference
and that includes OKC. And that first round matchup is
real because right now the Clippers are still on the
plan in there the seventh seed, they'd be taking on
the Minnesota Timberwolves in that seven eight matchup. Well, if
you lost that but then won the next game, you'd
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be the A seed taken on OKC. So it would
be crazy if things came full circle and after the
trade with SGA going to Oklahoma City and everything and
him being the MVP this season, that is going to happen.
Absolutely if the Clippers took him on in the first
round with a healthy Kawhi, that would be quite a showdown.
That's real.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
You know, it will be quite a showdown.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
If the Lakers find their way into the two seed
and the Clippers are the seven and we get the
Hallway Series that never was, it'll now be I guess
their own.
Speaker 2 (29:37):
Version of the Freeway Series.
Speaker 4 (29:39):
Yeah, it was from the one tenth Clippers.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
Bronni's gonna put it on you watch out. We'll look
at this guy, newest NBA superstar.
Speaker 4 (29:47):
As soon as he hears from Jovan Buha gave his
analysis on Bronny. Now, Tim's always like you know what,
he's pretty good's right cooked.
Speaker 6 (29:55):
Ryan Rols.
Speaker 4 (29:55):
That guy's like a Hall of Favor Ryan, what a star,
so good he plays leagues well. There's two different ways
they could line up in the Battle of Los Angeles
in a playoff series this year, and it is real possibility.
You mentioned the two seven, but it could also be
the three to six. Absolutely if the Clippers get to
that sixth spot, Lakers end up in the three spot.
Currently they're in the fourth spot. Last night they lost
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that game and drop down there. They're in what currently
a four or five matchup against the Memphis Grizzlies Lakers.
So there's two pathways to get the Battle for Los
Angeles that we have been waiting for for some time now.
I will say this, Nobody's had to deal with Luka
Doncic more in the playoffs than the Clippers. They have
seen him three different times with Dallas, including last year
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they are two to one against him, or last year
they really didn't have Kawhi Leonard in that series and
still took him in six games. It would be hell though,
not only seeing Luca again for the fourth time in
the playoffs, but seeing him in a Lakers Jersey like,
this is worst case scenario. I've been saying this for
a while. Outside of screwing the MAVs, the team that
is hurt by Luka Donc just going to the Lakers
(31:03):
is the Clippers because they know him better than anyone,
and he takes headlines away. He's such a draw. They
opened up a ten year window it looks like for
the Lakers to be a championship contender when it looked
like they were doa for a little bit when they
were in big trouble. When yeah, maybe they make a
little bit of noise with ad and Lebron, but they're
(31:24):
done in the next year or two. Now with Luca,
he's revived the franchise.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
So no, it's a stroke of luck that the Laker
franchise never gets when it comes to acquiring superstars. So
let's just have them. Let him have their moment, Adam.
These things don't happen all the time for the Laker franchise.
Speaker 4 (31:36):
Why does hashtag future Laker have to always come true?
Why does this always happen? They land on their feet.
Speaker 1 (31:42):
Maybe we'll find out in ten years when Wimby is here.
We'll see in the scripts from the NBA.
Speaker 2 (31:46):
That's why.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
Oh really, yeah, it's Kevin Figures, Adam Austen, Tim Kates
in for Rogan and riding here on a five to
seventy LA Sports. We're coming close to the finish line.
What do you have coming up next? Cross talk?
Speaker 5 (31:56):
Maybe?
Speaker 4 (31:57):
Oh Man, cross talk is back.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
I'm so in. Let's go Fusion. We'll see.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
We'll see what happens coming up next to Rogan, Rodney
and five seventy l A sports. Well, I took a
shot in the dark when I teased cross talk. We're
back on an five seventy LA sports, Kevin Figures, Tim
Kates out of Alston, sitting in for Rogan and Rodney.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
Was we wanted things down.
Speaker 3 (32:15):
Look, when I've done this in a while, do you
want to explain what cross talk is for those newbies out?
Speaker 7 (32:20):
Well, we used to come on in the old uh,
in the old Luce Cannon days Fusion, Matt and I
would come on with Vic and Michael and Steve Hartman.
What do you mean we'd come on, Well, they'd keep
us on for quite some time. We had a great
time doing that for many years, and uh then Chris
Myers came and I kept getting in fights with.
Speaker 4 (32:41):
Him, and that John madden't even know you.
Speaker 6 (32:43):
Yeah, and then uh no, I don't think so.
Speaker 7 (32:46):
And then and then uh that was Pat O'Brien, and
that became of toxics.
Speaker 8 (32:53):
That she started out all right, though I started out elb.
Steve Hartman started out all right.
Speaker 6 (32:57):
We did okay, but then it got toxic.
Speaker 8 (32:59):
Yeah that guy.
Speaker 7 (33:00):
I lost Matt and then I lost myself. Stop doing that.
And then the Bill Ryder thing started, and that that
oh yeah, you guys definitely, and that that got toxic.
You lost and we lost me Bill Ryder. I remember
once like going on that show. Bill Ryder was on
the phone, and I remember I was in my house
(33:20):
in San Pedro and Bill Ryder was like, asked me,
asked me about USC and I said something like, well,
let me ask you. You know, did us you know? I
was like, it's just a way that I knew how
to answer us. He question like how many of these
or these are these? And he goes, nobody asked me questions.
I'm the one that asked the questions on this show.
He got like really, butter wow, And I was just
trying to be conversational and that kind of started the
(33:42):
demise of of that cross talk and then uh, and
then Rogan and Rodney they started their cross talk and
we had to go back to Indianapolis. Uh, Kobe me too.
Where we started there was a twitter. We were attacked
on social media. Uh so, so then we canceled it.
And now it's just Matt and I alone on the
(34:04):
lonely island of great sports. You guys are really suffering.
