UNDISPUTED | Kings own Lakers! – Skip brutally honest on LeBron injury & Lakers playoff chances

UNDISPUTED | Kings own Lakers! – Skip brutally honest on LeBron injury & Lakers playoff chances

In the past those guys when we played OKC everybody played well but we also went up against a smaller lineup this lineup is not much bigger but they’re a little bit longer just a little bit but in the end it is what it is a Lakers got

A bounce back against the Bucks tomorrow night and if they could do that based on the way the Bucks played I’m sure they gonna come with their fire blowing out of their nose they will you know I’m sure that and hopefully LeBron can play

In the game and we don’t get to a 02 on this home stretch yeah all right so I’m going to show you exactly what happened in the second quarter because I’m going to show you if you can stomach it if you can relive it I’m going to show you 18

Makes out of 20 shots in the second quarter because for some reason the Lakers played decent defense in the first quarter and then Here Comes Malik Monk and then here we go again and then here we go again and so many people standing around Fox they just standing around and nobody

Everybody watching watching let’s just watch them let’s not get back let’s give up our dunks let’s give up our threes let’s give up another dunk this is a clinic sabonis Davon I I mean harder didn’t even have much of a game last night but he usually

Kills you now dearon is on fire dearon is on fire and I think we’re getting close to the Darren again nobody can guard him if Mike Brown doesn’t get enough credit if Mike Brown doesn’t get enough credit as a coach we’re watching the second quarter we just saw the second quarter that’s

True Mike Brown is a very good basketball coach he he he could discredited because he coached with LeBron and when you coach with LeBron a lot of the credit going to go to LeBron even though he’s had mild success without LeBron I mean he’s a really good

Basketball coach and then he goes to Golden State he takes over Steve Kerr he goes whatever undefeated in that little stretch that he had so he hadn’t gotten the credit that he deserves but I’mma give him as they say I’m GNA give him his flowers because he’s done a

Tremendous job since taking over in Sacramento okay I concur now you brought up LeBron walking off the floor with just under 4 minutes left they’re down 122 to 108 it’s over I don’t have any problem with him taking himself out but I don’t love it because he’s done this

Routinely in his career his damn ankles is hurt okay but wait a second he walks all the way from the far Corner past the bench all the way to the locker room just go sit down with your team don’t leave your team don’t go yes you can

Don’t leave them twisting in the wind don’t do anle is throbbing okay he didn’t turn it though he didn’t turn I don’t know what he turned or what he did he didn’t turn his ankle he didn’t feel good it’s okay for he’s not playing I don’t need to sit there while my ankle

Is throbing don’t disassociate yourself from the stench don’t don’t keep up if you’re the leader of the team go sit with the team you just should you know it and I know it you know it and I know I’ve been hurt before I’ve been hurt before in games and the game was over

With at least I thought the game was over with I wind up going into the locker room because I wasn’t going to stand on the sideline you’re hurt he’s hurt too that’s why chronic ankle that he’s plays with he’ll play on Friday night he said after the game I’m going

To be all right yes but when it is hurting and it is throbbing it does not feel good okay but again it doesn’t require immediate attention because he’s been treating it and treat treats it every day and every night the game’s over okay yeah it is without him on the

Floor it’s a wrap okay but it’s such a melodramatic walk off like don’t don’t look at me I got nothing to do with this I’m gone you are no no well you’re unbelievable if you can defend that how can you defend that you shouldn’t if the

Game heart of hearts the game is over I don’t need to sit there until there’s zeros on the clock with everybody rushing off the court and me gingerly oh you think they’re in a court storm no not Court storm but all the players and everybody got to go in the tunnel I

Don’t need that the game’s over by the time I get actually to the locker the game’s over with there’s no coming back I can’t help you what am I going to do they call time out I’m going still be sitting on the bench you want me to

Stand up I’m and clap what I don’t understand that’s even if he dude he’s damned if he damned if he do damned if he don’t with you if he not me he sits and he has a piece of fruit on the bench no oh that’s a problem if he

Has some popcorn on the bench oh that’s a problem you you know and I know just just walk over and sit down and be with your teammates canot you’re H you all got destroyed you all got destroyed you think he’s trying to separate himself sear everybody seen it he scored the

Dude scored 31 points man he had 13 assists okay he he shot the boy he was 10 to 16 why does he need he doesn’t need to prove anything like it’s drama King stuff where you you’re going to melodramatically walk off don’t don’t associate me with this no no no that’s

Not he’s associated with because he was on the floor for the majority of the game so we all know what he he played plus minus I didn’t even look three three no not bad three minus three yeah he played 36 minutes y he played 36 minutes with a bum ankle I don’t

Understand play he’s been playing for weeks really he’s been playing all year with all year long last several years with a bum ankle he has true because he’s older 21 years it’s wear and tear it’s okay for him to go to the tunnel it’s fine okay it’s fine with you I I

Just I’ve called him on it for years and I don’t like it I don’t think his teammates love it either I just don’t think it this is a Unity thing this is an all for one one for all and if you’re the leader of the team don’t leave them

