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Lakers v Clippers (LIVE REACTIONS)
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A newfound Laker fan trying to give the team some optimism during a tough season. Watch me LIVE during the Lakers Games!
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Transcript
Game Opening Critique
00:00:00
Speaker
That was a terrible tip off. That was an awful tip off, but we got it. Look like an air. See Patrick Beverly, that pass he did right there, that's why I don't like his energy. It's nervous. Okay. Anthony Davis, you should be able to pull up from the top of the key. No, you should. That's okay. That's our first play of the game. We cool. Don't let Paul George shoot him. Who is this man on him?
00:00:23
Speaker
Who was on him? Can't start the game with a three. It ain't looking good. Okay. Oh, see, we're missing layups. Patrick Beverly running like his leg hurt. Not a good start. I was about to say not Anthony. Take the ball from Patrick. There you go. Shoot. What is wrong with you? Can't nobody shoot. This is what LeBron was talking about. They gotta find LeBron. There we go. Good job, man.
00:00:46
Speaker
Ooh, I was nervous there for a minute. I was nervous there for a minute. There we go. Oh, that didn't look like no good. It's just not, we not
Defensive Concerns
00:00:58
Speaker
doing good on the defense on the comeback. On the comeback, we gotta do a little better. Okay.
00:01:04
Speaker
Oh, that was a perfect block. Come on, get it. Okay, okay, let's do it. See, the energy is already picking up. The energy is picking up. The energy is picking up. That was good defense by Anthony Day. And then he chased the ball down. That's why I'm a fan. I'm a fan. I'm a fan. Bam. We off to a good start. We off to a good start. That was a bad shot.
00:01:29
Speaker
from the Clippers. Come on LeBron. You don't need no help. Just take it. Figure out a way. Yeah. And today was pass out. He knew he ain't had a strength to go in there. Why would you go in there and get some dudes with that strength number 15? Why would he do that? Oh, that was a good shot. That was a good, that was a good left hand off the backboard. Crazy. Oh, perfect. Perfect.
00:01:50
Speaker
One more pass. You need one more pass. Maybe two, because now Patrick Beverly got it. Looking for a play lord. Oh, come on, Russ. You ain't got to start, but you could finish. Look at that bow. He couldn't finish that.
Game Intensity and Analysis
00:02:04
Speaker
He was quick. Oh, that was a good fade away. I don't know who this is. Jackson. Now we got a time out. All right. Quick time out. It's been a pretty good game so far. Pretty good game so far.
00:02:18
Speaker
All right, y'all, whatever y'all watching this at, make sure y'all share it with whoever. Just share it with your timeline. I got the stats going all the time. The whole game, I have it up there. Adding tags to all my videos is crazy how you do this while you're alive now, which is probably why most people have like a 10-minute buffer where it's like, watch this. Again, y'all, we watching this on Spectrum. I'm on the West Coast, so I gotta wait for the commercials. I mean, you would too if you were watching this, so it's not a big deal.
00:02:47
Speaker
Also, I work in advertising. So commercials is how I get paid. Please sit through a couple commercials. It's how most of your favorite creators get paid too. So just kind of rock with that commercial. I can turn on the game truck.
Player Performance and Strategies
00:03:01
Speaker
All right. We back. We back. Hey, turn off Anthony Davis trying to play like a guard. He probably one of the only people that could shoot him Paul George man. I wouldn't rush take that that layup. I wouldn't rush take that layup.
00:03:15
Speaker
I don't get it, I don't get it. He ain't gonna be tired. Anthony Davis gonna be tired, reaching them arms and stuff like that, man. He keep running around and, you know, trying to play like he a point guard. Thanks for the followers on Facebook. Thanks, thanks. Here we go. That was a good block, Russ. That was a good block. That was all ball. That block was all ball, and Russell Westbrook coming through with the block on Paul George.
00:03:40
Speaker
That's big. Paul George can't shoot no free throws though. We just need Paul George to miss these free throws. Okay, he made one game still early. We got some time. Westbrook finally got in the game and is doing something. Shaking up the offense. There we go. And the paint man, but he keep missing the layups, but it looks like he was disappointed on that one.
00:04:00
Speaker
That was a good pass on the Clippers. Yeah, I'll pass him. Russ gotta finish them looks though. We don't got many offensive looks like that. There you go, LeBron. Oh, he knew he couldn't shoot. Whoever he was, that's a good pass. There we go. Come on, Tyronn Liu. That was the craziest shot I've ever seen. Who is that? Let me look at the Lakers roster, because I don't even really know who on the team. Now, I didn't tap back in and said I was going to be a fan, mostly for LeBron.
00:04:29
Speaker
Damn. Paul George, man. He gets shots from all sides. Let me look at the lake of roster. Turnover bad momentum, bad game momentum. We got this though. He out hustle. Russ. Russ. He out hustle. Russ. Let me look at this roster because I don't know none of these people. Schroeder back on up. You lying. Schroeder is not back on the lake because I have to turn it down that deal.
Financial Dynamics in the Lakers
00:04:53
Speaker
He back for 1.8 million, how sad. Damn, Canard, who are these people? They not even guarding Canard, and it's looking like he can shoot. I'm glad they put the salary right next to, hold on, Patrick Beverly got paid 13 million, hold on, let me bring my computer, let me play, yeah. All right, so Patrick Beverly is making $13 million, Scottie Pippen Jr.
00:05:19
Speaker
I'm looking at the Lakers roster for all the people who just tapped in just so you don't think I'm, we're on commercial break. I'm looking at all of the salaries. Man, that Dennis Schroeder, man, Dennis Schroeder. L.A. deal turned down. I think dude on the roster for 1.8 million.
00:05:35
Speaker
He's turned down a deal for $80 million to now be working for the same team that offer him that $80 million for 1.8 y'all. Couldn't make this terrible story up. Couldn't make this terrible story up. Let me move this microphone over just a little bit. Just a little bit.
