Can the Lakers find CONSISTENCY and turn things around to ignite a playoff run? 🤔 | NBA Today
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- Опубликовано: 4 мар 2024
- Ramona Shelburne, Scott Perry, Tim Legler and Zach Lowe join Chiney Ogwumike on NBA Today to discuss the Los Angeles Lakers' playoff concerns and the Milwaukee Bucks defensive turnaround.
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I don't know why nobody is talking about Minnesota, those guys are so big and so good at both perimeter and interior defense and they can shoot too and also have an x factor in Anthony Edwards and a big man in towns that is a sharpshooter from Long range, this team is hard to beat even for the nuggets.
No experience duh
Nuggets dogged them last year first round and it's the exact same team
@@trustbros1424Nuggets swept the Lakers. Minnesota is a bad matchup for LA
Because besides Ant, the rest of their players have proven to be negatives in the playoffs, and they ultimately don’t have deep-playoff run experience. Think about the first time the Bucks won 60 games and Giannis won MVP. No one took them seriously. They went to to ECF, and lost 4 in a row to Kawhi. They had a phenomenal defense and the MVP and still couldn’t get it done, despite being the best regular season team in the league. The Timberwolves don’t even have a top 7 player in the league… that’s why
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I see Perk didn't wanna show up to eat humble pie about his Clippers prediction 😂😂😂
Glad we know its a sure thing that the lakers will just be in the playoffs. Thanks for pretty much announcing that…
1:00 Zach Lowe speaking for *all of us.
Lol I swear
espn will still talk about lakers even at 12th seed
He’s a Celtics fan, of course he hates the Lakers 😂😂😂
@@joeymannycause they bring in viewers. Welcome to the world.
Great panel with actual analysis...thanks
Legs’ touchscreen breakdowns are goated!
They’re not even top 10 offensive rating or top 10 defensive rating
They will be during the rest of the stretch
I love legler breakdowns.
Ramona is such a Lakers & LeBron stan. I agree with Chuck, the lakers are overexposed in the media. I also agree with Zach; talk to us when they become relevant.
Remember Malika yesterday you said, “Thunder got now, not next”, now you quiet AF B 😂😂😂
The West really is loaded compared to the East. The West's 10th place is 32-28 whereas the East has two sub .500 teams in the top 10. Also, the East is very top heavy. The East has been weaker overall since the early 2000s. I wonder why that is.
LeESPN has to make an entire segment if the Lakers can make a run every single time they win a game. This is ridiculous
DONT WATCH GOAT JAMES
It's business. It gives huge ratings good and bad so why not? 🤷 Just don't watch it so that the ratings go down it's that easy.🤣
When you the goat they talk about you every day. Been like that for 10 yrs now
Yet here you are giving them views and proving their point. Congrats dumbo 😂
Zach gets angry hearing the same questions 😂 must be hard talking for a living
Where is Kendrick Perkins? He never shows up the day after he is wrong about the lakers…..
I think the media forgot about the play in tournament. They put it in to make the regular season matter more and it did. At the same time it mattered less to the older stars in the league. Steph, KD, LeBron, Kawhi. They’ll play but they’re not hungry for the #1 seed. All they don’t want to do is face Denver.
They won 7-10 idk what else they can do with that sick schedule
Once they get Vanderbilt back then they will be unstoppable because he was starting to play good before he got hurt
No Vando. No Ring.
Truly mind boggling how long it took darvin ham to start his best 5 players
Its funny they are already saying they're getting in😂😂
Can ESPN talk about any other teams besides the Lakers?
Nope Klutch sports have a deal in place with ESPN that they talk LeBron everyday!
before this game the Thunder averaged 129.5 points/game on 9!! back 2 back games this season and beat their opponents by an average of 19 points.....i wish the Lakers faced the Thunder as the 7-8th seed. They just have to avoid the Nuggets before WCF and hope that someone knocks them out before the WCF....at this point it is very unlikely
Thunder has done so well on back 2 backs this season. Once lakers win, they be like oh the other team has tired legs lol.
