FIRST TAKE | Sabonis is Davis’s NIGHTMARE! – Stephen A. “roasts” AD after Lakers lose to Kings again

FIRST TAKE | Sabonis is Davis’s NIGHTMARE! – Stephen A. “roasts” AD after Lakers lose to Kings again

Been quite familiar with each other this season they’ve had the Lakers number oh DAV to it good Austin Reeves is feeling it so is K Murray here’s subers twisting his way inside here’s James Oh Baby James and the Lakers make a push here in the four here’s James again to the ra

Bars threes from Harrison bars box his three good that is the dagger o wonder how Shannon Sharp’s feeling this morning good morning everyone in case you’re just joining us I’ll do this one more time Brian wior Dominic Foxworth Christopher madg Russel I’m Molly carum essay is off today the

Ladies will be in the house as well Mina kimes Kimberly a Martin gentlemen a lot to get into how we feeling on this Friday r a go I got Mr foxw there we’re going to have some laughs with him all afternoon he’s going to get on

You plent respect for um Mr ruko they funny there we go Wendy great to see you as well guys let’s dive in with the Kings good morning completing the season sweep of the Lakers winning 120 107 on Wednesday Sacramento moved into sixth in the Western Conference tied with the

Suns the Lakers currently ninth just above 500 Damonte sabonis had his League leading 20 May third triple double of the Season kept up his winning ways against Anthony Davis sabonis is one all 10 games he’s played in his career against ad Wendy starting with you my

Man uh how concerning was this loss for the Lakers can we just start with the fact that sabonis is 10 and0 against ad in his career sure that’s one of the most amazing stats going in the league right now swept them this year by the way over

The last two years guys King are nine and or s- one against the Lakers like they have owned this matchup and let’s start with just have some truths about the Lakers let’s just be honest about where they are as a team right now okay they are in a tie essentially for 10th

Place because they’re tied with the with the Warriors in the Lost column I know they have a couple more wins but they’re all going to play the same amount of games and right now they’re tied okay they are now way back of the six seed and have completely been whitewashed in

The Breaker by the Kings they’re also behind the Mavericks in the tiebreaker and by two games in the Lost column for eight so I’m telling you the six seed has sailed goodbye sayanora you’re going to be in the playin um the other thing I’m going to say is that if you’re a

Lakers fan I would now advise you to start to root for the Kings just about every game because you don’t want to face the kings in a one-off situation I know that the Lakers have had success in one-off situations in this modern era they were 3 and0 in the inseason

Tournament they were they LeBron’s LED wins in a couple of inseason tournament games you don’t want to face the Kings you want the Kings to get the six seed because you actually have a chance to beat the Suns they’ve got three wins against the Suns this year the size

Difference is huge for them they don’t have to see Deus sabonis and let me just make a quick aside sabon is not making the All-Star game ain’t looking so good for the people who voted for it don’t worry the big bag media will solve it and we’ll put him on the all-nba team

But that’s remains embarrassing the way this guy is dominating but back to the Lakers they’re now in a situation where I will tell you they got a must-win game on Saturday against the Warriors because if you break down the tie break they are this game will probably give the Lakers

The edge in the tie break they have two games left and it’s 1-1 both games are in LA but you get into layers two and three of the tie break the Lakers win this game on Saturday they’ll be in a tie break situation I think they’ll get

It and the reason that’s important guys is we’re now looking at who’s going to have home Cort for a 910 game I don’t see how the Lakers are getting out of it uh you know uh the Mavericks um have an easier schedule or comparable schedule than the Lakers down the stretch and

This is even worst news for the Lakers because again we’re just going to be honest this is this is a morning for honesty last night the Denver Nuggets moved into first place in the Western Conference and I’m telling you I’ve sailed on on on the six seed I’m on the

Verge of telling you forget about this the eight seed for the Lakers and at least for the at least going in so that the best you can do is um is have to to win two games to get the eight seed um your hope as a Lakers fan is that you

Can get into a playoff series with the Oklahoma City Thunder that’s a team that you’ve beaten three out of four times you like that matchup your size works against you your experience works against you the Lakers would have a Fighting Chance in that situation but guess what the nuggets have basically

Been the League’s best team since the All-Star break they took over the number one seed last night and the projections that I’m looking at and just with the eye test say going to get the number one seed they have faren away the easier schedule between them the Wolves and the

Uh and the thunder coming in the Wolves don’t have Carl towns I think the Nuggets who are killers at home and want home court throughout the West playoffs I think they’re getting the one so I think the Lakers are facing fighting with the Warriors for home court in the

