WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.520 --> 00:00:03.439 We continue on Fred Rogan and Rodney Pete an AM 2 00:00:03.439 --> 00:00:05.879 five seventy l A Sports. Before the top of the hour, 3 00:00:05.960 --> 00:00:08.400 we were talking about Dalton Connecting, the game he had 4 00:00:08.519 --> 00:00:11.519 last night and what he could mean to the Lakers. 5 00:00:11.560 --> 00:00:14.439 Now going forward, Let's bring on our Laker insider from 6 00:00:14.439 --> 00:00:19.359 the LA Times, Dan White Game. Dan Good afternoon, Hello guys, 7 00:00:19.399 --> 00:00:21.440 How are you well? Dan? We're fine? 8 00:00:21.800 --> 00:00:24.760 Daniel, Yeah, I am. 9 00:00:25.039 --> 00:00:27.199 I am open and ready to also take shots. Should 10 00:00:27.199 --> 00:00:33.240 the Lakers need another another shooter, yep, an hooter as 11 00:00:33.240 --> 00:00:36.039 we're calling them now in the Lakers locker. 12 00:00:36.320 --> 00:00:38.640 I don't think you'll knock them down like Connected last night. 13 00:00:39.560 --> 00:00:45.079 Probably not, Fred, probably not. I think, uh, I think, uh, 14 00:00:45.159 --> 00:00:48.280 there's there. We have some minor differences. Dalton connected that, 15 00:00:48.359 --> 00:00:51.240 and I think one of those differences he can play. 16 00:00:52.799 --> 00:00:52.920 Them. 17 00:00:55.920 --> 00:00:56.880 I was gonna say. 18 00:00:56.719 --> 00:00:59.200 Is that he is like an unflappable, like I don't 19 00:00:59.280 --> 00:01:01.200 care type of person. And then whereas I am very 20 00:01:01.280 --> 00:01:04.959 much flapped, but I really. 21 00:01:07.040 --> 00:01:09.200 Dan in life who doesn't enjoy a good flapping every 22 00:01:09.200 --> 00:01:09.879 once in a while? 23 00:01:10.200 --> 00:01:12.840 Okay, easy his daytime radio. 24 00:01:12.640 --> 00:01:16.400 Fread Okay, So he looked really good. He's studied three 25 00:01:16.439 --> 00:01:18.959 games in a row. Are you seeing a difference now 26 00:01:19.000 --> 00:01:20.680 with the Lakers. 27 00:01:21.719 --> 00:01:24.159 You know, I think it started before kind of his 28 00:01:24.280 --> 00:01:27.680 move into the starting lineup. You know, I would point 29 00:01:27.719 --> 00:01:30.400 back to the the you know, he had a good 30 00:01:30.439 --> 00:01:34.280 fourth quarter against Sacramento early in their first home stand, 31 00:01:34.319 --> 00:01:36.640 and then the Memphis game at home really was when 32 00:01:36.680 --> 00:01:40.319 he like got like we'll just call him like kind 33 00:01:40.319 --> 00:01:43.079 of like Clay Thompson asked, heaters, right, And I know 34 00:01:43.159 --> 00:01:46.120 that's really high praise, but like just these moments where 35 00:01:46.120 --> 00:01:49.480 it's like the Lakers haven't had guys like this that much, 36 00:01:49.519 --> 00:01:51.480 where it just like every time they shoot, you think 37 00:01:51.480 --> 00:01:55.040 it's going in. And uh, he's sort of entered that 38 00:01:55.239 --> 00:01:58.480 stratosphere this week. And then it kind of coincided with 39 00:01:58.560 --> 00:02:01.480 Ruey Hotchimer hurting his ankle in this opportunity in the 40 00:02:01.519 --> 00:02:02.840 starting lineup, presenting himself. 