No LeBron, No Problem – Inside the NBA react to DLo TAKES OVER 44 Pts as Lakers beat Bucks, 123-122

No LeBron, No Problem – Inside the NBA react to DLo TAKES OVER 44 Pts as Lakers beat Bucks, 123-122

To the defensive issues the Bucks have had this year and their offensive numbers are are good they’re really good but as as as a Layman I looked at this team having the potential to be one of the best and most dynamic offenses ever I get that it’s Dame time one of the

Most clutch players ever he should take the shot mhm but should they be as predictable as they were in that situation that was just a simple ISO let him pull up and take a shot you got gianis Ano on the floor why don’t you run something well I get what you’re

Saying jar but think about you talking about Dame Lillard and he got to his spot and to Smit his point that’s when Dame got to be a little smarter he’s got to D with is a little bigger right there if he hit him with the pump fake he’s at

The free throw line to win the game right now and he didn’t give himself enough time Smitty to get to his spot being a little bit careless with the ball with the time if he would have went soon as he got it and hit it with the

Fun fake he would have had time but I’m sure he’s looking at that clock and got that clock in his mind and by the time he pulled up he can’t even have time to pump fake you know what this is what I look at Jared Sam is totally right and

I’m going to Dame Lillard and he yeah of course you you’re going to win some lose some with him but you won more than you’ve lost with him so I have no problem with that play call just a great play at the spot he got to man he got to

The free throw line Second the one thing I don’t think we’ll talk about they don’t have Chris Middleton I don’t think people understand how good Chris Middleton is for the Milwaukee Bucks you say Dame you say Giannis unbelievable but when they won a championship it was Giannis Chris Middleton and Drew holiday

That’s three now you have Giannis and you have Dame Chris Middleton defensively was probably their second best defender after the Drew and was their second best offensive player without a doubt so you missed and their most reliable free throw shooter so you missed that guy you don’t replace that

You replace it with Dame but now who’s the third guy yeah and then what you’re missing here we saw that we saw D’Angelo Russell go oneon-one against Dame now look as much as we love Dame but we’ve also seen go back through this year and look at the point guards their

Production against Dame Lillard they’ve torched him so if Drew holiday’s guarding him that’s different it’s different if the a healthy Chris Middleton is guarding him is different it’s different it’s a tougher shot yeah interesting uh you know and and you know you think about the defensive issues for

The bucks this year and they have been much better since the All-Star break no question but I I still say they still have Giannis who’s a defensive player of the year Canada every year still got Brook Lopez as a defensive player of the year candidate they still got Bobby

Poris out there they still got some guys who individually can defend yeah I I play with Atlanta Hawks when my man blew past me I don’t care if D kimbe MMO is late if I get blown past right but if I can slow him down right made us pretty

Good let me tell you something when we had Muki block out there and staky Alman and they put me on the weakest Defender we were really good Sam cuz I was the best deny guy you ain’t going to get it but you have two guys that won’t let the

Ball get downhill easily yeah now if Sam Mitchell was guarding me what made Sam so good I wasn’t going to blow by Sam I’m going to bump Sam bump Sam and if I do beat Sam I’m off balance now the kimbe can come get it come get it but if

You I just blow past you Sam there’s no defense but big guys get upset yes because they’ll tell you we can’t block every shot and the last thing they want is to get in foul trouble protecting you oh great win by the Lakers on a night where Dame Lillard and Giannis combin

For 62 points it was the 44 points from D’Angelo Russell that was the star of the show jar this is the question look who we got the 44 on that’s the biggest problem for the bucks to me what are you going to do defensively Dan can give you

30 Dame can give you 25 but if Dame giving up 25 to 30 that’s a problem but also if if Dame doesn’t guard him who else is the defensive stoper on they have nobody Pat con too slow that’s the they had Patrick Beverly he had to have

Been out tonight cuz I would imagine he played he played why my question then if d’el Russell going for 44 where is Pat Bell that’s his job that’s Pat that ain’t to be honest get a chance to watch that ain’t D job that’s Pat Beverly been

Brought in to be the defensive stoer so at the end of the game Pat Beverly should have been on D’Angelo Russell D’Angelo Russell also had a career high nine three-pointers tonight the star of the game he spoke afterwards with Cassidy hubber describe your G silence my work

Just prove it all I work on my craft get an opportunity I’m going show it and you guys jumped to the ninth spots in in the west with this win and how big was this without LeBron pretty much ad down the stretch because of that injury how

Important as the stakes are at an all-time high down the stretch at this time of the year it’s good for everybody to get healthy um so everybody get healthy and and we’ll start preparing for what we need to prepare for one game at a time like I said a lot of guys

Stepped up tonight and and and this is the product of that congrats on the win thank you back to you Dave as Cassidy alluded to the Lakers now Leap Frog the idle Warriors for the time being up into 9th and again you know just to remind you about the playin tournament it’s 7

Through 10 get into that playin tournament but if you’re going to be forced to be in that grouping you want to be eight or seven so you only have to win once rather than being nine or 10 where you’d have to win twice to become the eight seed and the Lakers right now

Winning without LeBron tonight D’Angelo Russell I mean listen this is just one game but what do you take from from this against Damen Lillard tonight how important DLo is I’ve been saying it all year they need that third score and the guy that can do it consistently is

D’angel Russell look he’s not a great defender he’s not a great facilitator but you’re playing with LeBron James put the ball in Lebron hand let him be the facilitator in the point guard and let DLo do what he does come off screens make shots get out of in transition but