Speaker 4 (34:07):
It sounds like, well, I'm glad to have cross talk
back at least to day to day.
Speaker 6 (34:12):
Mad feels a despair. He's lonely.
Speaker 8 (34:15):
Indeed, I like that. When cross talk became the fusion
and it was, uh, it was celebrated widely throughout the
south Land.
Speaker 6 (34:27):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (34:27):
It was special US chemistry.
Speaker 8 (34:29):
It was a passing of the sports talk baton from
the loose cannons to great sports talk. And it was
and people appreciated it. It became, you know, can't misappointment
based radio. And then unfortunately, some people little thin skin,
a little rabbit eared me. No, you know, just they
weren't comfortable.
Speaker 4 (34:50):
It was, honestly one of the reasons I wanted to
work here.
Speaker 6 (34:54):
Cross talk situation.
Speaker 7 (34:55):
I now you're living it right now, I know it's
like it's like lying under Darryl Hannah.
Speaker 6 (35:01):
She's a thing. You're here, You're living the dream right now.
Speaker 7 (35:05):
There's you're part of the fusion at five microphones a
giant radio circle.
Speaker 2 (35:09):
Jerk, we were talking during the break.
Speaker 4 (35:10):
I don't think these mics have all been used like this.
That's why why it's all echoing terrible.
Speaker 6 (35:16):
I'm not able to handle it.
Speaker 2 (35:19):
So what do you guys got going on the show today?
Speaker 4 (35:20):
Petro, shut up, tump?
Speaker 2 (35:24):
Ask what's going on around?
Speaker 6 (35:25):
What's going on?
Speaker 2 (35:26):
What parting around?
Speaker 7 (35:28):
Yeah, we got all kinds of Stuff's not your business.
We're the ones that asked the questions around here in
this domain. It is three o'clock now, so it is
your domain.
Speaker 8 (35:39):
Yeah, dude, that was the John and Ken to uh
Tim Conway Junior. So what do you so? What do
you got going on tonight? And then Tim, knowing they
just wanted to get the hell out of there and
go home, would go on for three minutes, stink on
here's what I got going on? Yeah, sink Cal and Pacorma.
Speaker 2 (35:56):
What do you think about that?
Speaker 6 (35:56):
John?
Speaker 2 (35:57):
Yeah, Ken, I want you to weigh in two opinions,
come on, get them well, stand by for a lot
of stuff.
Speaker 7 (36:01):
Well, hey, congratulations to you guys, specifically the fn A,
because a lot of people have been waiting a long
time to hear you. Guys do a show on a
five seventy and it's been a long time coming and
a lot of people were very pleased to hear this.
Speaker 8 (36:17):
Darry thought it was below average.
Speaker 6 (36:19):
Well you are in the minority. You were in the minority.
Speaker 4 (36:23):
You great ghost standing in the desert that people were
into it.
Speaker 2 (36:30):
Well, we appreciate the ki words.
Speaker 7 (36:31):
I'll meet you at the Dwight Eisenhower Blood Donation Center
and Rancho Mirage.
Speaker 6 (36:36):
Friend.
Speaker 1 (36:36):
It's Kevin Figures out of Alston. Tim Kates sitting in
for Rogan and Rodney on a five seventy ELI Sports.
Thanks you guys for listening. We appreciate all the love
and support you guys. Have a great weekend. PMS coming
up next
Rogan on a five seventy l A sports really well,
not really, it's fat. Okay, you know what, let's cut
this coming right now enough.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Kevin, I'm trying Adam all right. I mean it was
no weight watchers, damn it.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
I don't need to be judged by you the fn
A podcast, which has been great for a decade.
Speaker 4 (00:19):
You guys do a fantastic job. Has it been that long?
Speaker 2 (00:21):
And you add me Tim?
Speaker 3 (00:23):
And I accidentally said it's fat f a t because
it's figures Adam and Tim. And I'm completely ready regretting
saying that.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Are you okay?
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Remember we have people in the studio that came in
and like tried to suck the fat off of your
neck tail.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
That about doctor Fatoff, doctor Fatoff, that it's freezing the fat, right, Yeah, if.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
That's going to be a thing, we should get doctor
Fattoff to be a sponsor.
Speaker 4 (00:41):
Hen it turns out it didn't work, so it's oh
god kidding me. It was funny seeing him in that chair,
this little roll on his neck for a while.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Kevin figures Adam off than Tim Kate's sitting in put a.
Speaker 4 (00:55):
Guy, he's got some muscles over that.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Someone who was not fat. He's actually very spelt pH
a T though that's right.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Absolutely does an amazing job cover in the Lakers for
the Athletic Bouha's block on YouTube gets the super chats
and all that. He's amazing leader of the Late Night Gang.
He is Jovon Booha joining us here, Boo a five
seventy LA sports Yovan, what's going on?
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Mar Boo?
Speaker 4 (01:17):
I'm doing well.
Speaker 5 (01:18):
That was like the best intro I've ever gotten, So
I appreciate you.
Speaker 6 (01:21):
Guys.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
Well, let Petrol hear you say that, because then that
might cause a whole beef and I don't need that.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
Yeah, you gonna switch this out and now it's kep.
Speaker 6 (01:27):
You got a.
Speaker 5 (01:27):
Reference the Late Night Gang. He's got a reference to
super chats. You guys are on top of it.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
Guys, super chats are on just in case you're wondering.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
Oh yeah, for reper Adams Clippers Talk as well. You
can do a super chat for Adam if you so please.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
Jovon joined me on Clippers Talk just like a couple
of weeks ago to help preview the two game mini
series Clippers and Lakers. I don't know what the outcome was.
I can't remember, but yeah, Jovan's a friend. He's a
great guy.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Booha, What are we supposed to make out of this?