00:05:55
Speaker
dang Dennis Schroeder 80 million he on the roster for 1.8 but at least he got a job you know he came back that's crazy he worked for 5.8 over at Boston didn't do nothing 5.9 6 million he probably was betting on himself man I feel that or his agent was just not good bro bro you lost a lot of million dollars 70 million dollars
00:06:17
Speaker
Patrick Beverly is the fourth highest paid person on that team. 18, 13 million. I really don't see 13 million dollars, man. Anthony Davis, 37. That makes sense. LeBron, 44 Westbrook, 47. He came out on top. Y'all can say what y'all want about Westbrook. He got $47 million, $47 million. You heard that, right?
00:06:40
Speaker
That's correct. $47 million. 47. Man, that look like so much traffic. I live right over there too and it's that much traffic constantly. It's never not that much traffic. That's what they said on TV. Look at that traffic.
00:06:55
Speaker
For show, it's like all the highways meet up right at the crypto dot com. And these highlights look like trash to me. But I will say Morris, when he was at his time in Boston, I was a major fan, major friend, used to play with him in 2K and everything because he got a little burner on him.
Team and Fan Analysis
00:07:12
Speaker
But I ain't trying to talk about that right now because he you heard it. Yeah.
00:07:17
Speaker
OK, look, look, Ali, you look, Ali, you look, Ali, you. Whoo, whoo, whoo. I absolutely forgot John Wall was on the Clippers. Come on, Russ, make up for the miss layup. He's like, yes, I mean it.
00:07:33
Speaker
I promise I'm not gonna throw shade at the Lakers man. I'm here. I come in peace. I come in peace. Let me move this camera down some. Promise I'm gonna have my setup a little better next time. I'm just experimenting with this side of the couch. It don't look too interesting. So maybe next time I do something else. They just throw the ball up. They know they got Anthony Davis. They don't even be having to play. They like, we just gonna throw it up in the air. Look at John Wall, strong man.
00:07:58
Speaker
He just went between them and ran, he was holding the ball, there wasn't no carry. He just laid it in nicely and was like, yes, I'm strong. Bro, you literally laid it in nicely. Crazy. I don't know how many threes the Clippers have had, but they had a nice amount of threes. They had a nice amount of threes so far. We need to shoot better, get better looks, really take advantage of those two point conversions here. No pun intended.
00:08:27
Speaker
I gotta buy me some Lakers gear. Where should I buy some Lakers gear? For all of y'all that's, you know, watching. I mean, another three pointer from the Clippers. All right, we gonna take it. Take it moment by moment. I will say this is kind of a boring game. Westbrook is really fighting just to get layups out here. Just to get layups. Do not let Paul George shoot no more. They D'ing them up. They D'ing them up now. Oh.
00:08:52
Speaker
That was a kind of, that was thirsty. That was not a turnover. That was not a turnover. If we really can stop them from shooting these three pointers, it can be a completely different situation. That was a foul. Another tip, this time the Clippers won the tip. It's only 22 seconds left in the first quarter. The Lakers have seven turnovers, seven turnovers. That's really the point differential. If you look at seven baskets
LeBron's Leadership and Team Struggles
00:09:18
Speaker
we could have had or seven more attempts,
00:09:20
Speaker
They just let Paul George go completely. He went all the way there. Everybody was standing there. We really gotta regroup. Oh, Russell. Why would he hit the front? I guess he was trying to hurry up and shoot, but he hit the front of the rim on that layup. Whew.
00:09:35
Speaker
I mean, here's where we are. We understand that we got seven turnovers right now. We understand that the Clippers are shooting a bunch of threes. If we can be up to threes and tighten up on the turnovers, we could really have a chance to get some points here, some easy buckets. If Russ can make those layups, I know I ain't being hard on Russ, because I don't like how the media is just saying that he a bad player. But in real life, the point guard got to make layups. We need you to make the layups because you the playmaker.
00:10:04
Speaker
you the playmaker who is the playmaker so it's pizza time over here i don't know what y'all ordering it's definitely pizza time over here all right y'all i'm gonna take another shot of tequila here salut to you wherever you are
00:10:21
Speaker
Oh, let's see. I haven't really been. Let me go ahead and check the Lakers like two and eight. Oh my God. All right. We down bad right now. But like I said, this is not the time to be harping on negative things. I'm watching these games, seeing as much tape as we can see.
00:10:38
Speaker
to see how we can really revive this. This ain't gonna be that losing of a season. Ain't no way in heck LeBron gonna go down like that. But to be honest, he ain't really got no players, so he really gonna have to show up as King James himself to get the, why he smiling and laughing? He must got a plan for the season. He's like, I'm just gonna make the best of it. He ain't even the highest paid player there, man. He took a pay cut for Russ. 44 million, but he a billionaire, so he really don't even need that money like that.
00:11:08
Speaker
Bro, Russ better start hitting them layups. Whoo. That was some nasty defense. They doing better. He did get held. That was a foul. I don't care how many times LeBron flop. He needs them free throws. Definitely need them free throws. There we go.
00:11:23
Speaker
Come on, come on. We almost within that 10 point range. Almost within that 10 point range. It's still early in the game though. It's still so early in the game. Why would he pretend like? I mean, he might've got hit a little bit. Zubak need to chill.
00:11:39
Speaker
What you mean he had a knot on his head before the game started? Come on. How do he keep doing that left to right? That nobody's catching that. He ain't following this time. There we go. Come on, three on the lake of side. Let's do this. Come on, 13 points. Let's go. That was a good shot. Ooh, got the lead up to 41, Lord. We can't get blew out by the Clippers. In the crypto.com arena, battle of the turf. There we go. What the hell happened? That was golds in there?
