Locked On Lakers - Daily Podcast On The Los Angeles Lakers - Luka Dončić (31 Points), Austin Reaves (22) Help Shorthanded LAKERS CRUSH Shorthanded Nuggets, 120-108

Starting point is 00:00:00 Hey, everyone, welcome to Locked on Lakers for Thursday. Brian Komenetsky, Andy Kaminetsky, the Lakers roll over the nuggets in a game that lost a little bit of its juice, but none of its significance. 120, 108, the final score. Break it down 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. First listen to every day, Monday through Friday,

Starting point is 00:00:36 matter how where you get your podcast, always free. This one is. Never Behind a paywall and locked on Lakers on YouTube is where I're going to call it 34,000 subscribers. We're all hanging out. Welcome to all the new people who have subscribed. Got a big rush of subscribers over the last month, month and a half, can't figure out why. We just must be that entertaining. But it's been fun to watch. Lots of people leaving questions. Lots of people leaving comments, Andy, and all of them are excited again about where the Lakers are because after it seemed like maybe things were getting into dicey territory with that four-game losing streak, no LeBron James, Rui Hachamora is injured. They have righted to the ship and the ship stays right again on Wednesday night.

Starting point is 00:01:22 Final score against the Nuggets 120 to 108 in a game the Lakers really did control throughout. Do it to let people know that today's episode is brought to you by game time. download the GameTime app, create an account. Use code locked on NBA for $20 off your first purchase. So we talked about it heading into this one, Andy. This was going to be one of those measuring stick games where we compare like the new Lakers, even without LeBron and Ruby, but still new, different vibe to the nuggets. And we'll see if that curse has been broken and it's like all that stuff. Well, that didn't happen because Nicola Yokic and Jamal Murray were both out of this game.

Starting point is 00:02:03 I mean, I can argue that means the curse was broken. Maybe because they're ducking the Lakers. They were too scurred to play. And Nekla Yokic got a case of Jacksonitis and said, no, thank you. Nope. Don't want a piece of that. That is my story. He seems to actually be dealing with something like him alone, talk before the game.

Starting point is 00:02:22 He's like, this is not rest. This is not load management. Yokic is actually trying to get through an injury. we want to get them right before the playoffs begin. Yeah, which makes sense. But so, like, okay, so we're not going to learn long-term lessons about this game. We cannot use this one to figure out what a Lakers Nuggets playoff matchup would look like, just like we couldn't use last week's game in Denver to give any sort of insight

Starting point is 00:02:50 because the Lakers were missing their entire rotation. But just because Andy the game was missing some of that head-to-head juice, doesn't mean it was any less important. The Lakers with this had a chance to essentially lock up, or at least get real close to locking up the season series and the tiebreaker against the Nuggets if they finish with a better conference record or they win their division.

Starting point is 00:03:16 Lakers will have that tiebreaker over Denver, which certainly could come in handy. It keeps them in that top four with Denver losing Memphis lost on 30. on Wednesday night as well. This was a really significant game. And the Lakers, to say the least, came out with a full understanding of how big a game this was, even without Denver stars on the floor. Well, certainly Luca Donchich did at the very, at the very least, the Lakers, they won this game 1208. And honestly, the score is not really

Starting point is 00:03:54 indicative of how much the Lakers dominated this game. They got sloppy, towards the end of the second quarter and a bit of the opening of the third. A couple minutes, but not too bad. A few minutes of it. And then there was a period where Austin Reeves went on a bit of a mini run himself, I guess to complement the absolute domination run that Luca had in the first and really opened the game back up to the point where garbage time got sloppy. but it really, the Lakers never trailed in this game.

Starting point is 00:04:30 They led wire to wire. And the 46 points that they had in the first quarter, that is a season high for any quarter this year. And Luca, to put it mildly, went absolutely supernova. 21 points, 7 of 11 from the field, 3 of 5 from behind the arc, 4 of 6 at the line, three rebounds, three assists, a steel and a block. That's his first quarter.