41 00:02:03.840 --> 00:02:04.480 I know J. J. 42 00:02:04.640 --> 00:02:08.280 Redick is not concerned about should Dalton connect start or 43 00:02:08.319 --> 00:02:12.000 not start. That's not where his mind is right now. 44 00:02:12.240 --> 00:02:16.759 I think, though, this is more about play and style 45 00:02:17.120 --> 00:02:21.120 and minutes and opportunities, and he's earned all of that. 46 00:02:21.560 --> 00:02:24.680 And I think when you play like this and you've 47 00:02:24.680 --> 00:02:27.759 done it now, you know a few games in a 48 00:02:27.840 --> 00:02:30.159 row and you've had a really good week, you get 49 00:02:30.159 --> 00:02:31.919 a chance to make that really good week a really 50 00:02:31.960 --> 00:02:35.039 good month. That's how you build out young players and guys. 51 00:02:35.080 --> 00:02:37.039 He's going to get great opportunities. I was talking with 52 00:02:37.039 --> 00:02:39.520 somebody today about, you know, how did he end up 53 00:02:39.560 --> 00:02:40.800 with the Lakers at seventeenth? 54 00:02:40.879 --> 00:02:41.000 Right? 55 00:02:41.120 --> 00:02:46.719 Like, what what happened? How did everybody and Lebron's you know, 56 00:02:46.960 --> 00:02:49.240 mess it up? We'll say, in the nice version of it. 57 00:02:50.280 --> 00:02:52.479 How did everybody and what everybody? 58 00:02:52.479 --> 00:02:52.560 In? 59 00:02:52.560 --> 00:02:53.560 What everybody? 60 00:02:53.599 --> 00:02:58.639 Everybody mess it up? Lebron used it more colorful, a 61 00:02:58.719 --> 00:03:02.960 more squipped it, yeah, a more a more satellite, more 62 00:03:03.000 --> 00:03:03.680 satellite friend. 63 00:03:05.159 --> 00:03:06.599 Yes, a bunch of. 64 00:03:06.599 --> 00:03:09.000 The nights after dark after dark friendly. 65 00:03:09.159 --> 00:03:10.000 Yes, exactly. 66 00:03:10.400 --> 00:03:14.000 It was, uh, you know, And I think the reason 67 00:03:14.039 --> 00:03:15.280 why I is a couple of things. 68 00:03:15.319 --> 00:03:15.520 One. 69 00:03:16.039 --> 00:03:18.400 I do think that, you know, front offices sometimes when 70 00:03:18.400 --> 00:03:20.360 it comes the draft time, especially when you're a team 71 00:03:20.400 --> 00:03:22.560 that's like projecting out deep into the future, you spend 72 00:03:22.560 --> 00:03:24.319 a lot of time thinking about upside and you don't 73 00:03:24.319 --> 00:03:26.159 spend as much time thinking about like what you have 74 00:03:26.280 --> 00:03:28.919 directly in front of you. And I think the other 75 00:03:28.960 --> 00:03:31.319 thing that happens is that teams also focus on sometimes 76 00:03:31.360 --> 00:03:34.479 what players can't do or what they think they can't do, right, 77 00:03:34.520 --> 00:03:37.400 Like the Connect can't get younger, you can't defend in 78 00:03:37.439 --> 00:03:40.360 the way that you know, maybe Ron Holland or somebody 79 00:03:40.400 --> 00:03:42.159 like that who has taken you know, in a place 80 00:03:42.199 --> 00:03:44.280 where you know, I think Detroit took them fifth, and 81 00:03:44.280 --> 00:03:46.199 that was a spot I thought, you know, I talked 82 00:03:46.199 --> 00:03:48.319 to some people who thought maybe Connect would end up there. 83 00:03:48.360 --> 00:03:52.159 That was where sort of his board started. You know, 84 00:03:52.280 --> 00:03:55.080 Ron Holland is a nineteen year old who's athletic and 85 00:03:55.199 --> 00:03:58.439 has like these like upside things, and yeah, let's gamble 86 00:03:58.439 --> 00:04:01.759 on that instead of like this known quand Well, you know, 87 00:04:01.879 --> 00:04:05.000 the known quantity in this case fell to the perfect 88 00:04:05.039 --> 00:04:09.800 spot in the Lakers, and he is getting high quality 89 00:04:09.840 --> 00:04:13.120 looks like like this was a guy that you know, 90 00:04:13.199 --> 00:04:15.080 spent the last two and a half months of college 91 00:04:15.120 --> 00:04:19.399 basketball with every scouting report tailored around stopping him, and 92 00:04:19.480 --> 00:04:22.560 now he is getting open threes playing around Lebron James 93 00:04:22.600 --> 00:04:25.480 and Anthony Davis, and he's making them in ways that 94 00:04:25.560 --> 00:04:28.720 guys who had this job have been cast in this 95 00:04:28.839 --> 00:04:31.199 job over the past four years, like, haven't done it consistently. 