Anthony Edwards STOLE The Throne From LeBron & The Lakers

Anthony Edwards STOLE The Throne From LeBron & The Lakers

takeaways from the Wolves holding down home court with their wins in game three and game four. You sure my cats? What was the question again? Biggest takeaways from the Wolves holding down home court in their game three and game four wins. I think the biggest takeaway was Anthony Edwards showing up and saying, “Fuck you, pay me. You got to earn this and we not laying down no more for no false king. It’s my turn. Lucas Lander already. It’s my turn. What’s up? Take the king’s throne and Edwards. We’re not playing no more. Send him on. Told Obama to his face. I’m the truth. The king did cosign that. Also telling Obama, “Yes, he is the truth.” That’s all I got to say about that. Um, yeah, I think sipping rather loudly. Um, from the cemetery Larry Cup, JJ Reic being a rookie coach reared his nasty ugly head. Um, that was my notes in this situation. Um, in this sense, I looked up how many minutes that LeBron James has played before the other day yesterday. 40-y old LeBron James. You’re 40-y old LeBron James, right? 40-y old man. It’s called How many playoff minutes he’s played? You can’t expect that for a 40-year-old, all the greatness that he has shown, all the heroics that he’s shown, he’s still human, man. Yeah. And to think that he doesn’t need a break. We’re going to tell you I was talking to somebody like, “So you don’t think he asked me?” Of course he asked him. We’re going to say no every single time. I don’t for how I’m feeling. I don’t want to come out the game. So you can’t leave it up to the player. You got to take control of the situation. And I saw Kendrick Perkins said, I’m going agree with him. When you up 10, you got to find a minute or two to get this man out of the game. And if look at the end of the third quarter when he went to the bench and the camera was on him, [ __ ] exhausted. He has to do too much at this age in order for them to compete. You’re getting 90% of your scoring from four guys. You’re not going to beat nobody in a series that way. I don’t care for who them. You’re not. It’s just too much in these moments, man. Like, you got to rely like you you didn’t get to this point only playing five guys, man. You didn’t. And you look at Indiana, right? This is second quarter. Recall I didn’t play 10 guys already. This is how I got here. This is how I’ve been successful at getting here. The Knicks do it. The Nick Them dudes ain’t 40. They’ve been doing it. Josh Hart has been doing MueL Bridges and played 600 straight games. They been doing it. You Oh, they ain’t 40. They don’t have that many miles. They got LeBron [ __ ] in yellow on the [ __ ] basketball reference cuz these are career numbers. Minutes played. career number, minutes, playoff play, career numbers. Nobody’s close to these numbers far as minutes on the floor. So, you got to win when you on them. Has to do too much, man. It might be over. Might be over. He has to do too much. He needs help. Luca is out there. But the things that LeBron does is trying to overcome, Luca has no interest in those parts of the [ __ ] game. That’s what I said about the AD situation, right? People want to talk about the trade and all like at least you got that part of it from him and he was averaging [ __ ] 26. supposed to be the Savior is going to win this year like that. But and it ain’t over. It ain’t over. Of course, we still got games to play. We did smoke the Michael Malone pack though. Still have games. Why you keep bringing people into this conf? No, I’m just saying we were smoking the Mike Pack. We need to worry about this. We thought that would give us a clear lane. You need to worry about this Timberwolves pack. This wolf need to worry about this wolf pack, right? This what this the pack you need to worry about. This [ __ ] wolf pack, right? So, enjoy this moment, gentlemen. But I’m trying to help y’all out here. Yesterday was sad. I’m trying to help y’all out here. Yesterday was sad. Are you concerned? Yesterday was very sad. Like, I don’t think nobody watched any other games after that Laker game. Like it was it was the TV was you know this is I blame Shaina Sharp ass his whole energy just [ __ ] us up. You’re not going to blame Kevin Gates. Uh this whole his fault. Y’all ain’t won a game since he showed up at the man. Nobody think all about him. You know bringing people into this conversation. How about the five guys that played the dude that made the decision for all of this? How about How about we get it to the front office talking about the duck on the Los Angeles Lakers addicted to the nostalgia of a fading star that they refuse to let off instead of building the future of the Los Angeles Lakers. They’re riding a story. It can’t be. But do you feel like making that Luca trade wasn’t building towards the future of this leak? Bring it to Well, we’re talking about the last seven years. Not when LeBron is still there. The last seven years they’ve been riding this wave because they’ve been waiting for this to be a part of credit. They get credit for