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Seventeen points from Brownie James last night and just give
me the norm moving four? Was this an anomaly? What
do we make about what he did against a guy
named Ryan Rawlins of the Milwaukee Bucks, Stop hating.
Speaker 5 (01:59):
I think it's an anomaly in the sense of like
he's not going to be in the Lakers primary rotation,
that there was a reason why last night was a
season high in minutes for Bronnie, a season high or
career high in points for Bronnie. But I do think
it speaks to the legitimate progress that he has made.
And I try to avoid the whole discourse with it
(02:23):
just in terms of whether it was deserved or not,
or you know, whether he should be here or not.
I think we've exhausted that topic to a point of like, Okay,
he's here, so now can he prove himself? And I
think he has shown, even going back, like a couple
of months ago, that game that he played in Philly,
where he looked lost and just uncomfortable out there in
(02:46):
that first quarter. That's what triggered the stephen a lebron beef,
or at least it going to the level that it's
gone to where steven A after that prompted him to
call out Lebron as a father. From that point one,
we've seen Bronnie. He has looked much better, and he
has looked much better in.
Speaker 6 (03:03):
The G League.
Speaker 5 (03:04):
He has consistently been putting out better numbers there. But
even going back to the Denver shift that he had
last week and then this week now against Milwaukee, like
he is beginning to look more like an NBA player,
and I think that was not the case earlier in
the season. So I think that's a testament to Bronnie
and the work that he's put in. I think it's
a testament to the Lakers and their player development and
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the South Bay G League team. So I think he's
still ways away from being a rotation player, and I
don't think that's going to happen this season, but he
is on the trajectory to getting there, and I think
that this was a step in the right direction. And again,
like there are plenty of NBA players who have played
who have never scored seventeen points in a game. I
know the context was the Lakers were short handed and
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they needed somebody to score. But it could have been
Gabe Vincent, it could have been Jordan Goodwin. There was
plenty of other guys even on the floor that could
have been the primary guys, and it was Ronnie. So
I think it's a testiment to him in his growth
over the course of the season.
Speaker 4 (04:03):
Yo Van, is it fair to say that right now
he looks the part of a late second round pick
or has even maybe exceeded what expectations would typically be
put upon a late second round pick after having seventeen
points in a game last night, Because I've seen a
lot of second round picks from the Clippers not be
able to do that in their first season because they
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don't have any first round picks. Unfortunately, at the moment, like,
that's not nothing to me? That is somewhat of a rarity,
is it not?
Speaker 6 (04:31):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (04:32):
And I would even point to you know, Milwaukee is
an above average defense, so I think that their perimeter
group defensively is not good and the bulk of their
defensive success comes from the front court with the honest
and brook Lofez. But like Bronni did a lot, this
wasn't like a situation where he was racking up garbage
time points and the game was like a thirty point blowout.
(04:55):
It was like he did a good bulk of his
scoring in his offense ve production within the first three
quarters while the game was still relatively competitive, like there
was a couple points there, it would go. Milwaukee distanced
themselves in the first quarter, but then the Lakers had
several big runs where they cut it to single digits.
(05:15):
It was kind of like eight nine points, and Browny
was part of that and doing this with brook loothez
on the floor with Giannis on the floor, Like it
wasn't a game where both teams rested all their guys
and he was just going up against like third string players.
He was going up against real players and he did this.
So to your point, like I would say, he's ahead
(05:36):
of the second late second round guys in his draft
class and looking more maybe like a higher end second
round pick right now, so I mean the bar is
relatively low. But again to your point, like I mean
Dalton connect what was the Lakers first round pick, and
he's had a pretty good season by by rookie standards,
(05:56):
but like he only scored seventeen points that he actually
didn't get there until late in the game. So, like
all things considered, I think it was a pretty good
performance for Brownie, and I don't want to make it
something it's not, but I also want to give him
his props and not just treat this like, Okay, it
was just against like Milwaukee's third string in like the
fourth quarter, Like no, he was doing this with like
(06:18):
legitimate NBA players and defenders on the floor, And he
hit a pull up three, He got to the rim
a couple of times, he hit a midi like he
was in his bag, and I think you're starting to
see that. And again, I think we're still probably another
year or two away from him potentially being a rotation player,
but the fact that that's even a possibility, I think
it is a testament again to his development in the
(06:41):
way the Lakers have approached their development with him.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Jovan Bouja joining us here on a five seventy LA Sports,
Adam Alston, Tim Kates, Kevin Figures sitting in for Rogan
and Rodney. Another guy who's really turned heads over the
last month or so has been Jordan Goodwin and someone
who people feel can actually be a really good rotation player,
even as the Lakers to make this run into the postseason. Now,
correct me if I'm wrong. As of right now, he
does not have a solid roster spot. I think he's
(07:05):
a two way guy. They would have to convert him
and make him into a regular roster player. Do you
see that potentially happening, because whenever he's on the court,
it seems like good things happen when Jordan Goodwin's out
there for them.
Speaker 5 (07:16):
I do. I think it's a matter of time of
So he's got, if I'm not mistaken, four games remaining
as a two way player until he reaches his limit.
The Lakers have thirteen games remaining until, you know, at
the end of the regular season, so that there's a
little bit of a gap there. I think the tentative
plan was to wait until the final day of the
(07:37):
regular season or the penultimate day and waive either Cam
Reddish or Alex lenn and convert Jordan Goodwin. But how
important he has become and really indispensable, I would say
to this group, like, I think he's firmly in the
top nine, and there are knights where he's like more
of a top seven guy than a top nine guy.
And out playing some of even the more established bench
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guys like he has become a huge piece for them.