96 00:04:33.120 --> 00:04:35.160 Dan, Do you think that this is you know, I 97 00:04:35.199 --> 00:04:38.040 know it's way early, and he yes, he's been on 98 00:04:38.079 --> 00:04:42.879 a run. But for the last three years, four years, really, 99 00:04:42.959 --> 00:04:44.879 I mean we've been talking about the Lakers need that 100 00:04:44.920 --> 00:04:47.480 third star, the Lakers need that third person. And then 101 00:04:47.879 --> 00:04:50.639 he said it's okay. They did it by committee. Uh 102 00:04:50.720 --> 00:04:53.160 and and that was okay because it didn't matter on 103 00:04:53.199 --> 00:04:55.600 a given night. It could be Austin Reeve, it could 104 00:04:55.639 --> 00:04:58.920 be Ruyachama, it could be anybody, D'Angelo Russell. From time 105 00:04:58.959 --> 00:05:03.040 to time, they didn't need it. But is Dalton connect 106 00:05:03.040 --> 00:05:06.639 does he have the capability of being that third guy 107 00:05:06.720 --> 00:05:09.680 that the Laker's been looking for for the last three years. 108 00:05:10.360 --> 00:05:13.240 That does feel early to me around me a little bit, 109 00:05:13.319 --> 00:05:15.800 But I mean I think, like we know, but but 110 00:05:15.879 --> 00:05:19.439 we do know that he can be a primary scorer. Yeah, 111 00:05:19.480 --> 00:05:22.240 I mean that's that's a superpower, Like that is the 112 00:05:22.279 --> 00:05:25.199 thing that he does right, And I think, like, you know, obviously, 113 00:05:25.279 --> 00:05:26.759 like a lot of this has been built off of 114 00:05:26.839 --> 00:05:28.959 shooting and stuff like that, but you know, during the 115 00:05:29.000 --> 00:05:31.720 course of the game, like you know, before even like 116 00:05:31.759 --> 00:05:34.680 the bonkers third quarter which turned a good game into 117 00:05:34.800 --> 00:05:38.240 like an incredible game, you know, I mean, he's back 118 00:05:38.279 --> 00:05:41.600 cutting for dunks, you know he's getting out in transition. 119 00:05:42.240 --> 00:05:42.759 I love that. 120 00:05:42.839 --> 00:05:47.160 Lebron James called them sneaky athletic, which is a great 121 00:05:47.199 --> 00:05:52.279 sports euphemism for white guys at dunk like and but like, 122 00:05:52.360 --> 00:05:54.879 he is a pretty good athlete, and he gives them 123 00:05:54.879 --> 00:05:59.079 some stuff around the basket, around the baseline, and you know, look, 124 00:05:59.120 --> 00:06:01.600 he opened the game by two threes, just in rhythm, 125 00:06:01.639 --> 00:06:06.079 like you know, spacing to the corner. I think there's 126 00:06:06.120 --> 00:06:09.160 like I mean, it does sort of feel like his 127 00:06:09.279 --> 00:06:13.439 floor is high level offensive role player, like high level, 128 00:06:14.360 --> 00:06:18.399 and if that's your floor, sure. 129 00:06:18.199 --> 00:06:19.480 I mean we can maybe get there. 130 00:06:19.639 --> 00:06:23.000 I think I'm always hesitant generally speaking, when it comes 131 00:06:23.040 --> 00:06:25.680 to like counting on rookies and stuff like that. I think, 132 00:06:26.199 --> 00:06:29.759 you know, the track record of teams to get really 133 00:06:29.839 --> 00:06:33.160 meaningful contributions from rookies, like deep into playoff runs is 134 00:06:33.439 --> 00:06:36.439 fairly minimal. But you know, like I said, I mean, 135 00:06:36.600 --> 00:06:38.120 this is a guy who's not afraid of moments. 136 00:06:38.120 --> 00:06:39.079 He's played in big games. 