Windy on Lakers 🗣️ ‘NO ONE wants the players THEY WOULD TRADE!’ 😳 Should Caruso return? | NBA Today

Windy on Lakers 🗣️ ‘NO ONE wants the players THEY WOULD TRADE!’ 😳 Should Caruso return? | NBA Today

There’s a lot of teams that are interested in calling the Raptors for Pascal cakam there’s no teams interested in calling the Lakers for the players that they want to trade and I don’t know if they don’t think they want to trade Austin Reed teams would be interested in

That that’s the thing the Lakers have to go through this homeand and figure out whether they’re going to do something but even if they want to they don’t have guys who have high value right now like the Raptors you know have had over the last few months so I don’t even know if

It’s comparable I think that Lakers would love to do things they would love to be getting these calls love to have these options they just don’t exist what do the Lakers need to do you were saying you were tempted Chen to say okay maybe I’m going to get back in on La

Particularly while they’re at home in this stretch what would convince you that yes the trajectory of their season is now going back up well last week I called for it they need to focus more on their offense and not just their defense two years ago their defense carrying

Them to a championship but within the next two years the rest of the NBA Rising tide lifts all both offenses have gotten better point and perfect example are you know the Pacers they went from about 20th or so in off and now they’re leading the league in offense that’s

Just the nature of the game right now so I know this style of winning with defense has really helped you individually be successful but they have to focus on their Shooters like you said DLo I called for him to get more meaningful minutes and let him play his

Best basketball I think that might be on the horizon leaning towards those types of things I think will help the Lakers but I I don’t see them getting the player that we all hope and dream like they’ve tried to do this by small pieces yeah if you’re the Lakers Zach what

Calls are are are you looking to take right now I’m talking all offense CH nailed it their defense is fine their offense stinks it wasn’t even good last year but the West wasn’t as good last year and they kind of had a good playoff matchup bracket set for them they’re 23 in

Offense right now they’ve been around there the whole season they have no shooting no offensive rebounding they’re just completely lifeless on offense so they’re going to come to a Crossroads like Brian talked about and the crossroads is this are we okay with LeBron James at age 39 holding a player

Option being just flat out not good enough like I don’t care how good our defense is if we’re 23rd we ain’t getting through the Western Conference we’re not getting to the second round we might not get to the playoffs period are we okay with that or are we going to

Take a big big swing that as Chan said could be a whiff if it’s the wrong guy with the wrong contract that handicaps your team for the next three or four years because it doesn’t work out that may be the Stark painful difficult choice they face but that’s life in the

NBA and that’s where they are right now I mean they made one a couple years ago when they got Russell Westbrook and it’s no shade to Russ but he just didn’t M he just didn’t match with ad and Bru I was still I’m still standing on take a

Gamble with Zack LaVine and I know Zack LaVine right we we we only seen him in spurts far as him being consistent in Chicago right under uh Billy Donovan but Zack LaVine is a is a bucket getter like he gets buckets and I just want to see

Him under the wing of a LeBron James and see if his level which I know it will of professionalism will go up that’s all he’s lacking his athleticism is there so I know he could slide those puppies on the defensive on the defensive side of

Things so at the end of the day he is a walking bucket and he he is an upgrade for the Los Angeles but isn’t that the question how much defense are they willing to sacrifice with with player like Zack LaVine what’s kind of happened in the wake of the inseason tournament

Nobody playing defense well in the wake of the in season tournament they’re playing LeBron and AD so many minutes yeah that they’ve had to scale back their defensive intensity so instead of playing the defense that they played last year and earlier this season they’re kind of having to save their

Defense a little bit which puts more pressure on their offense which has this cascading effect and the other thing is whenever you talk about Zack LaVine trade go to the trade machine try to put it together it’s going to take three or four players to to make it happen those

Types of Trades are difficult if I was the Lakers I would call the Bulls and I would ask about Alex Caruso not necessarily Zack LaVine but Zack LaVine is the one who’s available Caruso at this point is not and I think the idea of Zack LaVine sounds really great perk

