Lakers’ lack of deadline moves a MISTAKE? + Bucks need ‘time to jell together’ – Rivers | NBA Today

Lakers’ lack of deadline moves a MISTAKE? + Bucks need ‘time to jell together’ – Rivers | NBA Today

BR if this group um gets some good luck with its Health that it’s eluded thus far eluded it um for two-thirds of the Season what’s it going to take if you have all the guys to make the push to get you to a good position come the

Start of the postseason uh I don’t know not sure we haven’t haven’t gotten that point so it’s hard for me to to to say all right so the Lakers didn’t really do anything last night to fortify their rotation perk was at a mistake you know what today is your lucky day

Don’t touch now today is your lucky day because you were right you were right a couple weeks ago Richard Jefferson was on air talking about how they should trade for Deonte Murray and how it does make sense and things to that nature and last night was a prime example I was

Saying the Lakers should stand Pat is nothing out there that can move the needle and I want to apologize to Brun because yes we know what yish is going to bring on a night toight basis but Anthony Davis and yish they canel each other out by the way a healthy ad is a

Special Anthony Davis but Jamal Murray that is a problem Jamal Murray and any quick guard that the Lakers face is a problem I mean it’s a sweep around the perimeter around the perimeter when it comes to Sliding those puppies so I got to give credit to Richard I believe that

They should have made the move yesterday and got to jonte Murray if they could have well look you just have to go look at your formulas in the past when you had uh you know different guys where even when they had Rondo and you had a guy a

Point of defensive attack we’ve talked about the Milwaukee Bucks and you know the head of their snake is gone and they’re struggling on the defensive end with the Lakers is very very similar right they don’t have anybody that puts that pressure on the top guard they don’t have anybody really in my mind

That can defend that top guard they’ve got big wings which help you got Anthony Davis behind you that helps but when we were talking about the jonay Murray it was like wait a second him and Jamal Murray in my opinion going Toe to Toe that that’s even on any given night

Jamal Murray going to have to play defense de jante we know plays defense and then you can figure it out around that but look the Lakers they’re 29th and three points and three-pointers made that’s not going to get it done for any LeBron James team in the history of

LeBron James 20 years that’s not going to get it done so did they need to make a move yes they didn’t this is their roster but I do believe that they will settle in now that this is what they have and they move forward it’s hard to

Need to make a move and also not be able to make a move yeah when you talk to Executives around the league they were not surprised that the Lakers were not able to get a dejon Murray deal done the price for Deon Murray from the Hawks anybody not just the Lakers was very

High but I think there was a surprise that the Lakers did nothing primarily because they’re about a million and a half or so over the luxury tax and um not doing a deal to get under the tax could affect them in the repeater in years’s future I know that doesn’t make

A difference against the Denver Nuggets um they also didn’t do anything to open up a roster spot so that they could maybe play a little bit more aggressively in the buyout Market that’s coming so um I I think there was some surprise that the lake also by the way

Just from a money standpoint had they gotten under the luxury tax they would have gotten themselves an eight fig bonus from the other luxury tax payers so there was a big surprise in the league the Lakers did nothing but not necessarily because they thought that there was something to do talent

Wise it’s funny just because the conversations that we had coming into the season you said Rob pinka had one of the best Summers as an executive of resigning guys adding Reeves toian Prince uh you know getting DLo back haimura Christian Wood was even a late sign adding length that people thought

Could be a backup to kind of ad when he goes down because he he is prone to missing games they won the End season tournament for whatever that matters it was something that people tried to win they did for whatever level that that means I it means something I look I we

Could talk about the thing it means something so they won that you know what I mean they’ve proven that they could beat some of the best teams when they play their best basketball this is a consistency thing M this is a consistency thing with the role play you

Don’t have that issue with Denver every single player in that starting lineup is plug and fit bro they know their role we got to figure out ways that DLo and Reeves can continually have successful kns uh but last night you saw a good example of just the level that Denver’s

On they are the best team in the Western Conference and it’s every time they play a big game they win Jamal’s calm and Collective and I mean despite what didn’t happen look the Lakers are they’re holding firmly to that playin spot they’re in ninth place we saw the

Heat make a run from the playin to the NBA finals and when you look at who they could potentially face in the postseason there’s there’s some interesting matchups they can catch the can they catch the Pelicans well okay not not the way they’ve played this year if they

Can’t get up to eth though right they’re going to have to win two single elimination games right in order to be able to advance the playoffs at all just to make it but how many of those teams when you’re looking at we’ve talked about this this is the Lakers you talked

About the the off season that Rob pinka and the Lakers have had what w said yesterday is they kind of believe that their trade deadline moves are getting back the injured players that Gabe Vincent who they’ve been without largely all season long Jared Vanderbilt who we still don’t know whether or not we’re

Going to be able to see him on the floor again if they can get this team back we see what they do in single elimination scenarios who how many teams are you picking over the Lakers well I I I’m not picking a lot but I again no no no

Because again when we say when we say no no I’m going to get to it I got you what I know I’m just saying is like I’m trying to figure it out because it’s like based off this team right now probably more teams and if they are healthy then there’s probably less teams

Like Clippers like uh I I was yeah yeah but that’s what I’m saying but it’s it’s tough because you’re saying like right now there’s probably more teams fully healthy which we don’t know if they’re going to be that’s the only thing I’m trying to figure this one out cuz it’s tough how many

