NBA Gametime | Anthony Davis and D’Angelo will be the best duo tonight – Shaq on Lakers vs Bucks

NBA Gametime | Anthony Davis and D’Angelo will be the best duo tonight – Shaq on Lakers vs Bucks

They probably have by now was their worst game of the season a 35-point blowout in San Francisco but that ended a six-game win streak they found their defense again and under Doc Rivers have w six of their last seven as they continue their California road trip tonight against D’Angelo Russell and the

LA Lakers and we point out d’angel Russell because there’s no LeBron James in the lineup tonight uh due to this ankle injury which derin ham said earlier tonight LeBron is experiencing quote severe soreness and so he will set it out tonight for the Lakers who are two and

Two on their six game home stand what 3D do you think the Bucks have figured out here over the last couple of weeks under Doc Rivers a little Clarity connected with accountability when Bobby Portis we had him on here too he talked about how doc has met with each guy just to clear

Up this is who you are this is your role what you need to do he goes to Damon said Dame I know you’re not Drew holiday so stop listening to the they said go be Dame and I think last couple name Dame’s going to be damn you’re offensive minded

Juggernaut that’s how you play and give me effort on the defensive end and play basketball I think that’s what we’ve seen since the allar break doc Riv was getting everyone right where they need to be and now you see more Spirit to their connectivity you know I I I look

At it and they say they they they wanted doc to install and instill defense right and that’s what they’ve been able to do they’ve improved defensively now I think the second thing the second phase is okay how do we get better offensively mhm and as you just talked about you

Know Porters and Dame and Giannis how do we get all these guys on the same page and how do we start playing the right way in terms of the way doc wants them to play there can’t be a a a a just an offensive team just up and down up and

Down up and down right so I think the first thing he did was said okay let me fix the defense now that we got the defense fix I think these next 20 games down the road they’ll say okay let’s work on our offense let’s see if we can

Get better offensively going into the playoffs where we have both clicking at the same time defensively and offense they made a Clear Choice last off season when they traded away Drew holiday and brought in Damen leard they wanted to be better offensively clearly at the end of

Games Dame time if you will yeah and have another shot Creator shot maker on the floor who could take the ball out of Giannis on Theo’s hands he’s not a great free throw shooter lot of lots of reasons to do that but lard is an offensive player he’s not not a

Defensive player how do you coach around that or convince the offensive minded player to get good enough to make it work they right now they are what they are right but there’s one guy who’s waiting in the wings in terms of Chris Middleton right when Middleton comes back now you got the three-headed

Monster right now they’re they Dame and their Giannis and everybody else is kind of playing off those two but if you remember when when Milwaukee won a championship Giannis took the podium and said hey our clutch player and our goto guy is Chris Middleton right so when

Middleton comes back then I think they become a better offensive unit and that’s a real problem for them as well because wi sometimes feels like if with Chris Middleton if he comes back and if he comes back completely healthy and that’s the biggest concern because it’s

Been all season long he hasn’t had a good flow of games if you will to get that continuity we all like to have when the playoffs get here you’re feeling good you got good Rhythm being in and out Zeke concerns me a little bit because he’s a rhythm player he likes to

Be in the mid-range get two or three dribbles get into his rock and roll and then score the basketball and he showed he’s a better passer out of the double teams when he got deeper into the playoffs which I appreciated yeah only played 43 games so far for the Milwaukee

Bucks in LA to take on the Lakers who are basically what they’ve been all season which is you know just over a 500 team right now and the Lakers two and2 on this home stand four- four in their last eight without LeBron tonight 3D uh

I know it feels like we talk about the Lakers a lot because they’re the Lakers and it’s LeBron as the all-time leading scorer um but it feels like the same old story this season where they can’t quite get over the hump and that’s for me I’ll never get tired I’ll talk about LeBron

What he’s done for us in the year 21 being a Laker fan growing up as a kid Magic Johnson so for he and AD they know they’re the corner storm of getting things started it’s still the bigger question is DLo is uh ruy all those type

Of guys are around them are they going to play enough basketball consistent basketball or they don’t make enough shots well can they get some stops yeah they get some stop we’ll wor about shots later but if you’re not stopping nobody forget about the shots and I think when

They’ve gone deep until they fell in the Denver last year they were stopping people can they do it again can LeBron save enough energy does AD have enough to get through the play in again to say you know what people I may be 39 years

Old but I got to get one win then after I get out there I got to get one win and then it’s all about how do I figure out if Ant-Man is a real superhero enough to be eight against one just being think a big pitchure I think

That’s the way LeBron and Le of fans are thinking you know if you forget the names and the resumés of the players involved take away the uniform and just look at what they’ve actually done this season Lakers are a pretty mediocre basketball team in always way 17 offensively that’s why they’re 10 17th

Defensively yeah yeah four games over 500 can give me a a give me a if I’m a Laker fan to think that they’re better than that when the postseason arrives you know we we’ve seen and we’ve been spoiled by LeBron James over these last 20 years right

Because he always finds a way to put on the cape and come save the day and you got to think that the players in the locker room they probably think that too in the back of their mind like hey LeBron’s going to come and and save the day but

You know they’re there comes a time when maybe he can’t come save the day it’s going to happen at some point at some point in time it it’s going to happen you know and and you know Davis can he put on the cape and save

The day does he want to put on the cape I think he wants to I mean when you look at those numbers he’s having a great season he’s he’s a great player he’s a he’s a great player and he’s having a great season however this is this is

What we’re finding out right and this is what I want all the basketball world to know when we say there are levels to it there you go they are they definitely levels to it and and when you looking that LeBron James and you playing with him and you’re playing with you know

Possibly the greatest player to ever play the game can you reach that level nightly probably not probably not you know so this is this is what we have with the Lakes I mean can Anthony Davis play any better than he’s playing right now I don’t know but if but if he does right

Maybe he takes it up another notch but can he get to the greatest of all time level no it’s an interesting question and Anthony Davis is a great player he’s having a he’s having a great season having a really good season yes and he does a lot of things 3D sometimes when

You watch this team it feels like and I and I think if you put him on the truth serum LeBron might say this as well that they he would like ad to take a more forward role as a scorer it’s not just about scoring he does a ton of other things

But there are nights when they might need him to be the guy offensively Matt we were we were chatting about this earlier and I think what people Magic Johnson started saying ads on the way ads here we in the media sit up here and said well it’s time time for

LeBron to pass the Manel to ad so it going be ad’s team so he could take over and I think it hit me he’s just not built he’s not Kyrie Irving game seven LeBron go look at the film LeBron’s like give me the ball give me the ball Kyrie

Go I’m that dude Bop B Bop bam right oh I’m back on cam LeBron’s like give it to him he’s like no LeBron b b take this game 7 in your face I’m Kyrie Irving he was leaving it that’s what we’re asking ad to do that’s not ad let’s call it

What it is no you talk about passing him the mantle unlike some players he’s going to pass it right back there you go at that and once again ler fan there’s nothing wrong with that is still a Hall of Fame but you said it there’s levels

To this that’s the level he lived on yeah all right I think we solved it there you go no we didn’t fck on the Lakers tonight that happens after 10 eastern time again LeBron is out tonight because of an ankle injury we’ll keep on top of everything else happening around the

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NBA Gametime | Anthony Davis and D’Angelo will be the best duo tonight – Shaq on Lakers vs Bucks