Lakers defeat Thunder, win season series 3-1, LeBron nearly notches triple-double | NBA | UNDISPUTED

Lakers defeat Thunder, win season series 3-1, LeBron nearly notches triple-double | NBA | UNDISPUTED

What ultimately did they show you last night well I I think you start off with Anthony Davis the difference between the loss to on Saturday to the Denver Nuggets was four free throw attempts for him yeah 17 points right last night he had 24 points 11 free throw attempts against OKC which

Is a a much smaller front line of course it’s not as as big as Denver’s front line but he took advantage of the situation here it is again not caring about the three-point uh shot no staying his butt down low running the floor with LeBron James doing all he made 10 of 11

Free throws so go ahead made 10 of 11 free throws but doing all of the things that he should have done against Denver that didn’t happen but you also had great play by by uh D you also had great play by Austin Reeves you had great play

By LeBron James a double double two assists away from a triple double so Haim mura when you start looking at the way that they played against a team that they’ve beaten three out of four times this year they felt good about knowing they could beat OKC because they’ve done

It before different than Denver Denver beat them with eight out of the last so many tries they eight in a row or whatever the case so you you start to look at that and you say to yourself okay this team has the ability to really do some things and you look at December

They won the whatever End season tournament January not so good here in the month of February they’ve won 10 of the last 14 games now in there there’s been some you know C cakes along the way not great teams but now down this so-called stretch this month they’re

Going to start to see better teams like okay see in the Minnesota of the world they saw Denver can they continue this up though can they all of a sudden hit that Groove because when they go toward the end of the season eight of the last

10 games are on the road if you want to not find yourself in a playin situation again this year you’ve got to take care of business I kind of shareed with you and the other guys a while ago about just the confidence level of them getting things turned around at some

Point in the second half of the Season where you’ll feel good and so far so good yeah okay I hear everything you just said and I agree with just about everything you just said because it’s hard on this morning to disagree with anything Lakers but I’m going to go you one

Better if not five better that team I saw last night go on that run from as you say it was it was 28 and then 22 to 11 they went on a 102 to 65 run against the best team record-wise in the Western Conference that team I saw last night

For that stretch best team in the National Basketball Association that’s why I picked them before the season was last night they dominated a very good young but having arve team I’m going to remind everybody this Oklahoma City team On The backto Backs they have played so far

This year they are setting an NBA record they have won their backto backs by 18.7 points per game so think about that let’s just call it by 19 points per game they have won every backtack that they have played until last night when the Lakers said no not here not now

And the Lakers have beaten this team the last three times which is why I told you whenever it was last week the Lakers are looking up from the the tin hole in the west they’re looking at number one and they’re saying okay what if we have to

Fight through the playin to get to the eight seed to play the number one seed you think they’re worried about the Oklahoma C they are not worried about them think they’re worried about Minnesota they are not worried about Minnesota are they worried about Denver well sure they are because they can’t

Beat Denver but they can play the hell out of Denver every time they play them because they’ve lost eight in a row but six of the last seven times against Denver it’s been nip talk all through the fourth quarter they just can’t figure out how to close a game against

The Denver Nuggets but don’t tell me they’re intimidated by the Nuggets because there’s no reason to be and they’re not because they they fight them too the nail they they go blow for blow with them through fourth quarter after fourth quarter and the other night as we know we talked about it yesterday

The Saturday night game with 3:22 LeBron’s got the ball in his hands and they’re only down one point and then you know what happened they lost 13 to4 down the stretch so it was kind of the flip side and microcosm of what happened last night but the beauty of last night to me

Was Oklahoma City came out like a team that is going to win yet another backto back they had just gone to Phoenix as you know the night before so they’re playing back to back and Phoenix took its best shot against they didn’t have book they didn’t have Devin Booker but

They took their best shot at Oklahoma City down the stretch and Shay gilis Alexander and Company said no no no we got this so I’m thinking uhoh are they going to sustain that and bring it right to you last night cuz as you said early on it looked like the young Thunder with

Their young legs it looked like yeah we was Miss we was missing some shots we turned the ball over turn the ball I want to say about nine times in the first seven times in the first quart yeah in the first quarter we turned it s

Times in the first quarter yeah but we turned it over a lot in a short amount of time though not even the first quarter it was something like the first six or seven minutes they was just like here you go was it was and Austin Reeves