having LeBron last instead of building a future that can last. And that’s been the problem cuz they haven’t built any sustainable rosters that can have veteran leadership into the playoffs that can get you past the second round. So you haven’t been past the second round because the front office refuses to get guys in in the offseason that can sustain that. Didn’t make a Western Conference final. Yeah, that wasn’t good enough. And it’s a 50- win team. Didn’t win the hardest championship in NBA history. Wasn’t good enough in 2020. Well, we’re talking about 2025 here, though. And here we are. And it’s not over. We acting like living in the past, man. You talked the last seven years. We can’t be living in the past. We’re talking about number three in the in the West. They are down. They are currently. You are currently the three seed, right? You’re currently the three seed in 2025. And I don’t want to talk about it. A six seed. I don’t want to talk about what y’all did. Your star Why does your star have zero points in the fourth quarter? Can’t blame LeBron. I’m not I’m I’m bl I’m looking at the totality of the whole thing. You got some young dogs over there that’s not afraid, right? You got some young wolves over there that ain’t afraid of the old dog. Aunt Edwards didn’t go pushing Luca. He wouldn’t push Luca, right? Can you imagine Aunt pushing Luca like that? Elder abuse. Actually, you remember that? You see that? No place in the game for just like now if you if you was at the gym they’d be messing with you like so old ass doing up here so you don’t believe that you don’t believe that shadow are those muscles functional they’re functional they’re not they’re functional muscles so did LeBron hit his hand or his wrist the breath cheated all yesterday it was just messing question that was a question y’all it was well technically the wrist part of the hand I didn’t ask you that was his hand of course it’s it’s attached it is attached to the hand yeah is did He was it his wrist or his hand? Should have been going the other way. That was Rodney. Is that what I Oh, that was Rodney that answered. Oh, cuz he can see it. Oh, so Hey, look, man. Yeah, it’s all right. It ain’t over. It wasn’t his We going back to LA. It was his wrist. He didn’t say his left. Paul, can we cue that uh that video? Do we got to see it? So, let’s go back. Let’s go back to that play that altered the game. Angle. I mean, hold on. So, we got the same blurred vision that we showed on the Aaron Gordon dunk just by the way. So, whatever that camera was, we got it. So, AC that league said that they had never used the camera they had from LeBron in the history of basketball. Sounds good. Merely merely there to ruin the Lakers hope to said that. Adam Silver. That was a good one. Jokes on you [ __ ] We’ve had this camera here. Never used it. the AC130. Can I ask y’all a question? Let’s take a look though. Like really like when the game is on the line, why do teams continuously run pick and rolls to try to get a certain match up? Lazy, right? It’s lazy to get a certain match up. Why? When the game is on the line because the because what they prove No, hold on. Just hear me out. In y’all’s situation, right, end of the game, y’all running like they just double team, didn’t they? They just double team to get it out of his hand. They just double team welcoming a double team. And then the other you threw it to the next best guy. Guess what they did? Double team him too. So you not even playing the play out of this just like whatever happens. So the match. So if it’s his hand never before seen camera angle. You see his fingers? I can’t see. You can’t see. We We see his This is his knuckles are covered by LeBron. That’s wrist. Knuckles covered. That’s his wrist. Who’s Whose knuckles? the the extension of his knuckles covered. Is he hitting the ball though? What the Does he ever does he ever actually hit the ball? The side of his pick and hair appears to karate chop the ball. Okay. Yeah, that makes sense. Shout out Mr. Miyaki. You don’t call that? You’re not going to want that call? They ain’t called it for the Knicks, huh? Nick, as an ethical basketball player, I wouldn’t want a game. You wouldn’t want that, right? I would have did like Alex in the commercial. Do you think LeBron will Do you think if LeBron is Ant-Man on that call, he’s asking for a foul? See, that’s the thing. You don’t think LeBron is going crazy? That’s the thing. That’s the That’s the thing, right? ESPN didn’t want to post my tweet. I’m mad at them. What What was the tweet, y’all? Because what I just said. Okay. How the hell are you sitting there saying the ball’s a part of the hand is part of the ball and you clearly hit his wrist? Well, if that’s the case, high. It wasn’t this high. If that’s the case, you clearly don’t foul nobody. Looks like their hand% risk 94%. Back to what you were just like, if you got the ball, LeBron, and and Anthony Elvis went across your wrist. Do you want that call or not? And the answer to that is, well, LeBron’s an ethical man, ethical basketball player. No, we go back to Boston, right? Like