Locked On Lakers - Daily Podcast On The Los Angeles Lakers - Lakers Get 113-100 Win Over Sacramento Kings, JJ Redick Calls it His "Favorite" of the Season.

Starting point is 00:00:00 Hey, everyone. Welcome to Locked on Lakers for Friday. Brian Komenetsky, Andy Keminetsky, JJ Redick called Thursday's 113-110 win over Sacramento. Perhaps his favorite of the season will tell you why next. You are Locked on Lakers. Your daily Los Angeles Lakers podcast. Part of the Locked on Podcast Network. Your team every day. Thanks to everybody for making Lockdown Lakers.

Starting point is 00:00:34 first listening to every day, Monday through Friday, no matter how or where you get your podcast. This one's always free, never, ever, ever, ever behind a paywall and locked on Lakers on YouTube, Andy, is where over 26,000 subscribers watched Anthony Davis put on a show Thursday night in Sacramento, one of the many reasons. One of the many reasons, I would say, that JJ Reddick, coach of the Lakers,

Starting point is 00:00:59 called the 113-110 win over Sacramento, know, the first of this sort of weird two-game series in Sacramento. I mean, it was a three-game series because next week the Lakers play the Kings again in L.A. Yeah, and it's like, you know, the Saturday game is, is it three? Mm-hmm. I mean, that is the strangest Saturday starting time in the NBA. But yet here we are. Lakers off to a really good start in this little mini-series that they're playing.

Starting point is 00:01:34 playing. Anthony Davis was a huge part of this win. Again, JJ Redick calls it probably his favorite of the year. I want to let everybody know that today's episode is brought to you by Fanduel. You can start the season with a big return on Fandual. New customers can place a $5 bet, and you'll get started with a $150 in bonus bets if you win that first $5 bet. Visit Fandul.com to get started. I think there were many reasons when you go through. balanced defensive effort, a little bit of grit and intensity that really Reddick was referencing when he called it his favorite win of the year. But I think it starts and it started for JJ, I think too. In his post game, it started with Anthony Davis. He mentioned how it speaks to

Starting point is 00:02:27 what Anthony Davis can do, not just as a complete player, but especially defensively. When he have a night where he goes seven of 20 from the field and still makes this just incredible impact. 21 points, again, inefficient night from the field, but got the line nine times, made seven of those attempts, 20 rebounds, eight on the offensive glass, six blocks and countless shots altered, three steals, four assists, and, you know, and a partridge and a pear tree. I mean, it's a long list. stuff. I was going to say is, you know, obviously the mono-e-mona with him and DeBontas, Sabonis, is always something that is going to get monitored because of AD's bad history in this particular matchup. And it even, you know, it dates back to when Sabonis was still with the Pacers for the

Starting point is 00:03:23 brief time. There was that overlap while AD was with the Lakers. And Subonis has the cleaner line, 18 points on 8 to 12 shooting, 12 rebounds, 9 assists. I mean, two blocks. It certainly was not a bad game by any stretch for Subbonis, but the impact between these two guys was not even close. Like Anthony Davis's overall impact and presence in this game was better than Subonises. It just was. Yeah, I completely agree with you.

Starting point is 00:03:57 And, you know, we, we have made a point on this show. And you, I think, have really leaned into this on the show that, you know, the Lakers take a lot of their cues from LeBron. You know, when LeBron is able to play with commitment and energy on the defensive side of the ball, the Lakers. Which he did tonight. He did. No question.

Starting point is 00:04:21 The Lakers, you know, it shows. It bleeds through to the rest of the. team. And I think that was true on Thursday. And we can talk about, you know, what that looked like offensively and some of the balance that the Lakers got that makes this possible. But Anthony Davis is the tone setter on both sides of the ball. And like, you know, when LeBron can do X, Y, and Z, it elevates the team. It sends a message. But fundamentally, what they do defensively starts with AD. And the first, I don't know, eight minutes, his first shift, if you want to call it that,

Starting point is 00:05:07 in this game on Thursday, was so good in not just in the statistical production, but in that tone-setting way. He was from the get-go, aggressive, he was mobile, he was disrupted, and you could just tell, like the Lakers were going to be able to play this game knowing they had, okay, we got that guy. And the energy that they played with, particularly again early, which was really the only time of the game that they were good on both sides, as opposed to just defensively, that sprung from AD.