Teams I have I don’t have to try to figure it out they’re not they’re not going to beat the Nuggets in the seven game series they’re not going to be beat the Clippers in the seven game series they’re not 100% healthy they’re not going to beat the Minnesota timberwoods

In the seven game series what about the Suns and they’re not going to beat the Phoenix Suns in the seven game series so that is four teams right now theying all but but they’re going to have to go through them because Austin brought up a great point he talked about consistency

From the role players that means in the playoffs you have to be consistent in the seven game series and then you have to be consistent again in the second round you have to be consistent in the third and fourth round so if I’m looking at this Laker team and again we’re

Talking about the Los Angeles Lakers one of the most historical franchises in sports history and we’re talking about arguably the greatest player of all time when you combine those two alone we’re talking about championships nothing more nothing less seven assists I think we need to call him Rudy go for the rest of

The segment that’s what we call him Minnesota I love it the Bucks they fall to one in five since Doc Rivers took over as the head coach they’ve been the bottom third of the league just across the board here that’s the bad news the good news Milwaukee has a four-game home

Stand that heads into Allstar break here but the Bucks they’re back in Action tonight no rest for the wicked they’re against the Hornets they finish off a stretch of five games in seven days and I mean this was a tough spot right it was a tough spot for dck Doc to take

Over the schedule the rest of the Eastern Conference though they’re not going to wait around while the Milwaukee Bucks furger things out perf what’s your level of concern here oh it’s high it’s extremely high and they can’t they need to get Patrick bevle in that locker room

ASAP and I’m not about to go back and forth with you today Austin about P but I will go back and forth about this team and the players this is not about the coach right this is about the team and their like finding their effort like

We’re talking about a a Giannis Le team on the floor and we’re have and I have concerns about their effort for some reason I I don’t hear the fans screaming Bobby Bobby like I’m not seeing that Bobby poris effect come in Off the Bench they need Patrick Bly they need him

Desperately just for his energy his tenacity this is what Patrick Beverly Tak to social media saying someone tell campaign to take his physical I’m trying to play to that but just even this tweet alone like they need that type of energy in the locker room right now my level of

Concern is a medium I would say A medium concern because I look at there’s always a transitional period we talk about the Clippers being the best in the NBA once they got James hard and there were people that were just obliterating the move obliterating Jam doing all of these

Things and then all of a sudden that system took in place then all of a sudden they got healthy they lost zubac the minute they got James Harden so there was a transitional period it’s different from coaching it’s different with coaching I had an experience where

We fired a coach David blat tou took over and even then it was a transitional period we won 10 games in a row in the postseason that year we did not t didn’t take over and then we went on an 8-2 stretch it took us a little bit of time

To understand who we are what what he wants from us the new expectations and so a lot of these things are going to take time there’s a high level of scrutiny high level of attention but I think like you said the home stretch that goes into the All-Star break giving

Them a little bit of break that I in my opinion can propel them that final third yeah I think uh they just need more time to jail it’s it’s been um you know first off Damen lard didn’t play last night or the night before in Phoenix or the game

Before anle um so that’s obviously a big piece gone once they get fully healthy obviously Chris Middleton is going to be battling some stuff but this is a team in the distance is where they’re going to be judged and that’s the playoff time uh but there’s a lot of pressure to get

This done I mean who are we kidding this is a team that we always talk about Championship or bust then you add a player like Damen Lillard this is a team that is supposed to win and contend right now uh Giannis is in his prime

He’s in his MVP era so there’s a lot of pressure added to this and obviously they’ve had major changes so this is going to take some time hopefully they can get it together like the Clippers have so in this case I can’t use the white board and spreadsheets to prove my

Point cuz that that looks bad on on the on the grid but talking to people around the team internally they do believe that they are making strides they do believe that they are improving their preparation and their systems and their procedures and they do believe that it

Will eventually pay off I can’t present a case that it looks like that way but the people who are around the team say that they believe in this so I am going to trust them and say that I believe well but how high how high are the

Stakes for this I think next year is when you know why I’m asking I mean there’s only one person who can answer that question you know they had a very disappointing end of last season if they have and they had massive change off off of that yeah if that massive change

Doesn’t lead to a good ending to this season I don’t know where Yannis is going to be and that’s just what I say I don’t know what is a good ending for them right again yeah that’s what I’m saying no finals no no no no no no no no

No no I’m saying next year would be the year they have this year they have to get to the finals and I don’t want to I don’t want to hear this heartfelt speech about failure in life and you have to go through fail failure from Giannis when

It do happen who’s the best thank you they have y the ones that keep telling me okay so you asking me to ask answer this if they l seven to let me ask you let me ask you this let me ask you this let me ask you this if that’s

The case then why every single time I bring up something y’all tell me about Superstar power so you telling me y’all telling me about superstars in the postseason when I bought up the superstars okay but are you taking Jason Tatum and Jaylen brown or you taking Yiannis and

D what you mean we haven’t seen jannis and D the new system we seen enough of them they got new plays new offense new whole new it’s a whole new team I think it depends on how they lose right if they lose to Boston in the second

Round in a hardfought seven game series potentially that sits differently but the only person who can answer the question of what’s good enough is jannis atento what all of us say we can all have different opinions the only one that matters really is [Applause] [Applause] his

Kendrick Perkins, Richard Jefferson, Austin Rivers, Brian Windhorst and Malika Andrews discuss the ramifications of the Los Angeles Lakers staying quiet through the trade deadline and the Milwaukee Bucks’ ceiling after falling 129-105 to the Minnesota Timberwolves.

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