NUGGETS at LAKERS | FULL GAME HIGHLIGHTS | September 26, 2020
Led by LeBron James’ 38 PTS, 16 REB and 10 AST, the Los Angeles Lakers defeated the Denver Nuggets, 117-107, in Game 5. Additionally for the Lakers, Anthony Davis recorded 27 PTS and 5 REB in the victory, while Nikola Jokic tallied 20 PTS, 7 REB and 5 AST for the Nuggets. Los Angeles will now advance to the 2020 NBA Finals for the 32nd time in franchise history and the first time since 2010 to face the winner of the Boston Celtics-Miami Heat series (Miami Currently leads, 3-2).
LeBron James has now clinched his 10th NBA Finals appearance, joining Bill Russell (12), Sam Jones (11) and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (10) as the only players in NBA history to make 10+ NBA Finals appearances.
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It's Lamont, back with another video,
back with game five highlights.
Lakers versus Denver Nuggets, man.
It's just, again, another big game.
This is definitely a big game for the Los Angeles Lakers.
You know, we just saw the Denver Nuggets
come back from 2-3-1 deficits against the Utah Jazz
and then against the Los Angeles Clippers.
Los Angeles Lakers definitely didn't wanna
be another victim of that type of comeback.
So, really looking forward to getting to these highlights.
You guys know the results.
The Lakers came out victorious,
but we definitely gonna break down this game.
And then also break down what we kind of forecast
for the NBA Finals with regards to the Los Angeles Lakers.
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But today we talking about the Los Angeles Lakers
versus the Denver Nuggets, game five.
You know what?
To the highlights.
Not even gonna mess around with this game.
And again, this is, I like the flow of this game
and the way Denver was able to compete,
even with some guys that were battered and beat up.
I know, I know Jamal Murray was dealing with
maybe I think a thigh or hip injury.
So he wasn't as effective,
but these guys were able to fight.
So we're gonna go ahead and jump right into these highlights
and we're gonna break it down as we go along.
All right, we got these highlights here, man.
This was a game right here
where the Lakers started off strong.
We got, we see Dwight Howard with another start,
starting the game off with a lob.
The Lakers for the most part at the beginning of this game,
were able to control the pace.
AD getting to the rim.
This was a constant in this game.
AD was able to get to the rim.
This team was able to attack early.
And what we saw in this particular series right here
was that the team that got out early and played the best
was generally the team that ran.
We saw the Lakers get down big
in their loss to Denver a few games ago.
And even though they made runs to come back,
they just still weren't able to overcome it.
I think that's because
when you're playing a game every other day,
your legs just aren't there.
So to make those comebacks
and then have to fight back from some big deficits,
I think it really wears on you
because of bubble basketball.
LeBron James, man, definitely an excellent game today.
I love how LeBron has constantly, constantly
attacked the rim against this Denver team.
And as we see that he gets his shot rejected right there.
But again, he does not allow that to stop him
from continuously attacking this Denver team at the rim.
And we've seen LeBron James in the past.
We've seen LeBron James in the past.
You know, when teams continually foul him
and make it hard for him to get to the rim,
we've seen LeBron James resort to taking that mid-range
or taking those long three-point shots.
A settling for shots.
This particular series, he continually attacked the rim
and he actually started to have success.
The Lakers, and that's only due to the fact
that some of these Lakers, Caruso, Danny Green, KCP,
these guys are actually making shots.
And when they can make shots in space to flow for LeBron,
it's essentially impossible to guard LeBron.
We see Dwight Howard with the block right there.
AD.
The Lakers in transition.
This is gonna be a problem for the Miami Heat.
If the Miami Heat can make the finals.
Now, we can, you know,
looking at the way that series is going,
it looks like the Heat will probably close
that series out pretty soon and will be in the NBA finals.
And they're a team that runs zone.
The number one way that you get a team out of zone
or you get them out the zone
is you basically run in transition.
On every miss, you run.
Don't allow them to set up the zone.
You take away that particular weapon that they're using.
And I know Danny Green had a big block right there.
Danny Green's made some real key defensive plays
in this particular series.
Offensively, he's not played great at all,
but he's doing all of the small stuff.
Similar to Caruso, Danny Green does a lot of stuff
that doesn't show up on the stat sheet.
We have Jeremy Grant right here.
This is the third game in a row
with Jeremy Grant playing great.
Jeremy Grant ended up finishing this game with 20 points,
played a lot of minutes.
