FIRST TAKE| Lakers have become a serious threat in the West after adding Spencer Dinwiddie – Shannon

FIRST TAKE| Lakers have become a serious threat in the West after adding Spencer Dinwiddie – Shannon

The West Coast Shannon toown the Lakers stood Pat at the trade deadline but are getting better through the buyout Market guard Spencer Den witty chose to sign with the Lakers over other options his reasoning explained y the two situations time felt like this right let’s say you were a kid you got

Your ass whooped by the bully Dallas would have been like your mama being like it’s okay baby don’t worry about it Lakers are like your dad now you better go out there and and fight till you win you feel me and I just felt like that was what I need at the time

Obviously one in season tournament have played Big Time basketball the past several years um obviously sometimes it’s hard to maintain that you know what I’m saying throughout the whole season but at the end of the day they know how to win um that’s what you know every every night they’re going to get

Somebody’s Best Shot just because of the name that’s on the front of the uniform all right night cap oh he’s not here there he is yeah Club Shay Hall of Famer parties parties that he doesn’t invite people to what else Super Bowl champion First Take did I miss anything now you

Good no M his res his resume longer than the Christmas break yeah try TR try to be objective try to be objective what’s the Lakers ceiling this season you asking me yeah oh man you know the feeling you know the feeling is perk like Michael Jordan said the

Ceiling is the floor the finals they can get to the finals if you if DLo going to 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’t getting the bouquet of roses but I’m gonna 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 I a’t giving you 2577

Perk and DLo oh DLo B on that thing and we did we got Kobe of the Ozarks look put perk up stand up sit up in your seat you SLP down your seat the teacher is talking to you Perkins the NBA finals are their ceiling look you are so wrong you 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 proved 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 haven’t beat them

Since I don’t know when like they they haven’t beat them in in forever so when I think about those three teams alone standing in the way of the Los Angeles Lakers it 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 carry 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 some time I’m

Going to have to go through him or I’m G have to go through car Anthony towns and Rudy goldbert and 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 he 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 kozma 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 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 them 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 per 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 has 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 de with it we got a guy that can give us 10 to 12 points Off the Bench with ruy and uh 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 Conference because it Go James you right I mean on I guarantee I guarantee you par

We get it at least to the Western Conference Final 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 Western Conference Finals send your boy one of them more puppies that what you do all right perk Wendy uh nobody out

Here doing it with blocks except Victor WN banama the Spurs rookie put up a stat line that has never been done before 27 points 14 rebounds 10 blocks and five assists in just 29 minutes Kendrick talk to me how good can WBY be in the league Molly I said a couple weeks ago

That Anthony Elward was going to be the face of the NBA and I was wrong as hell it’s going to be this young man right here Victor wiim Bamba he is going to be the best player in the league on both sides of the floor we have never seen

Nothing like him the way he specializes defensively on the perimeter and in the interior offensively I said this before he’s a 74 version of Kevin Durant with the handles the ball skills the pullup Trey Ball San Antonio has something special outside of the rodeo that they

Host every single year sure do you love the rodeo but perk it’s not your first r AO but you got to roll with the punches son Slims At Your Service Strictly Business nothing personal po it out your team has destroyed a [Applause] tower come out Tower is under

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FIRST TAKE | Lakers have become a serious threat in the West after adding Spencer Dinwiddie – Shannon