And I think it's the defense, where he's constantly leading
the team in steals and deflections. He's a versatile defender,
he could switch across multiple perimeter positions. He's a sneaky
good rebounder, especially on the offensive end. He's constantly in
(08:21):
the paint tipping balls out or grabbing offensive rebounds. And
then even some like to nerd out a little bit
here in the short role. But when he is the
screener often for Luca, he's a good playmaker out of that,
and they get these four on three and three on
two advantages with him, and he can make some good decisions.
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And often he's in that spot because teams are putting
their worst defender on him because the one thing he
can't do is to shoot right now, although he has
been shooting the ball much better, but over his career
he's been a below average three point shooter. But what
happens is teams will put their worst defender on him.
Then the Lakers will bring that guy into the fray,
have him screen for Luca, and then either that guy
(09:02):
switching on to Luca, which gives Luca a mismatch, or
they have to double and blitz Luca and then all
of a sudden that creates an advantage where he passes
the good win and then good wins off to the races.
So he's been awesome. I think it's going to be
interesting to see how the Lakers handle this. If I
were them, I would say, you know, screw the money
and whatever savings there would be, and not converting him earlier,
(09:23):
and just wave whoever you're gonna wave and convert him
as soon as possible, because I think they're going to
need him down the stretch here, and you don't want
to get into a situation where he sits like the
final nine games, gets out of rhythm, is a bit rusty,
and then you're going into the playoffs like hoping he
can help you. I think you want to convert him
the second maxed out his games, and it seems like
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that would be like end of next week early the
following week. So I think for the Lakers, like it's
a slightly tough decision from a financial perspective, but from
a competitive and like basketball standpoint, I think they have
to do it asap.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
Yovan. Let's talk about Brownie's side kick and Luca dontritch
here for a moment. Okay, I'm kidding Luca, though, what's
scary to me, as obviously a Clippers fan, is that
he's not playing his best yet. He's only shooting just
under forty one percent from the field and they're still
winning ballgames. Where is he in the ramp up to
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getting back to all world you know, all first NBA team,
Luka Doncish, And how have you seen his fit so
far with the Lakers.
Speaker 5 (10:28):
I think he's increasingly looked more comfortable and more dynamic,
but to your point, like he's still not fully Luca.
Speaker 6 (10:37):
I will look.
Speaker 5 (10:38):
At got it here. The last ten games, he has
scored thirty or more in seven of them, and that
includes that forty five point performance in Milwaukee where he
kept that game relatively close until Milwaukee eventually blew them
out in the third. But he's he's like his command
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of the offense has always been there. But but I
think it's like you're seeing now his timing with teammates
on kickout passes or lob passes or or pocket passes,
like he's just he's in sync with this group, and
I think the biggest thing has been the shot not
quite being there, but it has started to fall more consistently.
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He's got seven games now with four or more you know,
seven straight games with four more threes. In five of
those he's hit five or more threes, So like the
three point shot has come back. The inside the arc
has not quite been there, but you know, he's I
think that that's that's kind of like the final level
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for him. But he's getting to the free throw line
a lot. He's made up for it looking at it
here again, like six of the past seven games he
shot double digit free throws, so he's finding ways to
still score and be effective even one he doesn't have
his shot going, So to your point, like the conditioning
that stuff, it's still work in progress. He got his
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knee banged up, his ankle banged up, so he's dealing
with multiple lower extremity injuries. I still think he's playing
his way into like tiptop game shape. But even with that,
this dude's like a walking thirty point triple double, so
it's kind of hard to nitpick. I also think defensively
he's fit in really well. He's had five straight games
with two or more steals. So like he plays passing lanes,
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he's a smart defender. He fits into the Lakers defensive
style and scheme. So I think he's been awesome, and
I think that's if you are betting on the Lakers
in terms of their long term outlook, just for this season,
I think Luca looking more and more like himself progressively
is the primary thing to buy into, because this is
a guy who can be the best player on the
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court on any given night, often is in that conversation
for the best player on the court any given night,
and like he can still get to another level that
I think would really propel the Lakers to potentially conference finals,
final and maybe even a championship.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
So yeah, so in that vein, So we know that
the Lakers their odds have gone way up since getting
Luka Doncic in the mix. But we know he's dealing
with injury issues, and so is Lebron James and Austin
Reeves sat out last night with an ankle in DFS
and all these guys. How important is seeding when it
comes to the Lakers being able to compete and make
a deep run into the postseason. It's exceedingly rare that
a team you know who doesn't have home court advantage
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one through four makes a deep run. But with Luca
and Lebron, assuming they're healthy enough, you'd like their odds
against almost anybody if those guys are healthy and hitting
on all cylinders. And it just makes me wonder how
JJ Reddick in the organization will handle their minutes as
the season winds down, gauging how important it is to
have home court versus having these guys as healthy as
they possibly can be for when the postseason starts.
Speaker 5 (13:47):
Ideally they would like to have both, right, Like they'd
like to be the two seed and have everybody healthy,
but if forced to pick, they are prioritizing health overseeding.
Like we've seen that with them punting a couple of
games recently at Denver than last night RISUS Milwaukee, they
rested forfeits of their starting lineup. Granted, two guys in
Lebron and Rui we're actually out due to injury and
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I've missed you know, two plus weeks now at this point,
but they rested some starters. They rested in both of
those games to at least two key bench guys. So
like they have been punting some games recently, just from
a strategic let's get guys some rest. I also think
there's been like a compounding nature to missing Lebron and
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Rui and Austin having to do more, Luca having to
do more, Jackson Hayes, Dorian Phinny Smith, Jared Vanderbilt, like
all these guys, I've had to pick up that collective
slack without Lebron and Ruey there in terms of defense
and offense and just like kind of all facets of
the game. So I think that and they just played
six day six games in eight days, which is they're
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the only team this season that has such a stretch
because of the LA wildfires and rescheduling. They just played
preconsecutive back to backs, which no team as that type
of stretch this season. So like the league has tried
to go away from four games in five nights, Lakers
just had two basically stretches of four games in five nights.
