James Worthy reacts to LeBron and AD combines for 53 Pts as Lakers destroys Mavs 127-110

James Worthy reacts to LeBron and AD combines for 53 Pts as Lakers destroys Mavs 127-110

Hello and welcome to a sportset Lakers driven by your Southern California Honda dealers I’m Chris McGee joined by big game jamesworthy and Byron Scott Mike trudell and Mike bresnahan will be down at crypto.com Arena Lakers back up their brilliant performance on Monday MLK Day vers the Thunder with arguably even a

Better showing against the Dallas Mavericks dominating performance from the jump fellas three guys over 20 points 33 assists 32 to four in F break points 62 paint points 43% from three and tacos for the fans let’s go back downtown D’Angelo Russell with down all right D’Angelo Russell a pretty thorough

Team performance tonight zooming out a little bit uh has the offense started to come together a little bit like what are you seeing on that end as you guys are getting pretty good shots the last several games I think every game um that we play is going to present something

Different and um as of late it’s been easy to figure out out kind of what the game’s presenting for us um could be anybody’s night for us just keep sharing the ball and just playing the right way makes teams have to guard us you know everybody so it’s it’s tough to guard

That you’ve seen it in a result tonight yeah you found a rhythm with the shooting coming into this won the last five games around 19 points close to 50% tonight you get the 29 five more threes where are you starting to find your shots cuz it’s looking a little more

Like it did during that late season run and then into the playoffs last year yeah just being aggressive I learned a lot from last year um coming into this year with the Open Mind of um if I if I’m not creating my own shot or nobody’s

Creating a shot for me I can create my own shot from numerous amounts of places on the floor so getting to those spots KN when I work on them and just getting to them with confidence the bench units seem to have come together as well vanderbild seems to be getting closer to

Full health Haim mura coming off there Christian and Max you and Austin kind of Staggering with that group what are you seeing from the bench guys like I said it could be anybody’s night when we playing the right way those guys guys feel you know involved those guys are

You know contributing a lot of things to the to the game like you said ruy V getting there Cam’s not there but when he’s healthy we we’re just a deep team so being able to utilize all the guys is is our special power all right so two

More home games coming up with Brooklyn and Portland what do you guys need to carry over from these two wins against OKC and then tonight against Dallas two two strong uh topheavy teams um we see that we can compete with any team in the league so being able to get these two

Let’s just keep it going you know got a big road trip coming up so finding a way to in in end the hom stand with a with a nice road trip coming up with some with some confidence and some wins all right D’Angelo we appreciate it appreciate it man

Too D’Angelo Russell with another great performance and I’m going to show you his numbers over the last four games listen he had 29 tonight on 11 of 205 of seven for three but look what he’s done the last four games guys that’s 16 for 32 from three 50% you see the big

Scoring output 19 and 39 those came in losses right didn’t really celebrate that but you get to the Thunder game the efficiency the Mavericks game and uh big game James it’s it’s a huge Plus for this team when D’s cooking it is gater and and that’s what

That’s what they that’s what they bought him here for uh he’s been in the league long enough uh to mature to a point where he he should be playing this way regardless of you know whether he’s coming off the bench or whether he’s starting or whether it’s trade talk he’s

Been in the league long enough and been through enough that he should be steady consistent and I love what I’m seeing out of him right now uh he’s keeping his mind focused on the game uh coming in you know navigating getting other guys involved uh it reminds me of you know

When he was in Ohio State almost he was really you know possessing a lot of game uh he’s got a little bit stronger upper body so he’s they don’t take full advantage of him on the defensive end but he has a a lot to offer as return as

A threat with his offensive skills he’s very crafty too I mean you look at those last four games he’s almost averaging 25 points a game and you put that along side of AD and LeBron you going to win some basketball games that’s a big three right there that’s a big three right

There so do the math B yeah I mean it’s very simple right and I think clev hit it right on the head is he’s maturing he’s becoming much more of a professional and understanding his role and understanding what he has to do on a night toight basis and again you got to

Give him a lot of credit cuz he’s uh he’s he’s putting up some good numbers in the last four games and two of them against very good basketball team over 75 points between the big three tonight yeah impressive with a big two with everyone else contributing everyone else contributing

