Examining the Lakers' Struggles and LeBron’s Impact

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00:00So, Minnesota definitely deserves credit, right?

00:04And I think that they have been given a lot of credit.

00:08But when a team like the Lakers is upset,

00:10it is the predominant story.

00:14They played a lot of close games,

00:16and sometimes you can just get it close.

00:19The Lakers, though, I think I will talk to you about this,

00:23I thought would win the West.

00:25And after game two, which they won,

00:27I was like, oh, that's not happening.

00:30Because the Lakers' offense was supposed to be

00:33almost impossible to stop.

00:36Because it's LeBron and Luka,

00:40and what are you supposed to do?

00:41The Lakers barely average 100 points per game in this series.

00:44There were so many things wrong in this series.

00:48So many.

00:50But none bigger than the fact that they could not score the basketball.

00:54And when you're trying to figure out who is at fault,

00:59J.J. is front of mind.

01:01Because the lack of Jackson Hayes minutes was he was just wrong about.

01:07He's like, ah, if Jackson Hayes is out there, we can't defend.

01:10It doesn't matter.

01:11You're defending fine.

01:13He can get the lob, and it's two-point.

01:15You can press that button every time.

01:17Luka was out of sorts without the lob threat.

01:20Luka, by the way, was supposed to be the best player in the series.

01:23Wasn't one of the two best players in this series.

01:26Could have been fourth.

01:27Could have been better than him, too.

01:28But, like, him being outplayed by Ant, I want to be like, awesome.

01:32You know, great job.

01:34Again, we said this at the deadline.

01:37Oh, wow.

01:38Now LeBron actually can be the second best player.

01:40Nope.

01:41Never mind.

01:41Still the best guy.

01:43That is not how that's supposed to go in year 40.

01:46It's just not.

01:47And it's a credit to him.

01:48It's why he's clearly the greatest player in the history of this sport.

01:50And you're legitimately out of your brain.

01:52People have been, by the way, yeah, because I'm going to just do this quickly.

01:56People are like, well, go can't close.

01:58Goat argument closed at the end of this season.

02:01Yeah, you're right.

02:02LeBron by a ton.

02:0440 years old.

02:05Season 20.

02:06Hey, coach, what'd Michael do in the playoffs year 40?

02:10I don't know.

02:11I don't know if you want to bring that up, right?

02:13Was it with the Wizards at that point?

02:15Yes!

02:15He was!

02:17He was!

02:18He couldn't walk!

02:20LeBron's a max-level player!

02:22Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

02:24Co-seen!

02:25Yeah.

02:26Now.

02:28Now.

02:28Now, the JJ piece of it, though, to me, JY, yes, the Mark Williams stuff was bad.

02:35I mean, it hurt them.

02:37But it didn't need to end their—they won a game.

02:41It didn't—Mark Williams is not the difference between the Lakers winning one playoff game

02:46and the Lakers winning a championship.

02:50That is an outrageous—and I'm not saying that's what you think.

02:52But, like, yes, the Mark Williams stuff—but we didn't find out Mark Williams wasn't on

02:58this roster in game three.

03:01The whole thing was bad.

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