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So they had to be selected with that and be
careful with how they approach it. I think down the
stretch they're going to try and get the best seed possible.
They're going to also, I think, more so than seating
I think it's throughout getting the reps with Lebron and
Luca and Austin together, and like, can we get them
twenty to twenty five minutes a night together and really
just build that chemistry, and like you can't replicate on
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court reps in practice or in film or in meetings,
like you need those on court minutes. So I think
they're trying to prioritize that more so than even the seating.
But first and foremost, it's health. And I think if
you look at how jumbled the West is and how
some of the top teams in the West don't have
as much experience, like a Memphis or Houston, I think
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the Lakers are looking at it like, if we end
up being the four seed, the five seed to six seed,
we still like our odds of beating any of these
teams in the first round and at least making the
second round, if not going further. So I think ideally
they get fully healthy and they can kind of just
ride it out and go into the playoffs with some momentum.
But if they have to tick between the two, I
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think they'd rather be the sixth seed and be healthy
than be the two seed. And like barely be getting
into Game one of the.
Speaker 4 (16:27):
Playoffs, Levonne. I want to get your appraisal on what
could be perceived as a hot take for me, and
maybe it's not hot. Maybe it's warm. It's like Mick
cronin post game. He won, but he's still warm, like
he's not hot because they at least won yesterday. There's
still something there. So this picked up a little bit
of traction and went somewhat viral. I said, as of today,
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right now, not talking about where they've been in their careers,
I would probably take Austin Reeves over Devin Booker because
of what he's shown without Lebron at times, without Lebron
and Luca at times, and how he's been playing over
the last two months. To me, he's having a moment
out there where he's really progressing as a player. He's
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better with his on ball creation than I've ever seen.
He's still young enough to be developing, and his offensive
game to me, is just grown by leaps and bounds.
How crazy of a take is that? How do you
read that?
Speaker 5 (17:22):
I don't think it's like mental asylum crazy. I look,
I've been an Austin guy since his rookie season I like,
midway through his rookie season, I was making the case
that he's the third best player on the team. And
remember this was a team that had Russell Westbrook on it,
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and I was like, this guy needs to be starting.
Like it was just very clear that this undrafted kid
out of Arkansas had already ascended to being the Lakers'
third best player. It took him a while to fully
get there in terms of gating, Like, you know, Frank
Bogola kind of gained some trust with him later in
the season, and then Darvin Ham for whatever reason, Like
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there are moments he turned over the keys to Austin
but never fully committed to him, and you know, benched
him at various points, and like it just didn't really
make sense the approach in my opinion. But like, I've
been a big Austin guy, and I think he has
become a true number three over the past few months
and it really established himself as like, like I think
he's a top five number three option in the league.
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I think you could quibble with like where exactly he
is in those rankings, but if we're talking just offensive,
he's probably in the top three and maybe even number two,
Like he's that high up. However, I think Devin Booker,
he was the number one on a team that made
the finals in twenty twenty one. I know, like him
and Chris Paul, but the Devin was the primary offensive
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engine that the primary scorer.
Speaker 4 (18:49):
Does he still that guy to you because he has
it lately?
Speaker 6 (18:52):
To me, he doesn't. He does.
Speaker 5 (18:54):
Like I think when you factor in the contracts of
Austin is making less than thirteen million dollars, you can
make the case that Austin is the better value. And like,
if I was building a team, I think that building block,
you're getting way more bang for your buck compared to
I don't know Booker's salary, stop my head. In just
in terms of like who's the better player, I still
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lean Booker. I think he's like for ranking guys, I
would have him ahead of Austin. But I mean, look,
you just outplayed Booker in that that Phoenix game, and like,
so that's where I don't think you're crazy necessarily with that.
I just think I would I would still take Devin
Booker over Austin.
Speaker 6 (19:34):
But the fact that we're even.
Speaker 5 (19:35):
Having this conversation and like it's not insane, is just
shows like how far Austin has ascended. And he's a
legitimate number three who I also think can scale up
to be We've seen him be the number two, next
to Luca, next to Lebron, next to eighty when one
of the other stars is out. We've seen him even
be the number one. He had forty five against Indiana
last month. I just had the big game in Denver
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where he nearly led them to the win in without
Luca and Lebron. So like, he can't even scale up
to being a number one on a given night, which like,
there are some number threes that are just the number three,
whether you make them the number one or not. So
like his scalability is versatility. How great he is I
think deserves to be celebrated. I would still between him
and Booker. Take Booker, but again, I don't think you're
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like insane for saying that.
Speaker 4 (20:22):
So I'm in cuffs but not a straight jacket. I'm
not getting atlebotomy. I'm not getting electric shot therapy. Okay,
that's fair.
Speaker 5 (20:28):
You're not on shutter Island.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
Perfect.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
That is Yovan Booja covers the Lakers for the Athletica.
You can follow him on all of his socials at
Jovan Booja. Check out his YouTube channel. Does Boja's block
every single game, after every Laker game, does a phenomenal
job full up covering the Lakers, damn straight. Jovann boohoo ha.
Thank you then helping Jovah for taking the time with us. Man,
we know you're really busy, so we appreciate it.
Speaker 5 (20:53):
Appreciate you guys. Talk to you soon, all.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
Right, thank you.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
There he is Jovann Bouja. By the way, Devin Booker
making fifty million dollars this year, Austin reeves. Yeah, the
chasm between their salaries versus the chasm between the production
not that white.
Speaker 4 (21:08):
I'm saying, even with taking contracts out of it, I
think moving forward, this take may age well. Now, if
Booker gets back to where he was a couple of
years ago, it's gonna look awful.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
Oh you're gonna be an old takes exposed for sure.
