Locked On Lakers - Daily Podcast On The Los Angeles Lakers - Luka Dončić Joins Lakers 30/15 Club, LeBron Hits 50k points in 136-115 Win over Pelicans

Starting point is 00:00:00 Hey everyone. Welcome to Lockdown Lakers for Wednesday. Brian Komenetsky, Andy Kemenetsky, Luca Donchich joins a very exclusive club for the Lakers. LeBron James cracks 50,000 points and the Lakers cruise to another win this time over the Pelicans. A lot to like, a lot to break down. We'll do it 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 Locked on Lakers first listen to every day. Monday through Friday, no matter how where you get your podcast,

Starting point is 00:00:42 this one's always free and never behind paywall. Locked on Lakers on YouTube, Andy is where over 33,000 subscribers are all hanging out and they just keep getting good news. It just keeps getting better. The Lakers win once again, 136 to 115, this time over the Pelicans. Tuesday night at the crypt. A great game all around for the Lakers filled with highlights.

Starting point is 00:01:08 LeBron James, he cracks the 50,000 point barrier for the playoffs and regular season combined, which is a mind-boggling amount of points to score. And meanwhile, Andy, Luca Donchich, who just keeps getting more and more and more comfortable, I think, as LeBron said,

Starting point is 00:01:30 after the game, not just on the floor, but with everything, just more acclimated to L.A., putting a little more distance behind the shock of the trade and getting a little healthier and all of that stuff. He joined a very exclusive club on Tuesday night. Jerry West, Magic Johnson, LeBron, and now Luca in only his ninth game. Those are the four guys in Lakers history. who have notched 30 points and 15 assists in one game. I will get the bad part out of the way now. If you were looking for something to complain about with this game, the Lakers were often sloppy with the ball in the first half.

Starting point is 00:02:17 A little bit in the third quarter led to transition opportunities for the Lakers, I mean, excuse me, for the Pelicans that they shouldn't have had, kept the game a little bit closer than you won it over the first two and a half quarters. Zion was unstoppable. Feme. People do seem to think that you harp a little bit too much on the turnover. No, no, I'm not looking to harp. I'm looking to make sure nobody thinks we're just glazing this team that's one of the hottest in the entire league

Starting point is 00:02:48 because we're somehow on the Lakers payroll, even though that franchise has never paid us a dime. My point in all this was, that's your list, everything else for the next. 30-something minutes is going to be fun as hell, baby. Sunshine and lollipops. Yeah. I just, you know, you could tell, like, Luca hits that step back in the second, in the first quarter, and does little skippy dance along the sidelines. Like, he's just having fun, like this.

Starting point is 00:03:19 And the crowd, I mean, to say the least, it's not that, you know, Lakers fans loved Anthony Davis, brought him a title, you know, was a huge part of just, AT did nothing wrong. And Lakers fans showed their appreciation when he came back and they showed the video and all that kind of stuff. The energy difference, though, with the crowd right now, both because they are excited about Luca. And now because of how well the team is playing, there's this belief that like, okay, like, we're not just watching a star and that's the thing that's got to kind of tied us over until the team has a chance to do something in the spring. Like, no, I get to watch this guy who is staggeringly good. And, oh, by the way, number two seed in the west now.

Starting point is 00:04:08 I'm going to tell you one day, Nico Harrison is going to realize the problem was never Luca Donchich partaking in hookas. It was that the other Mavericks didn't partake enough in the hookas. They did not unleash the magic that is a smoking hookah. that seriously how they did not reach the conclusion of make the other guys do everything exactly what lucca does like like he should have been fining guys for not hanging out in the hookah bar because apparently they missed out a lot like there's some magic in them hookas because well sometimes depending on how you do it there actually can be some magic in the hookah um that's how

Starting point is 00:04:52 A lot of people do it. Luca is on one. Like it took a few games for him to get physically comfortable, mentally comfortable, spiritually comfortable. But damn, he is making bleep look easy these days. And it's, and I don't get the impression. Like, this is sort of what he did on a game to game basis. I've made this comparison before. It's when LeBron first joined the Lakers, you start to see, oh, this is, oh, it's every