Denver Nuggets, man, just not very deep.
They have to rely on guys like Grant,
guys like Porter to step in heavy minutes,
and probably more minutes than they would normally play
if they were able to have a more standard rotation.
Can we see Porter Jr.?
That's what I wanna see more.
I know he was met at the rim right there.
That's something that he's gonna learn.
As he grows, he's gonna understand
that when you're going up against an athletic seven-footer,
you're not gonna be able to out-jump these guys.
What you gotta do is you gotta go up into his body,
create contact, and you gotta be able
to finish around guys and not over guys.
Again, that's something that comes with time.
That's Porter Jr. showing his youth.
And Murray with a great attack.
Murray's been probably the most consistent
and constant piece that Denver's had.
He's single-handedly kept him in a lot of these games
with huge fourth-quarter performances.
And even injured today,
this man still played lights-out basketball with Grant.
Grant is definitely surprising me.
I mean, he's one of those guys
that he came into this series,
we didn't expect much of him offensively,
but the last three games,
he's given the Denver Nuggets some big offensive games,
helping them make up for the fact
that Milsap hasn't given them much
or Gary Harris on the offensive end.
And this is a game right here.
Lakers were up big.
Denver fought back.
Denver made it a game going early on into the fourth.
And again, these transition buckets,
I'm really curious to see how the Miami Heat
or whatever team that the Lakers play in the finals
are going to try to deal with the Lakers' ability
to get out and transition and score.
And when you're a power forward
or when you're a small forward
and LeBron James can take off on a break at any given time,
it just makes your transition that much more lethal.
And this fourth quarter,
this fourth quarter all belonged to LeBron James.
LeBron James simply took over the fourth quarter
offensively.
Now we've seen him dominate Denver defensively last game
by guarding Jamal Murray.
This game right here,
they needed to manufacture points in that fourth quarter.
You had guys who were missing shots.
And as you can see, he was able to step in.
And you see LeBron James there
with a timely offensive rebound and a kick out.
But towards the end of this game,
LeBron James was able to take over
and dominate scoring wise
to go ahead and put away
this really, really resilient Denver Nugget team.
I like how these guys,
and this is what I appreciate about the Denver Nuggets, man.
They fought, they fought to the end.
They didn't give up.
And you know what?
These guys play, they exceeded expectations.
I mean, if you're the Denver Nuggets,
and I know you got to exit the bubble right now,
but you can definitely walk out the bubble
with your head high.
And I only say that because man,
any team that's fought back from two 3-1 deficits,
you beat the title favorite in the Clippers,
not just beat them,
but you came back from a 3-1 deficit there as well.
I can't give you anything but respect
on the way out the bubble.
So I really appreciate what Mike Malone
was able to do with this team.
I know there's a lot of criticism towards Mike Malone
with how he coached this team.
For one, we have to look at the fact
that this team was extremely undermanned.
I mean, without Will Barton in that rotation,
this is not the same team.
It changes up a lot of their offensive strategy.
They didn't have a lot of offensive firepower.
They had to manufacture points
out of Michael Porter Jr.
They had to manufacture offense out of Jeremy Grant.
They had to hope that guys like Paul Millsap
and Gary Harris could give them those extra points.
And with the roster that they had,
with the expectations that we even had for them,
these guys came in and played
far above anybody's expectations.
I think they just ran into the number,
they ran into the best team in the league.
They not only ran into the best team in the league,
they ran into the best player in the league.
And then they ran into another top five player
in this league in Anthony Davis.
And I just think that's just a bit too much.
When we look at this Laker team,
I think a lot of people,
we just don't give the Lakers enough credit
for how much playoff and championships experience
that they have.
When we look at guys like Danny Green,
Anthony Davis, LeBron James, Ray John Rondo,
Dwight Howard, these are all,
these are not only good players.
These are all highly experienced players
who've made a lot of deep playoff runs.
Dwight Howard, when he was in Orlando,
best center in the league at that time,
had a lot of experience.
LeBron James, we know he's done in his 17-year career.
We saw how Anthony Davis was able to lead New Orleans
when he was down there into the playoffs.
So he's had experience in the playoffs as well.
But they got a lot of experience there.
And I just think that we're not giving the Lakers
enough credit for how strong that roster really is.
I think we fall in love with chalk and paper lineups.
When we look at the Clipper team,
on paper, it looks great.
