Jason Timpf recaps LeBron James, Anthony Davis, and the Los Angeles Lakers’ season. Can this season be considered a success despite their Western Conference Finals sweep at the hands of Nikola Jokic and the Denver Nuggets? Later, Jason reviews each positional group in LA and shares what moves he would make to return the Lakers’ roster to a championship level, including how players like Austin Reaves, Rui Hachimura, and D’Angelo Russell fit into the long-term plans for the franchise.
Timeline:
00:00 – Introduction
01:03 – Reviewing Lakers’ season
06:53 – Grading Rob Pelinka’s season
16:17 – Where Anthony Davis must improve
18:09 – LeBron James will be back
22:20 – Need a backup center
23:57 – Breaking down the forwards
25:07 – How to address guard situation
28:27 – What Jason would do as Lakers GM
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27 Comments
Book was way better
And lebrons early clock 3s really hurt 7s. He could've just passed the ball.
Ok so Minnesota is a ‘very good team’ when they play the Lakers but they are the ‘worst team in the west’ when they play the Nuggets? I love Jason but he gotta tone down the bias a bit.
Let's not sweep under the rug Minnesota got a game against the Nuggets
Jason, I know Colin is your boss, brother, but if your boss is going to be sharing the platform with you like a colleague, you need to make sure you call him out on his bad takes. Just seeing you be on shows with him and take a backseat to his awful views in basketball just kills me, and you’re the exact opposite. Your analysis and feel for the game is very unique! Keep up the good work! I rather you not share shows with Colin if you’re gonna keep taking a backseat though, just my opinion! Hope you don’t get offended by it!
Lakers also have the 17th pick in this years draft as an asset.
I thought u were a “basketball” analyst? U r a laker fan boy page. Market ur self as such
Jamal Murray was better than Lebron in this specific series. No one is claiming he is better than Lebron overall. Jason is conflating 2 slightly different things.
I love you Jason but I’m not looking forward to where you rank lebron and ad this offseason 😂
I think it hard for Anthony Davis to dominate on the offense end because he has to do so much defensively overall.🏀
Yea you are right. Myles turner would have HELPED SO MUCH AGAINST JOKIC. SMFH WE COULD HAVE WON THE CHIP WITH BUDDY HIELD RUI AND TURNER SMFH
Delusional
Only thing Pat Bev ever did for the lakers was put that camera in that refs face 😭😭😭
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Thank you for this! Very good analysis.
The lakers didn’t expect the nuggets to be that much better than the warriors. For some reason everyone thinks a team that lost 30 games on the road, and had bad chemistry all year were the same team. Idc how many of the same players they had they weren’t the same in any aspect we all know that. They played way better last year
The lakers get swept but still the media keep saying the lakers almost won.
book was really good this playoffs, better than LBJ. they got 2 games off the nuggets vs the lakers 0
Jason still pushing the moral victories for the Lakers 🤦🏻♂️they got swept, just own the L, sir. Bron gonna be 39 next season, there are no more championships for Bron.
This guy is S tier excuse maker, S tier Laker delusional, and S tier LeNut rider
Lebron is only going to keep on aging this team needs to operate with him only playing about 33 min a game
100% agree with standing pat and running it back with the same group. First off, you run that 4 game scenario against Denver 100 times, the Lakers get swept maybe 6 or 7 times, and the majority of the time its 2-2……. Lakers could have been up 3-1. Denver had to A. be fully healthy which they have NOT been 2 of the last 3 years, B. play at the absolute peak of their powers and C. get some breaks. What are the odds all 3 of those things happen again? I dont see Denver being quite as good next year bc odds are that they wont be this healthy come playoff time. Yes Phoenix won 2 games vs the Nuggets and may also be a better team than the Lakers but with KD a year older, a new coach etc how will the Suns look next year? The Lakers core group proved they can compete with the best. Darvin Ham will have more experience as a head coach and the team had the best record in the NBA and the #1 defense in the league post deadline. This is a good team. The issue unfortunately is health for AD and Lebron and thats a crapshoot. I honestly wish the Lakers would have pulled the trigger on the Buddy Hield and Myles turner deal. Turner makes AD expendable if need be and Hield shot 42.5% on high volume 3 pointers last year.
I like Jason, but you can tell the lakers bias. This lakers team is just as flawed as the 2022 mavs team just in different areas. Also Like the 2022 Mavs they had to have a ton of things go their way to make it that far. More to the point this team is heavily reliant on getting a large amount of trips to the line to slow down the game and limit opponent’s opportunities in transition. Go look at the play by play against denver. The only time they went on runs was when they got to the free throw line a lot. Seriously look at 4th quarter game 1, the first 27 minutes of game 2, mid 3rd quarter to early 4th quarter game 3, and the 2nd quarter in game 4. When the lakers were getting calls the Denver offense stalled. When the lakers weren’t getting calls Denver was running them off of the floor due transition offense. I’m sorry, but no team this reliant on FT’s will make it past the Conf finals cause your just not going to get a steady diet of them. i knew Caruso was a key piece of the Lakers defense in 2020, but now when I go back I realize he was the main reason they were so impressive defensively on the transition as well. Rob Pelinka is a moron for getting cheap with him.
It’s Rob Pelinker
Audio is not working for me (other videos work).
LeBron in game 4 played both Murray and Jokic on dee and locked both up when it counted, If AD had done the same they get a game 5. Who Bron is better than means nothing, in the last quarter who would I rather have than him is less than 5 players if he is fairly rested. As for roster moves, if you can somehow get back Caruso and Brooke Lopez that solves the problem Center and 3D big guard problem, trade who you want or keep who you want after those two moves I don't care.
Brook Lopes with the TMLE would be massive
and maybe a trade for Caruso and De rozan if the the Bulls blow it out?