What is krack lackin fellow thermonuclear a effort. I am at Dampa Valley coming at you with my certified fantabulous co host, mister Grant Hughes. We're here to talk Lakers Warriors preview, which we didn't get up yet, and then just the rest of the NBA playoffs thoughts, teams that have exited, exited, overarching thoughts, right, no overarching damn it so close, Grant, He's gonna get you again. We begin, as always though, with the most important question of the day, Grant, how the heck are you doing? I'm doing well. Let's see since we discuss I'm no longer hiding my pro Warriors bias. I'm very happy that they have advanced. Very nervous again. It's been a very nerve wracking. That first round series against the Kings was difficult, tough on my blood pressure and stress levels. I expect more of the same going forward. But other than that, I'm doing well. I have a question though, They need to ask how many snatches did you do today? We just need to know that you're like basically a jacked, ripped gymnast. At this point, you were talking about all like the balance exercises that you're doing. Do you do snatches? You do? I'm sure you could do overhead. Some things I can't do. Those that my body hurts just thinking about it. Yeah, my body hurts all the time. So that's the main, the main reason I exercises so that my body hurts less the older I get, and then ironically what happens is it just hurts all the time now. So I didn't do anything fancy today. I did as we were talking about earlier, in addition to feeling good about the Warriors not getting eliminated by the team that is closest to me geographically and therefore would have made me have to hear about it from a lot of Kings fans. Happy about that, but happy that, like we talked about, my boy is in his first year of baseball and his six for his last eight. So psyched about that. Baseball games are a lot more fun to go to when when your kid is doing well. So happy about that too. That is the you said that both of your children an interest in basketball, which is the most important thing obviously, right. Yeah, I don't know what we where we'd be if that were not the case. So what if they don't view Steph Curry as a deity. Like what happens? Then? How does that? That's one you can really program. Just a lot of a lot of Steph Curry T shirt jerseys show up for birthdays and Christmas and like, oh, that one's looking a little warn you need another. Just he just really programming from an early age works well for me. My son's other favorite player was John Moranto, and he's not at a point where he's aware of any of the off court stuff and so h you know, that might be a rude awakening eventually, but maybe jaw will reform and continue to mature and then it'll be won't be an issue. But yeah, it's very Number one is kind of the rule. Well, good that Curry is number one. Is it better that they like John Morant as opposed to Dylan Brooks? Is that like you? That the preference it would be, you'd prefer Job over Dylan Brooks. You know what they like best are really good segues. And so that's why if they ever listen to this, they're gonna like you the best, because that was an excellent one. Yeah, Dylan Brooks was shall we say, disinvited to the Grizzly season next next year basically is what happened. According to Sean's report today, Brooks exit interview was like a capitally exit interview as and you will no longer enter the doors here ever again, which like it was a weird report. You don't usually get that. The wording under under no circumstances. Yeah, there's no chant in all that you're going back. There's nothing you can do to fix this. You will not be back. It's not it wasn't even like, yeah, under no circumstances. That's wild phrasing and deliberate. I think on the part of Shams, who you know, a lot of times will will sort of frame things favorably for players, particularly if they have certain representation. But this was unequivocal, unequivocal you will not return, right decision. Like does that feel? I mean, it's kind of harsh to put it out there like this, but it feels I don't know what you think. I did not view this as inevitable, certainly, but it feels like the right decision. I think, if you're trying to be a different kind of team next year, right, I so if it's because of the talking, I just the rest of the team talks. Maybe it's because that Dylan Brooks lays more bricks than a majority of the team. But from a just functional perspective, he is super valuable on defense, but he is one of the most damaging offensive players in the NBA. And I don't know what it like if to say under no circumstances, what if the circumstances were that he's signing for less than a mid leve exception makes me wonder. Okay, he definitely graded on them behind the scenes, but from a basketball perspective, they really need to juice up their wing rotation outside of if you consider Desmond Bane a wing and he's just not, he can't be part of that. And so if you're gonna now allocate And I think that Zat Kleiman was pretty open about saying that we need to ditch like the youth movement shit, which is congratulations, welcome to the party, right, so that bow as well, I think, But I think it's the right call. I just I'm I'm just surprised that