Was a main culprit of that okay I’m going to remind everyone what is probably the biggest reason other than Shay Gil Alexander that the Oklahoma City Thunder have the best record in the west I should say had past tense because now they’ve slipped a half game back

Biggest reason to me they lead the league in creating turnovers they lead the league in creating turnovers so you got hit with their usual buzs saw early in this game right and all of a sudden no no no and guess who set the tone Mr 40,000 set the tone not on offense on

Defense LeBron knuckled down and buckled down on the defensive end the way I don’t see him do it on a regular basis because he just he’s 30 what is he 39 years of age in you’re spots he picked a spot was going allow them to come in

There just score at their it was it was a beautiful thing to watch because he knows that they know they’re better than Oklahoma City so he said at whatever score you want to pick 22 to 11 or 20 to8 right in there he’s like no no no no

No watch this and he gave you extreme energy on the defensive end he made several plays on the defensive end that set the tone on the offensive end and it was more of a blue collar night for him which I love to watch him listen he’s averaging seven rebounds this year kesan

You and I know if he put his mind to it could he average 10 or 11 sure he could he’s 692 whatever we give him 250 but he is still he’s also got to stay out of foul Tru but but he he can still bang with

The best of them so I’m going to show you two quick LeBron plays tone Setter in this game uh let’s get the first one here it came with um let’s do the first one in order uh well let I’m sorry I’ve got them backwards here let’s do this is a

Block of Chad hren if we could this is a block of a of a lob pass to Chad hren that looked like an easy lob dunk from Jaylen Williams and guess who came from the backside and got it LeBron and look it it leaves Chad on the floor like he

Just ragd dolled him and he didn’t foul him but that’s a big time basketball play cuz it’s going to be banged stuff right oh yeah and he got him good and then they went to the other end and DLo just got a layup because chat wasn’t ready to play defense and rim protect

Okay that that’s that’s a hustle play yes that’s the equivalent of a chase down block except it’s just weak side defense okay so that’s one where his teammates are like oh you know like oh like I said to you skip you’re talking about a smaller front line so it was

Anthony Davis is long and Tall but he’s not physical yeah but but you also talking about I can now put my energy play because I got that’s dominate everywhere the floor because of theor so now a few minutes later let’s see LeBron on sort of a semi Breakaway

If we could see this play on Aaron Wiggins this is vintage LeBron versus Thunder he just says Aaron Wiggins are you kidding me was it a I thought he was getl I I I got it like okay all right but that is venty freight train LeBron

James it’s why I still call him the best driver of the basketball I’ve ever seen and still to to this day the best driver of the basketball in basketball where he just said no just come on come on Wiggins get out of my way and shoots a left-handed layup because he was born

Left-handed and he’s probably just he’s probably better with his left hand than he was is with his right hand so the point was that’s another tone Setter saying no not in our house that is why the Lakers just on sheer physicality just bully the Oklahoma City Thunder as as talented as the Thunder

Are and they are Talent they have arrived they’re not arriving I think they’ve arrived because you you can’t get into march with the best record in the west I mean think about this think about who you’re fighting in the playin right now the the four playin teams if

You look at it Lakers Golden State the Golden State’s behind the Lakers and then it’s Sacramento and Dallas just ahead of you in playing slots right okay where you’re going to have to fight each other just to get into the the postseason right well think of those teams Sacramento Dallas Golden State and

Golden State until they got massacred at Boston they’d won 11 of 13 and we know what Luca and Kyrie Luca’s been on an all-time tear since the All-Star break Sacramento unfortunately has owned your Lakers much of the time and they are coming here tomorrow night it’s not going to be an easy

No cak walk to get into the playoffs cuz we put ourselves in such a position yeah that we’re now trying to dig ourselves out of a hole that’s why I said to you it’s so important that this nice stretch that we have at home we’ve got to cash

In with these teams now we go on the road at the end of the year we play eight or 10 let’s see what that is but we got some some teams coming up at home that as a mixed bag it’s not Sacramento Wednesday and then you got Milwaukee on

Friday yeah but is is jannis going to play on Friday I don’t know he didn’t play last night with thees tendonitis did not play last night I it looked like he tried to warm up and just couldn’t go so they’re uncertain about him going forward okay so now I know you’ve never