Starting point is 00:05:51 It was incredibly impressive to me. To your point, in the first quarter, Anthony Davis, Davis nine and a half minutes, six points, seven rebounds, two on the offensive glass, two steals, two blocks. You know, people have asked me before about, you know, with LeBron, like, why should the lake, why do the other players take their cues from a 40-year-old? Like, that's not reasonable. You know, they shouldn't require, like, this is not a specific current Lakers and LeBron thing. This is something that happens in multitudes of ways with all teams and all superstars. Like we, Brian and I covered the last 10 years of Kobe's career and we were around that team like on a daily boots on the ground basis.

Starting point is 00:06:35 They took those players took their cues from Kobe in a lot of different ways. I mean, that that's just normal for all teams. Like they took the best parts of Kobe as far as their cues. They took the worst part of Kobe's as far as their cues. And I guarantee if you went around the league and talked to friends or just listen to like different channels locked on network, talking about those teams they cover and their superstars, it's the same thing. It's interesting, though, like, as far as with AD and LeBron,

Starting point is 00:07:07 as far as, you know, like, I'm trying to, I'm trying to place this the way I want to. Like, because you said something I thought was interesting, the idea of AD setting a tone and LeBron guys taking their cues. and I think sometimes with with LeBron when he doesn't put in that activity and like just sort of that engagement level defensively it just

Starting point is 00:07:37 it gives a permission structure for the other guys to follow suit whereas with AD the tone is just the like okay this is the game we're going to be playing I don't what I mean like oh this is where we are tonight okay it's like

Starting point is 00:07:53 It's like setting a thematic foundation for what they're going to be doing. Like, it's the way the story opens. That might be the best way I would distinguish it. And both these guys are responsible for it. It's not just LeBron. It's AD as well. It's a better framing than sort of what I was just kind of thinking of in terms of, you know, AD is just as your best player.

Starting point is 00:08:15 But it does. It kind of breaks that down, I think, on a finer point. And, you know, we'll get into this, you know, they play on Saturday again, and you reenter a more normal NBA cadence. I was thinking watching this game. It's like if the NBA ever decided to scrap the regular season and have kind of an Olympic-style tournament with like a tournament with an Olympic schedule, the Lakers would in fact be a team.

Starting point is 00:08:51 to watch in that format because the the the this is like the you know third or fourth game in a row now um where they're defensive energy not always the the results but the defensive energy results were pretty good tonight though the results were very good and the you know the results were good against memphis i'm just saying like on every play you sure this is the NBA you hold the team to 100 points you're doing something right um Sacramento entered this game, averaging almost 117 points a game. Yeah, I mean, you're doing good things here. And how they got there.

Starting point is 00:09:29 We'll talk about this, you know, as the show goes on. How they got there was really important. And one of the things when I went, again, when Reddick talks about this as his favorite win in the year, it's the stuff that they did on that side of the ball or to control the pace even while they were missing shots that he's referencing. But the real key to seeing, whether or not this change, I will call it, from what they were doing defensively in the

Starting point is 00:10:00 worst of their losing streak is permanent. Like we will find out over the next two weeks when they do play every other day. If this is, maybe they really have turned a corner and discovered something. One of the things that will help that, I think, is balance. which is something that they got plenty of Thursday. Get into that next. Lockdown Lakers is brought to by Price Picks, America's number one Daily Fantasy Sports app with over 5 million active users.

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Starting point is 00:12:28 Terms and conditions apply. Rocket RX. Better sex made simple. One of the things we have both wondered and maybe even hoped was that the Lakers would be able to get this sort of 15% more, so to speak, 20% more out of LeBron defensively. Just let that little extra bit of engagement where he's on the level that you need him to be is if he doesn't have to do as much offensively. That's been my work in theory. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:13:09 LeBron, it's a tough thing to do because the team has not been a good. I mean, for all the talk of the defense, you know, falling into a, just a, you know, cratering over this, you know, that stretch when they were at their worst, the offense wasn't much better. And so it is harder to lean less on LeBron when you're not scoring points. And Thursday, the offense was not good. After that first quarter where the Lakers scored 37 points, they went 25, 24, 27. And despite an excellent first quarter, only shot 40% from the floor.