it came out like this because it's so it's not even just definitive, it's it's verging on disrespectful and I don't like maybe the organization was pissed that he skipped his media availability after the playoffs or they were annoyed by his talking, But everyone else on that team is chattering too, which is what I don't necessarily understand. So I wrote about this like ahead of time, working on you know, big offseason questions for every team, and I at least thought that, you know, even if the plan is to move on from him, you might want to just resign him with the intention of trading him, because I think, like you said, defensively, he has a lot of value. Like there's there's no question about that. There's stats out there that you know, against All Stars, he held opposed the guys that he guarded who were All Stars to the lowest field goal percentage of anybody that had over a certain amount of possessions in those situations. But you know, you said one of the most damaging offensive players. He I think he took something like nine hundred shots last year, and there were eight ninety two many probably right and so, And there were like sixty some odd guys that took that many shots, and he had the lowest true shooting percentage of any of them. So it is like factually accurate to say he was the most damaging high volume shooter in the league last year, Like Russell westbrook was second to last, and it's not close. Brooks was significantly worse. So I you mentioned the immedia stuff, I really think I don't know why, because everything else about Brooks was sort of you know, you knew, like the talking, the like cheap shots to all that stuff, but like just the clear like it's such a bad look to avoid accountability when things have gone poorly for you and your team that if you're really trying to, you know, encourage a maturation process and you know, take the take the steps you need to make good on all the talent. You know, three of the best twenty five and hundred guys in the league on this team. I think I think to me, if it were me, the just avoiding, avoiding talking to the media when things were kind of spiraling, that would have if I'm the Grizzlies, that I think kind of low key would have been a really big deal because you know, he was especially especially compared to how eager he was to talk and say, you know, inflammatory things when things were going better. That's just kind of I feel like I understand wanting to sort of distance yourself from that way of operating as a young team trying to get better. They need and we'll get to the Grizzlies a little bit more in a bit, but we need to like they need an adult in the room. It's right, Like it's I from Steven Adams. Uh as, hopefully my house isn't burning down as the fire alarm goes off and there, uh you want to read this comment from unbiased pistons van Now, yeah, usually this is a joke, but is Brooks actually done in the NBA and on the way to China. It's it's not it's not ridiculous to say that because you know, for the Grizzlies to basically say we want you, we don't want you back, you know, on any terms, there's a certain number of other teams I think that probably would feel the same way. Like just we're not in the Dillon Brooks business. We don't we don't care if if we could get him for the taxpayers mid level, we're not interested. He gets that right, if we're being like it's eleven it's almost twelve million, whatever it is. That's that's why I do think Uh, he's got it. He'll get another NBA contract, I think, But if he continues to shoot like this, because he's the type of guy too that you've got to have a very specific like set of town around him to just having a wing that can't shoot at all and likes to shoot like you gotta you gotta have a lot of other you know, this is a team. The Grizzes have Jaren Jackson, who's like a like a skeleton key for offense because he's a center who defends the room and shoots threes like that's and you still couldn't you know that that wasn't quite enough. So I think he'll get a contract. I think, you know, ten fifteen million a year seems realistic to me. But I don't think anyone's going to sign him for four years. You know, I wouldn't. I wouldn't commit to him over a long period. I don't think I would. I would be shocked if his next deal, unless it's loaded with options or non guarantees at the end, is longer than two guaranteed seasons, unless it's just again like something crazy low. Yeah, I think normally you would say we've probably spent too long on him already, but normally you'd say, well, a team with you know, a good culture and you know, a bunch of superstars in place, like can absorb someone like this. It's like how the Warriors kind of flexed a couple of years ago with well, yeah, we'll take DeMarcus Cousins and have on the same roster as JaVale McGee. Like it was like an ultimate culture flex, right, and you know that that went nowhere. Really. Cousins was just kind of washed even then. But I think if you are that type of team, you just say to yourself, like, well, if we're trying to win big playoff games, we can't have Brooks on the floor, So like kind of does narrow his options a little bit, way too long on Dylan Brooks. Let's get into Warriors Lakers since