Starting point is 00:05:22 game basically that's like this. Oh, okay, great. You know, you got used to. I remember like we were, we covered that streak that Kobe had of how many 50 point games in a row was it? And, you know, a lot. And then like he, he breaks the streak with like a 36 point game. You know, you just, you get, you get. You end up in the post game asking Kobe like what happened. What wasn't working for you tonight? But you have to ask because the streak ends. Right. It's the natural.

Starting point is 00:05:59 You think you can bounce back on Thursday? You know, I mean, it's just you can become kind of numb to the excellence. And Kobe did it a certain way. And LeBron does it a certain way. And Luca does it a certain way. And there's a freshness to this. And we're all kind of learning. at the same time, the impact that it's having around.

Starting point is 00:06:23 Like, there was a play in the, in the first half where the, the pelicans, who by the way, have a terrible record, but have actually played reasonably well over the last, you know, week or two, they, they, they blitzed Luca like 80 feet from the basket, basically, like 40 feet from the basket. And it led, you know, Luca found Trey Jemison, you know, who had nobody near him and was able to make a pass to the corner for a bucket. Like, he creates so much space and he draws so much attention that, and I mean no disrespect to Trey Jemison, who Andy and I were texting back and forth, like you were saying, he's kind of becoming your favorite player.

Starting point is 00:07:10 Let me go to finish my thought here. I love Jemison so much. When Luke, when a player can create enough space to make. Jameson, a reliable distributor of the basketball, that player is special. When you, like there should be a metric. It's like the like a good version of the canary in a coal mine. How many buckets does Jackson Hayes have and how far, like cumulatively, how far away from the basket was he on all of them combined? He had 19 points in the first half. I don't think there was a foot of day.

Starting point is 00:07:50 light cumulatively on all of his shots, maybe two. Are you counting the times that he was fed on the run and was driving? Because he at least did have to do a little bit of. No, but I'm saying when the ball went into the basket, it was generally connected to his hand. I mean, that's Jackson Hayes, period. Right, but it wasn't even a little layup or a little push shot. There wasn't any.

Starting point is 00:08:15 It was just alley. because again, that easy Jackson Hayes dunks, easy Jackson Hayes short rolls, easy, all of that stuff is a reflection of the space that and the attention that LeBron creates and that Luca, and now especially because he's running the offense, Luca creates. And the Lakers were rolling early and it was just dunk after dunk after dunk for Hayes because you know, eight of the 10 available eyes on the floor for the Pelicans, we're all looking at Luca. It's pretty crazy.

Starting point is 00:08:55 Luca ended the first quarter with four assists against three turnovers. Like he was one of the guys that was involved. There you are again with the turnovers. No, no, no, no. I'm leading to, shut up. I'm leading to something

Starting point is 00:09:07 that's actually really amazing about Luca is he finished the first quarter, four assists against three turnovers and he is part of that sloppiness and it's like oh it's looking a little bit out of control like he is it going to be a night where you know lucas had some games with the lakers that he's had like six seven turnovers or whatever finishes the night with 15 assists against five turnovers meaning he turned the ball over only two times after that first quarter despite having it in his hands at all times.

Starting point is 00:09:42 And it just starts steamrolling where all of a sudden it's like, oh, we've talked about this before with like with Kobe. There would be there would be times where all of a sudden was like, damn, he's already at 40? Like that happened really fast. With Luca, all of a sudden, it's like 15 to 5, like a three to one assist ratio with that gaudy a number of, of assists when he began actually turning the ball over too much,

Starting point is 00:10:14 then all of a sudden it stops and it steamrolls for these incredible looks. It's just pretty amazing when it's really on. And he was not the only one who had a great game. LeBron James cruised to the easiest looking 30-plus game. I think you're ever going to see. And that is a great sign for the Lakers. Talk about it next. Locked on Lakers is brought to you by open phone.