Hold on one second I think the idea of Zack LaVine sounds really great but what helped James Harden get to where he needed to go was that he was on the floor enough like being able to make us big swing for someone that could potentially help your offense you want

To see them on the floor you want to see that they’re available and they’re healthy and that they’re doing their thing and I think the hardest thing to forecast that on something that they don’t essentially have all the answers for right perk go ahead I’m confused we just talked about how the

Lakers need to upgrade their offense right and when Wendy said that he take a swing at Alex Caruso when you got a guy that has shown that he can average 25 plus this game is about a bucket one makes million one gu makes team defensive the but but but but but hear

Me out stay hold on but stay with me real quick Wendy just because we have teams like the Celtics that are like one of the best teams defensively or the you know the Nuggets or whatever the case may be that don’t mean that they’re actually good defensive teams the teams

Are about getting buckets right like nobody in this league is playing we just had a a show last week about it was what five teams scored over 120 plus points or something like that was games where they were just scoring bucket after yeah it’s ridiculous so let’s not act like

People really out there just defending like it’s not about that but the way the Lakers are structured they are structured to defend and have LeBron and AD carry him home but right now their defense isn’t quite that good and LeBron and AD haven’t been able to give the

Same energy level that they gave earlier in the season because so much is being asked of them what the Lakers really need is they need the guys that they signed last year to play better and if that doesn’t happen and you’re looking at Zack LaVine you’re looking at making

The exact same trade they made for Russell westre which was taking three or four players signing a guy who if he doesn’t fit they can’t retrade and potentially hollowing out the the the formula just like it won the Lakers the title in 2020 the formula that got him

The Conference Finals hollowing it out it is not a simple transaction it’s not as simple as the Lakers saying okay we’ll do it I’m serious go to the trade machine try to see what it takes to put together a deal to bring a I don’t have

A machine all viewers can go inter I don’t have a machine that’s about that’s that that’s Bobby M all my thing is we asking what the Lakers need and I’m telling you in a tough Western Conference you need a third star and even a third star might not take you

Over the Hub look at the Phoenix Suns and the way that they’re struggling right now with their big three you just need so much offensive fir power that it’s ridiculous yeah but it feels feel like the concern they’re never going to win with offense their entire structure

Is to be designed to defend and let ad and LeBron carry them home that is how they got to the Conference finals last year that is how they you luy I ain’t in that studio it’s how they won it in 2020 not going to go from the 25th

Off major relief I cannot say the same though for the Boston Celtics watch Jaylen Brown here okay so this was called time and score foul on the floor Ben mathine saying okay let’s review it watch it again so they’re going to challenge this call the Pacers are here is James

Williams on what they decide after review the backside Defender buddy Hill hits the ball therefore the call on the floor has been overturned to a that’s not right scalabrini on that call he is right this is an unexcusable call because they called on on the foul on

The floor it’d be one thing if they called no foul on the floor and they didn’t have you know irrefutable evidence this was a foul on the floor and Buddy heel after this game said Angels were on my side and there’s evidence that Jaylen Brown changed the

Trajectory of his shot because he got grazed while shooting it that is not a natural shooting motion if no one touched him he would have shot it normally well Jaylen Brown he is perplexed by this decision two seconds left the Pacers of course there’s going

To be a foul on the on the I was going to say you got to let that one go but I I don’t you got to let that one go equalizer oh man porzingis called for the foul mathine would make both free throws the Pacers hang on to win 133 131

Here’s Jaylen Brown on the controversial call I definitely think that one should be investigated I asked him did I get hit in the head and he said no and I asked him again are you sure and he said yes that’s what pissed me off cuz I know

I got hit in the head and then you see the replay is pretty obvious that I got hit in the head and then you look you look me in my eye and tell me that I didn’t I think that needs to be investigated I can’t wait till 4:00