Chemistry-wise, it was terrible.
Right now, on paper, when we look at guys like Caruso,
when we look at guys like KCP and Danny Green,
it doesn't look perfect.
It doesn't look great.
But as a team, these guys have been able to come together
and they play well together.
They're the best team in the NBA bubble right now.
And right now, there's somebody who has to take them down.
But what we're gonna do is we're gonna go ahead
and transition over to the stats.
We're gonna break down these stats for these games,
see what we had there,
and just give everybody their just due
for these performances.
All right, and we got our stats, man.
We got our stats for this game, man.
You know, again, we're looking at,
right now, we're just looking at the stats
for the Denver Nuggets, man.
This is a Denver Nugget team that, again,
when you're going into the playoffs, man,
you know, it's always best if you can have
at least six reliable guys that you can go to.
The reason why I say this is a Denver Nugget team
overachieved is when we look at guys like Jeremy Grant,
he's probably gonna be a seventh or eighth man
on any other team in the NBA.
On this Denver team, he was thrust into the starting lineup
by necessity.
You know, we had guys like Porter Jr.,
he's just not ready.
Coming off the back injury,
hasn't had enough NBA in-game experience,
never has played a lick of playoff basketball,
and I think that kind of was a shell shock for him
to see the intensity of NBA playoff basketball,
having to decipher NBA defenses on the go.
He was playing more so at a high school level speed
and not an NBA speed.
Offensively, the man is great.
Offensively, when he gets the ball,
he can do a lot of great things.
But, you know, what comes with time in the NBA
is understanding how to move without the ball,
how to be effective within the offense
when you don't have the ball,
how to play defense,
and, you know, even if you struggle
to stand in front of your man,
how to continuously give that extra effort.
And once he's able to figure those things out,
he's gonna be highly effective in the NBA.
But right now, we got Paul Milsap.
Paul Milsap, solid game, 13 points.
He was only 1A from the field,
but he shot a lot of free throws,
10-11 from the free throw line.
So we can't say that Denver wasn't getting fouled.
I mean, if Paul Milsap goes to the free throw line 10 times,
then the refs are giving you the foul call.
So there's no really,
really, it was a terribly ref game.
The refs called bad calls on both sides.
So, I mean, 10 free throws,
we really can't look at the free throw count
and blame anything.
Jamal Murray, another solid game.
Now, this is one of the first games against the Lakers
where he scored under 20 points.
I mean, he was dealing with a thigh injury
that he aggravated early on in this game.
He just didn't look the same.
He played a lot of minutes.
He's played, and again, when you're playing every other day
and you don't have time to recover
from these knick-knack injuries,
it starts to mount.
19 points for him on 7-17 shooting.
We got Jeremy Grant, 20 points, 7-18 shooting.
Porter Jr., only 10 points today.
10 points today, he pulled down two rebounds.
You know, I wish I could've seen him do more
on that particular front.
No steals, no blocks.
You know, again, I don't wanna knock him for that stat line.
Again, he's just a rookie, and not just a rookie,
he's a rookie who's played only a handful
of NBA-level games, and most of those games
are coming in the NBA bubble.
I don't think we'll see the best of Michael Porter Jr.
until next year.
A lot of people wanted Mike Malone to thrust him
into a 35, 40-minute roll, but at the end of the day, man,
you cannot do that with a guy who's been out of basketball
for essentially two years with a major back injury.
He's coming back.
You have to ease him back in.
He has to get adjusted to the NBA game,
the speed of the NBA game, the flow of the NBA game,
and there were a lot of moments,
and you guys have seen it in my past videos,
how this guy just wasn't ready,
so we definitely appreciate what he can bring,
but he's gonna have to clean up his game a little bit
if we really wanna see him excel in the NBA.
Morris, Morris, again, guys like Montee Morris,
for them to compete, he has to score 15 to 17 points.
He has to, and when he's not scoring 15 to 17 points,
this team is just gonna struggle.
They're gonna struggle to find offense.
Plumlee, Plumlee, again, he's one of those guys
that generally you don't wanna have to play him
over 10 minutes.
He had to play 18 minutes today.
Again, this is a team that they're just getting fatigued
and not very deep, and they tend to get in foul trouble.
Now, whether that's due to making bad calls,
it's just something that you really have to look at.
When you look at Gary Harris with four fouls,
Jeremy Grant with four fouls,
Yoko with five fouls, again, dealing with foul trouble.