137 00:06:39.079 --> 00:06:41.480 He wants the ball in his hands, not afraid to 138 00:06:41.519 --> 00:06:44.800 shoot it, loves to shoot it. And you know, I 139 00:06:44.839 --> 00:06:48.319 think within this Lakers team, there are guard rails around 140 00:06:48.399 --> 00:06:51.199 that he doesn't have to like worry too much about 141 00:06:51.279 --> 00:06:54.720 like the pressure of being the third guy, Like that's 142 00:06:54.759 --> 00:06:57.240 not a thing that like, like the game will come 143 00:06:57.279 --> 00:07:01.120 to him in a very easy manner between what the 144 00:07:01.199 --> 00:07:02.879 Lakers are going to do on the gorton terms of 145 00:07:03.839 --> 00:07:05.360 Lebron James and Anthony Davis. 146 00:07:05.199 --> 00:07:07.199 Being there and Austin Reeves being there and drawing. 147 00:07:06.920 --> 00:07:10.040 Attention through those guys to then also like the fact 148 00:07:10.040 --> 00:07:12.079 that and I love that Jaju reddicks of this post game. 149 00:07:12.360 --> 00:07:16.160 He feels sometimes like he's drawing plays for himself, you know, 150 00:07:16.279 --> 00:07:18.439 Like I mean the coach wants to get this guy open, 151 00:07:19.399 --> 00:07:22.120 right Like, so like he's not going to be forgotten. 152 00:07:21.759 --> 00:07:23.759 Whether we annoying him as star or not. You know, 153 00:07:23.800 --> 00:07:25.040 he's gonna be a big part of what they do. 154 00:07:25.680 --> 00:07:27.439 You wrote that he has a pretty good relationship with 155 00:07:27.480 --> 00:07:28.600 Austin Reeves, right. 156 00:07:29.279 --> 00:07:30.040 Yeah, yeah. 157 00:07:30.079 --> 00:07:33.079 They Last year, during the middle of the season, Reeves 158 00:07:34.560 --> 00:07:36.879 send him a message on Instagram basically saying, you know, 159 00:07:37.160 --> 00:07:39.800 I'm you know, my age is somebody keep my eye 160 00:07:39.839 --> 00:07:41.680 open for you. I've been watching you and like keep 161 00:07:41.680 --> 00:07:44.199 it up with me. No can need anything. And you 162 00:07:44.240 --> 00:07:46.079 know it came at a time when Connect was playing 163 00:07:46.199 --> 00:07:51.160 like actually like a pretty bad stretch of basketball. And 164 00:07:51.360 --> 00:07:54.560 you know, I haven't talked directly to Dalton about this specifically, 165 00:07:54.680 --> 00:07:57.439 like whether or not that message helped him or any 166 00:07:57.480 --> 00:07:59.399 of that stuff, but he keeps bringing it up. He's 167 00:07:59.399 --> 00:08:01.279 brought up a by you brought up again last night, 168 00:08:01.879 --> 00:08:04.920 and I think, like, you know, he has their confidence. 169 00:08:06.319 --> 00:08:09.800 You know, Lebron last year after a game in Washington, 170 00:08:09.879 --> 00:08:11.519 was asked sort of about the state of the women's 171 00:08:11.560 --> 00:08:14.160 college game versus the men's college game, and you know, 172 00:08:14.240 --> 00:08:17.240 he talked about Juju, We talked about Calen Clark, and 173 00:08:17.279 --> 00:08:19.680 then he talked about Dalton Connect and you talked about 174 00:08:19.759 --> 00:08:22.120 Zach Edie and think these stars and stuff, and like, 175 00:08:22.199 --> 00:08:26.040 you know, Lebron was Lebron was adamant. You know, he 176 00:08:26.079 --> 00:08:28.839 told me last night after kind of that viral sort 177 00:08:28.879 --> 00:08:31.879 of like you know, we didn't find Dalton Connect. You know, 178 00:08:32.240 --> 00:08:35.200 sixteen other teams made the mistake that, you know, like 179 00:08:35.480 --> 00:08:36.960 he would have been furious. 180 00:08:36.519 --> 00:08:37.559 If they didn't take Connect. 