Lakers SURGING 📈 + Bucks BIGGEST THREAT to the Celtics? 🤔 | Get Up

Lakers SURGING 📈 + Bucks BIGGEST THREAT to the Celtics? 🤔 | Get Up

Let’s get to the NBA legler we opened the show showing you the Lakers continuing to roll they knock off Oklahoma City for those of you not paying attention the Thunder are just about as good as anybody in the west D’Angelo Russell leading the way last night with 26 Anthony Davis had 24 and

12 LeBron had 19 and 11 the Lakers have now won the season series against the Thunder three games to one and they have the sixth best record in the NBA since the start of February and a big reason why that has been is they have surged around LeBron James Anthony Davis

Averaging 25 points a game and 13 rebounds D’Angelo Russell stepping up what he’s been doing all the conversation about them being so reliant on LeBron getting a little less noisy and so quickly legs as we revisit this again we showed you the highlight of the

Game off the top of the show we take their temperature a lot in in December they were pretty good right I mean they win the playin I keep calling it The playin sorry the inseason tournament and and and then all of a sudden I mean they just disappear basically for the month

Of January all of a sudden do they look like a team that could get on a roll yeah saying we take their temperature a lot it’s the understatement of the I walk around with a thermometer in my hand at all times so we could take the Lakers temperature this is a roller

Coaster ride I love the graphic we just put up we can talk about LeBron because LeBron’s always great LeBron is not the variance with this team the variance comes from Anthony Davis D’Angelo Russell Austin Reeves hachimura some of their role playing three-point Shooters and Anthony Davis to me is the biggest

Difference during this stretch he’s just been so physically dominant his energy has been off the charts when he plays against smaller front lines as the Oklahoma City Thunder have he absolutely destroys them with his skill his size his strength um and LeBron and and Anthony Davis the way they can impose

What they can do physically on certain teams it’s a little bit too much now look they’ve had some really good wins they 10 and four their last 14 they’ve beaten some Bottom Feeders and they’ve lost lost to some good teams it’s a mixed bag they’re in a very interesting

Stretch right now greeny there they are three games into a stretch of 10 out of 11 at home so you can and some of those teams are like middle of the pack to below you’re going to start to see the Lakers continue to climb a little bit here and really make things interesting

But they finish I believe with eight out of 10 on the rad so that stretch at the end I I still think when it’s all said and done there’s a very good chance the Lakers are a playin team y they’ve got a lot of ground to make up three games in

A lost on Phoenix to get out of the playin Phoenix is going to continue to win games once they get all three guys on a court that’s a big if um so I don’t know that the Lakers can catch New Orleans can catch Phoenix I think

They’re going to be a playing team so it’s a dicey precarious situation when you’re in a one-off situation potentially right but there’s no doubt they are more interesting and compelling than they were you know six weeks ago there’s no question about it all right let me give you another one then so I

Don’t do the league I don’t do the games anymore but that doesn’t mean I’m not paying attention so I’m going to tell you what I think in Milwaukee last night tonight no Giannis no problem Damien Lillard 41 points the Bucks beat the Clippers who are one of the best teams

In the league 113 106 after starting 3 and seven under dock Rivers Milwaukee is unbeaten since the All-Star break they’ve won six consecutive games and so here’s what I’m going to tell you we spent all yesterday oh the Celtics just beat Golden State by 107 points and no

One can even play with them here’s what I’m telling you by the time we get to the end of this regular season you and I will be having conversations about how it is a twoh horse race in the East Milwaukee is every bit as dangerous in

The east as the Celtics are and they will prove it by the time we get to the middle of April I would agree with that statement and I think a lot of that has to do with the fact that the Knicks look like a Civil War reenactment right now

Right I mean there there’s nobody healthy I know and we we’re waiting to see like what that would look like because I was very high on their acquisition four new players in their rotation all of whom fit well tibo has got a lot of depth but you have to have

Time to sort out a rhythm a flow a rotation if you’re Tom tibidos defensive communication it takes time and they’re so banged up so I think the Knicks are very interesting I’d watch out for the heat as well but I think you’re right right now the way that they’re playing

And and you know we said all along it’s going to take time with a coach it’s even harder for a coach than a player on the fly to really impact the team but they are definitely playing harder so some message has gotten through to the Milwaukee Bucks the way it all went down

With do and him leaving here and everything else there were a lot of people that were dying to pile on oh we’re we want to see this fail so badly and it starts out slowly so I think we overstated by we I mean sort of the the

Royal wi the world kind of overstated how significant that is as time goes on they’re going to get better and better so I’m not just telling you they’re the biggest threat to the Celtics in the East I think that’s almost an obvious statement I’m telling you I give them a

5050 shot of beating them when they they play each other in seven games I’ll take Giannis over anybody on the other side I would go 50 but I 4951 I I’d probably put that more at 6535 Celtics they they would deserve to be in the ring with

Them right and go toe to- toe at the end of the day the Boston Celtics because they’ve got five players in their starting lineup that have impact the game on both ends of the floor and they absolutely end you with their three-point shooting if you don’t have

An answer for that and I don’t think any teams in the Eastern Conference do Boston Celtics are going to play in the NBA Finals barring some sort of an injury but the Bucks are going to make that series and that discussion a lot more interesting the rest of the