I just said, go back to the Boston. Like I just said earlier, we all go back to the But I said we all are what? The no call. But I just say we all are what? Liars. Liars. You did say that earlier. For sure. So therefore, we can sell the [ __ ] out of that [ __ ] Therefore, bro. Yeah. And we going to die on that hill. We will die on that hill. Get that call. You ain’t going to get it. We going to sell it. No, your hand doesn’t hit him on his wrist. So can’t get it. So if it’s me as a defender, no, I don’t want you to call that. Hell no. As a offensive player, I I want you to please call. Right. So yeah, we are we are full of [ __ ] at its finest. People, they should ask you for it at in the NBA, right? Shoot for it. Shoot for it at the top. I’m shooting. I get to Do I get to Do I get to match it? Shoot for it. Do I get Yeah, that’s the way it go. I should be able to match it. Shoot the ball, right? Shoot ball. We saw the play. Obviously, the Lakers call a timeout trying to advance the ball. Wolves challenged. So, Lakers end up losing their timeout ability to advance the ball. Help lead them. That’s crazy. That’s the crazier part to advance the ball. So, ball goes out on ant as it’s called on the floor. The Lakers call a timeout to advance it but get their last play going. She was free throws. Timber Lakers ball and advance. Timberwolves decide to challenge during during the Oh, that’s Lakers lose the timeout. Timberwolves get the ball and gets the two for challenge. Who made the challenge? Uh Finch. Finch made a challenge. But so LeBron had these thoughts on the call getting reversed to a foul on him. It’s coming right now in the media. That’s crazy. On my timeout. Enjoy these moments. LeBron hater. So that next possession you’re supposed to advance the ball. Yeah. But and that’s why L the ball to LeBron and all that [ __ ] happened all the time. You know, hand is part of the ball. That’s what they say. And that is what they say. Um I feel like the hand was a part of that ball. I was able to get his hand on top of the ball, the ball stripped down out on him. So um seen that play over and over before, but it is what it is. Last question. Very ethical LeBron. very honest, earnest answer, please. We It says on the rule book. The rule book says, so if his hand was on top of the ball and we would It would have been like this, right? On the steel frame that we just all seen hand on top of the ball as he explaining it, right? This the way it would have looked. Mhm. One hand on top of the other. You slap down. This is That’s a no call. That’s a no call cuz the ball goes down like but even if you slap all my hand all that long as my hand touching the ball. Yeah, some part some part of it. It’s a no call. That’s a no call right there. But in that situation, I’m going to check on that could change the game. The ref like how you acting. No, but you know what I didn’t hear him say? The ref changed the game for certain people. You know what I didn’t hear him say? I got to do better in the fourth. Man, well that was just a small snippet. I got to do better in the fourth, man. I got to You say something about the turnover at half courts for my team to win in the fourth. I got I didn’t see the press conference. Did he say something about the turnover at half court? He talked about a lot of different topics. I don’t think I don’t think they want to highlight that stuff. If ESPN can block me, man. God damn. Talked about the the the trick layout layup. He had the trick layup. I’m talking about the Luca one though. It’s all plays. What about the Luca turnover though? But there was a play in the third quarter, too. Brown shot the Tech when you had Austin Reeves on the court. Ended up missing that free throw. There’s just stuff, you know, go back and watch. But he hit the free throw before a good attack. He goes and takes the next one. Misses that one. Complaining about the Luca trip like it was a foul play. No place in the game. That’s a foul. That’s a foul. Slovenian Jesus. It’s a foul. You should get that call. It’s the same type of call. He gets that call. Slovenia. Ain’t it the same type of call? It’s the hand on the ball. It used to be no matter how I trip is sometime people who are overweight they just keep falling but you trip me. Yeah. So but sometime when you you can balance yourself when I trip you be like hey hey and then you be like whoa whoa whoa and then it’s just a boom free will. So so people after watching the game reacted that that Nico may not have been incorrect in making that move. How did Lucas conditioning look to you gentlemen? He got the move, bro. He should be able to listen. He’s young enough to He’s young enough to do what Josh Hart and all them dudes are doing. Playing them many minutes. Absolutely. He should be able to do that. LeBron know, but he should be able to play the whole second half without the flu. Okay. Who poisoned him is the real question. Yeah, that’s shit’s crazy. I think A-Rock. All right, cool. The flu. Okay. The flu. He had 15 the other night, right? that 16 or something like that. They say he didn’t feel well. He