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Starting point is 00:13:09 No, I appreciate that. LeBron. Glessilo. Lebron, I mean, look, he entered the game with. 49,999 points and playoffs and regular season combined. So the passing of the 50,000 part was not exactly a surprise. But the game itself, like LeBron finished with 34 points, eight rebounds, six assists. Andy, I am not convinced, like on a scale of one to 10 in terms of like how hard

Starting point is 00:13:41 LeBron had to work. Zero. You know, one is barely getting out of bed. 10 is like, you know, what he had to do earlier in the season a lot of nights. This felt like a three or a four. Like he just, it didn't, it looked so effortless, you know, and I, I know there was this question as to whether or not LeBron was going to quote unquote give up the ball. He looks like he's having so much fun out there, just run around doing stuff and letting

Starting point is 00:14:11 Luca do all the hard stuff. I think that's a big piece of it is he's actually having so much fun right now and is so energized that it's looking easier as he's actually playing harder. Like over the course of the time that he's on the court now, he is playing harder at all times than he was earlier in the season, something we talked about very candidly. But it's now actually easier, even though he's expending more energy because he has so much of the specific help that he actually needs. Are you sure he's expending more energy? He's expending more energy defensively, but is he expending more energy overall?

Starting point is 00:14:58 I don't think he is. I think he is because he's playing. I mean, look, do I know for sure how to measure this? No, but I think over the course of an. entire game. He's even more offensively energized. And it seems to me like he is playing at a higher

Starting point is 00:15:16 energy level, playing harder offensively. The looks may be easier, and some of the offense in general may be easier. But I think overall he's expending more energy. You just don't notice it as much when it's

Starting point is 00:15:33 more enjoyable. He is having a really good time in ways that even when the Lakers were winning over the last few seasons, he did not seem to be having this much consistent fun. Like there's a fun factor that's there for him. And we've talked about this before. LeBron is the tone setter of this team. If he's having fun, everyone else is going to be having fun.

Starting point is 00:16:00 I think it is, I mean, this is not exactly a revelation. I don't think this makes me a rocket science to figure it out. But like it's he really does like you alluded to earlier have the help that and you have there's never been a point in his time with L.A. That the Lakers have been able to really remove the burden of being the, the carrier of the offense. They were going to go as far. when AD was playing extremely well, the Lakers still needed LeBron to be the thing that glued it all together

Starting point is 00:16:43 because AD by virtue of his position as much as anything else just couldn't be that guy. And so that got hard. That was exhausting. That is, you know, those same eight eyeballs that are all looking at Luca, we're all looking at him. and you know LeBron is a basketball supercomputer if you if you take away

Starting point is 00:17:08 like when was the last time he wasn't constantly subject to like a double team or at the very least if not a hard double you know he gets it and you sees the shading people are coming they're pushing there's always something where the

Starting point is 00:17:24 the first part of the of a team's defense is well we got we got to stop LeBron What was the last time that wasn't what they're doing? Because now it's stopped. You got to, it's all focused against Luca. Well,

Starting point is 00:17:36 I don't, but you're just going to say. I don't think it's all, but it's, but there's a tremendous shift in the, in the amounts of, of attention and game planning and resistance, a team can put up against LeBron because Luca is there.

Starting point is 00:17:52 And also specifically, too, in the areas where LeBron is. Like it was, even with Anthony Davis out there, obviously AD requires a lot of attention himself. The two of them were often in such separate places on the floor that it could be easier to kind of cheat off both of them.

Starting point is 00:18:11 You know what I mean? Like they're in different enough areas, particularly when they're going high-low, that you could devote a certain amount of attention to both of them and it felt more evenly dispersed. Luke and LeBron are often in this, you know, they're further out. They're more in the same general area.

