“Referee ruined LeBron’s epic night” – Stephen A. rips Warriors beat Lakers 128-121; Curry 31 Pts

“Referee ruined LeBron’s epic night” – Stephen A. rips Warriors beat Lakers 128-121; Curry 31 Pts

And alas the Golden State Warriors they walk out with the 128 121 win now they’re tied for ninth but technically technically the Golden State Warriors are just percentage points ahead now for that ninth seed Stephen A Smith what did you see in this one well I saw Klay

Thompson show up in the first half and remind us of what he can do what he’s capable of doing and obviously that changes the complexion of what you think about when you think about the Golden State Warriors I saw Steph Curry come return from a three-game absence and

Looks like he didn’t lose anything at all just took a quarter to get going and then after that was completely dominant and I saw a Los Angeles Lakers team that still can’t seem to play defense they haven’t been able to play defense since the allstar break it’s like they left

Their game in Indianapolis for crying out loud defensively like 28th defensively so you’re not going to go anywhere unless they improve defensively spoke to uh Roa Linka before the game he was talking about they’re hopeful that they could have Jared Vanderbilt back in a few weeks and that would change things

But they clearly need them because they don’t they can’t seem to stop a cold we’re going to need to stop the segment down restart because the shot clock didn’t actually start at the beginning of this segment Bob How concerned are you with what you saw from from the

Lakers here what did you walk away with um yeah I’m just collecting my that the shot clock thing does kind of mess up a little yeah we were waiting here you know 80 went out and that changed the complexion of the game really and I mean

He was doing a pretty good job the Warriors always have trouble with him and rightly so a lot of teams have trouble with Anthony Davis but look Vanderbilt coming back like Stephen A said would be huge for their defense the Lakers have scored well lately last month they’ve been doing a good job

Scoring they scored well tonight but um you know it’s I just can’t seeing these two teams play and imagining a nine versus 10 and one of them’s going home we’re going to get that you know we probably it looks like we will we on a a crash that’s where it’s headed CU this

Game probably made that even more likely I suppose I mean because the Lakers are hanging around 910 it’s just I can’t believe it I that one game would set some sort of viewing record on the other hand you lose Hall of Famer is plural if you have that game yeah n they don’t

Have it I do too because you want to see those players play Beyond one game but do you see a path out of the 910 for for these team no not for not for these two teams but I’d like to say this yeah you know Steph Curry LeBron James you want

To see if no doubt about it but some of these young thorough breads that we’re going to see in the playoffs to Anthony Edwards of the world the Shay gilis Alexanders of the world and then you add the Lucas the kyries and others I mean

Wait a minute now dearon Fox and and and Sacramento and what have you just look at some of this young Talent we gonna have real interesting playoffs he’s gonna be excited with out Steph Curry well the league is going to have Lear how to cope with this Stephen they’re

Going to have to learn they’re going to have to move on reluctantly cuz we don’t want to move on I don’t want to move on we’re we’re already at the point where we’re I’m okay with moving on I just want to see them in the one more one

More playoff series not a play in I’d like they can lose in the first round you you you want your first one from the media standpoint at least to be at least being able to watch these two understand you want to see what we’ve seen that’s

Going to do it for us Sports Center sending it back well done Michael Francis Brenan let’s go back downtown D’Angelo and Austin are speaking with the media hey guys um obviously a unique situation at the end of the game there I’m guessing well none of us have ever

Seen anything like that but how how challenging is that when there’s 15 minutes or whatever it is at the end of a game um just to try to stay focused and try to you know get back in a rhythm after all that time off

Uh I mean it’s tough but I mean at the end of the day the ref’s got to you know get it right I mean I know it’s not them uh but they can’t just let it go on with the shot clock being messed up or

Whatever so I think they did a good job it’s just an unfortunate situation um kind of just out there standing around that’s really it guys how did they do look to you when you saw him at halftime was the eye did it completely close almost like a boxer

What did you see I haven’t seen him did um obviously you guys miss his presence defensively a ton but um the way that you guys were guarding them so aggressively at the three-point line how much did it hurt you guys not having him kind of back at the rim and that’s