00:12:09
Speaker
That was a foul on the rebound. Gabriel, he played good defense. What kind of shot? Okay, he slipped on some sweat. He did not push him. These fouls getting out of control. Didn't happen. Crazy. Clippers. Lord, 43-26. Let's see what Twitter talking about. My oral ring is like, go to sleep. You should not be watching this game.
00:12:31
Speaker
Our bedtime recommendation is 8.30. That's crazy as hell.
Social Media and Fan Engagement
00:12:34
Speaker
Come on, Bronnie. Let's do it. Check on my Twitter. Twitter got to say. Put an $8 blue check mark. Hit the back of the rim, loser.
00:12:45
Speaker
How did they get so many? It looked like six of them on the court. How are they getting so many rebounds, bro? Oh my God. They got like five offensive rebounds on that. Five offensive rebounds. I'm looking at my phone for Twitter, y'all. Starting five for this game. LeBron James, Anthony Davis, Troy Brown Jr., Austin Reeves, and Patrick Beverly. The Knicks is trending. What the hell are the Knicks trending on?
00:13:10
Speaker
The Knicks get blown out by they cross town rivals on Wednesday night losing 112 to 85 to the Brooklyn Nets. Oh man, that's crazy. But it makes sense that they got blew out. I'm sorry for Jamon. Jamon is the only New York Knicks fan that I know and I wish I could tag him. I'm gonna tell him, I'm gonna send him on IG a direct message and be like, yo, I was talking about you. I'm gonna send him some get well soon.
00:13:36
Speaker
LeBron really gonna have to pull 15 extra points out tonight. He needs some kind of superhero help. That was a good pass. He was about to dunk that. That was a good file. File him right out his shoe. Take your shoes off. I didn't know the Lakers gave up Zubat. I don't mean he, you know, who's this dude? Okay, awesome.
00:13:56
Speaker
Listen, don't be mad at me. I'm just getting reacquainted with the roster. Like I told you, I am choosing to be a Lakers fan at this point. I haven't been a fan of anybody, but I feel like LeBron needs the most emotional support from us right now. He got this bad team. Everybody in the news is talking bad about him. Talking about he threw Kyrie under the bus. Neither here nor there.
00:14:18
Speaker
He needs us most right now. Lakers team, this is a Twitter. Lakers team can't get a stop, but when they do, they can't rebound. I'ma like that, because that's, man, it was like four, five offensive rebounds. He couldn't take that two pointer right there. You gotta take it in, you gotta take it in. That was, was that a foul, or a carry?
00:14:38
Speaker
Yeah, yeah, this dude on Twitter said Lakers are too small. They need to find a big superior AD so he can move back to playing the fourth position. I was just talking about how he playing like he playing like he a guard right now, but he has center. You gotta really hold it down. You're trying to do all this moving around and.
00:14:57
Speaker
Shaking and baking. Go ahead and like that one. It looks like the Clippers are more athletic. They are moving around exponentially faster. That's how they get in these rebounds. It's like the Lakers ain't got no hustle. Pass it out. There you go, Brian. He knew. Why would he need to take that extra dribble? You need to be able to just catch it off the chute, man. Catch and shoot. That was a nice little move, Brian.
00:15:21
Speaker
Oh, he hit, he is Zubach in the back of the head with the ball. Come on, man. Here we go with these. There you go. I was about to say, you better turn that into something. That was an ugly Euro step jump hook, but keep the energy up. Keep the energy up. 34 to 46. That ain't too bad. That ain't too terrible, actually.
00:15:40
Speaker
Let's read some more of these tweets. The Lakers are so bad. See this what I'm saying? We do not need, the Lakers do not need, let me go ahead. Y'all follow me on Twitter, DJ Tracey Trace. I'm telling Twitter right now, the Lakers don't need no more negativity, no negative press, no negative comments, only positivity out here. So King James can pull off a miracle.
00:16:03
Speaker
He probably ain't even on here no more because Elon. That might be what I call this podcast. Laker positivity. Gotta start with the best intentions. All these Christmas commercials is driving me crazy. Damn, it's like November 9th. Like, relax. Immediately we gotta be in the Christmas spirit. They trying to sell cars like crazy. Wanna give somebody a car for Christmas? Not necessarily.
00:16:29
Speaker
Paying all of Texas at the end of the year, not really. Look like somebody responded to me on Twitter. One like, boom. See, I knew people was on the same thing. Lakers don't need no more negativity. I don't wanna hear no more about how this is the worst team ever. We just gotta figure out how to make this work, yep.
00:16:47
Speaker
We need many, many more of those backdoor plays. I think Anthony Davis is big, might be LeBron for now, his other big, which is crazy, but I feel like LeBron can play any, this dude, 16 points, they only got 34, 16 points, six for six, ain't missed yet. This like, this Clippers dude, man, I don't know who that is. Dang, Julia, somebody. Do that fancy footwork to walk the ball up.
00:17:16
Speaker
Come on, Patrick. There you go. Put Patrick on him. That was a pretty good stop, actually. LeBron, please just take it in score. Don't pass it to nobody. Come on, low key, LAU. I like how LeBron got up and was talking to the ref. He like, listen, I ain't see nothing. Oh, Clippers ain't hit no field goals in the last six minutes. Come on, get out there. Don't mess up.
00:17:43
Speaker
Y'all trying to play all fast and loose. There we go. There we go. They really, I will say, since the first quarter, the Lakers have pulled together this defense. They have really pulled this defense together. Getting scrappy out there. Patrick Beverly better earn his money. I mean, I better see a defensive miracle. Come on. LeBron look fucking tired, man. He look tired. Dang, I got to scope everything.
Lakers' Defensive Improvement
00:18:07
Speaker
I got to touch the ball every time. Yes, you do.
