Got To Handle Business | Lakers vs Raptors Preview

Got To Handle Business | Lakers vs Raptors Preview

Lakers fans how we doing my name is Sammy long here with hoop talk tonight we’re getting into a Lakers Raptors preview video for tomorrow I’m get in a few things tonight talk about the injury report a lot of guys out for both teams I’m get into what the what the Raptors

Do well what they don’t do well I’m getting how the Lakers bench has to contribute they have to against Brooklyn was a terrible performance with only two points off the bench which is really really demoralizing I think and the Western Conference standings update where where the Lakers are at right now

But first we’ll start with the injury report the Raptors don’t want to win this game doesn’t help them at all they’re out of the playoffs it only helps their their draft pick I mean you know they have they come up with reasons like rest day or personal reasons but

They don’t want to win this game their best player Scotty Barnes is not playing he leads the team in every single category 20 points per game eight rebounds per game six assists per game as well as 126. one defensive rating Gary Trent Jr has a rest day he’s been

Very good for them this year oai abaji who’s a young guard out of Kansas couple couple years in the league he he’s not playing as well Jacob purle is not playing as well so all these guys really not playing for them they will get RJ Barrett and Emanuel quickly

Back so you know they’re two good young guard uh you know guard s swing players in the in the game but they’ll get them back but besides that you know they don’t really have a lot going for them on this lineup so the Lakers have zero excuses I mean

The Lakers do have gabee Vincent and cam reddish out which is not the greatest especially with Gabe Vincent because you’re really hoping that he can get back into game shape for the time for the playoffs which is only two weeks away so I I hope that it is just

A we’re giving him a like a rest day after after he you know he played his first NBA game in in a long time I hope his knee didn’t swell up again I don’t have any reporting on that they they they said it’s a recovery day but I

Really hope that that’s the case cam reddish is out so you know the Defenders are not there but that shouldn’t matter against this team I don’t want to hear any excuses you know coming up with this this video it’s actually tough to to gather information because you know the

Lakers should blow this team out by 30 there there’s really no no other way around it I hope tomorrow in the postgame we’re talking about how there wasn’t a lot to talk about and it was it was a big time Laker win just just kind

Of pouring foot on the gas beat him by 30 like you should that’s what I hope we’re talking about tomorrow night because there’s really no excuses with this many people out I mean the Raptors when they’re healthy they’re all right but they’re they’re averaging around3 points per game 19th overall they’re

Averaging around 43 rebounds per game 21st overall they do pass the ball pretty well uh they get 29 assists per game which is fifth so they they they do kind of get everyone involved but um again no excuses I mean this is this should be a game where hopefully the

Starters come out big time time bench contributes and you know the Lakers get to pull their guys early because they are playing a back toback I know it’s against Washington on the second night who isn’t a great team let’s not forget that Washington took this team to

Overtime couple weeks ago and had Jordan P out went col OT and AD wouldn’t had had a big overtime the Lakers probably should have lost that game so you know they’re not a team to just just take take lightly you know kozma guys like that I mean I mean there there’s they’re

Going to need to bring it especially on second night of a back toback where guys can be tired especially a l team was struggled in backto backs this season so far but getting in how the Lakers bench has to contribute um the other night they had two points which is very

Deflating I mean everyone really just looking here Den wiy had had 21 21 minutes zero points Tonio Prince 15 minutes zero points I mean just just not not the numbers you want to see I mean that’s that’s not going to have you beat a nuggets it’s not have you beat the

Timberwolves it’s not going to have you go far in the Western Conference playoffs because it’s really amazing that you know the starters can can be that good LeBron 40 points I mean it’s just it’s crazy you know like the starters all contributed and it goes to

Show that the Lakers have one of the best starting fives in all of basketball maybe not Boston’s maybe not Denver’s but I find it find a team other than those two that has a better starting line up in the Lakers and I can argue that it’s the Lakers when the Lakers are

Rolling I mean that’s that’s a tough starting fight to compete with the Lakers just need something off the bench I know we’ve been talking about it how obviously Vincent when he’s fully back he played the other night I’m giving him a pass it was his first game back he had

He scratched he had he had he had a bucket but you know I’m not worried about him he will get going he’s a big time player as we saw last year in the playoffs when V’s back it’ll push guys down Al talked about the postgame last

Night you know is there some thought to when all those guys are back putting Reeves on the bench putting on the bench it’s tough because you know you don’t want to mess with the starting lineup that’s really gotten you this far but at the same time if the bench isn’t giv you

Anything I mean V you know you want to put V in the starting lineup for for for defense to really up up the defensive aspect of the game especially when you’re in the western conference with you know Jamal Murray and and I mean Paul George Kevin just just guys that