that, hopefully you can listen to this afterwards, we'll talk about I think things that will need to be watched over the course of the series. But they are playing tonight at MPM Eastern time. What is your I'm gonna get it just biggest most pressing, overarching thought or question leading it up by you. I think it's can the Warriors handle the Lakers? Size and physicality on both ends, and that's really just an Anthony Davis question. I think that that's where I start. There are a lot of are things we could get to, but I think they had a lot of success exposing Sabonis against the Kings, as you know, you can work he's he's you know, bigger and stronger than pretty much everyone on the Warrior's roster, and they were able to work with his limitations, his you know, inability to kind of create enough shots for himself. He was fairly easy to keep off of the defensive glass, like you could attack him in the lane on the other end. And I think basically none of that is true for Anthony Davis, except for you might be okay with him shooting you know, seventeen footers, which is somewhat like Sabonis. But I don't think you can treat Davis that same way exactly, because you know, he's so fluid with the ball that one or two dribbles and he's finishing over the top or around or drawing fouls in ways that Sabonis just really isn't built to do. So I just maybe it's just maybe it's even simpler. Maybe it's what do the Warriors do with Anthony Davis assuming he's healthy, Because like Kavan Looney was phenomenal on the glass, I don't think he'll have similar advantages against Davis and Draymond Green, you know, always holds up against bigs, but Davis is, you know, one of the most talented big guys of the last like twenty five years. So if he's right, it's tough to imagine the Warriors kind of having as much success against him as they did against the Bonas. Yeah, and Davis right now, his twenty seven eight defensive rebounding rate would be a postseason career high and his nine offensive rebounding rate would be a postseason career high. So it does you know, I would assume Cavon Looney gets the Davis assignment to start, just because you would want Draymond to either pitching with Lebron or roam around. And I don't like Cavan Woudy just someoneder rated. Maybe it's a tougher time, Like I think he might be okay just because Davis. Yeah, okay, they'll give up Davis jumpers, so it's not like he needs to stretch Looney outside the paint and take him away from the boards, and if he does, it's then Davis is away from the boards as well. I guess if you're worried about him attacking, because he can do stuff off the dribble against Looney, but that's maybe when you could send help at that point for some reason that I'm not worried about that matchup. But I think it's a big one. But I just feel like Kavan Looney when you look at some of the boards he was grabbing and some of just the defensive plays he was making against the Kings, it's just like, yeah, he's smaller, but he's just built to tussle with these bigger dudes. And I get Davis is just a different bohemith. So I want to make I want to make that totally clear, but I guess I'm not like it does. It doesn't feel like a favorable matchup for the Warriors, But I don't think they're gonna need to pull like at the the Draymond on a d thread as often as I think that most people might, I would assume believe heading into this series, Yeah, probably not. What do you see as the big Like, what's your what's your initial thought on what's you know what the big focus of this series would be. I'm very curious to see if and it kind of ties into a bunch of different elements of the Lakers offense. They do like to get out in transition, but like their half court offense, is overwhelmingly slow once they get there for the most part. And then they did not get good performances by and large from Di'angelo Russell. They didn't great get great offensive performances from Dennis Shrewder. Malik Beasley basically wasn't in the real rotation by the end of that series. He played garbage time, I believe in that Game six against the Grizzlies, and you need I would say Beasley, like the idea of Beasley or at least Shrewder, because we know the Warriors. We saw it a little bit against the Kings with Malik Monk. They're gonna struggle to contain the ball with these faster guys who can get downhill. Dennis Shrewder wasn't getting in the rim as often against Memphis, and is that a byproduct of memphisis de events? Can he when he gets there? Can he know? Can he up his efficiency when he's gonna take from float to range. He was shooting like, I think fourteen percent or something between four and fourteen feet in that series. And if it's not gonna be him, you need in theory Malik Beasley's three point volume, because forty four percent or forty three percent of the Warrior shots are coming from beyond the arc. If we're looking at just per game, the Lakers are basically right now beginning at a minus nine in the three point category based off how many of the Warriors are making. And yeah, there's very ability in the Warriors performance. Clay doesn't always have it going, Wiggins doesn't always have it going, Jordan Pool never has it going at this point. But I think that they're the