00:18:09
Speaker
Here we go with Russ, now, okay. So LeBron caught us up, we in the 10 point range here. Let's see what kind of playmaking Russ do. What kind of offensive stops he get. Good job, Davis. Right over the top, right over the top. Now six minutes on this corn drought from the Clippers. That's crazy, six minutes with no points. That's Morris, he can shoot, he can shoot in the clutch. Two people on him, no problem. That's playoff, that's a playoff vet right there. Come on Russ, to the outside man, they left him open.
00:18:39
Speaker
Three, come on. They left Reeves wide open. They ain't think he could shoot. He had time to collect himself and everything. We in a seven point. Lakers is five for 10 on three point attempts. Come on with the offensive foul, fake it. Did he fake that? That's rough. Boy get up. Aw, he did clip him a little bit. He didn't get hit so hard. We in a seven point deficit right here. Come on Lakers, we can bring this back.
00:19:06
Speaker
Okay. With the three, with the three big play after the elbow to the face. Come on. The Lakers is on a 14 and two score run. See what I'm saying about when you believe and you got hope and positive vibes. I put that positive tweet out there. They on a 14 and two run Clippers. Can't score. Start playing messy Lakers. Pull it together. Put your hands up Reeves.
00:19:30
Speaker
Come on, take that ball from Patrick Beverly. He about to crazy dribble all of it. He can throw in the ball all while. Come on. Come on. That was a good lie, Russ.
00:19:46
Speaker
Look at him feeling himself. I love it. I love it when he do it good because he started feeling himself. No good. They on the score score and deficit the Clippers. Paul, Georgians who come on, Russ? Pass that ball. Pass that ball, bro.
00:20:01
Speaker
Oh, he surprised me. Come on with the little juke. Come on, Russ, to tie up the game. Come on, play that defense. Don't get tired. Don't get tired. Look at that. He almost back courted that mug. Yeah, that was a good shot. That was a good shot. Patrick Beverly even shook his head. Like, I see you got me. You got me. Ooh, ooh, ooh. That was almost an N1 right there. Come on, it's just a little two point. Just a little two point. Just a little two point.
00:20:29
Speaker
That was a good lob, man. Zubak, I kind of see when I ain't take him, his face, his face get hurt all the time. He always rubbing his eyes and shit. It's like, what's wrong with you, Zubak? Ooh, ooh, my goodness. What a time this has been. The Lakers have come back. You see that? People talk crap, but the Lakers have what? Come back. They have come back. Let's check the laptop.
00:20:54
Speaker
All right, Panda Express. I am Panda Express in a minute. That sounds good. Pizza on the way back. I don't think she can hit me. She's watching the movie. The Lakers are back. We're in a two point within, honestly, if it had a winter commercial break 30 seconds earlier, it would have been tied.
00:21:12
Speaker
It would have been tight. I'm gonna take a little bricky brick at halftime, refresh my drink, but the Lakers are doing exceptionally better. That first quarter, no rebounds. Hella turn off, seven turnovers in the first half. I mean the first quarter. Now we into the second quarter, they've completely turned it around. The Clippers is on up.
00:21:34
Speaker
Is they on like a 12 and two run, the Lakers? I think so. 12 and two now. We is in here. I'm already an hour into the stream. What? Crazy. 76 season. I don't even play 2K no more. Come on, Chrissa. I love watching commercials. Watching that NBA 76 commercial. Get the app. I don't know what, why would they come from commercial and Patrick Beverly going crazy?
00:21:59
Speaker
He probably low key got the plug on information with this though, cause a lot of these used to be his, used to be his teammates. Crazy. Come on, Anthony Davis coming through with the free throw. Ooh, ooh. That was a bad miss, man. We needed that tie up. Anthony Davis just missed his last free throw. Come on, get back on defense. Ooh, ooh.
00:22:21
Speaker
Pat, you gotta put your hands in the air, bro. I think, man, I think Paul Georgetown got in his head already. He already clapping and was talking back to him, and he was like, nah, I'll show him. See, that's why they talking with Patrick Beverly only go so far, because he could talk, but then you gotta defend, man. That was a good kickback, Brian. That was a foul on Morris. See, my thing, I hate to talk bad about Patrick Beverly. I'm not supposed to be talking bad about the Lakers, but.
00:22:48
Speaker
He didn't have no intention on shooting that shot. He didn't have no intention. They passed him that ball. He was just ready to do something wild with it. You gotta calm down and settle down. All that wild defense is only good when you trying to get people mentally unhinged. Can't even shoot the free throw. I mean, I'm really trying. Let me just be positive.
00:23:08
Speaker
Come on, Pat. There we go. Same two point deficit. Come on. He was too far out. He wasn't even by the line. You would have to really know how to shoot for that.
Controversies and Challenges
00:23:18
Speaker
Oh, they left LeBron open. Oh no, he missed it. That's his first miss of the night though. So we ain't even on trip. He missed in two whole half quarters. I need to stop saying half. Watching that college. He definitely hit him with the elbow. Paul George got how many times? Five? No, he got three.
00:23:37
Speaker
I'm like, five. He got out the game though. He like, where did I file him? Doesn't matter. They just gonna keep putting you in foul situations so you can get out the game. He failed. He did not file him. He failed. It was a good popping shoot, but it was way too hard. Take control of the game, Brian. Slow it down. Slow it down. Lakers is 11 for 17 this quarter. And the Clippers is like three for 17. Wait, Russ, don't take it. Oh, that was kind of,
00:24:07
Speaker
Oh, maybe I don't know Russ that well. Reeves is really trying. I like Reeves's hustle, but he need a haircut. His hair is in his face. His hair, he keep doing that, that calm thing. He need a slick back, some breeze or something. Yeah, he missed that three. All right, we only had a two points deficit at halftime. If Brown Jr. Had to hit that three, we would have been ahead, but hey, hey, just positive vibes, positive vibes.
00:24:36
Speaker
All right, y'all, I'm gonna take a quick halftime break. I'm gonna keep the stream going, but I'll be right back after the half. All right, we are back, back, back, back.