Starting point is 00:18:27 So it becomes more difficult to, Even though it's a weird thing, even though they're sometimes closer, it becomes more difficult to disperse it. Like there was a sequence where Luca fed LeBron along the arc. Like Luca hadn't even collapsed the entire defense. They were both near the three point line. Luca just took a couple steps in with the ball, drew two defenders. LeBron was left wide open. LeBron's man left him.

Starting point is 00:18:59 And putting aside the whole he's LeBron thing, you're talking about a guy that's like, what is he this season? Like a 40% three point shooter? Like remove his name. That's not even a guy you want to leave alone at the arc anyway, much less when he happens to be LeBron F and James. Like it's just,

Starting point is 00:19:18 it's crazy. They're so smart about spacing. They're so smart about where to move and when to move and all that kind of stuff. LeBron 39 and a little over 39% from three. Right. It's just, it's, it's, as long as they're doing, you know, you see the amount of open shots the Lakers are able to get. And by the way, Austin Reeves, Rue Hachmore did not play.

Starting point is 00:19:45 Jordan Goodwin either. Jordan Goodwin, you know, in terms of bench depth and all that kind of stuff. But frontline players still missing in this, you know, two of your top five or six rotation players were not in the game for the Lakers. And again, they continue to do the thing that good teams do, which is just plug in whoever, follow a game plan and keep rolling. It's, it is incredibly impressive to watch what this is. And they're not, they're not anywhere. I don't think they're anywhere near like the ceiling of what they can do in terms of

Starting point is 00:20:23 understanding each other and drawing up. you know, plays to leverage the skills that they now have and all that they, we're still at like the opening stages of this whole thing. You can't be at the ceiling, at least theoretically, until play enough games with everybody who matters on hand. Like they've had a handful of games without Rui, a handful of games without Austin. There have been a couple games without Luca.

Starting point is 00:20:50 Like, you know, they have not had everybody on hand for a big enough sample size to truly even know what the ceiling is. Yep. There's something I noticed about this team actually writing about it in the newsletter tomorrow, again, the Locked on Lakers newsletter that I think serves this team extremely well. And we'll get to it next.

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Starting point is 00:22:04 Visit BetterHelp.com slash Locked-on MBA to get 10% off your first month. That's BetterHelp, help.com slash locked on NBA. So, Andy, obviously the Lakers have a tremendous, a gaudy amount of playmaking in their starting lineup when, you know, Austin Reeves, who has really kind of developed very nicely this year into an excellent point guard,

Starting point is 00:22:36 you know, ball mover, passer, things like that. He's your third best dude doing that because you've also got LeBron and Luca now. So you have this incredibly gaudy amount of offensive talent that is balanced though by a ton of

Starting point is 00:22:59 grit behind it. And I don't mean this to say that LeBron, Luca, and Austin Reeves are like, you know, non-physical like wallflower type players because they're not. I mean, Austin Reeves basically risks a concussion every time he play. Like his head exists to get smacked. His face. He is a very physical player.

Starting point is 00:23:25 And, and at his particular, it is different type of physicality, but physical. Yeah, LeBron and Luca are both physical guys with an edge, I think, to how they play. But in terms of like the role players on this team, you look around. And now like the culture of this team is this incredible offensive talent. But then the guys, you know, Dorian Finney Smith and Gabe Vincent and, you know, Trey Jemison is getting some playing time and Goodwin when he's healthy. And Jared Vanderbilt, who packed more basketball.

Starting point is 00:23:59 into 20 minutes Tuesday night, that I think it is like possible. He was everywhere. It really did seem like he played for a lot more than 20 minutes. Very impressive. You have these guys who are like kind of the backbone now of the team, behind the stars. It's a great combination of this flash with this grit that serves the team.