math on this one to me, doesn't favor them as well, especially when you're looking at the half court offense and even look their ability to get out and transition. The Warriors just finished playing the Kings, who were running after every made shot, and so like that's not going to catch them by surprise or really run them off the floor. And I'm just very curious, especially because we did see Lebron take kind of not a backseat at points, but like, was just not this domineering force through and through and so are they going to need him to be like that? And is he healthy enough to do that because of the you know he's playing through that the ankle injury where the dot it was. It's an ankle injury right already they're calling it a foot tendon or something. The Lebron James of feet told him that he could stave off surgery for a little bit. So and then like, look, even Davis, he was phenomenal last series, but his offensive performances were all over the place. And you need some steadiness, I think in even if you just count on Lebron, even not his best game, he's going to be solid, you need some steadiness beyond him when looking at guys you can rely on offensively, again, especially in the half court. Yeah, I think I was. I was thinking back to when we talked about so we both picked Memphis to win that series in the first round, and I think we to discredit everything that we're gonna but well, you know who got all these series right? Like nobody picked anyway. I thought that one of my main reasons for picking Memphis was I just didn't think Lebron. I thought Lebron and Davis could potentially just be the two best players in the series, but that they couldn't hold up physically for the balance of that series. I think the Warriors are just even more likely to kind of put strain on the Lakers defensively and in terms of like what they'll be asked to do cardiovascularly, like getting up and down and having to coverage much more complicated offense and just you know, more space. So I think a lot of that analysis probably has to stay the same, right, Like I think, you know, one of the one of the things that makes me uncomfortable is I don't really know how much we learned about the Lakers against Memphis, because you know, it's well chronicled they were short on the front line because Adams and Brandon Clark weren't there. Uh, you know, Jaw was really good. But Jaw is just not the same kind of you know, five alarm fire everywhere that Curry is. I think dealing with Bain and Klay Thompson is somewhat similar. Bain is obviously able to do a lot more inside the arc and off the dribble, but I just feel like it's a much more It's just a tougher challenge for the Lakers, especially they're their main two guys to hold up defensively consistently, right, because you could tell Lebron was picking his spots for most of the series. And I don't feel like they You mentioned that the Lakers do have, you know, a high frequency transit or a very effective transition attack. I don't think it's gonna be quite the same as what very clearly wore the Warriors down as the Kings. And I also don't think we haven't really talked about this much, like what do you see the Lakers doing with Steph Curry? Because as I look at it, their best options are going to their best options defensively, are gonna give the Warriors guys to maybe exploit on the other end? Yeah? Who is it is Vanderbilt gonna spend the most time on staff? Is it Reeves? And then I would probably just say Vanderbilt because I think he's just a little bit more frenetic and disruptive, And but the Lakers didn't play him a ton and like they played him like twenty minutes of game. Basically, I don't think he really played ever over twenty two And the question then becomes even if you don't want him on Steph Like he's someone who could chase around Clay, he could chase around Wiggins. And is he gonna give you enough offense to stay on the floor because he was five or four tea and I think over the final three games from three and that's I think that's enough volume and enough efficiency to be like, hey, the Warriors might not still guard him, but that's fine, We'll live with him taking those shots. Then he still didn't play a bunch and i'd have to I don't know if I'm misremembering. I don't think he was in foul trouble in any one of those games. Either someone could correct me if I'm wrong there. And so if it's not going to be him, or if he's gonna split it, like, how are you going about this? I know that they relied on Troy Brown Junior a Ton in that series to give them some just you know, defense against advantage creation. I think it probably needs to be Reeves, Like if it's not going to be Vanderbilt and then you run out of there's no answer for Steph Curry. I want to make that clear. But even the trickle down effect makes me uncomfortable. Because it's okay, how are you chasing around Klay Thompson? And then I do think the other player and he like he We talked about consistency on the offensive end, Ruby had Chamore. I gave it to the Lakers, and I think the Warriors will give him a lot of the same shots. I don't know if he'll get He shot like eighty three percent at the rim in that series. He was fifteen of eighteen at the rim against the