00:00You know, I'm going to ask you this question every time we get you on here now.
00:04Last time I asked you the question, you said you're not buying it.
00:07I'll ask you again.
00:08The Lakers, are you buying them?
00:12You know, listen, the way that they're playing their offense,
00:16and let me just nerd out as a coach for a second.
00:18They run this winged ball screen with, obviously, Luka Doncic and Walker Kessler.
00:24Walker Kessler puts a lot of downhill pressure on you,
00:27so you get that pick and roll, you dive the big, you lift out of the corner.
00:32Now you've got to pick spots, right?
00:34Do you stay attached, obviously, to Kessler?
00:38Then you get Luka into that mid-range pull-up floater game that he's really, really good at.
00:43You come and you hard-hedge it.
00:45Now you're rolling the big.
00:47Now you've got the lob threat to Walker Kessler.
00:49That's why he shoots 70%, 75% every year because everything at the rim.
00:53Or what you're going to do is you're going to tag,
00:55which means you're going to get the roll, you're going to lift out of the corner,
00:58and now you knock down the three.
01:01My concern is the usage rate.
01:04It's a ton.
01:05But if you look at their record, they're playing great.
01:08They haven't played a lot of top competition except for, I think,
01:11Detroit good win on the road.
01:14Come the end of the month to the end of the year, their schedule is loaded.
01:21And that's when you're going to start to find out more about the Lakers.
01:25But still a great start.
01:26You've got to bank the wins, big sales as you can right now,
01:29and then try and keep your head above water when that tough stretch comes
01:32starting, I think, it's the 27th or 29th of November.