Starting point is 00:13:48 They were carried by, and this is, you know, go to that theme of what Reddick liked about this. They did shoot the ball well, 36%. 36 and a half percent, I should say, from three. They made their free throws, 25 of 30, and they only turned the ball over 11 times. You can miss some shots if you're doing all those other things. But they got the 21 from AD. LeBron put in 19, 6 and 7, had a block shot. It was plus 13 on the night.

Starting point is 00:14:18 It was a good night for LeBron. But you got 25 from Austin Reeves. You got 16 from DeAngelo Russell off the bench. You got 12 from Gabe Vincent, including. including four of five from three. Gabe has been, by the way, over the last couple weeks, starting to look more like the guy that they thought they were getting when they signed him last offseason.

Starting point is 00:14:41 Yeah, no question. He's been looking much better. He looks like a guy who's going to actually help you in your rotation rather than being somebody to sort of cross your fingers. And again, it's similar to Max Christie, who was in the starting lineup, was a plus 17, made Deerran Fox work for his 26 points. You know, 7 of 17 from the floor.

Starting point is 00:15:03 Fox did most of his damage, you know, really at the free throw line. And also later in the game, because he was, Christie's defense in part helped get Fox into really early foul trouble. So, you know, it was another good night for Max kind of acquitting himself

Starting point is 00:15:18 as a member of the starting lineup. I think we talked about this over the course of the week. I expect him to stay there. It makes a lot of sense. But he gave them eight points, got the line six times, four rebounds, including a big three offensive rebounds to keep possessions alive, and a pair of steals. So like when this sort of thing happens, Andy, you can, you don't need 38 from LeBron. Not every night.

Starting point is 00:15:48 He'll give it to you sometimes, but 19, 22, 23, you know, 20 shots. 22 shots, you're not going to need 28 shots, 30 shots from LeBron to score enough points. This is a formula for them with this kind of balanced attack and real scoring production, particularly from Reeves, that can get them some places, I think. Well, part of the catch-22 when you were talking about the offense struggling and that making it more difficult to lean less on LeBron because you're trying to trying to get that offense charged. I understand what you're talking about theoretically, but ironically, during that period,

Starting point is 00:16:32 it was also when LeBron was doing more. So it's not like- The Bulls were terrible on both sides of the ball. Right. Like it's not like past seasons where LeBron was doing everything because he was the only guy playing well offensively and therefore you had no other choice. I think there's been a direct correlation, not. every single game. There have been games where they've needed LeBron to go Supernova, and he is still

Starting point is 00:16:59 in pockets of games and occasionally full games, able to play at that level. But I think at this stage of his career, less is often going to be more. And I don't mean like he's going to fade into the background like your sixth or seventh option. But there is an element of, if not less is more, less end can be more. Like, LeBron is not going to be able to maintain the pace of playing at that type of high usage level for the entirety of this season. Right. He's not going to be able to do it.

Starting point is 00:17:39 Like, I think it's become very clear by now after, you know, we're starting to be on is LeBron tired watch at like game 12? Like, it's clearly not a sustainable thing. It's, it there's, there, you are empowering him and the team to be able to go to that well when it's required, when it's, when it's needed, when it's, and look, start to get in the spring. Lakers are battling for playoff position, you know, you get into the playoffs, knock on wood. you're in a seven-game series and so like, okay, yeah, that's when, that's when you want to use it. That's when you want to hit the turbo button and all that kind of stuff. But if you have to, if you, if the Lakers have to lean on that, if the Lakers have to be a team that is carried by LeBron, you know, in tandem with AD, but where like the two of them are really just carrying the team. it won't be there in the spring when it's when it's most needed and when the stakes are highest and the games are at their the highest leverage 25 from austin you need 25 from austin reeves on december 19th to enable lebron to give you 35 on april 26th you know that's what this