181 00:08:38.320 --> 00:08:40.480 That like, it's just sort of felt like just a 182 00:08:40.519 --> 00:08:42.639 lot of like what they've been looking for was just 183 00:08:42.639 --> 00:08:45.960 sort of dropped in their lap. So I think that's 184 00:08:46.000 --> 00:08:47.919 the thing, right too. And if you're a young player, 185 00:08:47.919 --> 00:08:50.320 and I mean, Ron, you could speak to this right, like, 186 00:08:50.440 --> 00:08:53.960 you enter that situation and you're no matter how confident 187 00:08:54.000 --> 00:08:57.679 you are, when you level up like that, you need 188 00:08:57.720 --> 00:09:01.000 to either ac results or be have people constantly and 189 00:09:01.039 --> 00:09:03.120 here telling you. Don't worry, you're good enough to be here, 190 00:09:03.159 --> 00:09:03.679 You're good. 191 00:09:03.600 --> 00:09:05.440 Enough to have these you know what I mean. 192 00:09:05.480 --> 00:09:08.279 And like he's got both of those things and we're 193 00:09:08.639 --> 00:09:10.639 fifteen fourteen games into his career. 194 00:09:11.159 --> 00:09:12.879 Yeah, no, it's pretty amazing he got. 195 00:09:12.919 --> 00:09:13.960 That's already been answered. 196 00:09:14.240 --> 00:09:14.679 Yeah. 197 00:09:15.120 --> 00:09:19.679 And and the fact that look it and it's documented. 198 00:09:19.919 --> 00:09:23.279 You know, people will you know, criticize Lebron because they 199 00:09:23.399 --> 00:09:26.440 like to criticize Lebron, but he talked about this and 200 00:09:26.480 --> 00:09:28.679 like I said, his documented talked about this kid when 201 00:09:28.720 --> 00:09:31.440 he was at Tennessee before he you know, hit all 202 00:09:31.480 --> 00:09:34.240 these trees last night. It was almost like, hey, this 203 00:09:34.360 --> 00:09:38.240 kid is pretty special and and really, you know, his 204 00:09:38.320 --> 00:09:40.279 sentiment was he won't be around for us, and he 205 00:09:40.320 --> 00:09:41.679 actually was and they got him. 206 00:09:41.759 --> 00:09:43.159 And I think, I mean, he was one of the 207 00:09:43.200 --> 00:09:45.840 best players in college basketball. I mean point right, Like, 208 00:09:45.919 --> 00:09:50.200 this is not some great scouting to This is not 209 00:09:50.320 --> 00:09:52.759 the story that you know Lebron is told about you know, 210 00:09:53.159 --> 00:09:56.519 seeing Austin Reeves or anything like this is like I mean, 211 00:09:56.600 --> 00:09:56.919 like this. 212 00:09:57.039 --> 00:10:01.600 Was like he had CBS. Yeah, he like he had 213 00:10:01.679 --> 00:10:04.279 access to a television with Rabbit ears and. 214 00:10:04.320 --> 00:10:07.039 And I just again, I do think that you know, 215 00:10:07.120 --> 00:10:10.759 there is a focus a lot of times and what 216 00:10:10.879 --> 00:10:14.200 guys aren't good at or what guys can't become, and 217 00:10:15.519 --> 00:10:18.879 sometimes you you because of that, you forget. And I mean, look, 218 00:10:18.919 --> 00:10:21.159 the Lakers on immune to this. They did it last 219 00:10:21.200 --> 00:10:25.879 year with Jimi Hawkashimi Hawkins is a really good basketball player, 220 00:10:26.200 --> 00:10:30.200 right who at every at every stop along the way, 221 00:10:30.639 --> 00:10:32.679 has answered the questions that have been asked of him, 222 00:10:32.919 --> 00:10:36.039 has always figured out a way to help teams win. Right, 223 00:10:36.360 --> 00:10:39.279 And whether he was too old or not athletic enough, 224 00:10:39.360 --> 00:10:41.720 or they didn't think you'd shoot whatever, they folks, the 225 00:10:41.759 --> 00:10:43.639 Lakers focused on those reasons they didn't draft and they 226 00:10:43.679 --> 00:10:50.159 dress of Jalen Hichefino instead, right, and they they they missed, 227 00:10:50.440 --> 00:10:55.159 they missed the opportunity to have a homegrown player, you know, 228 00:10:55.240 --> 00:10:55.879 from their. 