Tim Legler says Celtics ‘DEPTH’ + ‘VERSATILITY’ led them past LeBron and Lakers 👀 | Get Up

Tim Legler says Celtics ‘DEPTH’ + ‘VERSATILITY’ led them past LeBron and Lakers 👀 | Get Up

There was some hoops played yesterday including uh the Lakers and the Celtics LeBron James taking on Jason Tatum here they are all smiles having fun before the game over halfway through the second quarter now Lakers down by six LeBron finds Anthony Davis for the three that

Cuts the lead to three Davis would have 40 points and 13 boards in this game this is Drew holiday to Kristoff porzingis for the three Celtics lead by one at the half early third quarter Lakers down by one LeBron’s going to back down holiday and lay it in that

Puts Lakers up by a point doing it later in the third though Celtics up by three Jaylen brown with a slam he would have 19 points in this one a lot of lot of balanced scoring for the Celtics under five left in the third Celtics up four

This is Tatum with the Layin Celtics up by six five minutes left in the fourth they’re now up by 10 and this now they’re having some fun this is Derek white the Tatum the lob and the slam Celtics win 126 115 Tatum had 25 8 and 7

LeBron had 169 and 8 and said this I don’t think we’re healthy right now I don’t think we’re where we want to be to compete versus the the top teams until we continue to get better and better continue to work our habits and uh for us we still trying to you know figure

Our situation out as far as how we want to continue to attack each game so you know but we’ll be better LeBron tied a season low yesterday with 16 points and continues a trend of the Lakers coming up short when James can’t be Superman they are six and

One this season when he scored scores more than 30 points but 8 and 13 when he does not reach that number Tim legler as I promised is with us now to discuss all things NBA legs LeBron acknowledging after that game that the Lakers are not ready right now to compete with the

NBA’s best when you watch that game what do you see as the difference between these two teams right now yeah I think he’s being honest I think he’s being accurate because I think the difference between particularly the Lakers and the Boston Celtics right now is the is the guys after the Stars we

Know LeBron and AD when when they’re healthy and playing well they’re going to give you a chance every night but what about that next layer and when I look at Boston’s guys after Tatam and brown you look at a Derek white you look at a porzingis you look at a two holiday

These three players are two-way multi-dimensional players that can beat you a number of ways and impact the game defensively so it’s one thing to have your top guys play well you’re going to need a lot of help and that’s where Boston has the most depth that got the

Most versatility and you look at what they’ve added to this team that’s been so close over the last two years you get a Derek white you get a presish you get a Dre holiday three guys capable in any given night of giving you 20 but they also impact the game defensively at a

High level right now Boston because of that is in a different League than the Lakers and I think you really saw that yesterday different League than the Lakers but I mean are you willing right now to look at Boston and say this is we’re watching the best team in the

League when we put them on yeah this is the best team in the NBA I don’t really think it’s debatable right now I think you’ve got teams like Milwaukee that would be on the next shelf you’ve got a team like Denver that we know what they’re capable of they won

A championship and they’ve got great core continuity in that starting five but I don’t think anybody is playing at the level of the Boston Celtics right now they went out and added two players that now give them basically a way to play offensively that no other team can

Match because they can beat you from the three-point line they can beat you with points in the paint they can beat you with isolation basketball they can get to the line or if need be on a given night they can lock you down because of the versatility defensively and the rim

Protection that they still have with porzingis so to Lose a Guy like Marcus Smart and replace him with a Drew holiday so basically you get the same defensive presence but you add actually more offensively to go get a porzingis when you lose Robert Williams you get the same level Rim protection but you

Get a much better offensive player that is what the Boston Celtics have gone out and done and that is why right now this is the best team in the NBA Celtics as you mentioned been so close the last couple years really still trying to get over that last postseason hump things

Are looking good for them right now long way to go we will see if they can finish it off this year what did you think was the difference between these two teams yeah and I think I think LeBron was really feeling it what he said based

On the fact that Anthony Davis came to play and typically if Anthony Davis comes with that level of of Engagement and that of intensity the Lakers are in pretty good shape the fact that Boston still was easily able to control that game with Anthony Davis playing like

That I think that showed LeBron the difference between the two teams right now and that is the next layer of star after the top two guys because look LeBron James Anthony Davis Jason Tatum Jaylen Brown a lot of night those four guys would cancel each other out in

Terms of production so let’s now start looking at that next tier and when you look at Boston the additions over the last two years of Derek white porzingis Drew holiday gives them three guys that are multi-dimensional two-way players that can affect the game so much more than anybody else that the Lakers have

