Jason Timpf is joined by Lakers beat writer Jovan Buha of The Athletic to discuss LeBron James, Anthony Davis, and the Los Angeles Lakers’ championship ceiling after winning the NBA In-Season Tournament. Jason and Jovan outline the trades the Lakers need to make in order to catch Nikola Jokic and the Denver Nuggets and Jayson Tatum and the Boston Celtics.
Timeline:
00:00 – Why Lakers are an elite contender
06:26 – Is this defense better than 2020 defense?
12:50 – Austin Reaves delivers
14:18 – Gabe Vincent’s impact on rotation
19:44 – Why Lakers must trade to contend with Nuggets & Celtics
22:36 – How will Lakers approach trade deadline?
29:42 – What winning tournament means for LeBron’s legacy
40:27 – LeBron & AD’s relationship
44:31 – Check out Jovan’s work!
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30 Comments
Anthony Davis had his best game of his career in a game that doesn't even count as a regular season game. Not ready to crown him yet.
We need to keep DLO and get rid of Gabe Vincent if we do make a trade!
The Lakers will never be on the nuggets level. The nuggets have the best player in the world and perfect role players
Starters Need to be Reaves, Cam, Vando, Bron and AD
Bench, DLO, Gabe, Max, Rui, Hayes
Truth is LeBron got plenty of GROWTH FOR HIM & Davis!! Duh come on man! Worst championship team I ever saw
I demand more spurs and pistons content, im mad this is a lakers channels (irony) i am gonna unsuscribe (no i wont)
Great breakdown of the Lakers, their ceiling, their roster issues at the 2 and the 3 and what they can do to close the gap with Boston and Denver
The quality looks better nice adjustment
Nah, austin is great as a 6th man, let it be as is
ANTHONY DAVIS, had a wilt
Chamberlain type of game.
He reminds me, of Wilt.
MaX Christie, is going to be
An execelent player, like
Austin Reaves, and Caruso.
Ok the Lakers have a top 3 defense but do you really believe in their offense? They have the 15th best offense.
this IST gave some of the Lakers players a small taste of playoff environment. Let's hope the team stays healthy for the playoff
There's no way they can make it out the west unless Jokic gets hurt. There's no point acting like the Lakers have surpassed the Nuggets.
Mailbag: Hey Jason, I want your opinion on the players that played for team USA this year. It seems as if all of the starters have made really good to great strides this year (BRANDON INGRAM, AUSTIN REAVES, TYRESE HALLIBURTON JALEN BRUSON ETC). Do you think playing some of the world's best helped them raise their ceilings in the NBA, and if so do you think it's sustainable or fluke-ish in your opinion.
Austin had a good game but chill, still dlo> ar15
This defense is way better. You can light them up from 3 that 2020 team. This Lakers team with the wings really make it hard for you to get easy looks. The defense was never able to get it started before Rui missed a bunch of games, Vando just started playing a week ago, & Cam even got hurt in key matchups. This team is insane with the way they attack the perimeter. They haven't been healthy … the ceiling with this team is actually higher.
I'm not trading D-Lo, over 30% of his pases go to AD & he's been a large part of AD balling recently. We already saw in 2020 & the years since that we need a PG who looks for AD (rondo) not a PG who looks for his own shot (Dennis).
Really like Jovan from my days reading the Athletic in the past before they decided to not have a Nuggets writer. Laughable but that's not on Jovan or any intelligent life form. It appears there are a number of non intelligent life forms at the Athletic that make these kinds of decisions. At some point the simply stupid coverage of the NBA wildly biased toward literally only a couple of markets causes you to click delete. I'm hoping that won't happen here but the signs are gathering.
I'd like to see what the defense looks like going with Max, Vando, Cam, AD and Lebron
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Mailbag question Jason: we keep talking about point of attack augmentation for Lakers, who realistically out there in the market is a realistic target for the Lakers?
Thanks Jovan for the call to rearrange our perspective on AD. Nuance is required especially for the unicorn that AD is. For most of us it is tough to equate his Defensive brilliance to some of the offensive impact that other stars bring👏👍
Rui is being misused give him more min and let him stay in the post he's not catch and shoot player
They are just getting healthy they were beat up in the beginning of the season now it scary hours for the league
Heres a Mailbag question for you. It seems that no matter what Lebron does the goal post always moves. Despite the fact that the pacers went through both the bucks and celtics, and then got shut down. Despite this people say they had no real competition in their tournament run. I am just curious why it seems that lebron more than any other player has so much scrutiny. Despite the fact hes 39 and a top 10 player still it feels like its never enough. So the question is why do you think lebron more than anyone else gets this much hate and scrutiny such as the Bubble being called a fake win.
Team is great but when it comes to Denver, that team just owns the Lakers since they matchup so well with them. Lakers need a backup big to help AD in the paint. Hayes/wood are not the answer.
Gabe vincent is going to come back and ruin everything until DLo is traded. Skill gaurd + 2 wings + Bron and AD is what is best for this team. Any lineup with 2 of DLo/AR/Vincent will be NOT be it.
I really hope you're wrong about the Lakes in the Finals. I agree they're playing the best i've seen since LBJ & AD joined. But man, just as i had feared, they play fookin ugly basketball (might even say bullyball). If they prevail i may have to start taking care of my household chores instead of watching basketball! LeBron & AD should be playing for the Rams, that's not basketball as i want to see it! Absurd to hear you analyze it in such detail – they're just going to run over guys and dump the ball unceremoniously into the basket. Bore-ing! Yuck!
Half the games Austin played sucked while Delo had just as many good games and no one gave him that same courtesy. Folks was quiet when Austin sucked. Smh