Speaker 4 (21:22):
Oh yeah, it will be a freezing cold take and
I will be getting that lobotomy like at the end
of one Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
But for now, I just would I'm safe. I just
would have said you had like one too many drinks
as all. That's that's that would have been my one.
Speaker 4 (21:35):
The problem is it's just Heineken zero point zero for me.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
Now, Kevin, I'm glad to see Booha greaves with me
that Bronny's coming in to form. Bronnie's really developing in
the G League and could turn into a really good
role player here surely, speaking of crazy see Fred.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
Rogan found his way back to the the radio stations.
Speaker 4 (21:50):
Today, thought Timson Arkhams asylum over there. Put the joker.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
Joker has nothing on him.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
It is Tim Kates, Kevin figures Adam alslin in for
Rogan and Rodney here on a five seventy LA Sports.
I mean, how could we possibly have the great arbiter
of the Clippers in studio with us, Tim and not
talk about the Clippers once all day today?
Speaker 2 (22:07):
So we got to get the clip Clippers pretty good
so far the Clippers.
Speaker 4 (22:12):
How dare you first my cats? And now you're going
after the Clippers over there by the way, do you
get it? I'm doing fine.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
Everything's fine in action at the end to it, don't
Tonight against the Memphis Grizzlies, and they've been hot, they've
been on a heated themselves, how about it recently? So
we'll talk about the Clippers coming up next to here
on the Home of the Clippers AM five seventy LA Sports,
Tim Kates, Kevin figures Adam Alston sitting in for Rogan
and Rodney.
Speaker 4 (22:34):
Damn you, Tim.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
Kevin figures Adam Allston, Tim Kates and for Rogan and
Rodney here on AM five seventy LA Sports stretch run
here of the show. And I can't believe we have
the host. What is Fred say of the pregame? They
have time the post game and his Clipper YouTube channel.
Speaker 4 (22:52):
He can't ever get the name right. It's Clippers Countdown, Fred, Yes,
and we're starting I don't know, like three hours from now, right,
Clippers Countdown.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
That's why he's all suited and booted right now, Adam
Auslin is.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
He's getting ready to head out to into it Dome
where they can just scan his eyeball and let him
in and grab whatever goodies and snacks and free merchandise
he wants, and they'll just charge his credit card.
Speaker 4 (23:10):
We have the technology now, and you know what, it's
pretty damn streamlined and smooth. The first couple of days
there were some hang ups there were some glitches in
the matrix, in the system they had there with facial recognition,
as you would expect. But now it into a dome.
I don't hear anyone complaining about that. Some people still
just aren't used to it. Yeah, and you're like, oh,
sign of the Beast or whatever, like this is too crazy.
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I can't do it. But you don't have to anyways,
it's not required to use. Yes, the facial recognition. It
just makes things easier.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
So I can just walk into the Clipper store, the
team store, it into a dome and grab five you know,
Qui lannerd jerseys and walk out, and then I'll be
charged eight hundred dollars each on my credit card.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
That's how that works.
Speaker 4 (23:48):
Basically, I don't know if they're that expensive. You don't
have to go through you don't have to go through
a shopping line.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
There are no lines.
Speaker 4 (23:56):
This is the point. Steve Balmer wants you back in
your seats immediate, like Tim Kates's.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
The seats are your toilets either one.
Speaker 4 (24:02):
They all count right, well, they have more toilets even
so there's whole line. So you're always watching the game.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
Now, can you watch the game while you're sitting on
the toilet. That's that's the question.
Speaker 4 (24:10):
There may be some areas like that, like the old
tool Time episode Home Improvement where he had the man's bathroom, right.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
Somebody told me that the cabanas or the suite on
the ground level, I don't know what they're calling them
there at the end, lounges, lounges. If you're in one
of those, the TVs are not on the game.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
Is that true?
Speaker 3 (24:28):
Because they don't want people sitting and watching the games
on the TVs inside those areas, like if you were
in a suite at Crypto or somewhere else, like so
far you're sitting on a couch watching the game on TV.
They want people in their seats watching the game, not
watching them on TV.
Speaker 4 (24:41):
I can't confirm that, but there may be something to that.
He wants more energy in the building. He wants to
create a home court advantage, and to his credit, it
has worked. Guys. After starting Oh and Forward into it home,
where Steve Balmer joked in the locker room after they
lost their fourth straight game there to start off the season,
he said to James Harden, like I'm gonna tear the
this whole thing down and build a new one, because
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apparently there's some type of bags usual here.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
He can do it. I believe he absolutely could do it.
Speaker 4 (25:05):
He has the body. He's the richest owner of North
American sports. But since then they've only lost six games.
I think they're twenty four and six or twenty six
and six. All you need to know is since November
they have the third best home court home court record
record home record right now, and it's added into a dome.
And the reasoning is because Balmer built it that way,
because he wants the fan experience to be the best
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out there. And you have something and tim you can
appreciate this that is completely unique to into adult the wall.
It is fifty one rows straight up, no seats or
no suites, and this is to have a louder section
and it's near the opponent's bench so you can get
in their heads a little bit more and you're creating
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more noise. And when you're there, it's very distinct where
the noise is coming from from the wall. And it's working,
in fact, to the point some people on Twitter are
saying this should be illegal. Tear down the wall like
missing ten free throws. Yeah, I've gone into that area.
It is super loud there. The fans are really rowdy.
It's a college basketball like atmosphere. It is really cool.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
Is it true that if you wear an opposing team's uniform,
they have a security guard that would literally pick you
up and throw you out of the section.
Speaker 4 (26:17):
It's not like your DJ Jazzy Jeff.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
Okay, First listen to a Steve Bomber.
Speaker 4 (26:21):
They don't allcle fill you, but they will politely escorts
you out. You have to be a Clippers fan to
sit there. There are rules, and say, nom, there are
rules smoking.
