It wasn't good.

They did a really good job on them defensively.

And as D.

B said, You know, really owning the paint.

I think it's something that's significant for Denver when they play against them and look questionable.

Substitution by Mike Malone The end of a game I think Paul Millsap should to stay in the game, said it.

Mason Plumlee Miscommunication happens.

A D makes a shot, but still, if if you are the Nuggets, that two man game that you have between Murray and Yokich, that is your bread and butter and everybody knows it, those who have to be great in order for them to have a chance, and I don't you know, if I was a betting man, I wouldn't bet that LeBron would have a second half again the second time, like he did the last game out.

Just it's not something that he is going to do.

Just not take me inside the mind of a player because I would imagine the Nuggets were like, my goodness, we let that one get away.

I mean, we have no margin of error against the team like this.

The Lakers were all arrested.

We again played a seven game Siri's.

We again played them down to the wire.

One defensive lapses you mentioned there at the end for the A D shot.

What's it like the day after a loss like that?

As you get closer to that game where you can atone.

What's it just like within the team, the film session, all that stuff?

It depends upon who you are.

I mean the mindset.

You have to flip it around.

So I know how it was easier for you to say, Well, you know, we should have got that one game.

But if I'm sitting there, I can't bask in my anger and my frustration about We should have got the game.

I have to think next play.

So for me, I have to think, Okay, we should have won that game.

How do we win the game?

Moving forward?

How did I learn from the lessons we made from the mistakes we made game prior, and how do we adjust and how do we play?

If anything, Yokich and Murray should think that they belong on this stage and they've been in this boat before.

They've been down 31 to Siri's in a row.

It's on Lee to old right now.

Get one.

You're down to one.

You're right back in it.

That's tough.

If you don't forfeit this game, you gotta get out there and get to get into 21 here.

I, you know?

Yeah, that that's true.

There they're down to one and 2202 It's a bubble.

They want to get to 21 But the guy on the other side with number 23 with that golden purple on he's on a mission to, although the second half of the last game he didn't play well, reference.

But the other guy, the Big and Anthony Davis, play well.

So, as I've always said, as long as you got somebody else that's there that could pick up the slack.

Yeah, but I much rather have a d get heads and me control LeBron James.

LeBron James not only creates for a D, he creates for everybody on that team.

Him and Rondo like those are the two queen pieces.

But I know Anthony Davis is extremely, extremely gifted, talented player, but LeBron James is the queen piece.

But if it But if LeBron's not scoring, I'm not talking about just scoring.

But, hey, he does so many other things that he passes down to everybody else.

Whether it's facilitating, whether it's rebounding, whether it's the control of the mind and get them to play a certain way to follow his lead, all of those little things are important.

You can't take that away from him, right?

Like like you may be able to take the shooting in the scoring away.

But you can't take the mind away that he's passing to the other guys that they now gotta pick up the slack because he's not having his best afternoon, I hear.

But if I'm going into the game from Denver Nuggets, I'm not thinking I can't take anything from LeBron James away.

Dammit, I'm competing just like anybody else.

You can't I'm just trying to get you to think on the opposite side of balky.

Can't do me a favor for one second.

Stop thinking like your Laker fan.

Tell me.

No, I know, I know.

But tell me if you're on the opposite side if you're in the Denver Nuggets for a guy who is as competitive as you are, if you had to hold on, Let me finish.

If you had to compete against LeBron James, how would you compete against them?

Knowing how competitive you are?

What kind of little things would you try to do to compete?

Compete?

I'm gonna get up in him.

I'm gonna get get right up in him.

I'm gonna I'm gonna do what the coaches say we need to do If I need to close him out on the left side.

I'm a close him out on the left side.

I need to push him to his right.

I'm gonna push it to his right.

If I need to double, I'm gonna make sure that I'm sliding to the top.

The double.

If I need to go through the screen to get to him, I'm gonna go through the screen to get toe straight, Aziz, much as I can.

But the problem is I know that's gonna be a tall task.

Agree?

I just know it is agree, But a lot of tall tasks have been accomplished right now.

Anyway, so that's not saying if you're Jeremy Grant.

You can't go into this game thinking, Well, I I could take everything else away, but I can't take LeBron James in mind.

What?

No, like you have to stay on him.

24 7.

Meet him the full length of the court.

Use your wingspan.

Frustrate him, get in, get in his face.

Like look, LeBron James is maybe the best player we've ever seen.

LeBron James is still human as well.

Okay, like there's still games.

He could be agitated things that you have to be a Not to him.

No, you do have to be.

But my point in all this doj is that you take certain things away from he has so many other gifts that he gives a green mates that is hard to take certain things away.

If I If I say I'm taking a scoring away, okay, I'll take a scoring away, but he's gonna give something else.

If I say I'm taking the past trying to tell you how, like the Detroit Pistons, look at Michael Jordan back in the day like, yeah, you can't take anything.

When I was young and I understand, I'm just I'm not I'm not picking one side or the other.

I'm just explained to the viewer how If you're a Denver Nugget, you have to go into this game with that type of monster.

See, I feel like you want the Nuggets to win.

I don't like that.

I would like to see a competitive series.

I don't like that.

Game three tonight on ESPN Radio Game four for a possible sweep on Thursday, which would put the Lakers in the N B A Finals for the 32nd time in franchise history.

Incredible.

How many championships would that be?

That would be if they get you guys one more than the Celtics you know will be tied with Celtic tied with the Celtics.

I said that Kazuma always reminds me 32nd time.

17 if they win 17 to the Celtics, now 16 for the Lakers.

And how great would it be if the Lakers could get to 17 by knocking off the Celtics in the N B A Finals?

The resumption of the best rivalry takes me in the mind of the next thing that we're gonna do right now.

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