910 praying that the Kings aren’t in the 78 so that they don’t have to potentially see them in the next round and then potentially facing a rematch with a team that they also can’t beat which is the Denver Nuggets and before I hand it off Molly one more thing oh I

Love it a year ago in March I was saying and a lot of other people who were watching closely were saying that the Lakers did have a chance to do something in the postseason and the reason we believe that even though they were a worse team by record than this year’s

Team is because after they made those trade deadline moves they were great and I mean great on the defensive end of the Court they and that was what carried them through the playin through those first couple of rounds they were really really good over the last 15 games the

Lakers are 29th in the league in defense and to be honest with you I probably should have led with that and just handed the ball off and said I don’t have anything else more to say the only team worse over the last 15 games in the

League is the Utah Jazz who are doing a grade A tank job to keep their draft pick one of the things no one’s paying attention to is the absolute overt tank job that Utah is doing that’s the only team that is playing worse defense than the Lakers last year in March the number

Three defense in the league I can’t take this team seriously I respect their ability to win an individual oneoff game because of their talent I can’t take this team seriously to do anything when you’ve got the second worst defense in the league in the most important part of

The season that’s aw 100% I just got to say he came in hoty standing all I mean the passion the delivery the focus poignant points I mean that was just exceptional and he also had the play in right everything else that was yeah way to kick off the

Show I will be quick and then give Dom plenty of chances here I 100% agree with Brian and everything he says I can’t believe that a team with Reeves LeBron and Anthony Davis that were looking at them maybe getting knocked out in a second game with the postseason I mean

That’s ridiculous they got LeBron and Anthony Davis and they can’t get out of a playing situation furthermore even if they get by Golden State in that 910 game to make the playoffs they’re going to have to win a road game against a 678 loser so the 78 plays the winner in and

The loser plays at home against the 910 winner so the Lakers are going to have to win a road game just to make the body of work in the postseason and that’s and again Kings 4-0 against them they Mak sa bonus out to be Gus Johnson look him up

Uh if you want to know who he was back in the old days with the Baltimore Bullets I mean the bottom line is this is a very this a team last year got to the conference final everybody was excited thought they were going to do great things this year and now they

Can’t get out of their own way and remember two if the NBA loses LeBron and Curry in a play in scenario that’s going to hurt them the NBA sells stars and if they lose LeBron and Curry before they get to that first round that’s a different conversation it’s an

Interesting conversation it’s also time to meet some new stars and getting them out of the way will get more attention to those new stars so it’s not all bad for the NBA but I think that I really appreciate Brian going through all of those scenarios because that’s what I

Spent last night doing trying to figure out a path for the Lakers to have success and you know what I closed my computer because I realized they’re not good like you’re not good and the point that Brian made about their defense is the one that jumped out to me because I

Remember last year that was what carried them it’s like all right maybe they can be a defensive team while I’m watching the game and damont simonis is essentially doing whatever he wants with his 23rd I think triple double of the Season which is also incredible underrated has the triple double been

Inflated also I feel like triple double used to be a thing we are excited about and now he got 23 and the season it’s not even over yet it’s absurd along with the scoring which I guess has been addressed in some way the scoring the overcoring or scoring inflation has been

Addressed but I think that’s the bottom line is what we have to understand is we can’t finagle the roster or the playoffs in such a way that the Lakers are going to end up in a conference Championship again because they aren’t good they aren’t as good as that team and when you

Have a player like ad and like LeBron who I think the matchup is very important LeBron at this age the matchup matters more than their team it doesn’t give you much optimism and watching Reeves like he he’s been good but what they need him to be is a lot better than

I think he’s capable of being to be competitive in any of this and foundationally they are a defensive team and if they can’t get that back they have no shot it’s it’s sad but true like we all love watching the Lakers we love watching LeBron they’re like the Marquee

Franchise in the NBA we want in the playoffs we want LeBron to make a Deep Run cuz it’s fun watching him still do last night had a couple incredible dunks Landing looks a little rough which I think I think uh Vince Carter said a while ago that the jumping isn’t hard

It’s the landing that’s the issue the landing doesn’t look great but he’s still explosive in athletic but his issues on the defensive end and he’s this he’s the guy on the team and it feels like the team kind of goes as he goes whereas he’s not great on defense

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FIRST TAKE | Sabonis is Davis’s NIGHTMARE! – Stephen A. “roasts” AD after Lakers lose to Kings again