229 00:10:55.759 --> 00:10:59.159 Backyard who loves the Lakers, who you. 230 00:10:59.120 --> 00:11:01.440 Know, they didn't focus on the things that he did. 231 00:11:02.320 --> 00:11:04.240 They did not make that mistake with don't connect. 232 00:11:06.320 --> 00:11:09.200 So so now Dan the Lakers have won six straight 233 00:11:09.639 --> 00:11:10.679 real pools. 234 00:11:10.399 --> 00:11:16.080 Gold pretty real, I mean offensively, certainly real. I think 235 00:11:16.159 --> 00:11:18.360 this is a team that if they're healthier, are are 236 00:11:18.399 --> 00:11:20.200 going to be able to score, and they be able 237 00:11:20.200 --> 00:11:24.039 to score pretty efficiently. I think, you know, these next 238 00:11:24.080 --> 00:11:28.200 two games are just massive for them, right like that, 239 00:11:28.200 --> 00:11:30.360 that's when this is really going to get answered. The 240 00:11:30.559 --> 00:11:32.720 Lanta Magic are a good basketball team and they do 241 00:11:32.840 --> 00:11:34.960 a lot of the things that the Lakers have struggled 242 00:11:35.000 --> 00:11:38.759 with so far, and that's you know, they defend with physicality, 243 00:11:39.200 --> 00:11:41.600 and so can the Lakers match that physicality? Can they 244 00:11:41.639 --> 00:11:44.559 meet that physicality? It's going to be a really hard game, guys. 245 00:11:45.120 --> 00:11:47.000 That's gonna be a really really tough game here on 246 00:11:47.039 --> 00:11:49.919 Thursday night. And then you know, you gotta you gotta 247 00:11:49.960 --> 00:11:54.679 slay Denver, which is which is like kind of that 248 00:11:54.759 --> 00:11:57.399 other thing that's sort of been lurking, right and the 249 00:11:57.559 --> 00:12:00.879 players in the past would complain on we weren't prepared 250 00:12:01.000 --> 00:12:03.360 enough for Denver, we didn't go over there stuff enough, 251 00:12:03.360 --> 00:12:06.440 we didn't know what we were doing, we weren't organized enough, 252 00:12:06.960 --> 00:12:09.360 all that stuff. Well, like, this is a team that's 253 00:12:09.399 --> 00:12:11.519 trying to be more organized. It's trying to communicate better, 254 00:12:11.600 --> 00:12:13.600 that's trying to be more prepared for these situation. So 255 00:12:13.879 --> 00:12:16.320 I think these two games are really big tests for 256 00:12:16.399 --> 00:12:21.240 the Lakers, certainly not season defining tests. My gut and 257 00:12:21.320 --> 00:12:23.919 Laker fans aren't gonna love to hear this is that, like, 258 00:12:23.960 --> 00:12:25.799 we will be reminded that this is a team that 259 00:12:25.879 --> 00:12:29.440 is still in the first quarter of its season, you know, 260 00:12:30.720 --> 00:12:33.720 But I think there's been a lot to be really 261 00:12:33.799 --> 00:12:35.679 encouraged about in these fourteen games. 262 00:12:36.120 --> 00:12:39.360 Yeah, what's the word on the job JJ Redick done 263 00:12:39.360 --> 00:12:41.559 so far? I mean, you know, when people looked at 264 00:12:41.559 --> 00:12:44.360 the off season, what they did, you know, Yeah, and 265 00:12:44.679 --> 00:12:47.120 leading up training camp all that, guys, Well season started. 266 00:12:47.159 --> 00:12:52.639 Now what's the what's the talk around the water cooler 267 00:12:52.639 --> 00:12:55.039 about JJ Reddick and the job he's done so far 268 00:12:55.080 --> 00:12:55.600 with his team. 269 00:12:56.279 --> 00:12:58.559 I was speaking last night to a pretty prominent coaching agent. 