On their roster and I think you really saw that all three of those guys had their imprint all over the game um and the thing is you give up guys like Marcus Smart and Robert Williams you think you’re going to take a step back defensively well you go out you add a

Drew holiday that’s pretty good replication of Marcus Smart on the perimeter defensively you add a porzingis that gives you great level Rim protection you add a Derek white who is a Big Time perimeter Defender but all three of those guys capable of giving you 20 on any given night offensively so

They they’ve really gone out and they’ve given themselves so much depth and versatility and it was glaring I think the difference between the Lakers and the Boston Celtics right now and that’s why LeBron James made those comments he’s being honest about it and he’s being accurate about it yeah well

Celtics look loaded we’ll see if the Lakers have uh enough to uh to win the West over in Phoenix Luca donic capped off the NBA slate of Christmas Day games with a 50o effort in the Mavericks 128 114 victory over the Suns donic just the fourth player in NBA history to score 50

Points in a Christmas Day game as for the Suns they have hit the skids in the month of December they’re just three and eight this month and have a scoring offense that ranks 26th in the league overall this season their prized Trio of Durant Booker and Beal have played a

Combined 24 minutes on the floor together which could obviously be part of the problem on countdown yesterday legs W said that he was being told people within the Suns organization can feel that Kevin Durant is getting frustrated How concerned are you with what’s going on in Phoenix I wasn’t that concerned based on

The fact that Bradley Beal hasn’t been there and you can’t pass final judgment on this team until you see three stars together for an extended period of time until I saw Kevin Durant last night I don’t think I’ve ever watched Kevin Durant more overtly look frustrated defeated his energy wasn’t there he

Didn’t looked like he believed in what was going on um you know Luca donic is having his way on one end of the floor as a star and meanwhile you look at Phoenix and the way they’re operating offensively it just feels disjointed there’s not a lot of flow Kevin Durant

Clearly was wearing his emotions on his sleeve and you don’t really see him do that remember this is a guy that just a few years ago basically took on the Milwaukee Buck when he was in Brooklyn in a seven game series single-handedly in that series he he was going to do

Anything he could to keep his team afloat that wasn’t the case last night and it started early this wasn’t like after the game was you know in pretty much decided mid fourth quarter this was in the first quarter I was watching Kevin Durant shoulders drop come up the

Floor give the ball up go to the weak side of the floor kind of stand not engaged he only took 11 shots in the game Grayson Allen took 22 shots that goes to show you where Kevin Durant’s mind was in this game and I think you know the report that W gave that

Obviously is accurate because now Kevin Durant isn’t just maybe doing that behind closed doors he’s doing it now for everybody to see at least in that game and I think that’s very concerning I think it’s Kevin Durant looking around at this team right now how they stack up

With a loaded Western Conference and maybe realizing this isn’t a championship caliber team and that is what I was trying to find and put together in Phoenix the only thing I will say is let’s not that gavl on them until we see Bradley Beal and and Booker and Durant together for 152 games

Minimum to get an idea for how potent offensively they could be because that can make a lot of this go away winning miraculously cures a lot of these things and right now they don’t have enough Firepower against a lot of these teams to win basketball performance of the

Night Luca donic and the Mavericks were taking on the Suns and Luca had himself a Christmas 5 minutes left in the first quarter he’s two points away from scoring his 10,000th career points so he’s going to do it from way back there uh from Grant Williams there he eclipses

10,000 in his 358th game that’s the seventh fastest in league history had 38 through three quarters 10 minutes left in the game Mavs down by four Luca draining the three on the wing that that pushes his total for the game to 41 cuts the lead to One 9 minutes left in the

Game I’m sorry under four minutes left in the game Mavs down by seven donic drug the double team finds Lively who lays it in Mavs up nine final minute of the game now Mavs up 126 to 114 donic sitting on 48 points so what’s he going to

Doo 50 50 for Luca on Christmas he had 50 had 14 assists he had six rebounds Kevin Durant was frustrated after the loss Mavs win by 14 NBA’s been playing games on Christmas day going back to the 1940s and dones yesterday became just the fourth player to record 50 points on

Christmas joining Bernard King Wilt Chamberlain and Rick Barry pretty good list and in case you didn’t think he was spreading the Christmas cheer with his teammates he dished out those 15 assists as Well

On Get Up, Tim Legler joins to discuss the Los Angeles Lakers Christmas Day defeat to the Boston Celtics 126-115 and if the Boston Celtics are the best team in the NBA right now.

0:00 Celtics vs. Lakers recap
3:00 Are the Celtics the best in the NBA right now?
6:40 Suns vs. Mavs recap
9:00 Performance of the night

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