‘Rockets were READY FOR SOME BEEF’ 😳 – Perk on Dillon Brooks’ antics vs. LeBron & Lakers | NBA Today

‘Rockets were READY FOR SOME BEEF’ 😳 – Perk on Dillon Brooks’ antics vs. LeBron & Lakers | NBA Today

So this week right we got the 50th chapter of LeBron versus Steph one of the NBA’s greatest rivalries of the century LeBron’s had plenty of historic Rivals right you think about LeBron versus Kobe you think about LeBron versus Kevin Durant you think about LeBron versus the Celtics and then you

Think about the storied rivalry of LeBron James sorry Dylan Brooks the Lakers they were in Houston last night your city chaum the Rockets got off to a good start but that’s not what everyone was chattering about take a look at Dylan Brooks here kind of undercutting Jared Vanderbilt a completely unnecessary play

I am so mad at the outcome of Dylan Brooks Antics that we’re not talking about all the good that Houston did early on first quarter in the SEC in the first half as well there was plenty of good that he did but watch This Jared Vanderbilt he pushes Dylan Brooks there he was

Given given a second technical here and then was tossed out of the game yeah he didn’t get much really money for his money’s worth right here I mean a little flick in the back of the head barely touch but he’s gone and this what Dylan Brooks wants right he wants to instigate

You to overreact and you’re the one that pays the price so out goes Jared Vanderbilt but Dylan Brooks he had a little bit more left in the tank here CH watch him on this play here passes out I mean there was some good here for the Houston Rockets but then what’s going on

With LeBron a non basketball play that you see right here by Dylan Brooks I mean swiping at the ball and then making some kind of gesture at his head like to me there’s no place in the game for that so Brooks is given a flagrant foul James

Stays in the game here here’s a little bit of the good that Dylan Brooks would contribute he hits a shot over LeBron haunting right there let’s know it the Lakers they lose big in this one here’s Anthony Davis on Brooks Antics last night yeah I mean he going for you know

Wide open dunk and you just push him in the back it’s not a safe play You know guys be hurt like that you got to know the type of player he is um you kind of but they just keep going on and kind of provoked it you know he talks and says

Whatever he wants to the refs to players and at the end of day we men we were here earlier in the year uh we asked you about Brooks and you said next question okay next question but I have a question because as promised Perkins AER here Kendrick what’s your reaction to

This latest chapter the Antics from Dylan Brooks you know the pushing the back with Jared vanderbel yes it was unnecessary but I don’t want to hear anything about what Dylan Brooks did for as his Antics let’s talk about how Dylan Brooks set the tone with his tenacity

And let’s talk about how the Lakers weren ready knowing that they were walking into some beef the the Rockets was ready to make hamburgers and they did see here’s the thing right we saw LeBron James and e may udoka get into it in the crypto.com arena we know the

History between LeBron and Dylan Brooks since last year right throughout the whole course of the postseason so this was expected they just didn’t match the energy and my thing is is this we’re not going to sit up here and talk about his Antics let’s talk about what he brought

To the table and what he brings to this Rockets organization and that’s tenacity he’s been playing hell of a basketball and he knew that they were geared up I think what the Lakers and them are what ninth and 10th for us in the in the west

They might have to see each other in the playin tournament they know it’s tension Zach are you with perk on this look I’m sorry perk I get what you’re saying and yes the Lakers have much bigger problems than Dylan Brooks but there’s a difference between the Antics as we’re calling it you know

Talking trash getting in people’s face going chest to chest that push in the back is one of the most dangerous things you can do in basketball and Anthony Davis is right people do get hurt that that way you flashed back a decade plus ago Andrew bogot was never the same

After he went up for a dunk and Amari STM got him in the back and he landed wrong and snapped his arm was never the same guy still a good player never the same guy that is totally separate you should get thrown out of the game for

That and the Lakers are right to be pissed off about it it’s a completely dangerous act we can talk all you want about the Lakers but I think we got to separate the Antics which is fine Dylan the bill and all that it’s a little tiresome but fine that push in the back

The Lakers were Justified to be upset about it yeah I I think I’m with Zach on this it feels like that was a little bit more than just basketball I mean it seems like the story of the Lakers season is whenever they get a big win it’s immediately just followed by a loss

To a team that they’re expected to beat so how can they get out of this back and forth cycle and take the next step I think it all gets back to the mentality of the team this is a team that is really just built for the postseason right that’s what they’re thinking about

They’re not a team that’s going to bring that level of intensity every night in the regular season their roster isn’t made up that way they’re not a good good enough three-point shooting team to like win those trade baskets type of games which is what the league has a lot of