Yeah I mean I I love what he said uh on any night it could be anybody’s night and that’s that’s kind of what you want to be unpredictable as you take a look at the the the three-headed monster tonight 20220 Vision yeah uh that would

Be hard to beat if they could keep that up and get the contribution uh that’s a big bucket baller uh I hear my man say 2020 producer B more more old school TW TW TW uh but but yeah you you take a look at those guys you look at those numbers

The only thing I’m disappointed with you know you got this game under control it’s it’s it’s it’s done yeah it’s a win coaches on that sideline you see stat sheets you know tell somebody man look a needs one more assist two minutes left in the third two

Minutes left in the third quarter didn’t play a lot in the fourth quarter cuz the game was pretty much in hand man get this man a triple double number one so he can have his third number two it’ be the first one he had a triple double

With a win cuz remember he took a lot of the blame on himself for that Utah game and he had a epic performance just didn’t shoot the ball well but he had a performance that only CID had 11 and four yeah but it’s still a 20

Twin twin yeah it really is I put myself back in the game yeah you’re right coach I need one assist I’m going back in Honestly though guys it’s it’s super fun to see uh you know ad just the level he’s at that competitive fire that we

Always knew he had but he got critiqued for often um he’s on the floor he’s reliable and he is just doing it on both ends and he is demanding uh I mean big game he comes out in that first quarter he he puts up 10 12 every single game

Him this focused and ready to go and I think it’s been trending over the last two or three years you know they Wanton in the bubble he’s been around LeBron watching that leadership and kind of watching uh how it’s done I don’t think he really knew exactly how in New

Orleans even though he was playing great basketball there uh but I think he’s realized being under the under the spotlight being under the microscope being in Los Angeles uh being under the gun every night knowing what’s expected of him and he’s taken all that on and somehow in the last couple years he

Conjured up maturity leadership focus and he knows it’s his team right now even though LeBron is still here he knows this is his team and he’s playing like it is I I love the words you just used and Mike trell and I were talking with ad’s Dad uh the other night after

The game great guy by the way if you ever gotten to meet him just a great young a great guy um and and we were talking about ad and pumping him up and the funny thing about ad which I love when you talking about as maturity is

Listen if the Lakers were doing better record he’d be in the MVP conversation a defensive player of the year doubt he’d be right in there but he’s not because but he doesn’t he just wants to win games and I think that’s the sign of a leader and maturity it’s not about those

Things that we care about he just wants to win games right team right in the good spot and again that’s rub rubbing off because of LeBron James yeah because that’s LeBron James he just wants to win he don’t care about numbers and he don’t care about stats and all this he wants

To win ad is the same way and I think right now uh all you haters back in the day and and all you guys who’ve been criticizing him about his toughness and uh about trading him getting rid of AD you know I hope you eating your words

And and also hope you be a man and apologize that’s right apologize to this man for coming out taking all that in and accepting it all like you have to do when you in La took accountability took accountability but now the way he’s playing right now go up and apologize to

That man and tell him you’re sorry for even thinking that because he is one of the best players in this league and right now he’s playing at an MVP level where would you have to be in order to be in the conversation if he moves up if they could move up to

Say like fifth be there big game you got to be top four he just I think for MVP defensive player of the year maybe a little different that’s the unfortunate thing we’ve been talking a lot about that like on the non a but his level of play big game is up

There with top three I’d rather have a MVP in the finals they I like 100% by the way you do somebody who has had one somebody who had one he could speak on it he could speak Mike like that over there referee Jersey all right let’s hear from Darin ham he’s speaking

With Mike in the media hey Darin you’ve been home for most of this month now and had more shoot rounds that have you feel like there’s been some progress with the offense and just understanding it where guys are going the ball movement and what do you think’s been behind that uh

I just think uh guys getting back healthy and not just healthy but in game shape um you saw it firstand with the job V did both guarding Luca and uh Kyrie his ability to pick up Full Court deny him his activity the Run outs you know coming up with steals loose balls

Long rebounds what have you uh

James Worthy reacts to LeBron and AD combines for 53 Pts as Lakers destroys Mavs 127-110