Are just just great scorers you’re going to need that in your starting lineup so you know maybe you move a Ry to the bench even though he’s been hot maybe you move a Reeves to the bench and home that they can really rejuvenate this this this second unit because the

Starting five can’t carry their way to a championship the Lakers can win a championship this year but if the bench contributes not or continues to not contribute and really not get after in games and become a real scoring threat that they’re just not going to and it

Sucks but they’re they’re just not going to um Western coner standings update this is as of tonight as of April 1st the Lakers are a game and a half back from Sacramento they’re two games back from Phoenix the Pelicans did not help us out unfortunately by beating them they got

Blown out tonight um they’re they’re the Brandon Ingram injuries is really kind of messing with them they they’ve been on a little bit of Slide the Kings you know obviously you know we don’t we don’t root for injuries it sucks but you know Malle monk out four to six weeks

Kevin herder out for the rest of the season I mean that’s two big- time role players that’s probably the third and fourth best players on their team that are that are gone they’re not playing anymore so the Kings they got beat by the Maps twice they got the Clippers tomorrow night we

It pains me to say it because I hate the Los Angeles Clippers I know all you guys do too but we need him to win tomorrow night you know if you would have said after the Lakers lost that last game of the Kings it was it was like I remember

On the postgame show we were like yeah there’s no there’s no shot the Lakers catching the Kings but the team’s in a free fall I mean they without Mo can hurt her they’re very beatable because they really become a two-man team with sabonis and and fox and and if you look

At those games it’s fox has destroyed the Lakers years but monk two of the big games this year went off her her in the second game at 28 I mean there’s a real opportunity to move up here and and you you know I just I don’t I don’t believe

They’re the same team I if the Pelicans if they don’t have Brandon Ingram they’re not the same team they might be a little bit too far ahead in the standings to really that that would have to be a complete absolute collapse from them but hey they haven’t been winning

Recently and they look pretty bad tonight against Phoenix Phoenix unfortunately seems to be getting their SE legs under him a little bit now this is the problem with Phoenix took Booker to get 52 points tonight I mean this is why I don’t trust them in the playoffs they have to have these

Huge kind of performances and when they do they look amazing because of the big three Beal and Booker and Durant when they’re not getting it I mean they they look like a pretty pedestrian team and it’s hard to ask them to win 16 straight games not incl maybe 17 including the

Plan to win an NBA title game when you’re asking your stars to carry the load every single night one injury one one knee tweak and that you know they’re they’re away from really being done so we need the King start losing I I think at this point we’re rooting for

The Mavs beat the Warriors tomorrow night they’re playing you know the Lakers aren’t catching the Mavs because that’s just probably not happening they’re three and a half games up the Mavs are a very good team they’re not going to lose the rest of the way

Out so it it just be better for them to to beat the Warriors and give the Lakers even more even more space you know the Lakers they got back toback back against two bad teams they should beat them they should get the starters rest this is a perfect opportunity to get LeBron ad

Rest and a perfect opportunity for the bench to really really give us some Faith going forward I I think a successful bench outing tomorrow night is you know somewhere in that 30 to 40 Point range the Lakers aren’t built on on a on a deep bench they don’t play a

Ton of guys but they can’t have nothing you know I’m looking at 20 imprints I’ve been hard on him a lot this year he’s just got to be in the teens you know he’s he’s got to be in that 14 to 16 16 range something like that offering

Something off the bench I like seeing Max chrisy get some more minutes he only got three minutes the other night Spencer D he was very disappointing you thought against his old team Brooklyn he he’d really go off 21 minutes didn’t even scratch so I’m looking for Dey

Prince and Chrissy to have better nights maybe Callin Castleton get some time I know Jackson Hayes is back tomorrow night so so maybe not quite as much but we we we need some we need something something’s got to come off the bench and and and it with that it’ll give ham

The confidence to pull LeBron to pull ad to pull these guys give them rest because as we saw the other night we saw in the Memphis game I me the Lakers got up huge and the the Memphis cut it to seven I believe the the Nets cut it to

Eight I mean the you know those games it never felt like they were truly in Jeopardy because the Lakers still had pretty good control but they had to put the bench back or they had to put the starters back in so it be great to see a

Blowout especially on the first night of a back toback where they just blow them out and they’re arting their guys the entire High fourth quarter and maybe some of the third that would that would be great and and hopefully as I mentioned tomorrow night we’re it’s a boring postgame show because we’re

Talking about how the Lakers went in there and beat them by 30 Vegas has the spread at minus 12 and a half they’re expecting a blowout so hopefully that’s what we get thank you guys for tuning in please like And subscribe uh check back in with Allen for postgame show tomorrow

Night I’ll be in the comments uh reading your guys stuff and appreciate it go Lakers

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