NBA Gametime reacts to Sacramento Kings beat Los Angeles Lakers 130-120; D’Fox outplayed LeBron
All right so Sacramento taking care of business 13020 again these teams meet on Wednesday an important win for the Kings who are ahead of the Lakers in the playin standings dearen Fox tying his career high with 44 points and then there’s the bigger question we’re trying
To get the video for you here LeBron James walking off a few minutes ago was grimacing uh in pain so Darin ham hopefully has an update on that uh 31 points for Lebron 13 assists but again coach for the Sacramento Kings this is an impressive victory yeah I mean we
Know Sacramento can score and if they can just get timely defense Timeless stops they don’t have to be a top 10 top 15 defense but they just got to be able to get timel stops they can score with anyone I don’t know if they’re big enough G in that Western Conference to
Make some serious noise but I tell you what if you don’t put them to sleep they gonna put you to sleep because they will run you out of the building on their flow or your flow and Lakers in trouble man because they got to go to Sacramento
They need to make up some ground because it’s going to be hard Jay to come out that playing to go as far and as deep as they would like to go because LeBron only got so many so many miles left in the tank this year and if you gonna use
Them in the play in all right so this is Lebron leaving the game kind of grimacing a little bit so with 356 to go that was it for LeBron James it baby that’s it yeah there a lot of years like you said a lot of mileage
Right lot he was 10 to 16 in this game against 13 assists five rebounds 31 points got cross your fingers if you’re a Lakers faned hopefully you know he he just left cuz maybe the game’s out of handed not feeling the greatest yeah he definitely was grimacing but you know
Bigger picture to your point the they the Lakers just defensively don’t have the same spark that they had you go back when they won the championship you go back to what they were able to do the second half of last season throughout the postseason they just don’t have that
Identity as a group right now and you saw Sacramento just run up and down the floor against them getting whatever they wanted in that game so uh it’s going to be a real challenge just how bundled it it is at the bottom of that Western Conference and the Lakers just going the
Wrong way with a game like tonight G I’m trying to figure out where’s that team team that want to play in the defense they play no s games they were the best defensive team in the league for those seven they look completely different yes and I’m I don’t understand this the same
Team same Personnel how can you not get back to that how can you not find your way back to that home because that’s the one that you need to be at their defense in those seven games were unbelievable they won that n Season tournament going
Away Darin ham if I was Darvin I will put those seven games on tapable could you could you can you just turn it on as a team like that come I don’t know if you can turn it on but you got to remind I would say so because theyve done it so
It’s not like you’re turning on or asking them do it all right 126 117 38 seconds to go talking about Jaylen Williams you know 6′ five but it feels like he plays a much bigger game than that yeah he’s he plays like he’s 68 6 he he’s really Dynamic and you know when
You look at this OKC team and everybody starts speculating about what can they do in the postseason I think a lot of it’s going to be dependent upon how well he can perform in postseason basketball along with Chit hongman I think those two guys if they can raise their level
Uh then I think that team will have a chance to do some damage in the postseason but you won’t really know until they get a taste of it because it is a different animal playoffs different man and some guys Blossom some guys strength uh I’m concerned about OKC I
Thought during the trade deadline they need another big to diversify their lineup if they slide check to the four sometimes you could play Big because you look at the Western Conference Everybody Plays big and physical and then that Laker loss the Lakers have handled them pretty well and OKC better understand in
The first round you may play Golden State of the Lakers depending on where you fall weren’t sharp it’s just one of those nights where we weren’t sharp we turned over the ball not a good combination on this night SGA finishing with 37 Jaylen Williams 31 chat 21 and
You take a look at the updated standings now OKC and Min he still fighting for top spot there well I’m tired man but if I’m OKC from Minnesota I’m looking at those standing S 8 and n and 10 man that’s what I’m keeping my eye cuz I
Might want to G I might want to play my way out of that spot if I’m going to fall with between Golden State and the Lakers the the West is crazy it really is we’re you look at the playing situation right now you got Sacramento Dallas Golden State and the Lakers how
Would you feel if you OKC and get the number one seed and you got to play Golden State of Lakers in the first round well I will say this they’re going to feel good they’ll feel good about if you’re able because of what all the stuff we’re talking about how deep that
Western conference is how many really good quality teams you have and at the end of the season you can look up and say we were the one seed you’re going to feel good about that until you see the Lakers and realize they done beat you yeah three out of four times then you
Sitting there like okay how we going to figure out Celtics nuggets at plus 440 here so a lot of people do believe well Vegas anyways that these two teams are going to see each other and and when you look at that last matchup to it was interesting coach
Because you had porzingis versus Joker and it seemed like KP did a pretty good job at first but they never sent the double what do you think about that strategy against the joker well a lot of people believe that’s the best way to play him because you take away his
Ability to get assist make everybody better make him a onedimensional player if you play him head up yeah he may get 35 or 40 but this the thing about it if he gets 30 and then he gets 10 11 assists and he hit you with 12 13 14
Rebounds you can’t recover from that so if he gets 30 and only two assists and you make him a onedimensional player that’s the thought process and then Pingas should with his size and again you’re not just leaving him on the island Greg you’re digging you’re dropping you’re trying to keep him off
Balance but I like that strategy because you got Al Horford you got Pingas they just picked up I can’t remember the young man from uh from Memphis as another big so they tman they got enough bodies to throw at him and I think that’s what Boston they trying to load
Up on big bodies when they if they have to play The Joker and Joel andem beid when you look at Denver I mean we were talking about this off camera is there a better one-two combination in the league than the Joker and Murray especially late game situations yeah they’re right
At the top and and they put so much he is so physical and so precise in how he plays you rarely see him turn the basketball over and he’s one of the few guys that no one can get him off his spot and they do a great job late game
Situations of making sure he’s got the ball his hands to make the right reach yeah they’re just so fluid so fun to watch and then when you look at Brown and Tatum and the numbers they put up in that game versus Denver not great shooting nights uh for those two no and
I think a lot what happens with the Celtics and I was able to watch them last night they get stagnant when it gets tough they the trust seems to leave and I think they’ve got to get over that hump they had seven or eight possession you see the last possession here where
There was initially a foul call then they got a challenge and were able to reverse that call and Cleveland was able to make that miraculous comeback but one of the issues for this Celtics team is when the game slows down and it gets tough they seem to lose a little bit of
Trust of what allowed them to have success they had a 22-point game going the fourth quarter that in that game and they had eight straight possessions where there was one pass or no pass and they had gotten away from all the stuff they had done well in incorporating
Everybody in their offense and that’s a Bugaboo for this this team they they’ve got to figure out a way when it gets tight to still have trust continue to put pressure on the opposing defense and not allow them to just kind of load to
The ball and then you look at a guy like Jason Tatum we already saw two misses right there in the clutch coach the numbers here in clutch time Jason Tatum at 32.5% that that is down from his previous years is there something that sticks out to you man what are we
Looking for have we seen their record man you can find stats to dis anybody can’t play I can go find stats to show you Michael Jordan at one point maybe in the second quarter was worst playing the league look at that record they got the best record in the league the whole year
They’ve been hammering people all year by 10 20 30 they beat the Golden State Warriors the other night by 50 and so we’re going to nitpick every it’s 82 games people everybody gonna have bad quarters bad stretches heck they might even have a stretch before the playoffs
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NBA Gametime reacts to Sacramento Kings beat Los Angeles Lakers 130-120; De’Aaron Fox outplayed LeBron
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