270 00:12:58.600 --> 00:13:00.879 We were talking about let's ays and coaching and how 271 00:13:00.919 --> 00:13:04.519 it's you know, it's tough, right, Like, is Will Hardy 272 00:13:04.559 --> 00:13:05.200 a bad coach? 273 00:13:05.559 --> 00:13:05.639 Like? 274 00:13:05.960 --> 00:13:07.679 You know, I think most people around the NBA would 275 00:13:07.679 --> 00:13:10.080 tell you that Will Hardy's one of the smartest coaches, 276 00:13:10.720 --> 00:13:12.639 you know, But he has a team that's very young. 277 00:13:12.679 --> 00:13:15.519 They're playing you know, six guys under the age of 278 00:13:15.519 --> 00:13:18.639 twenty two. It's hard to look like a good coach 279 00:13:18.720 --> 00:13:22.320 when that's happening, right, Like, And I say all that 280 00:13:22.399 --> 00:13:24.759 to say like it is like when your team has 281 00:13:24.759 --> 00:13:26.600 won six games in a row, like you look like 282 00:13:26.639 --> 00:13:29.320 a great coach. That is just like part of it. 283 00:13:29.720 --> 00:13:32.600 I think the stuff that we can point to that 284 00:13:32.600 --> 00:13:36.279 that speaks favorably for JJ Redick is watch the way 285 00:13:36.360 --> 00:13:39.759 Lebron James has played in terms of how willing he's 286 00:13:39.799 --> 00:13:43.559 been to be a secondary offensive option, how willing he's 287 00:13:43.559 --> 00:13:47.600 been to cut into screen. Look at what D'Angel Russell 288 00:13:47.639 --> 00:13:53.200 did defensively yesterday, you know, blocking John Collins at the rim, 289 00:13:54.159 --> 00:13:56.840 orchestrating an offense like winning without shooting. 290 00:13:58.480 --> 00:14:00.639 You know, you can look at these the things. Look 291 00:14:00.639 --> 00:14:03.000 at how Austin Reeves has been empowered, I mean. 292 00:14:02.960 --> 00:14:06.159 To the to the stage where that s how somebody 293 00:14:06.159 --> 00:14:07.559 posted so I hate stealing, but it is. 294 00:14:07.519 --> 00:14:07.960 A good point. 295 00:14:08.360 --> 00:14:10.279 Like he had seventeen points in five assists, and I 296 00:14:10.600 --> 00:14:14.240 like kind of felt like he didn't play well, you know, 297 00:14:15.039 --> 00:14:18.200 but like that that's being guys being put in positions 298 00:14:18.200 --> 00:14:22.080 to succeed. That's there being a belief in a system 299 00:14:22.320 --> 00:14:26.519 and having that to fall back on, having a foundation, 300 00:14:26.720 --> 00:14:29.480 like a real foundation. That isn't just Lebron James's greatness, 301 00:14:29.480 --> 00:14:33.200 That isn't just Anthony Davis's individual greatness. You know, that 302 00:14:33.279 --> 00:14:37.320 isn't just finding the best possible mismatch, you know, which 303 00:14:37.360 --> 00:14:39.960 is I think at the bed rock of kind of 304 00:14:39.960 --> 00:14:44.360 how they've played the past few years. And so yeah, 305 00:14:44.360 --> 00:14:46.279 I mean I think that points to to JJ Redick 306 00:14:46.279 --> 00:14:48.080 doing a pretty good job. He has those guys buying 307 00:14:48.120 --> 00:14:53.320 in and and an incalculable amount of coaching is buying 308 00:14:53.519 --> 00:14:56.080 getting buy in. You know, Like the plays and the 309 00:14:56.080 --> 00:15:00.360 schemes are all pretty much the same, like largely across 310 00:15:00.440 --> 00:15:02.720 the league, but like you need the guys to go 311 00:15:02.799 --> 00:15:05.480 do them and to do them with purpose, and right 312 00:15:05.519 --> 00:15:08.000 now Laker players are doing them and they're doing them 313 00:15:08.039 --> 00:15:08.480 with purpose. 