THE HERD | Colin reacts to Lakers fall to Nuggets for 8th straight lose in LeBron historic night

THE HERD | Colin reacts to Lakers fall to Nuggets for 8th straight lose in LeBron historic night

Oh here we go it is a Monday lots to talk about live in Los Angeles it’s the herd wherever you may be and however you may be listening thanks for making us part of your day 1 hour from now customary on a Monday where Colin was right and where Colin was wrong spent

The weekend watching a lot of basketball some NFL combine stuff JM and um don’t be fooled by some outcomes Warriors last game of a road trip don’t be too fooled with that oh but there was a game Saturday night you and I had talked about going I sat home

And watched the whole thing made myself some dinner you ghosted me when I reached out no response could have had the phone off and just you know watch the game but I the Lakers Nuggets game was fascinating okay and all the Denver Laker games over the last two years

Denver’s the best basketball team on the planet Boston’s probably second but they all look the same the Lakers absolutely hang with them and about five six minutes to go Denver ratchets up their defense and Lakers don’t get as many good shots and then Jamal Murray and joic kind of take over

Saturday night much of the same and Denver wins narrowly um and Laker fans were very upset they were mad at Darin ham Anthony Davis only had 17 points the bench didn’t deliver but I actually saw it differently let’s start with this the nuggets have four elite players their

Four best players are all in their Prime Michael Porter number one high school player first round pick uh giving you 17 to night in the NBA he went 10 for 10 to start 10 for 10 in the game Number Four B Aaron Gordon one of the better bodies

Length in the NBA top Defender had 189 and five Jamal Murray did what he always does 24 points 11 assists and yic best player in the world had 3510 and seven and shot 64% their four best players are all athletically in their Prime okay go look at the Lakers they

Have one Elite player in their prime one Anthony Davis and because of the injuries many in his career he’s an old 30 LeBron’s not in his prime he’s 39 years old and Austin Reeves is not an elite player he wasn’t even drafted he’s a really good player who is overachieved

In the NBA gives you about 15 a night good player should be a four on a great team but this is what the series should be it shouldn’t be this close if you go look at NBA champions NFL champions World Cup champions baseball Champions generally the core of the team

The strength of it is overwhelmingly guys in their Prime the Lakers have one Elite Talent in their Prime Anthony Davis who’s always been a little hit and miss offensively tremend this defensively and that’s it and he’s an old 30 so the Lakers and Nuggets the last two years have played a lot 11

Times in two years and the point differential is only four and a half against the world’s best basketball team why are the games usually that close cuz LeBron and Anthony Davis are top 12 15 players in the league maybe better and the Lakers have Championship length which is the only way to compete

With Denver the Warriors 0 and seven against Denver the Clippers one and six lose by an average of Nine the suns are four and seven and lose by 8 to8 and a half points a game Lakers Nuggets is always close and what it tells me is

LeBron in year 21 is only missing a Dependable number three talent and they didn’t get him at the deadline be mad at the front office don’t be mad at ad don’t be mad at Austin Reeves the nuggets have four elite players top high school first round best center in the

World best player Jamal Murray Kentucky these are Elite guys all in their Prime Lakers have like half of one in Anthony Davis it’s okay Anthony Davis talked about it all nugget Laker games look the same mostly oh yes we’re getting closer as far as of you know the first you know I

Guess 42 minutes you know um or you could say even 44 minutes right and then you know that last 4 minutes is just them getting to what they get to and you know they make us pay on our mistakes like I say um you know granted you know they made tough shots

Um but they get to it every time and uh you know what’s coming with their great execution team you tell me if the Lakers had four Elite players in their Prime like you know a Shaq and a Kobe and a Rick Fox and a Derek fiser and the

Nuggets had like three qus of one would you expect the games always to be this close this is what Laker Nugget game should look like the Lakers championship size can compete with them Clippers don’t necessarily Suns struggle Warriors don’t match up at all Lakers lost the way they’re going to

Lose against Denver when you just don’t have that level of talent with 5 to six minutes to go in the game so I saw this over the weekend there’s a lot of talk about the Dak Prescott EX four rebounds usually he can get you at least nine or

10 all right so remember what Michael Malone said at the Victory Parade I’m your daddy whatever okay well right now I think they can say that in all honesty they are your daddy at this point you haven’t proven any other otherwise right that’s eight straight losses and again

Six of the the last seven have been close game losses okay so I made the point on Friday I think you weren’t here cuz it was with Lil Wayne you I had left you had left at this point but the previous five close games I put on