Again, and then even with Murray and Millsap,
both with three fouls.
This is a team that does reach a lot,
but that happens when your legs start to go,
and when you start getting tired, you're getting fatigued.
They played a lot of NBA games.
Again, look at their series.
They've played a lot of games.
They've had to come back from 2-3-1 deficits.
At the end of the day, I just think,
regardless of how young your team is,
that's just simply gonna catch up with you,
and I think it caught up with the Denver Nuggets today.
We got Yo'Kiq, and Yo'Kiq is just,
I would say, an average game.
20 points, seven rebounds, five assists.
And again, the Lakers did a great job
of taking Yo'Kiq's strongest weapon away.
Yo'Kiq's strongest weapon was being able
to pass the ball and facilitate.
When Yo'Kiq was most effective against the Clippers,
it wasn't really the scoring.
It was his ability to get double-digit assists.
Being able to pick apart that D,
get guys like Gary Harrison, Jeremy Grant going
with easy layups, that just made that team
impossible to guard.
The Lakers did a really good job of playing south defense.
Again, it's just about giving them credit.
We're gonna go over to the Lakers' stats.
Anthony Davis, Anthony Davis was a minus one on the day.
So again, I gotta look into why he was a minus one,
because he only had one turnover,
but he did have 27 points.
For whatever reason, the last couple games,
he's struggling to rebound the ball.
Five rebounds today, three assists, two steals, one block.
Solid game for Anthony Davis.
We expect those numbers from A.D.
I mean, you could almost book him for 25 to 30 points
in these NBA playoffs.
He's just a guy that's a unicorn.
You're not gonna be able to guard him with anybody.
He's a seven-footer with guard skills,
with the speed of a small forward,
with the athleticism of any of the best athletes in the NBA.
Crazy wingspan, he's just a guy
that you're just not gonna be able to guard.
So I appreciate him for not just putting up great numbers.
He's been dominant at times in this series.
LeBron James, this is probably his best game.
He's had, of the playoffs, best performance,
best individual performance, and they needed it.
Anthony Davis, we know he was hobbled with that ankle injury.
LeBron James, 38 points today.
Not just 38 points, the man came up with 16 rebounds
and 10 assists, so he had a monster,
a monster triple-double today to end this,
and again, LeBron James, he's a different beast.
When LeBron James is down 3-1,
going into this particular series,
when LeBron James has been up 3-1,
and then he's been 14-0.
So I didn't expect the Denver Nuggets to break that streak.
The team just did not have enough star power
to beat this Laker team.
We got Danny Green.
Danny Green did decent today, 11 points today.
Now, I would want him to do more on the rebounding end,
11 rebounds, two assists, two blocks,
and he had two timely blocks.
He had some big-time defensive plays in that fourth quarter
that really helped stifle the Denver Nuggets' runs.
Caruso, he's another one of those glue guys.
A lot of what Caruso does doesn't show on the stat sheet.
He had 11 points today, four assists, two rebounds.
Again, Caruso's just one of those guys
where he helps make this team go.
He doesn't need the ball to be effective.
Now, Caruso does all of those small things,
the intangibles, that coaches love to see.
A lot of people are wondering,
why is he getting playing time over JR?
Why is he getting playing time over Waiters?
The reason's why,
because Caruso's willing to do a lot of the things
that these other vets
and a lot of these other guys aren't willing to do.
He's willing to put his body on the line.
We see this guy jumping out of bounds,
diving for his ball.
We see him getting up under guys,
getting hands on passes, creating turnovers.
And whenever you're able to do that,
you're always gonna have minutes in the NBA game.
We got Kyle Kuzma.
Only eight points today.
We gotta find a way, the Lakers especially.
The Lakers are gonna really have to find a way
to get this guy integrated into this offense.
Going into this season,
we thought that Kuzma would be the third
primary scorer on this team.
And that's what the Lakers have struggled to find,
even in the playoffs.
That's probably been the only downfall to this team.
Who is that consistent third go-to guy?
Who's that consistent third go-to scorer
that you can rely on?
Especially now, we know that AD has tweaked his ankle.
We don't know if he's gonna be 100%
going into game one of the NBA Finals.
They really need to identify
who can be that third go-to scorer.
Is it gonna be KCP?
Is it gonna be, you know, can it be Caruso?
Not consistently, I don't think so.
It would have to be Kyle Kuzma.