Starting point is 00:04:58 That was just Luca setting the tone for this game. Like letting folks know what might be ahead for them. There was one point where he pulled up from just inside the logo for a three, drilled it and honestly, I mean, like it was so clean. Like there was, it was nothing but that net sound didn't touch the rim, didn't go near it. It was dead center inside that little hoop. I mean, he might as well at that point have just yelled out Yolo. I mean, like he was just in his bag looking to create a cushion for the Lakers that basically would allow them to withstand anything else that would happen in this game.

Starting point is 00:05:47 I said, they did not close out the half well at all. They didn't open the first few minutes of the third quarter particularly well. But beyond the fact that they got their proverbial bleep back together and then some, when you open a quarter with 46 points, close it up by 17, you give yourself some wiggle room. This is from there. Nine three-pointers. Lakers tied a franchise record. with nine three-pointers in the first quarter.

Starting point is 00:06:20 And these were not, you know, contested threes. You know, the only Yolo threes in there were Luca and just, you know, just for funsies bombing from the, from the logo. And by the way, he hit two of the three. And also similar to LeBron pre-Lucah and Kobe pre-Lebron, there are guys who have the permission structure to take whatever shot they effing please. Luke is one of them. He is one of them.

Starting point is 00:06:52 He did hit two of three. And what was amazing about it, and I have given this some thought, Andy, I've really dug into it, considered it. I didn't want to make a snapper. I think it was really dumb of Dallas to trade Luca Donchard.

Starting point is 00:07:05 He's really good. And, you know, it's to have, we have gotten used to, two players who can sort of control the game with the ball in their hands, and I've obviously seen that with LeBron over the last three years and have two of those guys now is quite a thing. But the Lakers, the shot quality in the first quarter, again, it was not guys hoisting up

Starting point is 00:07:30 contested threes or late threes or forced threes or anything like that. These were, you can't pass them up kind of threes. They were so wide open. And, you know, the, I, the, I, you know, the, I I forget exactly what the number was. They took 48 threes the other night. And two thirds of them or something like that were uncontested. And it was just like that in the first quarter on Monday. And that's Luca being able to get into the lane, no question. It's Luca being able to hit those step back threes,

Starting point is 00:08:02 which opened up his ability to get in the lane. It starts with Donchich. There's no question. But now you have all these guys and the ball is really flying around. and it's hopping and all that. And people are getting phenomenal looks from three. And remember, too, this is all happening without LeBron and without Rui tonight. Both of those guys will create or be the beneficiary of those looks as well.

Starting point is 00:08:32 In the case of Rui, he's one of the best finishers on this team in terms of just the ability to finish plays from behind the arc, the ability to finish plays at the rim. And LeBron is one of the only players in the league who can create at the level of Luca, and he's going to be back. So, like, I see a comment from Matt in the comment section about how the Lakers went at one point about five and a half minutes without scoring, which obviously was an issue. And JJ was furious during his halftime.

Starting point is 00:09:11 interview with Mike Trudell for Spectrum Sportsnet. He did not like the way Denver was able to run out every miss that the Lakers had. He also thought that they gave up too many second chance opportunities. The transition defense was bad for a section, but some of those misses are not going to happen when you have LeBron and Rui. I'm not saying those two cure everything, but they make a difference with. with your offense at the very least. They're two of your best offensive players.

Starting point is 00:09:44 It's just, I mean, they're going to have stretches where every team has stretches where they don't score. They miss. I mean, they were, they shot something like 67% or something for the first, you know, 18 minutes of that game from three. There was going to be a little bit of regression there, even if the shots still look good. And very rarely in the NBA, do you not reach some sort of lull? after running up a 28-point lead.

Starting point is 00:10:13 It just, it is what is. And then rarely in the NBA, even with terrible teams, do you not see the opposition put four or five possessions together to create a 10-0 run, whatever it might be? But I'll tell you one of the things that's changed about what the Lakers have done, or at least what they're doing lately, that I think is critical to kind of under, to mitigating the damage that's done by those sorts of,

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Starting point is 00:13:55 These trends, the earlier trends of bad first quarters, sluggish starts, all this stuff. Really, for the most part, over the last few weeks disappeared. The Lakers have been consistently a good first quarter team. And what happens when you play ahead in the NBA is almost impossible to overstate. The game becomes so much easier. Denver goes on a 10-0 run. It doesn't look so bad when that lead cuts it to 14. It's like you're going to see those runs.