Grizzlies. I don't know if he'll be that high. But he shot fifty percent outside of garbage time on threes, and he was at forty five point five percent on two pointers outside fourteen feet, and he brought back some of the throwback catching shoot looks from the mid range. I think those shots by and large will be available to him. But defensively, he did spend to his credit, he spends some time on Desmond Bane, which is just not easy. But like guarding Xavier Tillman or Santhi, Aldama is just so much different than guarding Wiggins or Clay or even Draymond. With the plays that he's able to make as a high screener and out of the short role, so I feel like, as much as I just belabored the Lakers' offense before, you get the feeling that they might just run out of answers at some point. As good as Anthony, like, Anthony Davis has been everywhere all at once, but this isn't a team that where he can actually do that because of all the off ball stuff they're doing. Yeah, it's interesting. My guests would be that, so it's gonna be such a different series for Golden State in terms of the opponent than the last one for several different reasons. But I think it was pretty clear that the Warriors were at their best against the King's defense when they got into the lane, and they finished a ton of layups and that allowed for kickouts, and even they didn't really shoot the lights out from deep in really any game that I can remember. It was a struggle a lot of the time, but getting to the bucket was kind of the key. I don't think that's viable against the Lakers, So it sort of turns it into more of a maker miss thing, like how many threes can the Warriors hit if Davis is in a drop and which I assume he has to be, or if he just you know, isn't out to guard the handoff and the pitchback stuff. And I think so like take take like D'Angelo Russell, for example, who I think maybe the Lakers will need offensively because I do think, you know, they're gonna need some shooting. They're gonna need guys to sort of keep the war from really crashing in and sending multiple bodies at Davis when he's inside. So but if Russell's out there, that's just someone you know that the Warriors can. He's gonna get lost off the ball defensively, he's gonna botch the split cuts, he's gonna trail when he shouldn't track, He's gonna give up shots. So I think maybe that's where And I think Shrewder has been much better defensively, you know, maybe than ever than this this Lakers stint. But I don't think he's someone that's gonna bother you know, Curry is too small for Clay. Clay can shoot over him. I think Wiggins, if he gets switched on him, will go right to the post. So there's there's definitely it's easier for me to see the Warriors finding holes and finding exploitable you know, opportunities, I guess than it is the other way around, So I think, yeah, there may be it seems reasonable to me to say that the Lakers will kind of run out of good solutions defensively. But I can also see a scenario where the Lakers can put really rangy, like long lineups on the floor and the Warriors might just get you know, every other pass tipped and deflected, and the turnovers are what killed him, which is like, we didn't even talk about any of that stuff, the possession battle stuff that really swung a lot of the Sacramento series. I think that could absolutely be a factor in this one, just because the Lakers have chance to pile up steals blocks and create transition chances where the Warriors don't get set. So I think that's something we've got to focus on. Two, how do you counter that if you're Golden State, which might just be I don't know if I'm trying to start a Jordan Pool discussion, But he was bad for the most important that series. He kept the turnovers under control when the war especially when the Warriors went to the higher spacing lineups. But if you're gonna go up again, he's giving you he shot better at the rim by the way I think it looked, he was like sixty plus percent in that series, And I thought he missed every single layup that he attempted. He was just seems so out of control. Sometimes he had actually some like okay, defensive spurts, but he's still eminently targetable, targetable on that end. And if the Lakers are gonna go super huge, like are you countering with we didn't see it, but like would you play Looney GP two and Draymond at the same time? Is this more of a GP two in Dante's series than it is Jordan Pool? And I will say when the Warriors do downsize, they're officially at the point where when it's Draymond at the five, like it's Dante or GP two are more likely to be in that lineup than Jordan Pool. Like they just don't go to the Pool party lineup. Ever, Yeah, it can get really difficult for the Warriors if they have to have Wiggins and Peyton and Draymond and Looney, like for if those for it doesn't happen often, but if you have to have those guys out there for defensive fortitude, for length, for rebounding for whatever reason, things get a little tight and that and that offensively, so the trade off will be interesting. You could unstick all of that if Pool, you know, plays within the system and doesn't try to do everything himself and can play off of Curry like he did last year, and just like once or