Starting point is 00:19:17 formula essentially is going to be for the Lakers. That is why it is so, it was so problematic for Vincent to be somebody who did not shoot the ball in, you know, when he played, did not score at all. Like he's going to hit four or five from three. Not every time, although if he gets these nice corner threes, he's going to hit more than he misses. It's why DeAngelo Russell, even when he's point guarding well,

Starting point is 00:19:48 still needs to provide them points. He's got to score. You've got to do the thing that you're known for in addition to the other stuff as well. Those 16 points make it easier. You know, you get eight points from Christie as a starter instead of four points,

Starting point is 00:20:07 which is what Reddish was averaging as a starter. That four point difference when you start to have these little wins, so to speak, across the thing. And, you know, AD's most nights going to give you more than 21. That's what the game is. Dalton Connect had two points and

Starting point is 00:20:27 you know, only played 10 minutes. So, you know, everybody who plays, if you're going to be one of the like the eight or nine guys who plays 15 minutes or more reddish when he played 11, you got to give them something. When Cam doesn't score,

Starting point is 00:20:42 it needs to come from someone else. But Cam's first responsibility, it's kind of like the inverse of what you were saying before with like DeLo, you know, you have to do the thing that you're first being asked to do, then you branch out to the other stuff. Cam's the inverse of that. The first thing you're asking to do is be disrupted. I don't, I don't problem of how he played. Sure.

Starting point is 00:21:03 Sure. But I'm just saying like it becomes easier for someone to offset it with Cam or expected. Yes. Or more expected with Cam to offset it. You're not supposed to be offsetting a lack of scoring from Dalton, who, by the way, I've been keeping up with home and road three-point splits. It is. Last, I checked heading into this game, 46% at home, roughly,

Starting point is 00:21:30 29% on the road, and that's going to go down after this game. Yeah, I think he's missed his last 12-3s. He's just in, you know, he's in a spot. Like, you know, I think we collectively got a little, maybe got a little excited about, like, how much he could, not could, but would maybe impact the rotation going forward and hope that was a little more sustainable than it has proved to be. But if he's only going to be scoring two points,

Starting point is 00:21:58 and he's one of your sort of main offensive weapons, like Reddick's not scurred around, like he's not going to play a lot, a 10 to 15 minute roll, give or take for Cam Reddish, where he can just go out and really be aggressive defensively. That's a perfect role for him. And you're right. You can support it if Delo scoring, if you're getting something from Vincent, if you're getting a little bit of something from Christy,

Starting point is 00:22:26 if you're getting, you know, it was an inefficient night for Rui. But he played well. But he did. And if he's five of nine instead of three of nine, you're looking at 14, 15 points instead of 10. Like it was a really inefficient night offensively for the Lakers as a team. And they still managed to win by 13. There's just a lot to like in this win, and it starts on the defensive side of the ball.

Starting point is 00:22:54 So, Andy, my question to you is, do you think they've actually landed on something sustainable? That is the question we will ask next. Lockdowne Lakers is brought to you by Fandall, Tackle, the NFL action with Fandle, America's number one sportsbook. Right now, new customers can bet $5. Just five bucks. You get $150 in bonus bets. If you win, the Fandle Sportsbook app gives you everything you need to place live bets on the NFL all one place.

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Starting point is 00:24:11 Was there a high watermark? Was it 10 and 4, I believe, from a record standpoint? Now they're 15 and 11, which, there's something about being like three or four games over 500, even if it's like one, like it just looks nicer. when you write it down. They're 15 and 12. 15 and 12.

Starting point is 00:24:30 Everything you said now, just complete garbage. Well, it does, but like aesthetically in my head, it doesn't look as good, you know, 15,

Starting point is 00:24:38 but there is something like when you get, they'll have a chance to do it on, on Saturday, like can you get to 16 and 12? Like, where you don't feel like a 500 team? Like, at some,

Starting point is 00:24:52 I don't know how many games above 500 you got to get before you are a 500 team. You're not that anymore. But, you know, three games, four games, five games, it feels like that. And you're in a different space in the NBA. By the way, sign up for the newsletter. It's down there. You can see it.