Starting point is 00:14:36 The Washington Wizards are going to go on runs against you. And when you're up eight points at the end. end of the first quarter, 10 points, 12 points, whatever it might be, and you're playing from ahead, even if you fall behind a little bit, it's okay because you know what, you're going to go on one of those runs too. You're going to have a stretch where the other team can't stop here, what the Lakers did in the second quarter where after Luka went off the floor, they used, you know, I think it was a stretch of like five forced turnovers and seven possessions or something like that with Denver to keep that lead up. Like the Lakers will have that run.

Starting point is 00:15:13 run. When you get off to a good start and you play from ahead, it is a completely different game. And the Lakers have made a habit of that lately. And that is another one of those signs to me that this is a real live championship contending team. Again, it is also a reminder, Luca Donchich, really handy guy to have a round on those lines, just because, but just because specifically with the first quarter, he has been really key with getting the Lakers off to these great starts. I mean, like, the pluses to Luca are self-evident, I guess to everyone other than Dallas. But I'm just saying for this particular thing that you're talking about, I think it's a reminder of how much you benefit from Luca.

Starting point is 00:16:02 Like, if anything, I think sometimes they need to guard. you mentioned before about how the game becomes so much easier. It also becomes more fun. And I think sometimes they have to guard against having too much fun. Like you hear guys talk all the time like JJ Reddick. This is a Steve Kerr philosophy, Steph, LeBron, you hear described honestly about Luke a lot, like the concept of playing with joy.

Starting point is 00:16:30 And that really does matter. And you and I have covered a lot of teams. We've covered some teams that were a lot of fun. we've covered some teams that were joyless. And every now and then, the joyless teams can still manage to be good, but it's really, really hard to succeed when you're not having fun. Just as an example, the Lakers team that beat Orlando after they just got throttled by Boston the year before, that was a joyless team.

Starting point is 00:16:59 They were excellent, but they were not having fun. That was one of the most intense teams. You and I have ever, like everybody was professional. They were cool with us. But they entered that season in, we are not effing around. We are winning a damn championship. Everybody get the F out of our way. And that was basically the mood for 82 regular season games and 16 wins in the playoffs.

Starting point is 00:17:30 But what I was going to say is, and I think this happened tonight, the Lakers allowed that joy that they were playing with, that you want to spill into a little bit too much fun. And the problem with too much fun is occasionally you become more focused on the fun factor than the actual playing smart basketball factor. But again, you would agree that tends to happen more when you're up by 22, 24. And not when you're up by seven. If you're having fun while you're down 22.

Starting point is 00:18:05 No, but you can be having like, this is fun, man. But you're up by eight. And I think the focus is a lot better. I also think, you know, to your point about Luca and like particularly Luca and his influence on the beginning of games and that the fun factor, the rewarding factor of all this stuff, But when you have it, it's one thing to have, there are different players can control games in different ways. But one thing Luca can do and having the ball, and it's not like LeBron can't do this either. So again, you've got two guys who can do this.

Starting point is 00:18:40 You are rewarded playing with Luca for doing small things that aren't always pleasant. You are rewarded for setting a strong screen and rolling hard, you know, like working through traffic. You're rewarded for making that extra cut or cranking up your effort by 10%, you know, going that much harder than you think you can go to get up the floor on the break. You get rewarded for all of those things when you play with Luke Adonchich. And you know what that does, Andy? It encourages you to keep doing those things. And, you know, that adds to the joy that gets guys paid.

Starting point is 00:19:23 I mean, there's just nothing to not like about being sort of a supporting guy on a team led by Luca Dantzich and LeBron James. I can tell you right now, and not just because they happen to share the same agent, Jackson Hayes is loving life right now. Like the fact that he seems to fit hand in glove with much of what Luca wants from a center and the fact that both of them are repped by Bill Duffy. I'm not saying this is going to get Jackson Hayes a max deal or something like that, but this does not hurt his ability to get resigned. It's like Luca almost, he could become like, he should have to give Bill Duffy a cut and he should have to give Luca a cut.