LeBron I don’t put this one completely on LeBron but the previous five that included the four games in the Conference Finals LeBron was a combined nine of 31 in the fourth quarters and one of 11 from three so he comes out Saturday night and he says watch this

And I’m ready to applaud because he had 13 in the fourth quarter yeah the problem they came in a flurry pretty early and I’m going to show you two of them because it was 747 left he had an and one if we could see this and and I

Immediately tweeted like well don’t this LeBron Going Up and Under and one and he flexes and he celebrates and I said close it go close the deal don’t don’t celebrate too much that that was a pretty big celebr celebrating like that okay what did he do let you know you I

Got strength okay and he goes to the free throw line and guess what he did he missed that free throw badly okay so now we’ve got 734 it’s just a few seconds later he makes just about I think it was missed the free throw I was afraid that

Was going to be an airball wait we’re going to see the other side of this this I I don’t know that was pretty shaky all right now here’s the three here’s here’s LeBron and this is it’s close to a logo he about a foot off a

Logo and he rips it and he just goes crazy he just goes crazy and I’m I I tweeted don’t celebrate don’t celebrate shot down these are the defending champs and you do it you cannot dare the devil like that because those guys are your devil okay

Now it gets to 322 just a few seconds later and you already brought it up and he just drives you’re up I’m sorry you’re down one at this point and he drives the ball I don’t know what happened he just lost the handle on it he slipped out his hand and out of

Bounds it went and somehow that was the death nail for that team even though I’m not holding LeBron completely accountable he made one last basket when they were down sou it wasn’t the it wasn’t the death nail they went down by five and then they closed the Gap yeah

They went down by five and then they closed it back down go down by seven seconds left to cut it down to seven so they cut it down to seven okay so that’s nothing but the point was there’s something about Jamal and Joker against you guys they just say no we got

This maybe it’s just a bad match up like I said maybe it’s just a situation where we late in games against Denver for whatever it is we don’t play well and they play better I don’t get it because they’re they don’t look better than you throughout the game they don’t until 322

Was left I’m saying this is LeBron’s night this is his game I know it took a lot out of him to go ahead and pass 40,000 takes a lot out of the team emotionally because it’s very distracting to have to stop the game and get the basketball and all that but the

Point was it just felt like this was your time and your turn and it wasn’t they just they just said no watch this and Jamal scores a couple of baskets and Joker scores a couple of baskets and they go on a 13 to four run and win by

10 and I’m like to your point you’re like sick all of it but what how I’ve never seen anything quite like this because they are the team mostly standing in your way I think you would agree yeah uh I don’t know I don’t know what Minnesota I don’t know what right

Now Oklahoma City is leading the West I don’t know what OKC is going to be in the playoffs I don’t know what Minnesota would be in the playoffs if Phoenix gets healthy I don’t know what they going to be in the playoff I I just don’t know they crumbled down the stretch against

The Thunder last night they did not have Deon Booker who’s usually their closer that’s what I said if they get healthy I don’t know what they’re going to be if you get any healthier if you could Gabe Vincent is always sitting on the bench every and he looks like he’s great he’s

Cheerleading all that I’m thinking come play man I know something he had a minor knee surgery but I guess it’s a major problem but I need more I need more out of Anthony Davis yeah um I’m I’m I’m glad to see that he didn’t shoot threes

Last night he did he didn’t even attempt one I’m glad to see that but I need to get more points out of him he got 11 boards but I need more points I need I just need I can’t give up 35 and hit 17 I just you can’t do I

Can’t can’t do it I’d rather trade 35 for 35 yeah you know I I can’t have you in the minus category in the points differential against Joker we he plays bigger against Joker he’s played pretty well against Joker well I don’t care about the past I’m talking about last

Night no I know or Saturday night s Saturday night yeah no I I got you Jared Banner Bel he’s got to get if you if you get this team healthy I still like their chances there there m there are moments in this game I said they’re better than

The Nuggets yeah you know but in the end the Nuggets finished the deal and we did not this is the this is the we can beat anybody on any given night and we can lose to anybody on every every given night this is what this exact this is

What this is yeah they they have the ability to stay tight for three and a half four quarters but the last five minutes of games for some reason they allow teams to separate themselves yeah because they don’t close it out they don’t

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THE HERD | Colin reacts to Lakers fall to Nuggets for 8th straight lose in LeBron historic night