00:24:45
Speaker
In the third quarter, I got my computer so that I can look at Twitter. All right, see, they starting off the quarter with these three pointers. That's not a good thing. Just starting off the top. Not a good thing. That was it. Why was that? Was that a carry? Let's do this. We back, back, back. It's crazy. They shooting. They shooting. Austin Reeves, low key, is a good player.
00:25:09
Speaker
Ron going in crazy right there. Pass it. He got hustle. Beverly can't steal. Can't shoot. He can't lay up. He got, Oh my God. Come on, Brian.
00:25:20
Speaker
He has to go hard on that. Paul George, he couldn't get Paul George that shot. Ain't no way. Yo, that Patrick Beverly rejection was crazy. And I'm really trying not to be a Patrick Beverly hater. I don't want to go down in history as being a Patrick Beverly hater, to be quite honest. But bruh, as I said, it'd be nervous energy. It'd be just throwing up anything. Damn, LeBron did miss the ball, but that looked like he grabbed it.
00:25:48
Speaker
He grabbed his neck, y'all see? LeBron grabbed his neck. I like how he tried to pretend like he didn't grab that boy's neck. He definitely grabbed homie's neck. Come on, there we go. There we go. Work him, Davis. You let him, you let Zubach block you? Zubach with the block. Back door, Patrick Beverly again, just running and falling all over the ground. I'm really trying not to be a hater, y'all. Trying not to be a hater. I'm asleep, bro. Trying not to be a hater.
00:26:17
Speaker
I mean, he look like he really trying. I don't want to, it's $44 million. Everybody on the sideline is laughing. I don't know if this $44 million went for plays. I don't know. I don't know. That was a good block. Why the hell Reeves ain't got $44 million. He out there giving it all he's got. That was not blocked. That was definitely a foul. Come on LeBron, get back. We need you.
00:26:40
Speaker
That's okay. That's okay. That's okay. They back, they back up on top by 10. This is not a good start to the half, but we finished out that half closing the gap. We going to have to keep, I don't know if the Lakers coach, I think bronze should be the coach. He should coach and play at the same time. Y'all think the same thing on drop it in the comments. I think LeBron should be the coach and
00:27:02
Speaker
And one more time for the people in the back and LeBron should be to be able to play crazy. It's just crazy. We almost there a little bit of a setback, but we can we can make up them nine points. We just need to get LeBron free for some three pointer so he can shoot, shoot, shoot. Oh, that's crazy. That was me. I'll be forgetting. I got to turn all the microphones out.
00:27:25
Speaker
Don't make me another drink. Cause we is going in the opposite direction. Opposite direction. We were doing so good. Also my pizza is still in the oven and dominoes. So yeah, multiple things that are happening here that, but we don't keep it, keep it moving with the lack of positivity, like a positivity to where to win. Okay. We understand that this is the hardest time to be a liquor fan.
00:27:49
Speaker
Which is why I'm taking the challenge. All right, let's check Twitter. What's Twitter talking about? Twitter. Twitter. Let's see what they talking about for the Lakers. They got the good year blimp out today too. Y'all we seen it flying. My wife thought it was a UFO of course. Let me see what's happening here.
00:28:05
Speaker
Yeah, Kawhi is not playing tonight, so it's like, dang, you gotta win. When they ain't got they top guy in there, it's like, this is really should be just a gimme. If Brian hurt, he's just gonna take the season off, but I want him to fight. I want to see that wheel to win. Yup, and one, and one. You heard me? See, it's more hater. I'm just sifting through the Twitter haters. Come on, Brian, bring us back. Please get that ball from Patrick McBeverly. Oh, that wasn't him.
00:28:36
Speaker
Canark and shoot, you gotta put your hand on him, put your hand on him. He just threw that ball up. Jackson, he off the chain. Oh, see, these people are just negative. See, we gonna keep it positive around here.
Strategic Play and Shooting Struggles
00:28:50
Speaker
Come on, give Anthony Davis some time to square up. He gonna finish it. He gonna finish it.
00:28:56
Speaker
You could have took that from Zubat. Look at LeBron out there. Give him the dissertation. The foul was on the floor. The foul was on the floor. I don't know why he's shooting. Don't matter. Can't shoot anyway. That's probably what the rest was thinking. Just give him a shot. He'll come on with the three little, little, little strong. Okay.
00:29:16
Speaker
Paul George really trying to wake up here. We gotta put him down. Why would he not go around the screen, bro? What is he doing? He can't get out of there. Russell, you gotta go around the screen. That was definitely a file. I will say that the refs ain't really calling no files for the Lakers, because I don't understand how Reeves was just underneath the basket. And they filed him like that. Oh my God. My man hit the backboard, Lord. Hit the backboard, Lord.
00:29:44
Speaker
That was a good shot if he had to took it. I don't know why he would pass that back. I'm talking about the Clippers. That was a nice little, little, little hook. Zubak, I don't understand what they got against LeBron on that little, that little shot. Come on, Bron. You're gonna have to make something work. Damn. There was really no other offensive option because the Lakers are not moving their feet. Come on, Russ, push, push it. What is you doing? Okay, that went in, but Russ, you could have took that fast, man.
00:30:14
Speaker
Why he keeps shooting like that? There you go. Get that rebound. No need. Come on, Patrick Beverly. Don't do nothing crazy because you just got a shot. You feeling happy, man? Out. Boom. Watch yourself, George. From the corner. He ain't hit that all night.
00:30:32
Speaker
Yeah, the Clippers are starting to shoot bad too. We need to capitalize on this moment. Eight, eight points, eight points. I'm tired, man. You throwing that ball all around. We need accurate passes. Come on. That was pretty good. That was a pretty good shot, but when nobody down there to rebound, ain't nobody rebounding.