Been quite sold on Austin Reeves I’m completely sold on him I’m not saying he’s a star sold on him you said if I get move him to get some better I would have moved him he is really good at what he does he plays great off LeBron LeBron

Completely trusts him and I’m going to tell you something I don’t know if people noticed this last night but guess who was on Shay Gil just much of the night Austin Reeves was and again they’re playing back to back and they’re asking a lot of an MVP candidate but if

You look at Shay Gil just last night uh he was in the minus n he had 20 points he shot the ball 13 times made five of them he shot only 13 times and made five okay so he had only 20 points and he’s averaging 30s you know like okay so I

Thought Austin Reeves did a superb job on him the best you can do because you can’t stop him he’s just going to score he’s he he is as deadly from the mid-range he’s getting like Kevin Durant except he’s not seven feet tall OB he turn the ball over with four five times

Last night I mean when you when you are four four when you are Scrappy and you’re up on somebody and using all that energy it could get in the way and the frustrating but they also switched off a couple times where different guys they were throwing different things at him so

I don’t know if that was a contributing factor to to where he was at and how he played or if it was just Austin Reeves completely doing his job like he’s supposed to do okay well he it’s a hustled job it’s an overachiever type

Job I give you all that but for a while in his first couple of years I thought he could be a liability on defense and sometimes teams hunted him last night I again I’m watching as closely as I can and I don’t disagree sometimes they just

Get switch offs Swit but for the most part it was Austin you got him okay can you hang with him can you hold him under 40 because if if he gets 40 you’re going to have a hard time but he didn’t get okay but he got 20 and Austin Reeves I

Told you I watched him closely at the University of Oklahoma because I’m a fan he was a 27% three-point shooter so I’m like ah he can’t play pro basketball which is why nobody drafted him he’s now for this year at 38% shooting threes and I want to show you one he made over

Jaylen Williams if I could because he had four he was four or five last night on threes four or five here’s one where he had to adjust readjust because Jaylen Williams got up on him got into him yeah and look at the arc on that shot and Jaylen Williams went up the court

Shaking his head like I I thought I I I thought I de him up I thought I had it and I didn’t have it because Austin Reeves he’s got High basketball IQ my point is he’s a basketball player and you got him and you should be happy with

Him because he’s going to help you win a bunch of basketball games very happy with him not dissatisfied with him at all but at the trade deadline if we could have gotten better I’m sure he could have been in a package I would take him over to jeon Murray and I know

That was sort of the thing going on you know okay then D’Angelo Russell last night he led your team in usage rate because LeBron trusts him also so a lot of times he’s playing point and he’s a scoring point guard because when he gets going from three he is devastated and I

Told you before he has I’m I’m not saying he’s an All-Star player but he has Allstar offensive Talent Quine allar offensive Talent he does he’s got supreme and he can score when he gets hot and I I don’t know what’s gotten into him lately but he’s playing with with such overpowering confidence you

Just see his body language of February good for him has it been good for him so he goes five of 11 from three so if you get him and Austin giving you nine threes remember you attempt the fewest threes in all of the NBA but if you can

Get nine from two of your starters you got a chance and it was a rare night when they outscored their opponent from three it was 16 to 15 they still allow the 28th most threes of anybody game by game so they average about 14 a game that they allow which I don’t love

Because that’s just effort and desire but the point is 16 to 15 will win a lot of games for them because they don’t attempt that many and I know people are saying oh what about the Boston Celtics they’re putting up historic numbers obviously they have now a different conference though we don’t concern

Ourselves not yet not yet we’ve already beat them okay not yet you you by the way you beat them in their building with no LeBron and no ad because they shot 33% from three okay you you are at opposite ends of the Earth in three-point shooting because they

Attempt the most threes in all the NBA you attempt the few the we don’t have collectively as a group the best three-point shot makers even though LeBron is career high 41% but last night he was one of three doing more Blue Collar work because he listen Nobody

Knows the game better nobody has a higher IQ and he’s sizing up the game saying I just got to impose my physical will on this young smallish they are bigger and they’re smaller than us so yeah that’s what you do you you look at them and LeBron looked at them

On a number of drives lowered his shoulder it just became physical okay there you go and I showed you the tone on the difference with Denver is Denver’s a long bigger team they are and this this is a small lineup compared to those that team but are you afraid of