Tomorrow what happens at 4:00 tomorrow the 2minute roll I just can’t wait till 4:00 what what what you bothered about I’m not bothered this buddy he told me that he followed so I can’t wait for the can’t wait for the last minute report well Mr Missoula we are 40

Minutes away from getting that last two-minute report but we do have this from LeBron James see what I’m saying clearly he got hit on the head they reviewed the play they reverse it man what good game to have an ending like that you see I would be going bleep

Bleep out there when that happens big perk we got plenty of voices weighing in on a crucial call down the stretch here but my question is should the Celtics fans be more upset about the reversal of the call or the fact that they blew a double- digit lead at

Halftime Malik if they going to be doing all this CME Jaylen Brown was LeBron what the babies go do you gotta leave the room for some babies to cry out here in the world as well listen at the end of the day I always hop on this you

Cannot leave the game in the official’s hands right and this is what it came down to it was still a tied game before Pingas went on the other end and foued so at the end of the day the Celtics blowing that League especially with Indiana the best player being out well

Going out because the injury and Tyrese halberton like that that’s problem like they shouldn’t be complaining about that complain on why they actually gave up 133 points and they’re one of the best defensive teams in the league like complain about that complain about why they couldn’t close or finish the game

When they had the league that’s what I hate about this situation like these situations when it comes down to officials or a game winning shot or Miss free throws everybody want to come back to the last moment and forget what happened in the first second and third

Quarter yeah I want to hear that crime not to mention I mean missing Tyrese Halbert and there’s just a whole lot going on there perk thank you all right the result of the actual game aside though on the Pacer side of things what’s likely going to have the biggest

Impact right is the fact that Tyrese halberton is going to miss some time here now look at this Tyrese has been a breakout star of the season right his absent it means the Pacers offense is going to be without the league leader in assists who is putting up numbers we

Haven’t seen since John Stockton in the mid and really there isn’t a lot of margin for error here this is what I mean take a look at the Eastern standings over here there’s essentially a five way tie here for fourth place what does that mean that means only one

Team that has a 21 and 15 record would have homecourt advantage in a playoff Ser series if the postseason got underway today while two of them would have to fight their way through the playin just to make the playoffs that’s kind of wild zacho out of all of those

Teams that we saw Mumble jumbled up in this mess who’s the team you have your eye on oh they’re lurking they’re lurking we haven’t been talking about them much but they’re always lurking the Miami Heat 21 and 15 hey remember us the team that was in

The they played Jimmy Butler bam out bio and Tyler hero have appeared together in eight of those 36 games Caleb Martin’s been hurt every bu’s been hurt Kyle Low’s been hurt here and there and they’re still 21 and 15 and remember all that stuff they didn’t get to trade for

Damen Lillard they still have it not that they’re going to trade all of it because they’re not trading at Hae hakz Jr period probably but they still got a lot of stuff to trade they are not scared of anybody you think the Miami Heat are scared of Boston and their big

Fat record Philadelphia Joel and be and Milwaukee who they beat in the playoffs two out of three times in the last five years they are not scared of anyone and I expect them to be aggressive going into the trade deadline to try and get one more guy and have Philly Milwaukee

And Boston quaking in their boots again oh God here comes Jimmy Butler and Bam and Eric spola they’re Lurking

Brian Windhorst, Kendrick Perkins, Zach Lowe and Chiney Ogwumike join Malika Andrews on NBA Today to discuss what moves the Los Angeles Lakers and the Toronto Raptors should be looking into making before the trade deadline, Celtics-Pacers controversial call and teams to watch in the Eastern Conference:

0:00 What can the Lakers do?
2:36 Lakers’ offensive issues
4:02 Should Alex Caruso return?
7:20 Boston Celtics vs. Indiana Pacers controversy
8:47 Jaylen Brown & Joe Mazzulla postgame
9:27 Celtics-Pacers reaction
11:07 Tyrese Haliburton missing time
12:05 East teams to keep an eye on

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