00:30:51
Speaker
Okay, Lakers is four for 16 this quarter. Clippers is six for 12. 50% on the Clippers. That's still not a good shooting percentage. We really tanking it this time. We got to get closer to the basket. Good job. Come on, Reeves. It was no foul on that. He threw his body. He fighting. That was a dime. Bronner Reeves. Whoo.
00:31:14
Speaker
Man, we there. We there. It's heating up. The game is getting good. It's getting good. We is almost there. We almost there. I think I got to respond to comments on the on the commercial break. People comment on Facebook and show me comments. Man, all these people on these commercials with these Lakers gear, I need to go order me some.
00:31:39
Speaker
I'm going to give me a LeBron jersey. All right, man, we really need to pull off this. Not too bad. We got we got the lead down to where it's attainable. It's attainable. It definitely is attainable. We just got to keep the faith here. Come on, illegal screen coming through. Come on. Six point. Good shot.
00:32:03
Speaker
We seen that coming out up and under. That's good basketball. Just fall, just fall points. Come on Russell, with the turnover. Don't you throw it away. Let's bang. You see that? Bang, bang. Come on, Russ. I told you the Lakers can pull this off. We just need a little team spirit, little team spirit. Okay, let's see, let's see what the little lay in.
00:32:26
Speaker
You see how Paul George pulled off on that, on guard and rust? Because he keep getting fouls. So if you get him in foul trouble early enough, he will be worried the rest of the game, at least the third quarter. So you can get in some good stops, some good offensive runs. Whoo, who that fader was nasty, nasty. That was Brown Jr.
00:32:51
Speaker
Ooh, Brown Jr. going crazy. He going crazy. That boy is going crazy. Come on, Troy Brown Jr. Let's say your whole government. Lakers is on another 15 and four run. Ain't no reason in the world why we can't pull this game off. No reason in the world why we can't pull this game off. We didn't been on a 15 and something run two times already. Second quarter, third quarter, we can make the stop and play the defense. Ooh, ooh, that was close AD.
00:33:19
Speaker
trying to pull up and do that jumper. Oh, oh, with the reaver. Oh, that's smart. He got it. Yeah. Anytime, anytime Marcus smart, shoot a three pointer, you got to think it's calculated. He cold, he cold, he cold. Absolutely cold. His shooting rhythm is just so perfect.
00:33:38
Speaker
Davis is really earning his money, man. He jumping around. They just keep throwing the ball up. And I ain't even know telling where they throwing the ball to. They just throwing it in the air. He got to go find it, catch it. Man, it's tiring. Catch your breath, man. He looked tired as hell. Imagine that. Happen to go to work, deal with all these elbows, and yeah, I'm definitely giving me a bronzer. All right, y'all, I made the scores a little bit bigger. Somebody in the comments was asking for the scores. We made the scores a little bit bigger. Now, what happened with John Wall? That was a big move.
00:34:07
Speaker
Yeah, he got that three. He knew he had that. It was no way Anthony Davis could have got back out to that three. That was a defensive fail there. Now the clip is on the 10 and two run in two minutes, literally two minutes. Change the whole time to everything that was happening. Pat, you got to be ready to shoot. We ain't got no shooters. Patrick Baffery is not a shooter. You got to get him off the art. You got to come in closer. Smart.
00:34:34
Speaker
Here we go. Here we go. Back to double digits from two minute, from a two minute run back to double digits. LeBron shoe from right there. His foot messed up though. His left foot. They was talking about how it messed up. It was Patrick. Why is Patrick Beverly taking it in? Oh, come on, Brian. Just dunk it. There we go. There we go. There we go.
00:34:56
Speaker
19 seconds left. 84 Clippers, Laker 75. That's a double dribble. Come on, shot clock off. I think Paul George gonna hit these free throws and we ain't gotta worry about it. Yep, crazy.
00:35:09
Speaker
Take on here and take Anthony Davis out. Give him a little breather. I'm a little breather.
Final Quarter Hopes and Execution
00:35:14
Speaker
That was a defensive breakdown. It ain't going well. That was a good shot. It's down by 10 almost seven points. One more quarter. Y'all one more. All we need is a good run and preferably at the end of the quarter. See, we've been having all these good runs at the beginning of the quarter.
00:35:31
Speaker
And then you get to the middle and then the Clippers go on a 12 and two run for one minute and 16 seconds. And it's like, how we gonna keep up with that? You can't. You can't outrun yourself on that. Come on, Michael B. Jordan. I'm looking at commercials.
00:35:50
Speaker
There's a cute little 70s outfit he got on with the tight shirt with the high-waisted pants. Just looking at people, open Christmas gifts on a Duracell commercial, because everybody's obsessed with Christmas. All right, y'all, we're going into the fourth quarter. Hopefully, the Lakers can pull it off. All we need is a good offensive run. 10, 12 points, and then some good defensive stops, you know? No turnovers. Offensive rebounds, you know? Man. Oh, man.
00:36:20
Speaker
I ain't never seen so many Jack in the box commercials. So here we go. Second worst third quarter. We don't need that drama. The Lakers don't need no more negativity. No press. Don't start these telecast talking about that. Anything negative. We need positivity and positive vibes. And he was wide open.
00:36:41
Speaker
Swing, that's what I'm saying, you gotta, these people got to move. That was a good shot, that was a good shot, that was very good. Yeah, that's the commentator saying somebody else has to do something offensively. Get out the paint, bruh. And Powell think he on the love and something. Damn, that was a hell of a pick from John Wall, but he quick. Yeah, nah, you ain't about to hit no three on Brony. Just shoot Russ, oh my God!
00:37:08
Speaker
Thank God, thank God. I'm like, Russ, what is you doing? You as a point guard, why wouldn't you take an open three? Nobody is guarding you. Lakers got 44 points in the paint. Clippers only got 28 points. It totally shows. The Lakers ain't taking no unnecessary shots. And the Clippers is just shooting their lights out on the arc, 92 79. You said what about 13 points? Come on, Bron. All right, here we go.