Twisting in the wind out there just don’t don’t do that skip the game is over well no it’s 122 to 108 I’d say the game is over if he ain’t playing on the court they don’t have a chance he done this in playoff games where he just with

Four or five minutes left he just walks to the locker room it’s over yeah you like that that leadership I have no problem with it man I just don’t I have zero with it no I do not no I don’t just cuz Michael Jordan didn’t do that doesn’t mean anything he would never

Think about doing that you stay to The Bitter End you you you stay with your guys right no yeah not when I’m hurt if I need to go get attended to I’m going and and get my ice and get what I need to the damn game is over with okay all

Right all right so where do you go from here do do have you lost faith no no no no no no I I I again they got this eight game stretch coming down the Pipeline with the Bucks and the Timberwolves and the Kings and the Warriors go to Sacramento tough stretch you mentioned

Call Anthony towns being uh gone for you know I guess for the rest of the season um so you got the Bucks you saw what they look like last night with Doc as they coach I don’t know what that was Timber Woods will probably look different you go to the Kings you got

The Warriors those four games you got three of four at home three or four of those at home you do take care of that but sometimes I trust this team as much away as I do at home and I don’t understand it they don’t seem to have a

Strong homecourt advantage to me uh I would say that the homec court advantage is slippery it’s mixed it is mixed but they have an opportunity to make it right because they made it right against OKC this was a team that they match up well against they’ve beaten OKC three to four times that

They’ve played them yeah this team in Sacramento is a bad matchup for whatever reason for whatever reason that maybe maybe it’s the coach in Mike Brown knows how to coach against the Lakers in their in Lebron and ad because he’s been in the conference for so long but when I

Watch dearon Fox against the Lakers he just looks like he’s invincible and his body language is like nobody can stop me he loves to play the Lakers Malik obviously loves to take it out on the Lakers And yet when I watch those same two players against Golden

State in the first round of the playoffs last year they don’t look like this you you know what I mean against Golden State probably knows how to defend them and do certain things against them the Lakers the Lakers from a defensive standpoint of the guard position we

Don’t have anybody I know you want Austin Reeves to be our shut down he’s not shut down but he’s been playing pretty well yeah playing pretty well against a talent like this is not gonna be good enough SK well the other night remember he blocked Jordan pool shot

When you were in trouble against the visiting Wizards remember that yeah but but again you’re talking about dearon Fox up against a guy who is a hard try guy he’s got a lot of hustle he’s going and eventually all of that energy he’s also Sly Savvy he knows how to get there

But listen dearen Fox I don’t care who would have guarded him last night LeBron in his LeBron at age 22 could you know first team all defensive player I’m not sure he could have stopped dearon Fox last night dearon Fox was just he he it

Was like give me the ball and get out of the way or as somebody want give me the damn he was he was two or six from three yeah that that you know he didn’t shoot that well it’s all cre but over the course of the game he dominated but I I

Attribute a lot of that too is the fact he is a left-hander I am going to make that point that when you’re not seeing people that often that shoot with the left hand defensively your angle sometimes can be I got it I looked this up before yesterday’s show because they

Had beaten you six out of the last seven times he six six of seven now now it’s seven of eight seven of but but over the six of seven dearon Fox had averaged 30 a game 30 points well that’s like but the Lakers also again they don’t have a

Guard that can step up and then you say well they could switch off on him and put somebody else on him now you’re talking about putting somebody slower potentially on him or you’re talking about putting somebody that could potentially be defensive guy jar Vanderbilt could bother him a little bit more but he’s

Taller and longer he’s not he’s not there yeah but there but when you take certain guys off the court they now become an offens of liability because the most people that just play Pure defense can’t score yeah there’s not a lot of two-way guys this is not Klay

Thompson from six years ago on the on your team you know you got a guy either he can shoot the ball and play a little hard hustle defense or he can’t shoot the ball and he plays defense so now I’m missing scoring opportunities so the Lakers have got to find that individual

At the guard position if they plan on going long distance that can do both you know the weird thing is I still can’t write this team off I I can’t just leave them in the dust we all right and yet not yet you know what you’re going to

Wind up in the T spe seed yeah we’ll be in the play in potentially with but but if you’re in the 10 seed that means you right now you would have to go to Golden State in a one or go home situation right you you’d have to go play one game

At Golden State to advance so who could be potentially the Suns Golden State Dallas the Lakers Sacramento they’re all everybody’s fighting in that group but in the play in though yeah those those teams that’ll be interesting that Kevin Durant Steph Curry and LeBron James play in incred it’s like the West is upside

Down but the Lakers body language is like we cool you know we we’re intense because they’re five and a half games up on Utah to stay in the playin you see what I mean like there’s no threat from behind to knock you out of they can’t drop to 11 unless they just collapse

Collapse I mean it’s still mathematically possible but I don’t see it happening yeah they not they not going to collapse collapse I just need ad to play a little bit better five five and 13 and giving up 20 boards ain’t going to make happy he low energy after the

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UNDISPUTED | Kings own Lakers! – Skip brutally honest on LeBron injury & Lakers playoff chances