Typically like you’re so used to kind of funneling guys his Direction yeah I mean uh anytime you lose ad on the defensive end offensive end uh regardless of what it is um you know it’s tough but you know I thought Jack stepped up and played you know a really

Good game um but like I said anytime you you lose ad on you know both ends of the floor it’s tough but um we got to figure out ways to be better and win games when he doesn’t play DLo you guys came to this week with

A game against a team just above you in the standings and a game against a team just below you in the standings didn’t win either of them does what does that do to kind of the momentum you guys had been building and what is it going to

Take to get back in the right direction um it’s going to take everything to to scrape out some wins at this time of the year they all matter um not really familiar with the standings but I just think that it’s a it’s just the the the

Momentum at this time of the year every game matters um standings all that matter so for both of you guys there was a couple minutes left in the second quarter at that point you guys were shooting over 60% it fell off in the third quarter how

Much of that was with because of AD being out and being part of the flow or was it something different I think it has a lot to do with that you know um we’re not accustomed to playing without him he’s played almost every game this year right so that’s something that is unfamiliar

For us um but it’s no EXC exuse Jackson played his ass off everybody else that came in you know stepped up to the plate but that’s a tough team well coached team so it’s not going to be easy did it did it take the for lack of better word

Wind out of your sales emotion when they overturn LeBron’s three because it was such an improbable three it felt like okay we’re turning making a turn uh I mean the the game goes from a four-point game to a seven-point game in the matter of I mean it’s kind

Of like twist back time um but you lose the time um so yeah I mean I didn’t understand the the ruling on it or whatever it was but uh yeah I mean anytime that you know something like that happens it’s it sucks you want to score points question

Okay uh Austin just mentioned it but it went from seven-point game to a four-point game Dow with all those stoppages late in the game the first question was kind of about this but how much did it kind of kill the momentum because the crowd was really into it as

Well at that point but after all the whistles it kind of felt like the energy died down did you feel that yeah I just seems a little unfair so I’d rather not really go in on that I don’t want to get fined thanks time for a little access 360 big

Game what are you breaking down uh some some B hold on we got to call Su cockus one more time make sure is it okay if we run this uh we have enough time okay yeah we can we can do yeah this is about uh they say it’s okay in

Uh new sou caucus New Jersey it’s okay we can do it it’s about some really there protection in the paint let’s take a look as you can see with Steph in the game look at that paint that’s what the offense is looking at and they say no ad we’re going in

There and when Dow doesn’t really know how to come over in help from that position leaves It Wide Open for Wiggins here once again Steph Curry has no fear and there look there’s no backline defense back there because with ad out of the game guys just you know they

Don’t really know what to do they help they stunt but they don’t have a shot blocker look at all that in the paint look at that that’s like a MC truck could get through there and no ad it is so easy it just goes to show you uh how

Critical it is to have ad in the game we don’t have Dwight Howard we don’t have Woods is not there you know you know and we don’t have that backup center and as soon as ad goes out whether it’s foul trouble or whether it’s an injury or

Whether he just goes out of the the game for a couple of minutes you notice immediately that teams start to run their plays to go inside so that was such a good breakdown cacus is going to want you to join their staff well I’m just glad that they you know allowed me

To do it and and you know uninterrupted I thought you were going to do a breakdown of the delay that that that killed the momentum it really did that in the three ball where LeBron said he shoots on his tippy toes he does not shoot on the back of his heels having

Said that great breakdown big game 62 points in the paint uh for the Golden State Warriors in case you’re just joining us Anthony Davis played all 12 minutes in the first quarter having given up just four points to the Warriors inside did not return dealt with an eye contusion with 3 minutes to

Go took this shot to the face for the team his eye ended up swelling up they tried as much as they could in the locker room during the second quarter in at halftime but it would not open they said that they will monitor him over the course of tonight and tomorrow to check

Out his availability for Monday’s game against the Atlanta Hawks having said that BR 14 games remain on the schedule yeah and you know what the good the good news for the Lakers is that a lot of the tough games are now behind them we kept saying a few weeks ago here comes a

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“The referee ruined LeBron’s epic night” – Stephen A. rips Warriors beat Lakers 128-121; Stephen Curry 31 Pts