Season wler for three because we all know he can knock down the three with absolutely anyone in history so here we go three big questions let’s start with the Bucks beating the Clippers last night they’ve won six straight they did it without Giannis last night where are

The bucks right now as far as being a legitimate threat to Boston in the East closing the Gap and clearly they will end up being the number one threat to the Boston Celtics because of the injuries with with the Knicks I think the Cavs there’s a lot of uncertainty

There can they really make that leap and the Miami Heat are just still lurking beneath the surface so it comes down to Milwaukee and Boston in the Eastern Conference they’re playing harder greeny that’s the bottom line they’re playing harder and I think Damen Lillard looks a little bit more comfortable than he has

To this point in the season I’m not in any way trying to diminish what the Celtics have done or are doing they’re a magnificent team they’re having one of the best regular seasons we’ve seen in quite sometime but when you get to a seven game series in May do you trust

The team that has Giannis and Dame on it or the team that right now that has had at least from historical perspective Tatum and brown I think right now I trust the team that’s got more weapons on both ends and that’s Boston at that starting five what they can put on the

Floor with those five players the number of threats they have offensively and the way that all five of those guys impact the game on the other end of the floor they’ve got depth I I even think Mula has been through this now one time right last year that was a tough situation for

Him to inherit a team right before the season that was expecting to win a championship he was called into questioning the playoffs with some decision making I think he’s pass that point I trust him now so ultimately it just comes down to the Celtics and the P

Fire power that they have that’s what I trust that’s fair I’m it’s a day of planting my flag for me I’m planting my flag in Milwaukee I’m telling you they’re going to wind up being a real threat to Boston in the playoffs all right next uh we saw we saw the Lakers

Beat the Thunder last night all of a sudden LeBron and the Lakers they had a very bad Janu AR they’ve gotten hot the last call it four or five weeks what does that look like as we go forward well listen when Anthony Davis is having this kind of an impact consistently and

It seems to be the always the question mark with the Lakers when he’s playing like this this physically dominant the Lakers absolutely are a team that you cannot turn your back on you’ve got to pay attention to them but it’s going to be a tough road for them I don’t see

Them getting out of the playin in the regular season you’re going to have to make up a lot of ground on some good teams to do that I don’t see that happening for the Lakers uh but I do see them being a legitimate threat to one of

Those top two seeds if it ends up being Minnesota and Oklahoma City I don’t think they threaten Denver but Minnesota Oklahoma City if you get the Lakers in a first round series and they’ve escaped the play in a lot of people at that point would put their money on the

Lakers to win those series I don’t know that I would I don’t have to make that decision yet I’ll see what it looks like at the time but I’m just saying that’s where a lot of people would be going if the Lakers are still alive at that point

Well look I mean it goes back to who you trust and in that situation I definitely trust LeBron Mor than anyone else on the floor and I want to show you one more thing so Victor wanyama was named the Rookie of the month in February in the Western Conference because of course you

Have to have two rookies of the month every month who is he the best rookie since yeah look I’m and I’m putting a lot of the stock in this on what happens on the defensive end of the floor but when you look at the total impact on

Both ends I think you got to go back to Tim Duncan uh really that 97 98 season and look let’s be clear about this Tim Duncan his rookie year the Spurs won 36 more games than they did the previous year they went 56 games now he was 21

Years old right he played in college for four years so it was a little bit different Victor wamis team won 13 games so you have to put that into consideration but I’m just talking about the overall impact on both ends of the floor I’m going with Duncan because

Listen green listen to this number hembo gave me do you know when Victor wanyama is on the court this is a 13- win team when he’s on the court for the Spurs that’s the sixth rated defensive team in the league when he’s off the floor they’re dead last that is the impact

That Victor web minyama has had on that end for for the for the purposes of context the year that Tim Duncan came in as a rookie David Robinson had been hurt the year before that’s why they were so bad they didn’t just get the rookie Duncan but they get Robinson back and

They win a championship in the second year or Duncan second year in that strike shortened or whatever shortened season that it was the point is wanyama I’ve been riding this bandwagon because he’s become the best show in the sport by far and because the team is so bad I

Don’t know that people are paying as much attention to it as they should he is as advertised he really is and you know I’m trying to think about comparisons and ceilings and someone asked me about a ceiling I said that well by definition you’re saying that

There’s a certain you know level that he cannot break through I don’t think I put a ceiling on Victor wanyama I mean if I’m looking for comparisons think about a player that could have the scoring dominance of Joel embiid right the defensive impact in presence of a Yannis

The Copo and the entertainment value of a Steph Curry that’s what we’re talking about potentially Allin one body so I don’t think there is a ceiling every night that I watch Victor wanyama play he does two or three things in that game that I think is the he’s the only player

In the NBA that can make those specific plays that’s how eye popping this guy is he’s just he’s on a bad team right now that people aren’t paying attention to it’s going to take I think a couple years for the Spurs to be relevant in the Western Conference but he has become

Now a runaway winner of Rookie of the Year Chen HR was better early they were sort of even in the middle of year over the last two months Victor wanyama I think has absolutely seized the award he’s going to run away with it I think he both literally and figuratively

Blocked Chad holmgren’s uh effort at that the other night now wanyama people aren’t paying enough attention he’s been Sensational

Tim Legler joins Mike Greenberg on Get Up to discuss the Los Angeles Lakers’ recent surge and if the Milwaukee Bucks are the biggest threat to the Boston Celtics in the East.

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