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Starting point is 00:25:34 you're just a 500 team. I think if they can get back there, it'll be big. But even when they were winning games, when they were at 10 and 4, the long way from a 500 team, the defense was still not good. They had some of the most absurd offensive defensive splits for a successful team.

Starting point is 00:25:53 it felt unsustainable. It turned out, Andy, it was. They needed to become at least a decent offensive team to have a chance. Last four games, they have been better than a decent offensive team. Defensive team. Yes. So I think they can keep this up. Well, first of all, they are playing much more like they give a crap about how good of a defensive team they are.

Starting point is 00:26:23 that, I mean, that's the starting point. I mean, you could almost take team out of it and just, they're a defensive team and just be like, they're a better team that they, they have to give a crap about how good a team they are. Right. But really, there was a period where it felt like they at least cared about how good of an offensive team they were. It was just like, you know, how good do we actually want to be defensively? Because, I mean, as much as defenses, schemes and communication and, you know, approach, all that stuff, and personnel matters, yada, yada.

Starting point is 00:26:54 There is a baseline level of effort and dedication that has to be there. Unless you have guys that are just so naturally gifted at this, like you have to be willing to put in that work. And for a while, it frankly felt like they were not collectively as a team. And you could really see how that was wearing on AD. And that AD was getting pretty outwardly. sick of it. So I think there's the rededication to it, whether that's

Starting point is 00:27:26 been kind of coming to Jesus, whether that's been Redick recently talking about how he essentially told guys in so many words, look, either do the bleep I'm asking or you're not going to play or your minutes are going to get cut. Like, I'm kind of done screwing around. I also think, too, schematically, they're doing some things different. They are automatically switching far

Starting point is 00:27:48 less than they used to. They did. Yeah. We talked about. this in the preview with Matt George, like what would they do against a pick and roll heavy team in the Kings? Because one of the reasons they look so good against Memphis and, you know, you and, and Christy looks so good against John Morant, they didn't have to do that stuff. But they didn't switch off every screen in this game. No, and even some of the times where they were switching in weather, because they were forced to by design, a little bit of both or whatever, and it wasn't working as well, like some of the times where, say, Rui and AD switched assignments

Starting point is 00:28:25 and Rui ended up on Subonis, Subonis could get the better of Rui in a lot of those, but at least it's not ridiculous the idea of Rui switched onto Sabonis, as opposed to, say, earlier in the season, when it would have been like Dilo switched onto Subon. And nobody recovering back, too. Like, nobody ever recovering back. I also, they've been using over the last few games, AD and Coloco as well, much more in drop as opposed to kind of switching everything. And those two, I think, are more effective playing that way.

Starting point is 00:29:01 Like, it's just, it's been a better use of those guys as a backline. I think they're, again, switching less. And I think they're just, they're fighting more defensively. Like, they're literally using more physicality. they are making their presence felt more defensively, which was, every dayors will recall me just bitching about this show after show after show. But I'm like, I don't even feel like they're even putting in the physical effort necessary, not being felt enough.

Starting point is 00:29:35 Even if they're doing a switching, if you want to switch everything, you can still do it in a way where you felt more. They weren't even felt while they were doing it. Yeah. You know, I look at this and, you know, some of this is, you know, a little shift in personnel. You know, not that Christy, you know, Christine and Reddish are both, you know, sort of have a, you know, profile defensively. But they're not exactly, you know, Reddish is a little bit more of a guarding pure wings. And, you know, Christy obviously can step up and play smaller players.

Starting point is 00:30:11 I mean, you don't stick, you know, Cam Reddish on. jaw. I think that's not a, you know, a natural thing. And giving the Lakers a stronger point of attack defender helps the whole operation. You know, in such a guard heavy league where, you know, almost every night, you know, they see Deerrin Fox again on Saturday. On Saturday. I mean, who do they got coming up? I'm just saying, you know, it was. I don't have the schedule for me, not pulling it up. I think Detroit is Monday, but I got to look.

Starting point is 00:30:48 Yeah, I mean, so, you know, it's, it's, it's, uh, it's, uh, it's, uh, it's, uh, Oh, right. I'm sorry. Yeah. They've got, you know, so. And they go, and they go on Christmas and, you know, Deeran Fox again.