They need that third score think about this when the Lakers are good DLo is getting them 18 to 20 points T night they need that cuz LeBron is going to get his 25 80 is going to get his but they need DLo to be that third

Consistent score if they can get him to 18 to 20 T night then I would believe this Laker team could make some noise question I have Jared is how does LeBron James and D’Angelo Russell play together when he’s so much better as a player D’Angelo Russell not better than LeBron

When he has the ball in his hand manipulating pick and rolls he’s very good he’s good off the ball but he’s very good but then now you got to take the ball out of LeBron’s hand so that’s where I think that’s the confusion come

On how do you play and how do you figure out think about it from this standpoint I said when when James Harden went to Lake to Clippers now Paul George when he comes off the screen he kicking it to Paul George and qua with a live dribble

How difficult is that then when you can hit them you can double them when they got the ball I would do the same thing with LeBron DLo comes off a pick he kicks it to LeBron LeBron’s not a great three-point shooter but guess what he

Does he gets to down here do you want to chase LeBron James Clos out on him with a live dribble that’s why you should be coaching because the reason why I’m saying that is when Paul George and kawhai before Harden got there they had to play with the basketball now they

Don’t have to make a decision to be a distributor n they are attack scores well same thing where I think with the Phoenix Suns I don’t like de Booker can he do it yes but his best is to attack now if you had DLo and I go to LeBron

Let him be more of a attack versus him having and the difference with LeBron when he attacks he’s also still a facilitator because when he get in the paint it’s still his nature to do what to move the ball if he doesn’t have a

Shot so to me get a ball to DLo more let Le little little just a little bit more because we’re not saying 9010 and and you know what you’re going to get from him if you trust him more on the offensive end he’s going to give you you

More on defense he’s going to give you more because you’re asking more it saves LeBron’s legs he doesn’t have let LeBron be a finisher it doesn’t have to be 9010 just give it a little bit about especially early in the game to save LeBron legs to late in the game this is

Something that Darin ham has been talking a lot about I asked him about how D’Angelo Russell can be more involved and he said he saw this at times when he was an assistant coach of the Lakers with Kobe and he spent a long time as an assistant coach of the bucks

With Giannis guys the RO players often times get caught watching the star players y you need to he said be more assertive be more aggressive just because ad and LeBron are on the court doesn’t mean you can’t get your shots if you’re open if you if if the plays run

For you you’ve got to take that shot jar you’re totally right I go back to what Sam said earlier about him and Wally Zer zerc Sam knew how to play off kg it’s a art I think also sometimes is when you’re playing you’re used to a guy

Having making the plays and I come off and Sam’s Used To dribbl and I just hit Sam with 4 seconds left he doesn’t have a rhythm CU I don’t think d’angel Russell is just a spot up shooter right we called him one of those guys that get

In his Groove when he’s in his Groove yes then he’s better than the spot up sh in my opinion 44 points nine assists ties a career high with nine three-pointers on night if the Lakers lose this game by the way the narrative is Anthony Davis 22 points on 21 shots

No LeBron how come he’s not more D bailed him out DLo bailed him out because again we would have been piling on ad tonight saying in a big game and a big moment L LeBron we need you to be that guy but guess what he wasn’t that

Guy again tonight it was DLo so again we need to just stop The Narrative of waiting for ad to be the face of the franchise he that’s not the D they need to they need they need DLo to do what DLo did tonight not 44 but they need him to be

Aggressive and darham needs to get the ball in his hand especially when LeBron’s not on the court you know I look at it is I’m with you but the only thing is saying for them to win the championship Anthony Davis has to be that guy in my opinion yes we’ve been

Saying it well guess what it they probably gonna get one one quick note on the Bucks just to go full circle on this conversation here um you bring up the defense right they allowed D’Angelo Russell to get to his spot take an uncontested shot he got to exactly where

He wanted to defenses on the on the flip side of it the Bucks score two points over the final 90 seconds of this game I is there any concern for this offense that has Damen Lillard Janis Sant kmo and a couple of other guys that are pretty talented obviously they’re still

Missing Middleton out with the ankle injury but is is there any concern or is the is the defense overshadowing some issues that they might be having on the offensive end to create easy offense I still go back to Chris Middleton because the reason why if I’m playing these guys

Down the stretch I load up on Damen Lillard make it tough for him and I put a ball in Jana’s hands well you’re one of your best players is not great at your free throw line with the last two or three possessions I don’t know how

How you feel Sam as a coach that gota go to him because if I’m coaching against you I’m following him I tell you what I told Chris B my first took over in Toronto he was a 6 59% free throw shooter I said young fell we had dinner

At this house as I was leaving I said who do you want me to run the plays for at the end of the game he said coach what are you talking about run them for me I said Chris I’m smart why would I run a play for a guy shooting 59% from

The free throw line and I walked out the house you know what he did next day when I got to the gym he was in that early Sho free throws I never said you got to become a better free throw shooter I just said to him I’m not stupid and I’m

Not running plays for a guy at the end of the game that they can fou they shooting 59% you know what he shot that year 81 huge seven game night and listen huge standing implications everywhere Milwaukee with the loss drops down to Third for I for E watch for are right shut down leg so for ofal no one ever defeats me no more hor to en enem Def en opponent an enemy has deated en Out of my your team desty to I never fight for s our base is under attack

No LeBron, No Problem – Inside the NBA react to DLo TAKES OVER 44 Pts as Lakers beat Bucks, 123-122