Nights they’re not going to win those so you’ve got to come with that mentality to be bigger more physical take advantage of the weapons they have to differentiate them from their opponent and they just don’t show up like that they can still get up for the big games

You saw how hard they played in the Warriors game the other night like those Marquee games Spotlight type games they’ll get up for those but then they get a team like Houston coming in that look they play hard Houston does compete and you’ve got to be ready and you can

Take it from them early and kind of take their will if you can do it that’s not who the Lakers are they they’re a team that’s just going to muddle through the regular season and expect to be able to put forth some sort of run in the second

Half maybe after a move can’t M they can’t muddle too far though because they they can’t they don’t have the ability to just climb back up yeah and you can’t muddle through an 82 Game season and you’re absolutely right the Lakers are built to be more physical especially

With the way ad has been playing and even LeBron James being a point forward they’re built to be bigger right but then they run into theou H Rockets who are small I mean their Center that we talk about is alarin shenon who’s basically having his way with the entire

NBA in an impressive way I really really disagree with perk on this I think Dylan Brooks no one is a bigger fan of the Houston Rockets than myself here at ESPN that is true I support D Dylan Brooks becoming a rocket but I do not support

The way they win and how he handles those situations like we saw Yes we know there’s a history with LeBron James yeah we get that but still those are d plays and I think anybody that supports the Houston Rockets would not support those types of plays right even though they

Help you win the game was lost early on and that’s the story of the Lakers the Lakers they come out and they don’t do well in first quarters the Rockets they’ve been playing so well I mean we’re not talking about cam Whitmore we’re not talking about the 20 uh you

Know first half fast break points we’re talking about these Antics and to me it’s more about the Lakers ineptitude in the first quarter it’s also about them being 15th in defense and 21st in offense they’re a middle of the packed team like you mentioned they get up for

The big games but that’s something sometimes not enough runway for them to run it back twice in backto back years right perk it sounds like go ahead what yeah yeah sh I never said I supported Dylan Brooks for as his Antics I’m talking about the tenacity that he

Bought for as getting into LeBron James defensively I watched that entire game yesterday he brings a certain type of tenacity I didn’t never say that I support him pushing Jared vanderville in the back or swiping LeBron I said I didn’t want to talk about that I wanted

To talk about how great the Rockets played and Dylan Brooks did play some excellent basketball yesterday and he has played excellent basketball all season long and so when when the lake go ahead go ahead no it’s just those sorts of things I think is saying that overshadow at times because here’s the

Thing Dylan Brooks was assessed a technical foul he stayed in the game or flagrant foul rather he stayed in the game this time but the next time that could be getting tossed from a game like that and then you really are taking away away from your team but perks you want

To talk about the basketball I do want to continue down that path a little bit Zack what when CH is talking about the defensive lapses for the Lakers things of that nature What specifically did you see in last night’s game well last night I just felt like they got outworked there were multiple

Instances of loose balls and gang rebounds and just there would be three or four Lakers standing around and one of these young Rockets cam Whitmore did it two or three times which just burst through there ruy hamur you’re just looking at the ball I’m going to come

Take it and look we can sit here and talk about the Lakers being built for the playoffs here’s the reality the Lakers right now are built to be in the 910 game in the playing tournament that’s how far back they are they’re playing in a different Universe than the

Top four teams in the west who have lapped the field in that conference totally different top four in terms of talent and stability than the Lakers ran through last year until they ran into Denver who is still there obviously look this team is 21st in offense 15th in

Defense they have a worse scoring margin than the Brooklyn Nets and last year there were all these ifs we could point to if LeBron and AD can be healthy well they’ve been healthy if they could rearrange their team with a Russell Westbrook trade they did that and it

Worked what are the ifs this year they’ve been healthy I don’t know if there’s a big restructuring trade on the horizon they’re new starting five despite the Angela Russell shooting lights out is minus 10 for the season they don’t seem to have any answer that

Can work for more than a quarter and a half and time is running out until we have to stop talking about this as a playoff built team because they’re not there right now right sure there were little stretches right at the beginning of the season they were without Jared

Vanderbilt they were without ruy haimura there were portions of that but right now this team has everything and you would think with Anthony Davis with LeBron James playing at the level that they have been playing at the same team that went to the Western Conference Finals we’re not feeling the same way

About that team He

Tim Legler, Chiney Ogwumike, Kendrick Perkins and Zach Lowe join Malika Andrews on NBA Today to react to Dillon Brooks’ and the Houston Rockets antics and fouls vs. LeBron and the Los Angeles Lakers.

0:00 LeBron vs. Dillon Brooks antics
4:37 How can Lakers get out of cycle?
6:07 Chiney & Perk debate on Dillon Brooks
8:32 Zach Lowe on why Lakers are losing

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