Denver I don’t think no I don’t but see outside of the the the close sweep that they got last year yeah these Gam games are spread out in the regular season yeah if we see them again in the postseason you would think that whatever it was last year we learned from it we

Make those adjustments and we figure out how to get over the hump I don’t think if they saw them in the playoffs that they GNA be afraid of him not at all not at all one minute at all because even in the regular season everything is close there’s no blowouts you’re not looking

At this is not Boston versus Golden State where all of a sudden it was it was just just a a a pure out Massacre it wasn’t one of those situations okay yet your Lakers as much as I’ve tried to like them they are still 34 and 29 and

They’re stuck way down the the list you know he they’re stuck down there in 10th I think they just moved up to ninth overnight okay nine and 10 every other day okay nine or 10 10 or nine nine or 10 I’m sorry they were ninth going I

Think they’re still in Ninth Place the point is it is shameful that they’re 34 and 29 they’re just better than that they have underachieved all too they struggled in the in the month of January January was a real issue okay it was just an issue the start of the season was head

Scratching outside of the playin games then once they won the playin you thought okay they figured it out but that wasn’t the case rolling out of the rolling out of December into the new year they struggled and that put them in a hole that they trying to dig

Themselves out of okay so they did win the play in I mean I’m sorry the End season tournament yeah End season tournament okay they they did win that play in seon and they suffocated Indiana in the championship game and I’m still impressed by that I didn’t want to see

Them raise a banner about it but but I’m impressed it showed me what they can do when they flip that switch but remember early on to your point when I least expected it they went to Philadelphia embid was still upright and playing and they got annihilated then they went to

Detroit and won and they had to play back to back at Oklahoma City and they got annihilated again by the young Thunder it was 133 to 110 at OKC in November since then start of the Season yeah it is but since then they have now beaten Oklahoma City the last three

Times including once at Oklahoma City okay that that shows you Firepower that that shows you it’s not even I see I don’t I don’t look at OKC because I look at the age the youth versus a veteran Team guys that know how to play basketball when I’m measuring them against teams measuring them

Against not having LeBron and an ad and what they cap what they’re capable of doing against a Boston then coming back and beating the Knicks team on the road I can’t look at OKC because of the youth I’ll measure them against a a team like a golden state a team like a Sacramento

To be able a a healthy Phoenix team or a Denver team to be able to say if they can beat these teams when healthy the sky is the limit can’t look okay see it’s young you can tell they young because we up on them 3-1 they beat us

In November like you said it hadn’t beat us since we beat them three straight times three St times but they are leading the Western Conference in record because they’re beating a whole lot of other teams in the west right okay to sum this up obviously Boston is is

Playing the best right now but they’re taking the most threes and to me the reason I don’t completely buy into Boston is when you take 53s a game you’re just going to have those nights when JT and Jaylen Brown combin to go four of 24 from three it happens a lot

To them and if they do you have a chance to beat them and if you let’s just do the hypothetical if the Lakers could get through the west and and face Boston in the final well you you’d have what makes you think Milwaukee not going to be in

The final well I don’t know I still in the end I I just don’t they’re going to miss a guy that is now a Boston Celtics a Celtic player and you know who I’m talking about the guy that last night that you don’t like and Dame Lillard

Yeah certainly show that was about the Clippers playing back to back God okay all right all right well I was surprised kawhai even tried to play back to back which shows me some the good news was he played back toback the bad news was but Kawai was but Kawai wasn’t on Dame like

That no but I’m just saying usually they’re up 15 late in the third quarter right yeah yeah okay so Dame be damned you know you can score all you want but those guys they should have taken it home and Kawai in the fourth quarter misses all four of his shots and that

Was the end of that I’m just saying Milwaukee is going to be something to be re are you picking Milwaukee to win I I’m picking them to come out I still got Boston to win the East I got them com out to East okay they can’t beat Boston

No I just don’t think they can okay but you could beat Boston in the finals if you could get through this Gauntlet here in the west to get to the finals you you got all the right ingredients if you can get your best defender Jared Vander back

And they say he’s going to be back and if you can get one of your best clutch Shooters and gave Vincent back for the playoff front you get those two you got a basketball squad thanks for watching Undisputed fans do you want more highlights from the show make sure to

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