I need water to take a shower 🚿
Seems like they win when other teams have career lows. So I guess the question is, will other teams play consistently bad against them?
Fam.. they’re 10-4 over their last 14 games.. that sounds like a bit of consistency. 😅
Whenever I see Davis speak my focus goes right to his unibrow! I tell myself don’t look and it’s the first thing I look at! If I was his barber im cutting that without his permission I’ve had enough!
Lakers beats a team that was on a b2b is a negative for the Lakers but when lakers lose a b2b game, they’re the worst team in the league 😂
Lmaoooooo fr
On god 😂🙄
Nobody says that they praise the Lakers just like they’re doing now even though the Nuggets smoked them the game before!
Bingo
Are lakers only team in the league? No wonder NBA ratings are dropping
Zach bro you literally got a podcast on espn that averages less than 40k views, turn ur mic down and have an actual take
Why do they hire these ex nba gm’s? Are they trying to not be entertaining? Dude sounds like my grandpa.
they are not sure playoffs team, they are at the bottom of playins
Minn and OKC don’t want too see the lakers
Minnesota is a bad match up for the Lakers, the size they have is an answer to lebron and AD and the shooting of those same big men is a problem for them, the Lakers are 21st in perimeter defense.
Minnesota is a nightmare match up for them.
Lakers are 0-3 vs Minnesota
If AD doesn't turn into steph Curry, then Minnesota has a good chance
Remember what Denver’s Head Coach said Last Season about the Lakers and The Narrative “ It was about the Lakers and the adjustments. You put that in your pipe, you smoke it and you come back”. - Micheal Malone -
Lol did he really say that? He smiles reefer for sure.
Sounds like ESPN want the Lakers to win the championship.
Hold up wait a minute, say what, Lakers got broome last year!
Austin Reeves! Aka Mack Forrest!
Shout out tmoney so funny!!😂😂😂
espn highly regarded
The. Zone. 2 - 3. Is a problem. 😂😂😂😂 is the fiba Best 😂😂😂
Lakers in 5
STAY OFF THE FENT
Losing in 5 to the Nuggets? Yes
Thank you Zack. Facts
The Lakers can’t shoot a lick, don’t play defense, and are inconsistent
Dont worry guys, Giannis will be back to fighting the evil lord of gravity soon
I like how Skip Bayless claims the Lakers are looking like the best team in NBA after losing to Denver for the 8th straight time. OKC are the biggest PRETENDERS in that top 4. I give them zero chance making the Finals unless every team they face are injured. Add the fact they were playing on a B2B like my Clippers did in Milwaukee.
I don’t care if Lakers play the Nuggets close. They still LOST. They still got SWEPT last year. When LeBron beat my Clippers, it was as FLUKEY as they come. That happens like once every 100 games. Clips don’t lose that with Paul George and Ivica Zubac. I don’t rely on flukes in a playoff series.
So after the Lakers lose to the likely 2024 NBA champions, they look bad. After they beat a pretender like OKC, they’re now the best team in basketball. Give me a break, Skip. Just like your ratings, Lakers are a sunken ship since their flukey bubble title run.
It’s not like the Lakers can’t close games. They’ve had comebacks. It’s because Denver closes better than them especially with Jokic and Murray looking like Shaq and Kobe. Add the fact LeBron and AD will gag free throws late. Jokic is better than AD or any big on the Lakers. Murray shoots better than LeBron and Reaves.
DLo disappears in the playoffs and almost becomes unplayable. Jokic is extremely difficult to beat. You double him, he’ll make a perfect pass to a wide open teammate. If you play him single coverage, he destroys barbecue chicken like AD. You’re too weak, ADisney. No Dwight Howard to save you now.
1. Denver Nuggets
2. Boston Celtics
3. Miami Heat
4. Minnesota Timberwolves
Pat4Clippers copy and paste this 3 more time. Eddie Mush
I'm so sick of these Lakers haters. They're not 10 games back. They basically have the same record as the Mavs who are a "contender". And Ramona needs to shut up about a B2B. The Lakers have beat the Thunder every time they faced them this season.