Starting point is 00:31:02 And then, you know, Donovan Mitchell is coming soon. Uh, coming soon. Donovan Mitchell, Simons in the, in the, in the, in the Portland game. And, and, you know, uh, Tray Young, before the end of the month. And it just goes, there's never,

Starting point is 00:31:17 there aren't a lot of games where you're not going to see really strong guards. Lamello balls coming up soon. And, you know, Kyrie. It's just,

Starting point is 00:31:25 it goes on a, to have somebody you feel like you can credibly put, I'm not saying Christy is going to shut these players down every night. He's not even going to shut them down most nights. But if you can put a guy on to make that player work, especially if, if it's a, you know, a Kyrie Irving or something like that where it's not, they're not just

Starting point is 00:31:48 scorers, but they're also part of the, the hub that makes a, you know, an offense go. You're making everything harder for that team. And you're also making it so Austin Reeves doesn't have to be that guy. It's going to make him a better score. He's not a bad team defender, but, you know, you don't, you can't, you don't want him having to take that responsibility on and then also have the responsibility of trying to check the best backcourt player that the other team has. And so when you have Christie who can give you that defense and then just a little bit more offense than what Reddish was providing, that's like the, and ball movement and all that other stuff,

Starting point is 00:32:30 like just a little, just a better offensive player. The trickle-down effect from what we're seeing there over the last couple games has been noticeable. And my hope is that it's, stains itself going forward and maybe they finally have a lineup that that kind of makes some sense. Look, like I off the top of my head, I would have to go back and look at the game to know exactly what changed. But insofar as things that at least seem like they were adjusted on some level, Malik Monk in this game went to town on the Lakers in the second quarter. He had 12

Starting point is 00:33:08 points. He was he was what really got Sacramento back into this game. He had a 12 point quarter where he was handling the ball a lot, no turnovers. He finished the game with 18, meaning they did a very good job limiting him from there. He also had five turnovers in the game. So they were they were doing things to help make that matchup work better from them. So just it they are they are likely. It's there's certainly they're talking about listening and focusing more on those details and really being more dialed into their assignments and what they're supposed to be doing. But again, I think a lot of this gets back to just they have either decided or accepted, however you want to put it, the defense they were playing before execution wise and effort wise

Starting point is 00:34:02 just wasn't going to cut it. And too, it's like, you know, the crash and we heard some. in the beginning of the year about, you know, crashing and, you know, and corner crash and all that. Like, they had 15 offensive rebounds in this game. And that was a, I mentioned the three from Christie, AD at eight. And that makes a huge difference.

Starting point is 00:34:21 Abe Vincent had two. Yeah, he's a little guy. That makes a really big difference in terms of what you're able to do limiting another team's runouts, limiting it. Like, they forced Sacramento to hang out around their basketball. basket, you know, to stop trying to give up second and third opportunities. Meanwhile, they only allowed four offensive rebounds on the entire night. And so that you're getting, you're turning Sacramento into a one and done team, which means while Sacramento shot 46% from the floor and

Starting point is 00:34:56 38% from three point range, better than you did in both of those categories because they had 81 field goal attempts to your 94, and they only had 22 trips to the line, to your 30, you can win very comfortably. 13 point win on the road is a very comfortable win in the NBA. So we'll see what happens on Saturday. If the Lakers, because now, you know, we've gone from they've lost 8 of 11, I think it was, to now they've won three of four, you know, and you can start to turn the page on

Starting point is 00:35:40 on that part of the schedule and to see like, okay, now they're in a schedule where they're playing better. If they can carry that through on Saturday and they win again, I think you can start to feel much better about where the Lakers are as a group. So we'll see what happens. Again, sign up for the newsletter. Make sure you're checking out the postcast with Dave Palais after games. We will see everyone on after the game on Saturday.

Starting point is 00:36:04 Thank you.

Locked On Lakers - Daily Podcast On The Los Angeles Lakers - Lakers Get 113-100 Win Over Sacramento Kings, JJ Redick Calls it His "Favorite" of the Season.

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