Starting point is 00:24:29 really well and I think keeps it grounded to make sure that like you don't get sucked into the star power and the star play like it's still to to to use the uh the bairn scott term it's kind of a hard hat team well you have enough guys that are going to constantly keep the energy level at at like a certain baseline between Gabe vincent and jackson hayes if we don't get a i forgot hey's right i forgot his if we don't get a ton into haze with this joe's just because we run out of time. I want to make sure that Thursday, we talk some about Jackson because he had a fantastic game tonight, 19 points, 10 rebounds, three on the offensive glass. But also, I think we've reached a place where we need to start talking and thinking differently about

Starting point is 00:25:20 Jackson Hayes. Like, whether you're talking about us covering the team, I think we're less guilty than certainly the national media. But like, I think it's, Hayes is worth his own discussion. But Gabe, Vando, DFS, Goodwin. I want to give Shake Milton a shout out tonight. Because he, 12 points, 5 of 7 from the field, 2 of 4 from behind the arc, couple steals,

Starting point is 00:25:45 couple assists, Dalton Connect, 13 points off the bench, 5 of 9 from the field, three assists, four rebounds. Like, you've got a lot of guys, who, and we mentioned Trey Jemison, five rebounds in 17 minutes, got a lot

Starting point is 00:26:02 of guys who are just making sure that the stars on this team, like, they're not just well supported. You never give them a reason to lower their own energy. Like you never allow for an atmosphere

Starting point is 00:26:18 where I would say the three stars, and I would put Rui in this category because he's a scorer first and, you know, He is an offensive guy first, that those four guys never, never get brought down to a certain energy level. They're always going to be matching what's going on out there. Vando was just real quick, Vando was just incredible. 12 points, eight rebounds, three on the offensive glass, made two threes, hit both of his free throws, two blocks.

Starting point is 00:26:52 A steel hit an incredible block from behind on George. Jordan Hawkins, who was looking to hit a three in transition, tried to corral the thing afterwards, like plus 27 in 20 minutes. Yeah. That's insane. Pretty good. You know, it's just there is, I mean, even more to what you were saying. I think for me, I look at it as they are guys who understand that if you do all the

Starting point is 00:27:22 things, like, there's a certain amount of stuff that needs. needs to be done on a team with LeBron and Luca and, you know, AR to a lesser extent, but still AR, if you're going to maximize what these guys are able to do. If you're able to make sure that, you know, you're not overburdening LeBron, overburdening Luca, Luca, by the way, a plus 37 on the night. I knew it was insanely good. I couldn't remember where he finished. So in 34 minutes, he was a plus 37.

Starting point is 00:27:52 It paid to shake was a plus 30. you pay to play with these guys. They do all the stuff to enable the stars to thrive. And they do so with the recognition, I think, too, that if we do those things, like, we're going to get fed. Like Jackson Hayes, doing all the stuff. If you go set a good screen, if you roll hard, if you pay attention to your timing and your spacing,

Starting point is 00:28:24 and all that, you're going to have five dunks a game. And you're going to go from a guy who was fringy in the league to a, you know, certainly, I mean, he's going to be back on the team next year, you know, maybe in a backup role, maybe in a starter's role, whatever. But there's a very good chance that Jackson Hayes returns now to the Lakers, certainly higher than there was earlier in the season. You know, Doreen Phine Smith, you know, has a chance to stick around. All of these guys, DFS, I mean, I know he's got another year on his contract, but

Starting point is 00:28:57 Well, it's a player option. Right. I think he'll, but if he opts out, it's with the intention I think of coming back. My point is, though, like, you will be rewarded because Luca Donchich and LeBron James, while they are ball dominant, are also past, whether pass first, past 1A, 1B, whatever it is, these guys will find you and reward you and love making the play to set somebody else up. And so it's a perfect situation to be a role player because sometimes the dirty work is really only done in service of the star and you as the role player never get the benefit

Starting point is 00:29:47 of that other than maybe one day you win a ring or something like that, which is pretty cool. in this case, you get both the team benefit and the individual benefit of like, these guys are going to make me get my next NBA contract. Like, it's perfect for everyone. JJ does something really smart with the role players on this team. It's something he's been doing since the beginning of the season. He talks them up a lot. Like JJ has talked up Dorian Finney Smith since his arrival as one of the most important guys

