Windy ADVISES Lakers fans to CHEER for Kings after LA’s BIG loss + Celtics title hopes | First Take

Windy ADVISES Lakers fans to CHEER for Kings after LA’s BIG loss + Celtics title hopes | First Take

Bonus is one all 10 games he’s played in his career against ad Wendy starting with you my man uh how concerning was this loss for the Lakers can we just start with the fact that sabonis is 10 and0 against ad in his career sure that’s one of the most

Amazing stats going in the league right now swept him this year by the way over the last two years guys kings are nine and or s- one against the Lakers like they have owned this matchup and let’s start with just have some truths about the Lakers let’s just be honest about

Where they are as a team right now okay they are in a tie essentially for 10th place because they’re tied with the with the Warriors in the Lost column I know they have a couple more wins but they’re all going to play the same amount of games and right now they’re tied okay

They are now way back of the six seed and have completely been whitewashed in the tiebreaker by the Kings they’re also behind the Mavericks in the tiebreaker and by two games in the Lost column for eight so I’m telling you the six seed has sailed goodbye sayanora you’re going

To be in the playin um the other thing I’m going to say is that if you’re a Lakers fan I would now advise you to start to root for the Kings just about every game because you don’t want to face the kings in a one-off situation I

Know that the Lakers have had success in one-off situations in this modern era they were three and0 in the inseason tournament they were they LeBron’s LED wins in a couple of inseason tournament games you don’t want to face the king you want the Kings to get the six seed

Because you actually have a chance to beat the Suns they’ve got three wins against the Suns this year the size difference is huge for them they don’t have to see deanis sabonis and let me just make a quick aside sabonis not making the All-Star game ain’t looking

So good for the people who voted for it don’t worry the big bag media will solve it and we’ll put them on the all-nba team but that’s remains embarrassing the way this guy is dominating but back to the Lakers they’re now in a situation where I will tell you they got a

Must-win game on Saturday against Warriors because if you break down the tie break they are this game will probably give the Lakers the edge in the tie break they have two games left and it’s 1-1 both games are in LA but you get into layers two and three the tie

Break the Lakers win this game on Saturday they’ll be in a tie break situation I think they’ll get it and the reason that’s important guys is we’re now looking at who’s going to have home court for a 910 game I don’t see how the Lakers are getting out of it uh you know

Uh the Mavericks um have an easier schedule or comparable schedule in the Lakers down the stretch and this is even worse news for the Lakers because again we’re just going to be honest this is this is a morning for honesty last night the Denver Nuggets moved into first

Place in the Western Conference and I’m telling you I’ve sailed on on on the six seed I’m on the verge of telling you forget about this the eight seed for the Lakers and at least for the at least going in so that the best you can do is

Um you have to win two games to get the e seed um you hope as a Lakers fan is that you can get into a playoff series with the Oklahoma City Thunder that’s a team that you’ve beaten three out of four times you like that matchup your size works against you your experience

Works against you the Lakers would have a Fighting Chance in that situation but guess what the nuggets have basically been the League’s best team since the All-Star break they took over the number one seed last night and the projections that I’m looking at and just with the

Eye test say they’re going to get the number one seed they have faren away the easier schedule between them the wol Wolves and the uh and the thunder coming in the Wolves don’t have Carl towns I think the Nuggets who are killers at home and want home court throughout the

West playoffs I think they’re getting the one so I think the Lakers are facing fighting with the Warriors for home court in the 910 praying that the Kings aren’t in the 7 eight so that they don’t have to potentially see them in the next round and then potentially facing a

Rematch with a team that they also can’t beat which is the Denver Nuggets and before I hand it off Molly one more thing oh I love it a year ago in March I was saying and a lot of other people who were watching closely were saying that

The Lakers did have a chance to do something in the postseason and the reason we believe that even though they were a worse team by record than this year’s team is because after they made those trade deadline moves they were great and I mean great on the defensive