twice in Game seven, you saw it where he would get you know, played like a little back in fourth with Steph and was able to get a three from the right corner late in the game, like that kind of stuff. But like, I just don't know how I think her will play Pool. I think he will give him a chance. I also think he's going to give Jonathan Cominga a chance. So we haven't talked about yet, who was basically completely a great hope could not play in that series, according to the Warriors coaching staff, like Moses Moody was behind him all season long on the depth start had way more dnps and Moody got a lot of time relative to Cominga. I think the Lakers are just bigger, stronger, more athletic, So Cominga is all of those things, and we'll get a chance to probably guard Lebron a little bit. I think we'll see that is he the only player aside from Draymond on the roster that can reasonably guard Lebron and a d or do you loop Andrew Wiggins into that. I feel okay about Wiggins on Lebron. Wiggins just like you can't have him on a center. That's that's just different, especially someone like Davis. But I actually think Anthony Slater, the Warriors beat guy for the athletic, he's he thought that Wiggins will get the initial Lebron assignment. So I guess that puts Draymond on Vanderbilt if Vanderbilt starts and he can roam there, which is then that becomes we talked about that's a big flash point because if Vanderbilt's hitting his three, I Draymond still probably doesn't defend him. But like, if Draymond's gonna be roaming from there, helping from there, you need Vando to to capitalize on those apportunities for not way, I guess at that point, yeah, I mean, I think if that's what it looks like, Vanderbilt has to be incredibly active going after offensive rebounds and cutting off the baseline and that kind of stuff, because if Draymond has free reign to just kind of you know, shuttle all over the place and muck up possessions and you know, Lake doubles on Davis or you know that kind of thing. I think that's the Warriors would love. Like that's kind of like their optimal defensive approach, I think is if that is how it looks. But yeah, I think Wiggins will. I think it's fair to say Wiggins will get the Lebron assignment, and then I think Cominga like I think Kaminga will get first quarter minutes in game one, and we'll see, and Kur does this a lot. He may or may not play in the second half like that like that, we'll see, like we will, It'll be determined pretty early if this will be a serious for him. I think. I think Kur does this often where it's not quite throwing a guy a bone, but it's like, you know, he wants to reward the whole stay ready kind of ethos, and so like, Moody may not play as much even though he outperformed Kaminga in the first round. I think Kerr would like to go and see if he can because you might need Cominga later, assuming there is a later right of subsequent round or later in this series, you gotta get him out there and see if it works and see if he's motivated and effective. And Kurt does that all the time. So I think Pool will get the same treatment. Like Pool will get first quarter minutes. I don't think he'll start. I think that's probably over, But I think he'll get first quarter minutes and then it might be a short least again, and we might not see him in fourth quarters. If if all the same you know, defensive and ball security stuff happens against the Lakers too, So the Warriors will will go deeper into the rotation, at least initially than they did towards the end of the King series when things got real shallow. And the Lakers, I think, I don't know, I don't see. I don't see the Lakers are rotation changing a lot, do you because they you know, they've got their starting five and then you're gonna throw you know, you're maybe maybe not guys depending on how things are going or what, like you know, Beasley, Troy Brown, who am I forgetting? Like Dennis Shrewder will be struder. Yeah, those guys will all play, don't you think. I mean it's not like any of those guys are gonna get cut out. I don't think maybe Beasley if he can't if he's not making anything, but you can need him out of the space. It seems like in theory, but I just don't know what it does to the workload of everybody else, Like the players who are absolutely guaranteed minutes Lebron, Austin Reeves, Anthony Davis Delo even if he's playing well, you just you need dlow on the floorsh and he he didn't end up shooting thirty seven percent in that Grizzly series. Some of it was inflated by a couple of performances, but Ruy Shrewder and then Vando, So that's effectively like you know, seven players, but Troy Brown, Malie Beasley, won and Gabriel and then we saw Lonnie Walker the fourth towards the end of that Grizzly series. Those are guys that I guess, depending on how they're playing, if you want to go eight or nine deep, those are the biggest wild cards. But I'm with you, I don't see them changing their rotation unless it's too you know, and if they're gonna cut what Brown and Beasley were doing, I don't know if it's gonna be with the end game of well, we're gonna play a lot more of I mean, maybe one in Gabriel benefits from that because they decided to go a lot bigger. But I know a lot of Lakers fans