And this guy, he's coming in off the bench,
a little bit not focused, playing a little bit wild.
Looks like he's fortunate.
So again, hopefully that can change
game one of the NBA Finals.
So we also got Caldwell Pope.
Again, underwhelming performance today,
only two points in 26 minutes.
But again, Caldwell Pope, throughout this whole playoffs,
I think we don't give guys like Caruso and Caldwell Pope
enough credit for what they do
on the defensive end of the court.
They sacrifice their numbers,
understand that you got two of the greatest
offensive talents on your team,
and LeBron James and AD,
and they just go out there
and do all the dirty work on the defensive end.
So again, I just want to give those two guys their credit,
because I think we spend too much time
talking about these other teams
and how these other teams can overcome the Lakers,
as opposed to just giving the Lakers credit
for having a great playoff run.
I mean, we're talking about three series
against three very good teams in the NBA with star power.
I mean, we're looking at Damian Lillard and the Blazers.
Everybody thought that they would give
the Los Angeles Lakers problems.
The Lakers took them out.
And in five, same thing with the Houston Rockets
and James Harden and Russell Westbrook,
two former MVPs of this league.
They were able to definitely handle those two guys.
And I know those two guys kind of shot themselves
in the foot with their erratic play.
But at the end of the day,
that was one of the most potent offenses in the NBA.
And that Laker defense was able to stifle the Rockets.
And then we have the Denver Nuggets,
the hottest team in the NBA coming into this series,
coming back from 2-3-1 deficits.
Again, this was a team that could give a lot of other teams
in the NBA extreme matchup problems.
We had touted the Clipper defense
as being the best defense in the league.
They shredded that defense apart.
And the Lakers were able to hone in,
lock in on this team, identify what they do best,
and take their best options away time and time again.
And it showed with the results.
Lakers, come out with the win today.
Lakers will be advancing to the NBA finals
in this particular matchup right here.
But I want you guys,
definitely want you guys to let me know what you think
about this particular series, man.
You know, do you guys really think,
you know, do you guys really think that there was more
the Denver Nuggets could have done
to potentially win this series or be more competitive?
You know, I honestly, again, if I'm being honest,
if I'm just being honest about this particular series,
the Denver Nuggets were outmanned.
They were extremely outmanned
and they were playing a one seed.
We expect our number one season NBA to advance.
And at the end of the day,
this Denver team wasn't supposed to be here.
They weren't supposed to be here to get this far
and not just get this far.
But you know, when they got here
to the Western Conference Finals, they competed.
They competed every game.
They made great runs to keep these games competitive
in the fourth quarter.
They gave us a great show.
At the end of the day,
when you're talking about playoff basketball,
what you have to look at, the experience of the guys.
I think that's one of the reasons why Frank Vogel
put Dwight Howard into the starting lineup.
It's that playoff.
He's been playoff tested.
That type of experience is invaluable
when you go into the playoffs.
And I don't want to say that Mike Malone got outcoached.
I mean, he had a limited roster.
You know, he's really dealing with the struggle
of what do I do with Michael Porter Jr.
I mean, he's struggling so much defensively.
It's so bad that he can't,
Michael Porter Jr. is not doing enough on the offensive
and to make up for what he's doing.
It's just creating big holes.
And again, I don't want to harp on that
and pick on him too much.
But again, a lot of people are going to place blame
on Mike Malone,
or a lot of people are going to place this series loss
on Michael Porter Jr.
At the end of the day,
we saw this Denver team take another step.
The same way we saw the Phoenix Suns take another step
by going eight and O in the NBA bubble.
It just shows promise for next year.
And so what I do is I like to look at the positives
when I'm looking at these teams.
You know, a lot of people are trying to say
Mike Malone should get fired.
I'm going to pump the brakes on that right there.
I can tell you guys with absolute certainty
that the chances of Mike Malone getting fired
are slim to none.
He did a great job with this team.
And again, when you're dealing with a team,
you know, obviously he had the situation
with Michael Porter Jr.,
where Porter Jr. called him out about,
you know, maybe spreading the ball
a little bit more on offense.
But at the end of the day,
Michael Porter Jr. is not just a rookie in this league,
he's a rookie in this league
who hasn't played a full season of NBA basketball.
All right, so to be honest about that particular issue,
Michael Porter Jr., as a rookie
who hasn't really had a lot of NBA in-game experience,
it's probably not your place to step in
and say something like that.
