Battle for LA Full Recap ➡️ LeBron drops 35 in the Lakers’ OT win vs. the Clippers 🏀 | NBA on ESPN
Dave McMenamin and Ohm Youngmisuk recap LeBron James, Anthony Davis and the Los Angeles Lakers taking down Kawhi Leonard, Russell Westbrook and the LA Clippers in overtime.
0:00 The James Harden trade
2:50 Lakers-Clippers recap
7:44 How will the new-look Clippers fare?
9:55 LeBron & AD this season
13:45 Western Conference finals preview?
18:35 An exciting NBA season
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19 Comments
Full of enthusiasm😛
😢😢I know Westbrook mad af lol
Does this count as an episode of 'Thats OD'?
Russ, them turnovers gotta stop. Why do a 360 no scope pass? Why are all your passes so bad?
Hey!!! Great! Another video with the piece of x Dave mcpieceofx!
Dave, the cute closet diehard lakers fans. He was the one that started the, WELL, LAKERS LOST TO NUGGETS BUT IT WAS A COMPETITIVE SWEEP 😂😂😂
These guys are horrible holy shit. Zero enthusiasm
It'd be nice to see the lakers not go down big every game and have to comeback.Feels like I'm watching a rocky movie every game
There's going to be at least 10 games during the season where Westbrook will lose a game for us because of his inability to shoot the ball and ugly turnovers at the worst possible time.
This Clippers' love affair / honeymoon phase with Westbrook needs to be over. Can't y'all take the hint the Lakers didn't want him because of all that? Close with Bones Hyland. He can shoot. He can defend. He won't make bad decisions.
In a way, it's good the Clippers finally lost to the Lakers. Gives Ty Lue a hint this early that we can't close with Russ. Listen, Russ seems like a nice guy. The so-called leader, blah, blah, blah. None of that matters. He needs to produce especially in the 4th but he cost us the game.
When a defender is forcing Russ to shoot by sagging off him and he does and then misses, that's a problem. Russ creates problems for his teammates because defenders will pack the paint or one of them will get doubled because of Russ' inability to shoot efficiently.
Lakers' length is going to be problem too. We no longer have 6'7-6'8 versatile wing defenders we can throw at LeBron. That's why Lakers adjusted, stopped jacking threes in the 2nd half, and kept driving to the lane. A glaring Clippers' weakness is we can't protect the paint. It's like 2020 when the Lakers were the tallest team in the league. AD paired with Hayes and Wood is similar to AD paired with Dwight and JaVale. Twin towers.
Darvin basically dared the Clippers to shoot threes and they missed. Live by the three, die by the three. While Clippers tried driving in the lane but Lakers are too tall and lengthy. Doesn't help that Westbrick shrinks the floor for us. Had Lue went 5-out, we would still have a problem with two Lakers standing taller than 6'10 while Zu and Plumlee are our only tall players.
Harden would not solve the Clippers size problem. No more 6'7-6'8 defenders like Batum, Morris (when he was still good), and Covington. No more Reggie Jackson who was fearless against the Lakers. We're too small. We have a point guard who will turn it over at the worst time, can't make FTs, and can't shoot which packs the paint or let's Kawhi or PG get doubled.
We're better than the Lakers. They're 1-11 against Ty Lue, 3-13 since we got Kawhi. That's pathetic. Let them celebrate for winning their 8th game against us after 44 games since 2012. That's only 18% at beating us in 11 years. Be proud, LakerNation! There's your #18. 😂 Honestly, Ham outcoached Lue last night. Lue made the bad decision putting the game in Westbrick's bad hands.
Clippers really need to get some size back to throw at LeBron who kept driving to the lane and we can not have Westbrick finish the game for us against them. AD + Hayes or Wood is deadly and Cam Reddish is listed at 6'7. Ham will tell the Lakers to only shoot twos and score inside. While forcing Lue's team to live and die by threes like they did to the smaller Warriors last year.
Truthfully, nobody really cares about the Battle of LA. Didn't exactly draw huge ratings 3-4 years ago. The Clippers have a small fanbase. The Lakers have a big fanbase but nobody outside the NBA really cares about them either considering nobody watches any Hollywood project from LeBron and HBO canceled Winning Time.
NBA went woke like Disney and deserves to go broke. The Lakers aren't Greek gods. A few already died. The greatest Laker was forced to confess to Oprah he cheated on his wife on national TV. Being a Laker legend means jack shit. A GOAT like Michael Jordan can lose people he loves around him. Same with Tom Brady.
They're all meaningless labels that won't enhance their quality of life. The end will always be sad and bitter like Jerry West is towards the Lakers. And LeBron only cares about LeBron. Never was about the Lakers for him. And Laker LeBron is the absolute worst version of LeBron. He'll pretend he likes his teammates but it's just business as usual for him. He's not really Laker fam.
Clippers still have a lot of work to do. And a 6'5 Harden and Tucker are not going to solve our small size problem against the Lakers and protecting the paint.
Lakers Starters should be: C- Wood, PF – AD, SF – Bron, SG – AR, and PG- DLO
Bench should be: C- Hayes, PF – Vando, SF – Rui, SG- Prince, and PG – Gabe
Honorable mentions: Max Christie and Cam Reddish should get some minutes too. AD needs to play PF because he's unmotivated to play Center thus the inconsistency we see from him at times. And our starters have Size, which wins games like in 2020 because of the Defense.
How espn got dave and malika fking in the lunchroom?
Why is no one talking about the fact that the clippers didn't give up not even a starter to get harden. Just contracts and role players at best. This is the 4th trade in a row in which clippers give up nothing to get a valuable player. All these shady under the table deals going on between owners.
Honey moon over for AR too btw. No daps from Bron rn. Barely eye contact
Let's go LAKE SHOW!!!
great breakdown ! these two reporters are very passionate in their team assignments.
Yeah what would it look like if we had Vando, Rui, Prince, & Gabe playing? It’s damn near the same thing as Harden & Mann playing yesterday to effect the game.
CLIP CITY CHIP CITY CRIP CITY EMPTY YA CLIPS 🔫
I was expecting PJ tucker to say nothing is different it's still not going to work.. of course he spun it in a positive light why report that lol
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