Starting point is 00:30:21 on this team. And I want to make a glare. I'm not saying that JJ is blowing smoke up DFS's ass and like trying to just keep the guy engaged. I think he really believes it. But I think all coaches believe the role players matter or most do. Not all are as cognizant to talk about it. Like when Jordan Goodwin has a good game, JJ goes out of his way to say that Jordan will be in the rotation moving forward. He has talked up Vando all the time. He has talked up Hayes. Like he made sure tonight to talk about the good game that Shake had. Like it's important to make sure those guys feel like their importance is not just recognized, but that other people hear about it. Like, you know what I mean? Like that they are treated with the same amount of, I recognize,

Starting point is 00:31:12 in the real world, we all know, LeBron and Luca. And you want to put Austin on a his own tier like Austin and then you know, Rui perhaps and maybe DFS if you want to talk about like the guy, the role player with the highest stature. Like he's a high really high and he's not, but it but you know what I'm saying like I do exactly. It doesn't do good. It doesn't mean anything. If you say go out be a star in your role. If you don't seem to respect the role. But you don't treat these guys like stars. Well, that's my point. Like if you're going to go ask a guy, to fill a role. And I think good coaching staffs can tailor that role to make it so you're always being asked to do the things that you're best at.

Starting point is 00:32:00 That's what good coaching staffs do with role players is they maximize their skills and hide their deficiencies. You are never asked to go do things that you suck at unless we absolutely have to because there's nobody else to do it. you know, we are going to go ask you to do the thing. We want you to stay in your lane, do this stuff. But if you don't acknowledge that, if you don't reward it, if you don't treat those roles like they are valuable, then it discourages players from doing it. Now, like, Dorian Finney Smith, there's a reason he was as sought after,

Starting point is 00:32:43 as he's one of those guys that you kind of need him on your team to see it. But there's a reason I loved him in Dallas, and there's a reason, you know, JJ was excited to get him here and Luca loves playing with him and all that stuff. He's really good at that excel in your role thing. JJ said before the season even began that he wished he could have five Gabe Vincense to coach. And this was before Gabe had even demonstrated that he was back, you know, and, And to be honest, it took some time before Gabe Vincent really what. Like he began the season. We talked about it, borderline unplayable.

Starting point is 00:33:26 And to his credit, he has turned a lot of this around. And Gabe's become a really good role player on this team. But there was never a moment where I think Gabe ever felt, if I had to guess, unappreciated by JJ. And I imagine the players down the roster feel exactly. the same way. It's very, it's for Rams fans in LA. It's very it's there's a lot of Sean McVeigh vibe. Yep. Uh, here I think with with what JJ does well. But, um, and we, we can wrap it here. I just, I think that they they, they, it is a great going to play with LeBron James and Luca Donchich is like a

Starting point is 00:34:08 role player's dream because you're going to be, especially if JJ kind of continues on this arc of development and how, you know, you can really, um, over time build a little bit of a, a culture of like where a reputation is a better word where like, okay, this is how it's going to be at on this team. Like you're going to be rewarded both publicly in terms of pride, in terms of that internal culture and you're also going to be put in position to excel statistically. It is the best possible combination. Um, plenty to be. be excited about with this Lakers squad. Yeah, absolutely.

Starting point is 00:34:48 Very excited. All right. So, Lakers play again on Thursday, correct? Yep. Against the Knickerbockers, who may be without Carl Anthony Towns, who's away from the team, for personal reasons might not be back. We're not totally sure based on the most recent reports that I have read. But obviously, we'll keep people updated for that.

Starting point is 00:35:07 Come back for the show to get you ready for that game. In the meantime, everybody, enjoy your day. sign up for the newsletter. We'll see everyone tomorrow.

Locked On Lakers - Daily Podcast On The Los Angeles Lakers - Luka Dončić Joins Lakers 30/15 Club, LeBron Hits 50k points in 136-115 Win over Pelicans

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