didn’t feel well. I dig it. That’s usually what happened when you get theis. Yeah. Okay. He didn’t feel well. I I dig He went out there and played in a good napkin. It wasn’t like he played bad the other day. had had a very good game. Just not interested in playing any defense out that mother. Oh, which is tell you see a 40-y old LeBron coming through getting some big stops towards the end of the game. Doesn’t it doesn’t inspire him at all. There’s so many lost plays out there, man. They defense have to do so much to cover for him. Like dudes get wide open looks because they got to be so far at the elbows when the guy has the ball on him at the top of the key. They got to be so far in man. Jay McDaniels is averaging 20 a game right now based on Luca’s help defense. Period. But he a liability out there man. It’s embarrassing at times. Man, Anthony was at 43. I did not know that. Mhm. Big game. Got to give it up to Ed. And he was and he was bullying your your king whole time. Yeah. Look. So it’s okay. Never seen a well done steak. Well done steak. Can’t play guys like and ounce some of blood in a mother. It’s over. So So let’s get back to that. So Lakers uh been in the last two games late in the fourth quarter before melting down. So as Yvon Buha pointed out, Wolves have outscored the Lakers in each fourth quarter in the series. Fourth quarter scoring margin being 105 to 69, about nine points a quarter in the fourth. So JJ Reic obviously drew some criticism for his decision to not sub in the second half. First time a coach has done that in the playoffs in at least the last 25 years. Reic was asked about the decision to not sub at all. And this was his response. Not a planned thing to play five guys an entire second half. Asked him at the beginning of the fourth quarter. Told them we had two extra timeouts. You know, if you need a sub, let us know. Um, those guys gave gave a lot. Those guys gave a lot. LeBron didn’t score in the fourth quarter as I mentioned. Luca was one for six from the field, 0 for two from three, but did go five for five from the line. Austin Reeds was two for seven from three in the fourth quarter. That’s your big three right there. But Austin Reed was in foul trouble and still managed to play 35 minutes, right? That’s a normal game. 35 minutes normal game, right? You trying to Hayden not been fired up, he would have been 45 462. Facts. Facts. Dorren Smith would have been over there not doing nothing. Yeah, bro. Jackson Hayden I think only played four minutes in the game. But congratulations JJ Riddick. You allowed yourself got a lob in that time. JJ Riddick has allowed himself to reap the benefits of being a hypocrite. Remember that time he criticized Doc Rivers when he was working for ESPN? I do remember talking about how Doc doesn’t switch up his lineups and all this [ __ ] and he’s now he the coach looking like Doc up there stressed out. I don’t look like Doc right now. No, I’m not. He don’t look like Doc. He look like the guy who was criticizing Doc. Now he’s sitting in Doc’s seat being criticized cuz he look like he’s stressed out. He look like he ain’t got he ain’t confident in that he going to be there for the next three years. Oh, he confident. He confident. That man sweating. Ain’t nobody trading. Ain’t nobody talking. You must don’t know. Hey, it just it’s two year. Sometimes you be in situations where you get you first round exodition mind the game podcast. It ain’t reflecting. You just like it ain’t reflecting. You was just glazing. You was just glazing. You were just glazing. You ain’t ran none of them sets. Sometimes you can’t take them out. You ain’t ran none of them sets. You was glazing. Hey, I would run this if I was if I was Darvin. They was winning though. I run this. You winning. You winning up until the last minute. Full of [ __ ] man. Full of [ __ ] Like you pointed out y’all get any coach that ask a player, “Hey, do you want to stay in the game or come out?” In that moment, players going to say, “I want to stay in the game.” You can ask a six-year-old that [ __ ] They do. They do want to stay out. They do. Coach, I got to come out. Coach, coach, coach. Is it me this time? It’s automatic sub. Automatic. Got 10 of y’all. They making they making me put y’all in every 5 minutes. Just 10 of y’all. The best when a couple kids don’t absolutely get to play more. So this just like Right. So but you ask any age group of basketball player, any athlete? Thank you. Who want to come out? But you got a four. Listen, I ain’t saying listen. So you can’t find two minutes. No. Why you up 10? We were just talking about New York about they complaining about not about getting subbed out. Of course they want to come out. Yeah, they want to come out the game. We were just talking about when you just say I wish I had that during the regular season because you’re playing hard while you’re out there, bro. I don’t want to average 43 playing hard. I don’t want to average 43 minutes during the regular season. There’s no way you can play the whole second half and play hard. I want average 43 during the regular season, man. You know that. So, how many you want to average in the playoffs during the regular season? In the playoffs. 