Starting point is 00:20:14 It's almost like he's like protection. Well, he does give Bill Duffy a cut. Right, but I'm saying literally what he does. Right, but he is, he should have to give one to be a cut to not. just to Bill Duffy, but actually give one to Luca as well. Like that is the influence that that Luca has on it. It just makes everything better. Like, and you know, if you do that stuff, if you adhere to a game plan, you have coaches who understand how to design game plans and get the right players and all that kind of stuff, they are doing that. So like everybody seems to

Starting point is 00:20:50 fit. We talked about this for Thursday's show. I'm sorry. Wednesday show, everybody fits. Like the supporting guys seem to all understand what they're doing. They all understand where they're supposed to go, what lane they're supposed to be in. And I thought that first quarter in terms of where the shots were coming from, putting yourself in that end point, if you're Dorian Finney Smith or Gabe Vincent to be the recipient of these passes in the ball movement, I don't know about you, Andy. It just looks to me like everybody gets it.

Starting point is 00:21:21 And it's just cool to watch. There's also a fun factor too with just some of the stuff that Luca does on the court, similar to again, certain things LeBron does, certain things Kobe did. There is a holy bleep factor that like all of these guys, you know, it happens with Steph, it happens with Shea. Like the guys who can truly do the stuff that even some of the elite players around the league cannot do, you can sometimes get caught up in that with the fun factor as well. Can I just mention one more thing.

Starting point is 00:21:55 We'll break right after, like, just in terms of chemistry, little moments that you see. I want to talk about Dalton Connect in the next segment because he is coming around and it's making a big difference. But there was a moment in the first quarter where Connect hits, I think, his second three in about a minute and a half. And he does, is it a bow and arrow type thing that they're doing? Like, I don't know exactly what the arm motion. But he's staring dead at LeBron, who's at the end of the bench, wearing, I believe, a. Columbus Blue Jackets third jersey. And he and Connect are like doing the celebration with each other.

Starting point is 00:22:33 And you see that kind of chemistry from LeBron who is not playing and, you know, like getting up and being on the off the bench and like this they, they sense something going on here. Connect though is really coming around. And you talk about guys who seem to fit in with what. what a Luca Donchich-led team can do. He's definitely one of them. We'll talk about him next. Locked on Lakers is brought to you by Upwork.

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Starting point is 00:24:26 There's Bracket Breakdown to see it all for free. It's your team every day. So, Andy, when the trade that wasn't, Dalton Connect and for William's out of short, Mark Williams out of Charlotte, when that happened, you and I were both huge risk, but yeah, makes a lot of sense because the Lakers were struggling at center. They definitely needed the depth. Even with Jackson Hayes playing better than he was really getting credit for, still really could use the depth.

Starting point is 00:25:05 They had their big upgrade with what they had at center. And Dalton Connect was, to say the least, struggling. He was, you know, night in, night out. It was hard to find him time to play. He wasn't shooting the ball well. If he's not shooting, hard to get him on the floor and keep him on the floor. In a lot of ways, you see, you know, how well Jackson Hayes is playing. And no question the Lakers are still need another center.

Starting point is 00:25:33 It's not that they don't need that anymore. But the way he's playing and the way the Lakers sort of have filled in around in terms of, you know, what they do when they don't have a center on the floor, playing effectively that way. And now with Connect really coming around and being a fantastic fit as a guy who can move and get shots from anywhere and is a super clean shooter around Luca, you know, the other prevailing thought that came out of that is, you know, long term the Lakers might be better off because you keep connecting,

Starting point is 00:26:09 maybe find another way to address the center issue over the summer in more controlled circumstances. Connect is certainly, the connect part of that, at the very least, is certainly looking like it's paying off. I think it's still fluid. I mean, depending on what they decide they need based off the playoffs, I think Dalton could still end up in play because he's going to have He's going to have value around the league. But the best thing Dalton can do is make the Lakers not want to trade him or make it really damn hard to trade him.