Speaker 3 (26:30):
My daughter, who is sixteen, went to a Clippers game
two months ago in January with their school great time
man and they were sitting up in the upper section
and they had somebody from the Clippers say, hey, we
need to fill in the wall. We need Clipper fans
in there, and she said, I'm not a Clipper fan,
so I'm not gonna be in the wall. But they
were providing T shirts, I believe for people who wanted
them to go sit in that area. These kids, at
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least I went to that game and some of them
took up the offer to go down there, and they.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
Had a great time. Yeah, they got to sit down there.
They knew the rules.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
Sit and make sure you're cheering, you're positive for the Clippers.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
They have team.
Speaker 4 (27:05):
Yeah, it's all well organized and it's it is a
real home court advantage because I think the opposing teams
add into a dome or shooting the lowest free throw
percentage out of any arena in the.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
League right now. So it has worked.
Speaker 4 (27:20):
It has worked. They're missing free throws the Cleveland Cavaliers.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
See.
Speaker 4 (27:23):
What's interesting is I never found this out before, but
the road team gets to decide which side of the
floor they start shooting on, and so they practice their pregame.
That means they know where they're shooting on the second half. Well,
most teams choose not to shoot against the wall because
they know in the second half it's going to be loud,
it's going to be rowdy, interesting, there's gonna be sykeouts.
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But the Cleveland Cavaliers didn't pick up on this. They're
shooting against the wall. The other night there in the
Clippers big victory over the Calves, who had the best
wrecord in the league, and they missed like seven free
throws in the second half of the ball game. And
then afterwards Calves fans are like, this is unfair, No,
you'd be able to have a wall. Yeah, it's very unique.
It's very cool.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
Well, the Clippers themselves have been on a bit of
a height streaking. You mentioned that victory they had over
Cleveland the other night. This is kind of a team
that a lot of people left for dead. Might be strong,
but we didn't know what the situation with Kawhi was
going to be. His minutes have increased, his effectiveness has
gone through the roof. He's been amazing now all of
a sudden, working synchronously with James Harton and Norman pile Back. Healthy,
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How dangerous is this Clipper team? Uh?
Speaker 4 (28:27):
I think healthy, especially with a healthy Kawhi Leonard. With
the way he looked against Cleveland, which was prime Kawhi Leonard.
Imagine what you saw in that game movement wise, just
as explosive as ever great burst out there. I think
that was game twenty six for him so far this season,
and there's still eight or nine games above five hundred,
and they've only had Kawhi for twenty six games. If
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you got that guy healthy in a seven game series,
you can put fear into anyone in the Western Conference
and that includes OKC. And that first round matchup is
real because right now the Clippers are still on the
plan in there the seventh seed, they'd be taking on
the Minnesota Timberwolves in that seven eight matchup. Well, if
you lost that but then won the next game, you'd
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be the A seed taken on OKC. So it would
be crazy if things came full circle and after the
trade with SGA going to Oklahoma City and everything and
him being the MVP this season, that is going to happen.
Absolutely if the Clippers took him on in the first
round with a healthy Kawhi, that would be quite a showdown.
That's real.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
You know, it will be quite a showdown.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
If the Lakers find their way into the two seed
and the Clippers are the seven and we get the
Hallway Series that never was, it'll now be I guess
their own.
Speaker 2 (29:37):
Version of the Freeway Series.
Speaker 4 (29:39):
Yeah, it was from the one tenth Clippers.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
Bronni's gonna put it on you watch out. We'll look
at this guy, newest NBA superstar.
Speaker 4 (29:47):
As soon as he hears from Jovan Buha gave his
analysis on Bronny. Now, Tim's always like you know what,
he's pretty good's right cooked.
Speaker 6 (29:55):
Ryan Rols.
Speaker 4 (29:55):
That guy's like a Hall of Favor Ryan, what a star,
so good he plays leagues well. There's two different ways
they could line up in the Battle of Los Angeles
in a playoff series this year, and it is real possibility.
You mentioned the two seven, but it could also be
the three to six. Absolutely if the Clippers get to
that sixth spot, Lakers end up in the three spot.
Currently they're in the fourth spot. Last night they lost
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that game and drop down there. They're in what currently
a four or five matchup against the Memphis Grizzlies Lakers.
So there's two pathways to get the Battle for Los
Angeles that we have been waiting for for some time now.
I will say this, Nobody's had to deal with Luka
Doncic more in the playoffs than the Clippers. They have
seen him three different times with Dallas, including last year
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they are two to one against him, or last year
they really didn't have Kawhi Leonard in that series and
still took him in six games. It would be hell though,
not only seeing Luca again for the fourth time in
the playoffs, but seeing him in a Lakers Jersey like,
this is worst case scenario. I've been saying this for
a while. Outside of screwing the MAVs, the team that
is hurt by Luka Donc just going to the Lakers
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is the Clippers because they know him better than anyone,
and he takes headlines away. He's such a draw. They
opened up a ten year window it looks like for
the Lakers to be a championship contender when it looked
like they were doa for a little bit when they
were in big trouble. When yeah, maybe they make a
little bit of noise with ad and Lebron, but they're
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done in the next year or two. Now with Luca,
he's revived the franchise.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
So no, it's a stroke of luck that the Laker
franchise never gets when it comes to acquiring superstars. So
let's just have them. Let him have their moment, Adam.
These things don't happen all the time for the Laker franchise.
Speaker 4 (31:36):
Why does hashtag future Laker have to always come true?
Why does this always happen? They land on their feet.
Speaker 1 (31:42):
Maybe we'll find out in ten years when Wimby is here.
We'll see in the scripts from the NBA.
Speaker 2 (31:46):
That's why.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
Oh really, yeah, it's Kevin Figures, Adam Austen, Tim Kates
in for Rogan and riding here on a five to
seventy LA Sports. We're coming close to the finish line.