End of the Court they and that was what carried them through the play in through those first couple of rounds they were really really good over the last 15 games the Lakers are 29th in the league and defense and to be honest with you I probably should have led with that and

Just handed the ball off and said I don’t have anything else more to say the only team worse over the last 15 games in the league is the Utah Jazz who are doing a grade A tank job to keep their draft pick one of the things no one’s

Paying attention to is the absolute overt tank job that Utah is doing that’s the only team that is playing worse defense than the Lakers last year in March they had the number three defense in the league I can’t take this team seriously I respect their ability to win

An individual one-off game because of their talent I can’t take this team seriously to do anything when you’ve got the second worst defense in the league in the most important part of the season that’s all 100% I just got to say he came in hoty standing all I mean the passion the

Delivery the focus poignant points I mean that was just exceptional and he also had the play in stuff right everything else that was yeah way to kick off the show I will be quick and then give d plenty of chances here I 100% agree with Brian on everything he

Says I can’t believe that a team with Reeves LeBron and Anthony Davis that were looking at them maybe getting knocked out in the second game of the postseason I mean that’s ridiculous they got LeBron and Anthony Davis and they can’t get out of a playing situation furthermore even if they get by Golden

State in that n91 game to make the playoffs they’re going to have to win a road game against a 678 loser so the 78 plays the winners in and the loser plays at home against the 910 winner so the Lakers are going to have to win a road

Game just to make the body of work into postseason and that’s and again Kings 4-0 against them they make sabonis out to be Gus Johnson look him up uh if you want to know who he was back in the old days with the Baltimore Bullets I mean

The bottom line is this is a very this a team last year got to the conference final everybody was excited thought they were going to do great things this year and now they can’t get out of their own way and remember two if the NBA loses LeBron and Curry in a playin scenario

That’s going to hurt them the NBA sells stars and if they lose the LeBron and Curry before they get to that first round that’s a different conversation it’s an interesting conversation it’s also time to meet some new stars and getting them out of the way will get

More attention to those new stars so it’s not all bad for the NBA do you think the se’s should really be the favorites well you’re going to make them the favorite from a betting perspective because the Eastern Conference is easier than the West okay so there is less likelihood that the Knicks of

Philadelphia Milwaukee getting killed every night defensively that they’re going to lose Denver may not have home field the heat the one team that actually could beat the Celtics could but we don’t know how that match up will work in the NB in the west the heat the

Rock the Nuggets may not have home court nor the or the rounds that’s number one they haven’t gotten that top seed yet of those Wy said at the top of the program today they’re in good shape to get it I would favor them but if they don’t have

It yet Boston does and there you know Clippers are dangerous you know there’s a couple of teams there you know I would be worried about the thunder got a lot of talent so I would be a little concerned from that perspective so I understand why they made the Celtics the

Favorite but if it’s Christopher Russo’s money and I had to make a play right now for a team to win it I’m taking Denver I love their that they you can tell they have risen to the occasion in big spots they beaten the Celtics twice they beat

The Lakers in La when Kare when LeBron had the 40,000 point game I saw him play The Warriors about two Saturdays ago in Golden State they did a tremendous job on the fourth quarter they beat Miami last night in Miami matchup of course last year in the NBA I love this team

Now they’re not a great historical team they got two great players Murray’s great how he hasn’t made an Allstar team is ridiculous and we know yic might be might be at the end of the day the greatest Center in the history of the NBA and that’s saying a lot he might be

At the end of his career he’s that good he’s he’s better than Shaq I tell you that right now he’s better than sha don’t start with and I’m not not just Shaq I mean he’s better than Malone Elijah he does everything he passes he dribbles he is great is great we so as

We that you want to you want to respond to that greatest of all time I I’m still recovering from that because Mad Dog this is a guy who’s a big defender of the the old and gray and in the grave guys so you saying that is I mean I

