Lakers’ ceiling the FINALS⁉ Shannon Sharpe & Perk Debate 🍿 + Bucks & Wolves big wins | First Take

Lakers’ ceiling the FINALS⁉ Shannon Sharpe & Perk Debate 🍿 + Bucks & Wolves big wins | First Take

What’s the Lakers ceiling this season you asking me yeah oh man you know the sea leag you know the SE league is perk like Michael Jordan said the SE leag is the floor the finals they can get to the finals if you if DLo Gonna Keep playing like this I’m not and

Anthony Davis has only missed a handful of games that’s all I wanted I don’t want my B with Stephen A Stephen A say he gonna miss 15 games by Valentine’s Day well guess what I Ain getting the bouquet of roses but I’m going to get something better than that perk they’re

Flo they’re they’re cealing they can make the finals with Anthony Davis playing the way he’s playing LeBron James LeBron Co and I ain’t giving you 2577 perk and DLo oh DLo bit on that thing and we did we got Kobe of the Ozarks look put per up stand up sit up

In your feet you SL down to your seat the teacher is talking to you Perkins the NBA f finals are their ceiling look you are so wrong you are so wrong and and here’s why okay first of all their ceiling is the second round okay they’re not better than the two

Teams that we watched battle last night in the Western Conference and that’s the Clippers in the Minnesota Timberwolves that’s first off and they prove to us what that game showed us is that you have to have Elite Wing defenders in order to make it pass and contend for a

Title the Lakers don’t have that and then let’s talk about the defending champs they haven’t beat the Lakers haven’t beat them since I I don’t know when like they they they haven’t beat them in and forever so when I think about those three teams alone standing

In the way of the Los Angeles Lakers it eliminates them from even thinking about winning the title this season and you know how I feel about LeBron James he’s the greatest player to ever touch the damn basketball but he also is 39 years of age and we saw last year we saw what

Kick in we we saw fatigue kick in in the postseason we saw him get tired because of the load that he had to car throughout the postseason and we don’t know what Anthony Davis is going to give us on a consistent basis in the postseason and he has still still to

This day he still has to look at yage and say you know what at some point at sometime I’m going to have to go through him or I’m going to have to go through car Anthony towns and Rudy goldbert is not going to happen all right so Shannon

Let’s let’s go over to the Primrose path and I’m going to take you down it and show you what needs to happen for the Lakers I’m going to construct what needs to happen all right number one as of right now they’re three games back of the number eight spot which is held by

The Dallas Mavericks and in a a weirdest side there I don’t really understand what Spencer was talking about with moms and dads and whatever and why chose the Lakers over the Mavericks but Kyle kma came out yesterday and told the athletic that uh he had a the Wizards and the

Mavericks had agreed to a trade for Kyle kosma and kozma asked them not to trade him to Dallas and the Wizards honored the request even though they didn’t have to so now we have Spencer dwy and and Kyle kba so they don’t want to play for Dallas that’s an interesting little side

Note but I will say that Dallas has won five games in a row they are playing well right now they are three games ahead of the Lakers so the Lakers really need to walk down the e seed why because if you are the nine seed you’re looking

At Steph in the first round in the playin and even if you get by that game you got to win two games the big disadvantage between eight and nine is you got to win two games to get in and perk is right I know LeBron looks great

But at 39 you don’t want him to have to play two games then immediately enter a series so walk down the Mavericks or whoever else is in front of you you got to break because then the Jazz have kind of disqualified themselves they tore pieces off at the deadline now you get

Potentially Oklahoma City in the in the next round in the first round I think they could beat Oklahoma City because they have size on them they’ve had success against them home and Road this year then you try to make things interesting with with LeBron ad in your

Defense yeah I agree well you know what perk maybe the Western Conference Finals is as far as they get because we see them get to the Western Conference Finals through the play in and DLo wasn’t playing last year like he’s currently playing I believe Austin Reeds is stepped up his plate and Anthony

Davis has been more consistent this year than last year and LeBron is LeBron so with those four pieces and now we got D with it we got a guy that can give us 10 to 12 points Off the Bench with ruie and uhh Christian Woods I like it I like it

Perk I think you I think you talking with your heart and not your brain right now because the the top of you the brain of you is telling you that the Lakers are not that damn good in the western confence because it Go James you right I