Starting point is 00:26:42 And in March, I don't know if it's updated from this game, but he's averaging about 14 points a game on 50, 40 splits and taking about 7 3s a game. Like that is really good volume from behind the arc. obviously the 14 points per game is inflated a bit from the 37 that he had in Denver. But nonetheless, I mean, Dalton is playing really well. It's also too. And to his credit, although neither one of us is particularly surprised, there are a lot of people wondering, you know, is this rescinded trade going to kill Dalton's confidence?

Starting point is 00:27:19 Is he not going to be able to be around? And we're both like, it's going to be fine. Like, it's weird. And it's going to take him like, you know, a couple days to like wrap his mind around this, but it's not like they traded him for the souped up version of Dalton Connect. Like they traded him to do something he can't do, which is be like seven foot three with a 27 foot reach.

Starting point is 00:27:42 Like he can't do that. So like the idea that Dalton would be so offended or, you know, so upset by this or not able to wrap his head around it or like, no. Like, and he started, he had one. game off and he started playing again and he's he's been fine as both of us suspected he would be and you know i mean he deserves credit for the professionalism i'm not trying to take it away from him i'm just not surprised that this has been the result and i no me neither and he's he is a guy who will tell you but basically every response he has to every question is some version of i just

Starting point is 00:28:24 want to play basketball like you just love to play basketball like i'm a hooper it's like Cush and Jerry McGuire. Kind of. I mean, it's just, he just, I mean, like,

Starting point is 00:28:33 I don't mean this. I'm not trying to be like, like he doesn't, I don't think Connect is a guy that has, you know, he's not like a Renaissance man. Like I don't think he's got 800 different things that he's doing, whatever.

Starting point is 00:28:44 Like when he's not playing basketball, he's thinking about basketball. And, you know, he's just, this is what the kid does. You know, he's certainly not even that,

Starting point is 00:28:51 not really so much a kid. But I, I, so yeah, I agree about that. The biggest thing is like, Like, does he, can he hit shots with enough consistency and really be that, you know, that, it's, it's one thing to be a good shooter. Gabe Vincent is a good shooter and Dorian Finney Smith is a good shooter.

Starting point is 00:29:14 There are certain guys who are different from beyond the arc and connects value. There's a more varied offensive player than he gets credit for. He's got way better hops. And then I think most people just assumed because, you know, looking at him like, you know, goofy. You know what he is, Brian. He's a sneaky athletic. He is. Not even that sneaky.

Starting point is 00:29:35 It's just like he went up and he's sneaky in a Caucasian way. Right. I mean, that that's where all the sneakiness comes from. Let's let's be honest. That's what makes it sneaky in the eyes of many. It's camouflage. It's a, it's athletic camouflage. But, you know, he had that that play in the first.

Starting point is 00:29:56 half where he goes up off a killer, uh, behind the back bounce pass from, from Luca and he tries to posterize, uh, chanch, is a chanchar? I always forget how to say his name, but like, and it didn't work. He got foul, but like he tries to, he will try to dunk everything. Like he, he plays in kind of an audacious way. And that's phenomenal. And I love that. But he, his value, we've talked about this throughout the year.

Starting point is 00:30:26 is in being one of those guys who is just different from beyond the arc, that you have to respect differently and play differently because they can pile up threes. And it ought to be a perfect fit around Donchich and LeBron. I mean, I remember earlier in the season, this is something we talked about like Dalton versus say a Clay Thompson. And so it's clear, I'm not putting Dalton Connect at Clay Thompson's level as a player on any, I mean, the defense is nowhere close to prime clay. And frankly, he needs to show more as a shooter before you start talking about this. But in terms of just the different type of player,

Starting point is 00:31:09 because he can do like Clay, all the running off screens, the movement shooting and stuff like that. But Clay has never been close to the athlete that Dalton is, just like the pure athlete and like the ability to attack the rim with force. Like, that's not something Clay has ever been. Again, does not mean Dalton is better than Clay. My point is underscoring what you are saying, it's a very different dimension than something you typically expect from guys who are known as shooters.