Think the thing about joic that is so remarkable is that he’s a little bit impervious I think he’s going to be impervious to aging the guy doesn’t his nothing in his game is based on athleticism at all and so going forward I could see this guy the only thing I

Think is going to prevent him from playing and being a championship Contender till he’s 40 is that he doesn’t want to do it I don’t know if this is something he wants to do with an undying desire I think he loves being at home in Serbia he has other interests

But I want to talk about his phone for a second because his phone has played a big role in this season I know that sounds crazy and the last time you saw jokic’s phone was probably at the end of last season’s finals when he picked up

His phone after game five and looked at how many text messages and cursed and slammed it down when he saw how many he had to look at but after the allstar game he sent a text message to his teammates now I want to remind you that the Nuggets had lost the last three

Games going into the break they looked kind of flat they’re you know they were looking like a a team on a championship hangover I think they had slid to third or even fourth maybe in the Western Conference and yic sent a text message which I don’t think he normally does I’m

Not on the Nuggets uh Team text message chain I don’t see yic as being too active in there talking about love is blind okay I think he probably picks his spots and I think whatever he put in that text message you want to talk about leadership he said to the and we know

About it not because he said it but because his teammates brought it up to the media and I think they regretted it right away because people started asking about it and they then they wouldn’t talk more about it since that text message which he basically said gentlemen it’s time to start acting like

Champions they’re 10 and one they’re number two in offense number seven in defense they have been a killer team since that happened they have the easiest schedule they they have the third easiest schedule left in the whole league so when I look at them they’re in first place this morning for the first

Time I say first place I mean in the west Mad Dog the Celtics are going to have the number one overall SE unless they have some sort of collapse they’ve got a a pretty good cushion but the the number one seed in the west means a lot

Because you got to go through Denver and their killer at home but they’re number they’re in first place now for the first time since November okay they have the third easiest schedule of all teams in the NBA and of all those top teams in the west coming down they have three

Games left with the Wolves where they will not have Carl towns okay so they have an opportunity to totally strangle hold that situation the Clippers are seven and seven their last 14 games they’ve got their own issues to talk about and while I think the Thunder are

A potent team they have a much more difficult schedule coming out I think they’ve got like the six or seven toughest schedule Denver is highly favored so you’re going to have them if they don’t mess around with the number one seed in the west I like it the only

Thing that you’re going to convince me that you could say Boston has an edge is that home Court Denver is only a couple games over 500 on the road but that kind of is the team that was pre yic text message let’s get serious and also they

W Untouchable on the road in the Conference Finals and finals last year and my point is that they’re they’re they can be great on the road the if the only thing you’re looking at with this Denver team is to say well this is what their issue is if they have an injury to

One of their front line their reserves are suspect they’re young and unproven and you know Murray has shown he has injury-prone they are a little susceptible on depth and their road record isn’t as good the Celtics have been awesome at home but they lost to the Nuggets so I love Denver as the

Favorite and I think they’ve earned that that um the the depth is the one one argument I think that you could make for the Celtics and I think obviously with cat out um the West gets a lot easier for the Nuggets I think I would definitely go with the Nuggets over them

Over anybody honestly including the Celtics even though they appear to have an easier path because the one issue that Wendy brought up that uh is injuries in depth frankly that’s everybody on the west is injuries we saw it with uh if you lose Kawai or if you

Lose PG it’s going to change the way that things look for um for the for the Clippers He

On First Take, Chris “Mad Dog” Russo, Domonique Foxworth and Brian Windhorst react to the Los Angeles Lakers 120-107 loss to the Sacramento Kings and discuss how concerning this is for the Lakers’ season. Then, the panel discuss if the Boston Celtics should be the favorite to win the NBA Title.

0:00 How concerning was this loss for the Lakers?
4:30 The Utah Jazz’s struggles
7:00 Should the Celtics be the favorite to win the NBA Title?

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