Mike Malone and his coaching style got you here.
Mike Malone and his coaching style
got you past the Utah Jazz.
It got you past the L.A. Clippers.
And now against the Lakers,
you just have to trust the process.
The main thing what players in the NBA have to do today
is they have to look in the mirror.
And if Michael Porter Jr. looks in the mirror,
he'll be able to tell himself
that I did not earn my playing time
because my defense was just that bad.
And that's what you have to,
that's what you just have to own
as an NBA player to get better.
But at the end of the day,
there's a lot of promise there.
You have P.J. Dozier, who showed great flashes
in the few minutes that he got
in his Western Conference Finals.
I wish we could have saw Kata Bais-Diop at Ohio State.
This guy, he can score the basketball.
And I don't know why they didn't play him at all.
I mean, give him a look.
Also on that Denver bench, they had Troy Daniels.
He's an experienced vet in this league.
And I know he's not the greatest player.
I know he's not the most athletic.
But when you have playoff experience on your bench,
I'm just surprised that Mike Malone didn't play him.
So that's something I have to criticize Mike Malone for.
I don't think it's something that you get fired over,
but we have to speak on it.
We have to speak on it.
Obviously, Ball Ball wasn't, was not ready to play.
He's not gonna be ready until next year.
We need to see him in the Summer League
or maybe some preseason games.
You know, we gotta get these guys ready
by getting NBA experience under their belt.
But again, we wanna, you know,
obviously as Denver's exiting the NBA bubble,
this is one of the few teams
that you can definitely take your hat off to
because these guys put on a show in the NBA bubble
in circumstances where a lot of teams came to this bubble.
They didn't play hard.
They didn't show up.
This Denver Nugget team came into this situation
with so many unknowns.
Jokic had COVID-19.
Will Barton was out for this.
I mean, they had every,
they had every reason to give up on this season
and they continued to fight.
So definitely wanna give a big round of applause
to Jamal Murray, Nikola Jokic,
and the Denver Nuggets for a really strong performance
in this NBA playoffs in the bubble.
But the Lakers as they advance on,
you know, it's gonna be much easier
to talk on this particular matchup
when we know who they're gonna be playing.
The Celtics pose a certain amount of problems.
Miami Heat pose a certain amount of problems.
I don't think either team is strong enough
to beat the Lakers in seven games.
I think the Celtics,
they do have the star power to kind of hang around
or maybe steal one or two games.
But again, they're just not very deep at all
with the fact that the Lakers like to get out
and transition so much.
They're gonna run into the same problems that Denver did
with guys getting tired.
Who to bring off that bench?
How do we guard AD and LeBron in these mismatches?
And then if these Lakers shooters are making shots,
you know, how can we sustain those big time runs
that we know the Lakers can make?
And the same thing with the Heat.
The Heat are gonna have to make decisions.
Are we gonna stay in this zone?
I mean, the combination of the Lakers
being the second best transition team in the NBA
with the combination of the Miami Heat in zone,
that's not a good mix.
That's not gonna favor the Miami Heat,
especially if they're not able to make shots consistently.
So I'm really curious to see how Eric Boelster sets the tone
if that team can make the finals.
You know, Brett Albrad-Stevens
is gonna have a whole host of matchup problems.
You know, when they play the Lake, you know,
if they can make it to the finals to play the Lakers.
But we'll just have to wait and see.
Right now, I'm looking forward to seeing the next game
between the Boston Celtics and the Miami Heat.
You know, we expect Miami to close it out,
but I mean, anything can happen from what we've seen.
Anything can happen in this series.
So I'm not gonna count Boston out,
especially when they're led by one of the great young minds
of the game and Brad Stevens.
But hope you guys enjoyed this video, man.
Hope you guys enjoyed this breakdown of the game.
And again, I just, I had to make this review
just a little bit longer
because I definitely wanted to get my,
show my appreciation to this Los Angeles Lakers team
for how they've been playing.
I had my doubts about them going into the bubble.
A lot of us had our doubts about this team
going into the bubble.
They played, they looked lethargic at times.
They took some unnecessary losses.
Same with the Miami Heat.
The Miami Heat came into the NBA playoffs
in this bubble going three and five.
And the Lakers had, I think they had a similar record,
not winning many of those games,
struggling against bad opponents.
And both of these teams,
it's crazy how both of these teams are surprising us in play
because they've been the two most dominant teams
in the playoffs.
But again, you guys,
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