What do you have coming up next? Cross talk?
Speaker 5 (31:56):
Maybe?
Speaker 4 (31:57):
Oh Man, cross talk is back.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
I'm so in. Let's go Fusion. We'll see.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
We'll see what happens coming up next to Rogan, Rodney
and five seventy l A sports. Well, I took a
shot in the dark when I teased cross talk. We're
back on an five seventy LA sports, Kevin Figures, Tim
Kates out of Alston, sitting in for Rogan and Rodney.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
Was we wanted things down.
Speaker 3 (32:15):
Look, when I've done this in a while, do you
want to explain what cross talk is for those newbies out?
Speaker 7 (32:20):
Well, we used to come on in the old uh,
in the old Luce Cannon days Fusion, Matt and I
would come on with Vic and Michael and Steve Hartman.
What do you mean we'd come on, Well, they'd keep
us on for quite some time. We had a great
time doing that for many years, and uh then Chris
Myers came and I kept getting in fights with.
Speaker 4 (32:41):
Him, and that John madden't even know you.
Speaker 6 (32:43):
Yeah, and then uh no, I don't think so.
Speaker 7 (32:46):
And then and then uh that was Pat O'Brien, and
that became of toxics.
Speaker 8 (32:53):
That she started out all right, though I started out elb.
Steve Hartman started out all right.
Speaker 6 (32:57):
We did okay, but then it got toxic.
Speaker 8 (32:59):
Yeah that guy.
Speaker 7 (33:00):
I lost Matt and then I lost myself. Stop doing that.
And then the Bill Ryder thing started, and that that
oh yeah, you guys definitely, and that that got toxic.
You lost and we lost me Bill Ryder. I remember
once like going on that show. Bill Ryder was on
the phone, and I remember I was in my house
(33:20):
in San Pedro and Bill Ryder was like, asked me,
asked me about USC and I said something like, well,
let me ask you. You know, did us you know? I
was like, it's just a way that I knew how
to answer us. He question like how many of these
or these are these? And he goes, nobody asked me questions.
I'm the one that asked the questions on this show.
He got like really, butter wow, And I was just
trying to be conversational and that kind of started the
(33:42):
demise of of that cross talk and then uh, and
then Rogan and Rodney they started their cross talk and
we had to go back to Indianapolis. Uh, Kobe me too.
Where we started there was a twitter. We were attacked
on social media. Uh so, so then we canceled it.
And now it's just Matt and I alone on the
(34:04):
lonely island of great sports. You guys are really suffering.
Speaker 4 (34:07):
It sounds like, well, I'm glad to have cross talk
back at least to day to day.
Speaker 6 (34:12):
Mad feels a despair. He's lonely.
Speaker 8 (34:15):
Indeed, I like that. When cross talk became the fusion
and it was, uh, it was celebrated widely throughout the
south Land.
Speaker 6 (34:27):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (34:27):
It was special US chemistry.
Speaker 8 (34:29):
It was a passing of the sports talk baton from
the loose cannons to great sports talk. And it was
and people appreciated it. It became, you know, can't misappointment
based radio. And then unfortunately, some people little thin skin,
a little rabbit eared me. No, you know, just they
weren't comfortable.
Speaker 4 (34:50):
It was, honestly one of the reasons I wanted to
work here.
Speaker 6 (34:54):
Cross talk situation.
Speaker 7 (34:55):
I now you're living it right now, I know it's
like it's like lying under Darryl Hannah.
Speaker 6 (35:01):
She's a thing. You're here, You're living the dream right now.
Speaker 7 (35:05):
There's you're part of the fusion at five microphones a
giant radio circle.
Speaker 2 (35:09):
Jerk, we were talking during the break.
Speaker 4 (35:10):
I don't think these mics have all been used like this.
That's why why it's all echoing terrible.
Speaker 6 (35:16):
I'm not able to handle it.
Speaker 2 (35:19):
So what do you guys got going on the show today?
Speaker 4 (35:20):
Petro, shut up, tump?
Speaker 2 (35:24):
Ask what's going on around?
Speaker 6 (35:25):
What's going on?
Speaker 2 (35:26):
What parting around?
Speaker 7 (35:28):
Yeah, we got all kinds of Stuff's not your business.
We're the ones that asked the questions around here in
this domain. It is three o'clock now, so it is
your domain.
Speaker 8 (35:39):
Yeah, dude, that was the John and Ken to uh
Tim Conway Junior. So what do you so? What do
you got going on tonight? And then Tim, knowing they
just wanted to get the hell out of there and
go home, would go on for three minutes, stink on
here's what I got going on? Yeah, sink Cal and Pacorma.
Speaker 2 (35:56):
What do you think about that?
Speaker 6 (35:56):
John?
Speaker 2 (35:57):
Yeah, Ken, I want you to weigh in two opinions,
come on, get them well, stand by for a lot
of stuff.
Speaker 7 (36:01):
Well, hey, congratulations to you guys, specifically the fn A,
because a lot of people have been waiting a long
time to hear you. Guys do a show on a
five seventy and it's been a long time coming and
a lot of people were very pleased to hear this.
Speaker 8 (36:17):
Darry thought it was below average.
Speaker 6 (36:19):
Well you are in the minority. You were in the minority.
Speaker 4 (36:23):
You great ghost standing in the desert that people were
into it.
Speaker 2 (36:30):
Well, we appreciate the ki words.
Speaker 7 (36:31):
I'll meet you at the Dwight Eisenhower Blood Donation Center
and Rancho Mirage.
Speaker 6 (36:36):
Friend.
Speaker 1 (36:36):
It's Kevin Figures out of Alston. Tim Kates sitting in
for Rogan and Rodney on a five seventy ELI Sports.
Thanks you guys for listening. We appreciate all the love
and support you guys. Have a great weekend. PMS coming
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