were clamoring for Lonnie Walker the fourth to get extensive run because of how poorly Mollie Beasley specifically was playing. I don't know if that's going to be something they turn to it. So I'd be with you. It seems like they already have guys logging a lot of minutes. But the answer to me is if you're gonna trim your rotation, I do think again, maybe I'm overestimating what he could do on offense. It feels like there are more minutes for Vanderbilt to play here, and I think you could even get you know, do you trust Ruey for twenty eight instead of twenty five minutes? A game that will be determined though, again how well does he played offensively? And I think that will be That might be we haven't even talked about it. That might be one of the biggest factors for the Lakers that they've been really the lineups with Ad Lebron and Ruey have killed it ever since he came over from Washington on the defensive end, including in the playoffs, and they got a lot better offensively against Memphis. If they can't play that group heavy minutes, and I imagine that would fall on Ruey, that changes the dynamic of their entire team. But I think that's like their staple, Like those three are like that makes so much sense, especially in this series. If you're trying to just combat the Warriors with with size, right, yeah, the Warriors don't have I mean, the Warriors are going to be undersized throughout basically. I mean I don't see a scenario where the Warriors have I mean, they're bigs are six six right right, and you know, looting six to nine I think is official height. So like they're just you know, but they're generally pretty comfort at that. It was a shock to me in the first round that the Kings had success when they went even smaller like that was that's that's not that has not been the way to beat the Warriors. They usually are very happy to downsize with you if you want to. The Lakers, though, I mean, I think one of the things just the macro for this series is this will be a defensive series, I think, And I think if you're the Warriors, that's a little concerning because the Kings, they were supposed to be just eminently exploitable defensively, right, just a bad defense. This is not a playoff defense. They they don't have the size, they don't have the you know, big wings that can hold up, and the Kings gave the Warriors a ton of problems for most of that series. So and the Lakers, I don't know who would disagree with this, are way better defensively, just more size, more you know, they have, you know, other than like we talked about, you know, Russell probably exploitable. Vanderbilt might be hard to keep on the floor, but they're just so much bigger and so stouter and just have had a better defense statistically all year. That Like, if the Warriors had trouble with the King's defense, even though it was well coached and you know, they played hard all that stuff, it could be real tough for stretches for Golden States to score just looking at it, if you're if only just comparing the two opposing defenses. So I think the smart money should be on this being a relatively low scoring, like low efficiency on offense series. But I guess that presupposes that Davis is healthy and can play big minutes and consistent, is consistent throughout which which might be kind of where I circle all the way back to is I just don't know how likely that is based on I would argue he wasn't necessarily healthyn Grizzly series, and he was still playing like thirty seven minutes a game where he might not be healthy, but he'll be on the floor and yeah, well he'll literally be on the floor because he's mandated to go down with some kind of injury that makes you think the season's over, and then he's back in five minutes. I'm pretty sure Marcus Smart's the only player in the playoffs who spent more time on the ground, and at least his is by design, right right, Yeah, he wants to be down there, Davis does not. What are your predictions here? Well, we know we can guess what yours that we know what you're gonna pick, But what's your exact prediction. I think I'm gonna go Warriors in six, and it's on a lot of the same logic as as the Memphis prediction, which was wrong. So file that you know and consider that. I just think it's a lot to ask for Lebron and Davis to stay in relatively something close to top form for a second straight round. So that's really what it comes down to for me. I'm on. I contemplated Warriors in five, but I think that ultimately I picked Grizzlies in five, and so I think it's time to respect what the Lakers can do with a lot of their bigger lineups. And also just unless Lebron is completely like gutted, his body just isn't equipped for this. He'll probably shoot better than twenty percent from three. I'll probably shoot better than sixty seven percent of the foul line. I'll expect him to get there a little bit more five attempts per game, And what do you play thirty seven minutes last series? Yeah, thirty seven minutes. So I would expect those numbers that go up, which should help the Warriors, help the Lakers, And just the Warriors are this is part of their DNA, I don't I don't even know sometimes if it's what teams are doing, Like there's gonna be a game where they commit like eighty