00:37:38
Speaker
Power with another shot. You're hearing some kind of demon time right now. Come on, Russ. You got to create some offensive movement. That was a gold tender. That was gold tender. That was a good block. I'm glad they called gold tender. No, because we need it. They ain't called no files for the liquor. So no power was just waiting for that was waiting for that file because he knew LeBron was about to take it in. He knew he knew who.
00:38:03
Speaker
Cool. We at the end of the game here. Nine minutes. I got my PC. Domino's came right through with the piece. I'm gonna eat it off. I forgot that we done. It feels still warm too. They have done the thing. Smell good. Come on, bruh.
00:38:17
Speaker
Nope, straight away, there you go. Pass, pass, no more just wild shots, pass. Nobody was there, you can't take wild shots if nobody is gonna be there to get your rebound. Come on Lakers, you can pull this together. I don't know why they playing with LeBron like he won't pull up.
00:38:34
Speaker
That's why LeBron definitely a pull up from back there. I don't know why they would be even playing with him. They gave him some time to dribble and everything. Ain't no game. 10 point, 10 point deficit. We 10 points away. Nah, there you go. Just keep rebounding. If we keep rebounding, that was not a foul. That was not a foul. I'm good. Thank you.
00:38:56
Speaker
Kendrick Perkins talking about Pat Beverly on the internet, y'all, on Twitter, talking about how Patrick Beverly has given the Lakers nothing this season. And I couldn't agree more. I mean, for $44 million, you would think that he would at least know how to shoot, but he not. They signed him for all these defensive things. And he could have been over there. Look, Lakers are 14 turnovers. He ain't got a bunch of turnovers. What a defense. So I'm like, he could have stayed on the Clippers for this.
00:39:24
Speaker
Look at that a million rebounds, a million rebounds and just a lot of frantic energy. I'm like, man, I'm trying not to be negative on that. I don't know Patrick Beverly in this sign, but it's like it could have had so many other options. It's a failed experiment.
00:39:43
Speaker
I think he did good on other teams because they had other players to kind of balance out that defensive intensity that everybody is talking about and raising the game to another level.
00:39:57
Speaker
That's another level of defense. That's not an offensive step in the right direction. You gotta have people who gonna play. He got a wide open three and he just dribble, step in, try to find somebody else to pass it to and it's like, bro, that only can go so far.
00:40:15
Speaker
We need some playmakers. Russ ain't shooting. Patrick Beverly ain't shooting all the points in the paint. And that's hard. Your players getting beat up. You throwing lobs Anthony Davis every 30 seconds. It's like, while this is a good form of basketball, it is just not going to sustain it. It ain't gonna sustain the play through four quarters.
00:40:34
Speaker
For sure, for sure not four quarters, but
Shooting Practice and Strategic Critique
00:40:38
Speaker
we staying positive. We staying positive, we staying upbeat. We only got a couple points really that we need to make up here. If we can get some good defensive stops, stop throwing the ball away, you know, we'll probably be in a better position. Tough to say right now. I still believe I'm not losing hope. Not losing hope. I am not losing hope. Twitter ain't got nothing positive to say about it.
00:41:01
Speaker
It's like a theme. I'm really trying to dig through the comments and find something positive, but no, it ain't looking good. It ain't looking good.
00:41:10
Speaker
Shouts out to everybody who've been watching this whole live stream. That's lit. That's lit. Just out of the blue. Y'all just following me and subscribing. This is lit. I choose you. I think that's what I'm gonna name this podcast Lakers comma. I choose you. The Lakers watch podcast watch pod or something like that. Almost through the game. Almost keeping that positive than positive vibes going. Let's go.
00:41:35
Speaker
get that ball from Patrick Beverly. I hate when they do that little skip leg thing. It's like, are you about to travel?
00:41:42
Speaker
There you go, Bron. Just take it in, every shot. This is the part of the game where LeBron just takes control. Nobody gets to pass, okay? You inbound it to LeBron and he's gonna make something happen. 30 points already this game. They only got 60. No, I'm just... Come on, we got this. Don't give up. Six minutes left in the game. We just gotta move quick. Pass it out, out to Bron. There you go. Boom, for the three.
00:42:10
Speaker
Too hard, but he's really trying out here. You see, he got the best look so far. Ain't nobody else moving their feet defensively. It's like they all waiting on him. Look at him. He dribbling all through the paint. Who can do that? What kind of defense is this? He dribbling around the defenders. It's like watching a play in a game. Come on, Bronny, post him up. Post him up. And that was a foul. Thank you. He looks so aggravated. Patrick Beverly trying to talk to him. He's like, man, I'm trying to win the game. Get away from me talking.
00:42:38
Speaker
Oh man, 30 points, 12 for 22, four for nine, LeBron. I was crooked as hell, man. I just looked at that. Ooh, his foot is, they look broke. Turn to the side, hurting himself after. He two for three on free throws tonight. That's all good, man, 68%. We'll take that. Damn, he missed both free throws. It's not good at that time.
00:43:01
Speaker
See what I mean with this nervous energy with Patrick Beverly? He clothesline them. Now we in the position. Patrick, please get away from the referee. Just come on. Give it a break. LeBron then pull his groin muscle. Oh, God, LeBron is leaving the game. Oh, no. Okay, we're gonna try to stay positive here. Immediately, as soon as LeBron leaves, the Clippers hit a three. This might be to just nail in the coffin here. Try not to lose hope when I don't see LeBron.
00:43:31
Speaker
Come on, Patrick Beverly. Hold it down. Look at you. Come on, man. You better really come with it. This is Kendrick. Perkins is talking shit about you on Twitter. Oh, Lord LeBron. They just showed me him in the background. Come on, Reeves. And it was a file on who.