Starting point is 00:31:43 I mean, like, he is a really, if he was not such a great shooter, he's somebody that people would start wondering, hey, do you think he'd ever do the dunk contest? Oh, yeah. No, he had one of the highest verticals in his draft class. Yeah. And it's, you know, look, I, I, you start to picture like, what does the architecture look like around, um, around Luca in three to five years. And there's no question. Dalton could be traded this summer. Like they just, you just want to, you know, and he can get a, if he keeps playing like this, both things become true at once. The Lakers don't want to trade him, but his value. goes way up, you can get a lot, you know, potentially in a deal for Connect.

Starting point is 00:32:33 But, you know, as this team evolves, it's really easy to see how Connect can be a piece that sticks next to Luca for the long haul. Like, because he's got the ability to score in more ways than just as a three-point shooter, he is not, no disrespect intended, his head coach. You know, JJ was essentially, you know, put the ball on the floor, sneak up to the basket every so often. Every so often. Every so often.

Starting point is 00:33:07 I mean, like, once every two to three months. He shot like four free throws a year, I think. Come on. He's good at him. But, like, that was not, like, he, JJ Reddick was a guy who ran and ran and ran and ran and ran and ran, but always around the perimeter. Yeah. That's not that guy.

Starting point is 00:33:23 He's got a much more very. offensive game. And if he can get consistent with that stuff and just raise his defense to good enough, that becomes a very valuable weapon. But I will say this. Earlier in the year, it looked like part of the reason it was okay to trade him was it's going to be hard to put him on the floor because he gets defensive-wise, it just doesn't work.

Starting point is 00:33:48 I think we're getting better. The team is evolving. to where they can protect him a little bit better. He's getting a little bit better. But most importantly, he's playing and shooting at a level that mitigates some of the negativity that he brings on the other end. He is no longer a person to keep playing like he has been who can't play in the playoffs. He absolutely can't.

Starting point is 00:34:13 We'll see. I mean, I think he's still going to be on the lower end of the rotation, but he is definitely... It might be, but I think you can put him on the floor. No, sure. I mean, the possibility is absolutely there. I mean, particularly if you need... scoring in certain situations. Before we go, I just in terms of the game, want to make sure to

Starting point is 00:34:28 shout out a couple of you. First of all, Austin Reeves, in the third quarter had seven points, three rebounds, two assists, two steals, a block, and no turnovers. And I thought he was really the catalyst of getting the team back on track. There was a play, it kind of began, there was a play where he trapped Aaron Gordon in the corner and forced Gordon to pass out and was stolen by Luca and Luga ended up hitting a mid-range jumper. Then he went kind of on a mini run of his own, He had a three, then a stop and pop, like a little baby jumper near the rim after a flyby. And then he tracked down a Christian Brown airball, got drove, got tied up at the rim by Christian Brown, but then saw DFS diving, recognized it and did like spun around, dish it for DFS for a layup.

Starting point is 00:35:15 Then he had another play where he kind of did this hirky jerky thing into the lane, lob to Christian Coloco. And that was really a point where the Lakers got completely back on track. also two in the second quarter, the defense was fantastic. But in particular, Jordan Goodwin and Jared Vanderbilt were basically just taking turns, turning over Denver. Like Jordan Goodwin had four steals in the second quarter. There was one point I tweeted this out. Like with maybe 10 minutes left in the second quarter, the Lakers already had six steals and two blocks.

Starting point is 00:35:53 and every starter other than Austin had at least one of one or the other. And just, again, in particular, D.F. I mean, Goodwin and Vando were just a nightmare defensively for Denver in the second quarter. Also, JJ Redick, three straight seasons with the clippers at over six shots a game inside the arc. So it's very possible he did, in fact, get inside the arc more than we're giving him credit for. Locked on Lakers on YouTube is where six, six charts a game, Andy. It's more than you thought, more than I thought. Locked on Lakers on YouTube is where you can go to hang out with over, with about 34,000 subscribers will, of course, be back after the Milwaukee.

Starting point is 00:36:35 None of them were above the rim. Now, that is true. I didn't count as dunks, but definitely not above the rim like Dalton Connect. We, of course, will be back after the big game against Milwaukee Thursday night, looking for another home win for the Lakers. It would be their 10th straight. See everyone after the game.

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