Mean I guarantee I guarantee you per we get at least to the Western Conference Final let put something on it let’s put something on it look I’ll put I’ll put this on it I’ll put something on it damn it if they don’t make it you better pull

Me on Club sh Shay I want to interview I want some I want some of that yak too and when they get and when they get hey and when they get to the at least to the the confence finals s your boy one of them more puppies that what you

Do uh bigger statement Minnesota or Milwaukee Minnesota they went to they went to the Clippers building and beat the team that had gone 27- six over the last 33 games and did a demolition job on them these are two top teams in the Western Conference and they went to your

House and they beat you down uh I don’t really know what else to say Anthony Edward had didn’t have a great night he was one I think it was one for 11 from the three-point line but like you said that dominant third quarter for outscored him 40 19 and they did a job

The Clippers had looked I mean if you hadn’t watched the Clippers over the last 33 games you said that team’s coming out of the West because that’s how well they had played kawh leard had played himself into the MVP discussion nicoa yic uh Shay Giles and then you

Have to put kawhai or Giannis in that three4 spot that’s how well they had been playing they had been playing James Harden had ingratiated himself in the offense doing a great job of Distributing the basketball and when they need him to score he could score and we know Paul George those guys was

Playing great but what the Timberwolves did by going into the and beating them down that was a much bigger win than the Nuggets losing on the road in Milwaukee the Timberwolves wo they showing you something perk let me let me tell you why you’re wrong U let me let me tell you why

You’re wrong you said that their record was 27 and six the Clippers okay one of those six losses came against the Timberwolves about three weeks ago when it comes down to the Minnesota Timberwolves they have beaten every top team in the NBA they handed the nuggets the the Nuggets their first loss they

Handed the Celtics their first loss they beat the Clippers twice they beat they have beaten the Bucks they have beaten every single contending team in the league so it wasn’t surprising and I believe that the Clippers right now the last six games that they played I mean

The Minnesota Timo was the last six games that they played against the Clippers they won five out of six if I’m not mistaken but when it comes down to the Bucks I said this on NBA Countdown last night and Molly they called me everything but a child of God when I

Said this I said the Bucks were in a must-win situation because they have been battling the flu all season long but they kept going to Walgreens and CVS trying to get that over-the-counter medicine all of a sudden they got their antibiotics last night and when you think about the Milwaukee Bucks when you

Labeled as a contender you’re the defended chaps are coming into your house and you need that signature win damn it they proved that last night and that duo of of Brook Lopez and jannis tupo anchoring that defense against jic last night without Chris midon was a

Beautiful thing to uh watch and it was a statement win and it was a must- win and they got it done under Doc Rivers a must win before a must hey hey Wendy a must win before the allstar game damn okay go ahead Wendy take off you didn’t say you

You you didn’t say you didn’t say that when ad said hey say you didn’t say that when ad said it when they said they needed a must win against Oklahoma City after the End season tournament bro the the Lakers the Lakers had won four games at that point point of course it

Was no come on perk you know with with Shannon with Shannon every Laker game is a must-win game they’re playing the Pistons tonight must-win game for HK okay uh the answer to Molly’s question is that it was a bigger win for the bucks but I want to just say something

Real quick about the Timberwolves size size size this is a big bad strong defensive team and their size gives teams problems they’re three and 0 against the nuggets and Clippers this year the Clippers as awesome as they are have issues with really big teams it’s their big challenge against the Nuggets

Eventually they just lost last week to the CLI to the uh the Cavs because they play with so much size and they defend defense travels they’re the best road team in my opinion in the NBA their record shows that but the Bucks before the last two games had lost uh five of

The first six games that Doc Rivers coached their defense wasn’t showing much improvement they are able to get back-to-back games where they give up less than 100 points that’s the first time that’s happened for them in 3 years so for the bucks to get that win even

Though it’s at home even though it’s in February to get a couple of good defensive performances in a row that was huge for [Applause] Them

Shannon Sharpe, Kendrick Perkins and Brian Windhorst join Molly Qerim on First Take to answer what the Los Angeles Lakers’ ceiling is this season and who got the bigger statement win between the Milwaukee Bucks and the Minnesota Timberwolves.

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