turnovers and lose the battle in both second chance and fast break points and points off turnovers, and they're gonna lose all those categories. And I could see that happening a couple of times. But I think I just I have trouble coming up with enough solves on the Lakers end for Golden State to get them to win this series. Would you be floored at all if the Lakers won this series? I think I would be. I would not, I think because of what you said, Like the Warriors have a game or two in them where they're just and it happened. It's not just the King series. It happened all year where they just don't take care of the ball and there's just something off. And maybe we haven't talked about this. A lot of the reporting coming out of the Steph Curry speech, you know, legendary speech thing where he's you know, if you're not all the way in, if you're gonna complain, don't get on the bus type that that thing was just a allusion to guys like you know, thinly veiled Kamina Pool. I think even de Vincenzo, guys that are you know, maybe maybe not bought in is too strong a term, but like upset about how much they're playing in their role and all that stuff, like does that all totally go away? Like does that speech click like fix everything? So, and I think that's tied to some of the like you know, lazier defensive sequences and the turnovers and the whole deal. So I think I think you're absolutely right that there will be one such game for the Warriors. If there are two or three, then they just lose the series. So I think that that's the way it goes for that goes wrong for Golden State, which is if you watch them all year, you know they were such persistent problems, the turnovers, the fouls all well, the turnovers and fouls like really ratcheted up this year. So yeah, it would not shock me if the Lakers won, because, if anything, I think the Lakers will probably play a little steadier. The Warriors will probably have higher highs and lower and it's just a question of how low are those lows and how often do we see them. This is in a Lakers Warriors aside. Draymond, I don't know that I've seen someone on an opposing team heading into a playoff series trumpet up someone as much as Draymond is really just like put Lebron on a pedestal where it's just appreciate Lebron versus Steph. Don't try and move on from this. It's just I don't have a problem with it. It just feels odd. I know that they're both clutch, I know that they're tight, but he's talking about how he wanted to go see Lebron's record breaking performance. And I don't think players need to hate each other. The open admiration, adelation. It just isn't just weird, but especially coming from him, who's also the same as like, yeah, I lost a lot of respect for some bonus in this series, and like you talk about some of the players like the Kings and glowing terms after you beat them, But to just me talking about Lebron like this as you're about to square off in the semifinals just has me like, are you trying to make sure that you got a spot like next season? Like what is going on here? It does? It does sort of feel that way, I mean a little bit, because you know, he loves to say that. He doesn't say anything, uh, you know, offhand or without considering it or you know, and he stands on what he says, you know, that kind of thing. So it's like, well that's the case, then clearly there's some ulterior motive or just you know, I don't think there's any not to say that. You know, he's not gonna give his best effort against the Lakers because Lebron is there who he admires. But it is a weird. It is unusual, right, it feels weird, and it kind of takes away from like it is sort of the hack like a block Sports Center coverage of the series, but like it's another Steph Lebron series. That's awesome, Like we get to see him again. Like this is, you know, the fifth fifth playoff meeting, right, I think because of those four Cleveland years, that's you don't count the play in a couple of years ago because those games about that for a minute, I mean fair The League office definitely just climb asked when this series was set that they get at least four games of this even and probably five, six, maybe seven. Yeah, Now, so there are there are like awesome legacy or you know, this is for this era of basketball. These are the two guys. So I think, you know, Draymond's not all the way off saying appreciate this because he's he's not. It's just I found it. You don't have Klay Thompson up there saying God, I love Lebron or human that's true, fair enough, you will not see that. Do you want to take us out of here? I do? I mean I don't, but I will. Everybody, Thank you for listening, thanks for your questions, for chiming in, for following with us live, and if you have not already subscribe rated review. Fuld friends, fuld enemies. Apologize to all the players, we apologize to on our behalf. Please do all those things, and if you haven't, we will do that now. And let's see, I'm gonna shout out frankiel Kina like goodle and I will again not apologize to Jared now on to transfer that apology to Mitchell Robinson and wishing make speedy recovery from whatever it plays a hip something something's wrong with him. 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