00:43:49
Speaker
I look like it was on smart. There we go. Come on Reeves. 10 points. Nope. Get that rebound. Did they call that following Zuba? They called that on Anthony Davis and now we on the sideline. That is crazy, bruh.
00:44:04
Speaker
Come on Russ. Me too. I'm glad he ain't dunking miss. That would have just took me over the edge of Russell Westbrook kind of missed that dunk. I'm glad he didn't know we ain't going to talk about the negative. They really pulling it together. Why Brown ain't on the court. That's an offensive foul. Paul George. I know you ain't by the condo foul on Anthony Davis. He looked like he just want to fucking cry. He definitely elbow him. Paul George been throwing them elbows all night.
00:44:28
Speaker
Let me go ahead and go to Twitter with it. Cause he can't shoot. Ain't shoot them free throws. Can you do it? Come on. Come on Reeves. He could've, he could've hit that. That's a big pressure shot.
00:44:41
Speaker
And even the Lakers and the Clippers is even on turnovers. That's crazy. Pat, just take a step in. Take a step in before you launch that rocket. Just do the backboard. Take a step in.
00:45:00
Speaker
I was a carry. I was a carry. I don't know what Paul George is doing, but he tripped and it looked like he was trying to do some Okeydoke. Hey, Emmanuel, I made the score bigger. It's up here on the right 104 to 95 homey 104 to 95 is right here to the right of me to score scores over here. This alive score, so it's going to keep changing. Cool.
00:45:22
Speaker
Clippers 104 Lakers 95. My goodness. It got me on the edge of my seat here. Got me on the edge of my seat. It's only three minutes left in the game, which means that's about 20 more minutes left of the stream. I'm on Twitter and we should get one last shot for the last little part of the game.
Fan Frustrations and Management Criticism
00:45:43
Speaker
These tweets is crazy.
00:45:46
Speaker
Yo, this tweet says, whoever is running the Lakers front office needs to be incarcerated. Surely this has to be some kind of SEC violation or something. This can't go on any longer. LeBron's career has been permanently negatively affected due to the incompetence. At the very least, fines handed out. Man, people is crazy. Man, 26 years ago, that ain't today, but Kobe made his debut. Let me look at the latest tweet.
00:46:15
Speaker
Yeah, Lakers LeBron needs some support. I don't think as a Lakers fan, all the Lakers fans on here are like, are we doomed? No, this is literally a long season. They need some support, right? It's been easy to be a Lakers fan in the past because they're being cold. They are down right now. They're down bad. The Lakers are down bad. They need our help. They don't need us to be talking shit about them on Twitter while they face their rivals and the face of their enemies, the Clippers.
00:46:43
Speaker
Come on, this is a hometown battle. We got to really hold it down here. Come on, Westbrook. Get the ball, man. See this? They play too much. That little walk up dribble thing.
00:46:53
Speaker
Last three minutes, come on. Nobody is rebounding. The only thing that's wrong with the Lakers is nobody is rebounding. And there are no shooters. The rebounds and the shooters is it. Smart about to cook them. Please don't cook Russ on TV like this. Good stop, Russ. Pass it to Reeves. Out to the wing. He can shoot. Reeves.
00:47:17
Speaker
I mean, Anthony Davis can catch anything at this point. I don't even know how he got that. And my theme with this whole rust thing is rust should be a good companion for that beat. But Anthony Davis is playing the five and he needs to be playing the four. That was an easy layup. He beat him, he beat him. That was athleticism. Reeves got cooked. There we go. Just take your time, Davis. There you go.
00:47:37
Speaker
Take a little step. This is what I'm saying If you take a moment and take a step back, you know, if you Patrick Beverly take a step up, okay Anybody else your defenders Jackson heat man that little sky hook and they stole the ball because they're Inbound in the ball carelessly inbound in the ball. Just rolling it up the court crazy Zubach hit him with a elbow. Come on. We got him. Oh
00:48:03
Speaker
A minute and 39 seconds left. Zubak got that knot on his head on the first plays of the game, but sure nobody feels sad for him. Russ needed to go to the line to shoot that. Dang, LeBron is out for the game. Left leg swordness will not. Dang. Dang. Man, he's passes. Woo hoo. You got to play defense, man. Come on, Russ. So I'm saying.
00:48:28
Speaker
He shoot straight.
Turnovers and Reflections on Loss
00:48:29
Speaker
Stop them cross court passes and look like the Lakers gone here and lost this one, man. That's crazy. That's crazy. I ain't go. I mean, I guess I could adjust my.
00:48:44
Speaker
I really had good feelings about this game. I felt like we came out, had a couple of good stops there, but really the turnovers, the turnovers and the offensive boards and the defensive boards, to be quite honest, man, people was leaving up out of there. You see how many people's Clippers fans and actually Lakers fans, that's crazy. They play at the same place and the Clippers don't never pack that mug out, crazy. But at the same time, Lakers the 17th time NBA champs, pretty winning franchise. That's all I'm saying. It's just been a bit, they just down bad right now.
00:49:14
Speaker
I think they got time to pull it out this season. They do to get better. I was a good ass juke. I know he ain't hit Schroeder. Schroeder ain't been. Oh man, that's, I can't even laugh at that. Schroeder used to be killing for the Lakers. It's not good. Just can't shoot. Just can't shoot. Just hitting the backboard straight on. They just need to have shooting practice. Shoot and practice.
00:49:38
Speaker
It's been a good game, y'all. They really tried. Final score, 114 Clippers, 101 Lakers. We gave it a good run. All right, I might do this every single time. I'm definitely gonna for sure make this into a podcast, so if you didn't get to catch it live, I'll put the audio highlights up for a podcast, and y'all have a good night, man. We live to see another day. Lakers will be all right to play another game. Hopefully LeBron is gonna rest up and feel better. Man, I can't believe we lost.
00:50:07
Speaker
Alright y'all, have a good night.