Brian Windhorst is joined by Kevin Pelton and Marc J. Spears on The Hoop Collective to discuss the Lakers winning an ugly game, the struggles of Timberwolves’ stars, the Hawks surprising people against the Heat and get a much-anticipated update from Zion Williamson.
0:00 Introductions
1:45 Wolves vs. Lakers reaction
22:20 How dangerous are the Lakers for the Grizzlies?
31:20 DPOY voting
36:05 Can Sacramento make it interesting with the Warriors?
41:45 Can the Hawks be dangerous in the underdog role?
57:00 Reaction to Zion’s comments
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38 Comments
During the first quarter, I told my friend that this is going to be a 97-94 game, with the Lakers squeaking out a W. With 1.4 left on the clock Lakers had this won at 98-95. Of course, AD had another last second, dumb foul. All said and done, if the lakers can keep games in the 90’s and low 100’s in the next round, they will have a chance. Just slow the game down, don’t turn the ball over and win the rebound game. I believe they should throw some selective doubles on Morant too. He’s a killer
Lakers bench 40 to 20 and 3 players plus 10 or more was huge also. The only plus starter for the Lakers was AD.
Laker haters here smh
They should fear the refs 😂
Lakers got the calls??? What game were you guys watching??
I play the Benny Hill theme on guitar for warm ups. You can get a lot of bends, dives, and little runs in plus there's a lot of room to mess with the dynamics so it's a good heat check to make sure the old hands are working.
guy on the left doesn;t need to be on the show
Can we get these guys some coffee? This looks like it was filmed right before bedtime
the Lakers winning last night is the absolute worst thing for basketball because it means that the basketball media would literally ignore every single other team and focus solely on a seventh seed that's been below 500 the overwhelming majority of the year. it would have been fun for them to lose out in the plan so you could literally observe the mental gymnastics of how they could talk about the Lakers 😂
Any other job. You would probably be fired. I don’t think one game suspension is that bad.
Lmao crying about the Lakers getting calls is so funny when the entire first half they got tackled at the rim
Thank you for saying the refs are on the Lakers side. The only reason anyone is scared of the Lakers
You should fear the Yakety Sax
That girl windy always talks bad about lebron. Not all but I notice “selective hate” I did see the laker s get multiple stops from the T’s shot clock violations. So that means they had no where to go. She a HATER.
Who on earth doesn't know Benny Hill….jesus!
That old lady windy been saying the lakers can’t win all year now that they have a lil squad he still hates. He was hoping the lake town was gonna lose.
Kevin has impressive memory
Even your podcast today is like the lakers vs timberwolves game….lazy..confused and not up to the level A 🤣 late night game….late night podcast
Mike tried but once he felt like he was going, he was GOING. Mike was hitting what felt like everything shot last night
No
Lakers are not a scary team.
Not any video on the Hawks?
I can’t wait until the Lakers knock Memphis out in 6 so their fans can pipe down.
Play in is the "post season" like he said.
Not the "playoffs" not the "regular season" but part of the "post season."
I know Benny Hill, oh god I'm old.
I'm impressed that the Lakers played their C- game and still won….that bodes well going forward. The effect of a brutal 8 game stretch in the last 2 weeks caught up to the gassed Lakers….they'll be well rested and markedly better against the Grizz
If the wolves had won the narrative would have change into wolves won a highly competitive game 7 style playoff games against the lakers. Yes it was not beautiful because defense took precedence. Lakers played suffocating defense.
the game was not awful, this is basically game seven, how did you think the 4th quarter was going to play out? Each team was going to give it their all on defense, and so offensively they were winded
KP with the seattle sonics logo 👑
Fearing the lakers? LOOOOL 😂 Grizz in 5
Why would the grizzle’s fear the lakers they aren’t even a good team
Nobody should fear anyone but they should definitely respect the Lakers
So you sit Zion out the rest of the season to become healthy for next year, but you’ve done that same exact thing the last couple seasons? If he’s gonna get injured anyway, just play him. You never know how long his career will last. Just put him in seriously, he would be such a waste of talent if he doesn’t start playing more than 55 games a year which he’s never done.
The Grizzles should fear NBA and who they want to promote Lebron or JA Morant, that video JA made puts him out of favor with the NBA promotions, last season Phoenix Owner and the Celtics Coach, I'm just saying I'm a Warrior's fan
Was that loose ball foul a clear path foul?
Last time LeBron & AD were healthy in the playoffs they won the championship.. some people must’ve forgotten. They will be humbled.
I’m really starting to think the NBA is the WWE and the story is written for Lebron. Either Minn is just stupid or they threw the game. I’m really thinking Minn is just scripted to give whomever the NBA prize person is a challenge but not win.
Just like last year against Ja , they should’ve won and now against Lebron they both should’ve won. Please somebody tell me the NBA isn’t scripted.
Another thing who punches the wall rand fracture their hand and who punches their teammate right before playoffs? It seems kinda WWE ish to me.
Lakeshow we got it who we play 2nd round not worried bout memphis
Lakers in 6