314 00:15:09.360 --> 00:15:13.240 Then final question before we let you go, Anthony Davis. Uh, 315 00:15:13.320 --> 00:15:16.519 he gets hitting the most bizarre places. He gets hit 316 00:15:16.519 --> 00:15:18.080 in the eye, and last night he got hit in 317 00:15:18.120 --> 00:15:21.000 the crotch and he went down. What did that look 318 00:15:21.080 --> 00:15:21.679 like in person? 319 00:15:23.159 --> 00:15:25.039 Uh, it looked like a good luck tern for Dalton 320 00:15:25.039 --> 00:15:27.519 can Act. That was after after he went out. It 321 00:15:27.600 --> 00:15:29.039 was sort of like the one bell got wrung and 322 00:15:29.080 --> 00:15:31.000 then you know, Dalton started starting in threes. 323 00:15:31.000 --> 00:15:32.279 I asked Ad after the game if. 324 00:15:32.240 --> 00:15:36.320 He's willing to the sacrifice like this on a nightly basis, 325 00:15:36.360 --> 00:15:39.919 and and then ask. 326 00:15:38.919 --> 00:15:42.519 What that looked like in person? I mean, I mean 327 00:15:42.600 --> 00:15:44.960 I just wondered, what did the clod do? What? What 328 00:15:45.000 --> 00:15:45.759 did people think? 329 00:15:48.240 --> 00:15:50.200 Like all the men, all the men make the same noise? 330 00:15:50.480 --> 00:15:55.879 Right where that that kind of like wind grown? Yeah, 331 00:15:55.919 --> 00:15:58.720 I mean it was like right, like I do think 332 00:15:58.759 --> 00:16:03.000 whenever Anthony Davis had ground right like the there is 333 00:16:03.039 --> 00:16:03.840 still sort. 334 00:16:03.639 --> 00:16:06.200 Of the PTSD of like, oh my god, what is it? 335 00:16:07.240 --> 00:16:09.279 Right, like when he got poked in the eye, like 336 00:16:09.279 --> 00:16:10.120 like I didn't. 337 00:16:09.879 --> 00:16:11.200 Think he got poked in the eye. I thought you 338 00:16:11.240 --> 00:16:12.480 just loo geted his shoulder. 339 00:16:13.799 --> 00:16:16.200 Like just that was like my initial reaction was to 340 00:16:16.240 --> 00:16:17.720 go to the worst, right And when you got hit 341 00:16:17.720 --> 00:16:23.360 in the nuts, I say that, yeah. Sorry, Sometimes I 342 00:16:23.360 --> 00:16:26.159 forget that there are people listening, guys. You know when 343 00:16:26.279 --> 00:16:28.039 when you when you got when you get like hit, 344 00:16:28.200 --> 00:16:30.639 like when you get hit like that, like you know, 345 00:16:30.639 --> 00:16:31.799 when you crumbled out like you. 346 00:16:31.679 --> 00:16:33.799 Were like, oh is it like it's so bleak? 347 00:16:34.159 --> 00:16:34.399 Is it? 348 00:16:34.480 --> 00:16:36.240 You know? And it's like no, you just got you 349 00:16:36.320 --> 00:16:37.759 just got racked this. 350 00:16:42.639 --> 00:16:45.360 Like you'll you'll be all yeah, you'll be all right, 351 00:16:46.039 --> 00:16:49.879 you know, yeah, you're just needed to catch a breath. 352 00:16:50.200 --> 00:16:54.000 Oh yeah, that's what it looked like. That's what it 353 00:16:54.039 --> 00:16:56.240 looked like in burs in front. 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Come on now, all. 392 00:19:06.160 --> 00:19:09.599 Right, Rodney flu bug going around the USC locker room 393 00:19:09.640 --> 00:19:12.839 since last Saturday. Many of the guys missed practices this week, 394 00:19:12.880 --> 00:19:16.039 and Lincoln Riley says, well, we hope everybody will be 395 00:19:16.519 --> 00:19:19.480 through the worst of it by Saturday. And by the way, 396 00:19:19.480 --> 00:19:21.160 this flu has been nasty. I don't know if you 397 00:19:21.279 --> 00:19:24.680 know anyone who had it, but this has been nasty. 398 00:19:24.839 --> 00:19:27.880 No knocked people out. Yeah, that's what I've heard. 399 00:19:27.880 --> 00:19:30.599 That's why I've stayed inside and not gone out and 400 00:19:30.640 --> 00:19:33.079 interacted with anybody, because it is nasty. 401 00:19:33.240 --> 00:19:35.359