Media shits on the lakers for being in 9th, but will rave about how the suns mavs and warriors are contenders despite having nearly the same record. Embarrassing
Y’all really spend WAYYYY too much time discussing the same topic.
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I've seen every Laker game over the last three years. This year, it's about AD. He's great, but he gets too aggressive early and gets in foul trouble. His numbers in the end look impressive, but his defense falls back a bit when he's dealing with the foul issues, and the team can't cover the aggressiveness towards their basket. Next time you play Denver, try bringing AD in, in the second quarter. He can then be too aggressive and be dominate in the late part of that match up. Denver comes out with a mindset of putting him in foul trouble, and he goes all out, and Denver just smiles and awaits the forth.
LeBALCO…….He on that new juice called EPO….
keep that same AD energy when they get swept by denver in the first round
THE GLAZING AT LESPN IS INSANE. LAKERS ARE DOODOO 😂😂😂
They are already doing that! OKC and Minnesota should be afraid to face them in round 1
@@user-ou1uz4cg1gthey’re not afraid of the 9th seed lakers lol. I’m going to laugh so hard when they don’t even make it out of the play in
@@BestShootermanUbzI mean yo fatass don’t play on the team keep talking with yo anime pfp
@@BestShootermanUbz Yea yea yea you were saying that last year and look what happened 🤡
@@user-ou1uz4cg1g yea, they got swept and didn’t do anything
If it’s OKC vs Lakers. It’s America vs Lakers.
Right, because OKC clearly has a bigger fan base than the Lakers, & a better big 3 of SGA, Chet, & Josh ‘Epstein’ Giddy 😂😂😂
America doesn’t give a 💩 about OKC.
Idk how consistent the Lakers will be but I trust that the Refs will be as consistent as consistent can be for them !
Ahhhh yes, entire tv segments dedicated to teams that aren’t even qualified for the playoffs
There not going to the playoffs 😂
Same Thunder which are one of the youngest teams in the NBA. Stop with the excuses. Embarrassing. Lol
They want Lebron led teams to win so bad lol
He’s the face of the league still… just like how the league loved MJ, Shaq, Kobe ect…. Nothing new, just social media makes it more intense
They want them to win ? 😂 no they want to get ratings. They talk about what gets views and they have data for this. So naive.
@@KCiAzN More wins = better relevancy = better ratings . Durrrr 💭
@@BeanieDoggerson He honestly isn’t. It’s between Giannis & Jokic
@@JBullock54 His shadow is too big, until lebron is putting up less than 12 PPG and looking trash… this is still his league from a marketing and global outlook perspective. Until the day he retires he will mostly be the spokesman of the league, because of his insane amount of monetary value and his career success and notoriety. NBA thrives in their own American talent to be the centerfold of the basketball universe…ultimately the foreign players are less likely to take up that mantle, but when some of the best players in the league aren’t even from the US currently Giannis, Jokic, Luka, Embiid. It’s much harder for foreign players to get that level of exposure that players like MJ, Kobe, Lebron have received. Being the face of the league is more than just being a good player.
The Thunder were 7-2 on the second night of a back to back so I don’t want to hear the tired excuse. Lakers just match up well against them. Thunder have absolutely no one to contain LeBron or especially AD
Don’t want to hear any excuses when LA don’t win another chip because it’s championship or bust for them!
I respect these analysts for what they do on the daily basis, but I wholeheartedly disagree with them. It doesn’t matter what adjustments the Lakers make, they are still not going to come anywhere close to winning a championship. If by chance they make it to the playoffs they’re probably gonna be out in the first round, they definitely will not get past the Denver Nuggets if they go against the Nuggets if they even make the playing tournament
Funny, a lot of people said the same thing about them last year, & they made it to the WCF....
Lebalco
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10-0 in championship games/series.
LeBron James
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6-8 in championship games/series.
Yet, I hear LeJuice is posting he’s the best player to ever touch a basketball. In his mind and his dumb fanbase do they believe he is.
Lakers in 6
But but but lebron got 40k?😂😂😂
Lmao
Now he's gonna chase the Assist record.