Woj: The Lakers are keeping their eyes on Bruce Brown 👀 | NBA Countdown

Woj: The Lakers are keeping their eyes on Bruce Brown 👀 | NBA Countdown

Always 4 hours before tip off in the building it’s not even that cold in La it’s not that’s the fit man come on the fit is iy the fit is icy that means you know he needs business tonight as the Lakers host the Brooklyn Nets so Los Angeles they’ve actually reverted back

To their opening like night starting lineup LeBron James Anthony Davis tan Prince de Russell and Austin Reeves they’ve won both games since they made that shift they’ve also out scored opponents by 17 more than double any other Lakers fiveman line up during that span Darin ham said he plans to ride

With the starting lineup for the foreseeable future but we also know the trade deadline is coming faster and faster by the day what are the Lakers plans here W you know from the time the Lakers lost to Denver got eliminated in The Conference finals last year there’s been one player they’ really been

Focused on trying to acquire Bruce Brown Jr he was on that Denver team that eliminated them Denver couldn’t afford to keep him and in free agency if Indiana had not stepped up with a 2-year 45 $5 million deal there’s a very good chance Bruce Brown would have gone to

The Lakers for their middle level exception he took that bigger deal from Indiana the Lakers continue to try to trade for him with the Pacers now he’s in Toronto as part of the SE yakum deal and there’s been no shortage of teams reaching out to Toronto to try to get at

Bruce Brown he fits everywhere and the Lakers are among them and so I think you look at Toronto talked to M jery today you know he watched Bruce Brown essentially get off the plane yesterday walk out in the court shoot seven for 10 get seven rebounds this is they’re in a

Rebuild and they’re going to go very very young in Toronto he does see the value of a 27y old tough veteran around his young players but there is a big market for Bruce Brown teams like New York are interested but continue to watch the Lakers with Bruce Brown to see

If there’s a pathway you know he again he could have very well ended up with them in free agency before Indiana stepped up with that $45 million two-year deal no the the most impressive thing about Bruce Brown is I was kind of there during his emergence when he was

With the Brooklyn Nets and he was playing with Kyrie and he was playing with KD so he knows how to play with superstars you saw him show up in Denver and immediately have an impact there in Denver so yes he is one of those guys

When you look at we talk about adults in the room the Josh Harts the Dante D venzo those are the guys that are like plugin pieces they’re goo pieces and you can he’s a great defender he can roll to the basket he played small ball four and

Five for for Brooklyn back in the day for me he is such an important piece and that was a big loss for Denver but there are a lot of people targeting I think he’s a great pickup for whoever gets him yeah and the Lakers are certainly looking right to see how they can

Improve just little bits here but theyve found something with this lineup they’re two and up if we take a look at their schedule of their games that are upcoming here they essentially have one game in their next several the Clippers it’s against a team that’s above 500 so

When you look at this CH it feels like this is a runway for the Lakers to sort of get back to where they want to be what do they need to do in this disrespect to your Rockets okay me alone the Rockets are still competitive in the west okay they’re still competitive so

No shade there but what do the Lakers need to do they need to continue to make shots and finally keeping their Shooters confident D’Angelo Russell has turned the corner as of the last few games being able to make his shots I mean AD and LeBron those two guys that pick and

Roll that is Unstoppable but at the end of the day the rest of the NBA has gotten better and so you’re supporting Cass needs to finally getting more production off of the bench now inserting DLo you know back into more of the rot rotation Reeves being out there

I’m happy with this Balan starting line they leaned so far towards defense that they couldn’t keep up with the rest of the NBA now they balanced things out towards offense they’re playing better and their role players are actually performing a knocking down shot well they’re still in the bottom of Def

Defense and they’re going to be and and listen this lineup change is all about one person and one person only Anthony Davis this benefits him and they’re showing us that he is about to be their focal point offensively we saw last game he had nine assists every time they came

Double now you have toori and Prince Austin Rees and D’Angelo Russell guys that are spacers even LeBron James and I said this at the beginning of the season it’s time for br to really hand the keys over to ad I know he’s been trying but now it seems like Anthony Davis want the

Keys we’re talking about a guy that is a top three big in the league when I look at embid and joic and no disrespect to Giannis but right now Anthony Davis today not what he did in the past is playing better back basketball on both ends than jannis too so I think this

Lineup change is more so about ad than it is anybody else and it’s going to work fine for him I ain’t saying they winning the championship but it’s going to do good by it look I’m not going to address the Giannis disrespect but um look you’re face though disrespect cuz

He four no no he’s a two time MVP I didn’t say his P okay whatever anyways but this is the big thing right here they are playing outstanding Anthony Davis is the key but like you said you got to want the keys you can’t just be a

Passenger princess you got to want the keys you got to want the ball you got to go to work cuz that forces the pressure then you can kick out then guys get open shots but it starts with him being aggressive and we’ve seen That

Adrian Wojnarowski joins NBA Countdown to discuss what the Los Angeles Lakers’ trade deadline gameplan could be.

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