43. Not in the regular season. I want to average in regular season. I played 34 most average like well like 34 35 minutes. Can you? The question is, can you? That’s the question. Are you in shape, too? I played 55 in a game before. [ __ ] like that. Play them minutes. You love to play them minutes. Can we can Can we actually do it and be ready for those minutes if you prepare for effective when you out there, you got to prepare for that [ __ ] You can’t ask for a did it all year. They ain’t They ain’t did it all year. Only reason is bad with with LeBron because you know he going to take some plays off and their plays they might on that. Luka take more. You know he going to take some plays off just cuz you 40. Anybody at this age can’t What about Luca? What’s Luca’s excuse? 26 years old. You can’t take no plays off. He take more often than anybody. But with all that being said, it was up though. That’s the It was up 10. So sub. Yes. 46 minutes season high for Luca in that game. Sub. And guess what? You’re down now. There’s timeouts coming. You can buy time that them two minutes can turn. You know, you know the timeout’s coming cuz he telling you. Yes. TV timeout coming right now. JJ, take him out. Can I see that turnover? The the half court one. I want to see what did it go off somebody’s foot and bounce. Bad pass. Bad pass. Bad pass. [ __ ] He looked tired. It looked like a tired pass. He didn’t get this. What? That’s excuse like he didn’t get open. Well, did it go off somebody’s foot? No. Nick’s a bad pass. And LeBron admitted they say it was a bad He said it was a badass. It’s a bad pass. He admitted that. He did. Okay. He’s accountable. It was a bad pass. He admitted it. It’s a bad pass. Maybe went off somebody’s foot. Probably did. You never know. LeBron ethical hooper. We didn’t take a look at it. And a part of the ball. Normally, we tell the six-year-old that if you hit it, it’s a part of the ball after go. We take a look at it. My six-year-old said, “Dad, hands a part of the ball, right? How could that possibly be a thing?” Your six-year-old said that. Yeah, it is. They said that. All right. That’s what we doing in the world. I thought I hand is a part of the ball. But I’ve been taught hand part of the ball if you get it. Sometimes if you’re the defense, the hand a part of the ball. If the offense, that’s a foul, right, Dad? Like I’m If he hit my hand, right, Dad? Hey, Dad. If I shoot the ball and he hit my hand, that’s a foul, right? Absolutely. You have to tell him, “No, son.” He said, “No, that’s No, son. No, he hit my hand. He’s allowed to hit your hand.” Like, if you got the ball in your hand, he can hit you. sportsmanship commercial. No, he hit my hand. It wasn’t Noving. So, Dad, we can take a extra step after we have our pivot foot established or we can change it to another foot and it’s not a travel. It’s a gather, son. Talk about Ant-Man. It’s a gather step. Damn, that’s weird. Thought you had to always keep your pivot foot down. But let’s talk about Antman. We got to give him his love. uh averaged 30 points, eight rebounds, six assists, 4543, 83 shooting splits, gotten it done on both sides of the ball. Uh easily been the best player in the season, in the series, excuse me, and now on the precipice of potentially eliminating the Lakers, so in the last two playoffs, swept KD, beat Joker in seven, not have the chance to beat LeBron. Phoenix 2.0, man. Darvin. Yeah, Phoenix 2.0. Last year was KD and [ __ ] bro. Thank you. You can see uh you know our staff not rolling. We all [ __ ] up. You needed that, huh? Yeah. Neither. Somebody had something slapped out of their hand. Did not call for the foul. No call. It’s like a for me cuz I like I didn’t both teams I don’t want to see lose just because Antman is like one of my favorite players. Uh Lakers is obviously my team. Um, so this was a tough series for me anyway. You know, it’s okay. Talk about it, man. It’s time for Dodger baseball. Don’t worry. We got Show Mookie Best Freddy Freeman. Andy P. Way to deflect, Josiah. We still got LA Sports. All right. Still got We’re talking about them Lakers now. It’s good you want to talk about the Dodgers, but we’re talking about great baseball team, right? We’re we’re talking about the current state of this 3-1 deficit that the Los Angeles Lakers are in. How they’re going to try to come out. Shannon Shannon Fried LeBron try Wolves and [Laughter] five Shanning Fry. Luca tried pretend ain’t going to die moving by. Uh producers have alerted me. You bro in the chat says sufficient sufficient Lakers talk for this afternoon. I would never like you as a person ever in the life in life. I would never like you. So we got to talk about what’s wrong with you. Talk about one more thing. When you did this, that’s what made me think of Shannon. Shannon Pride. That’s the first Shannon. Yep. Shannon Pride. We got to talk one more thing in the world of sports. We’re going to shift over to football.

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