Locked On Lakers - Daily Podcast On The Los Angeles Lakers - Luka Dončić Keeps Posting Workout Videos. Why Lakers Fans Should be Psyched!

Starting point is 00:00:00 Hey, everybody, welcome to Lockdown Lakers for Thursday. Brian Komenetsky, Andy Kemenetsky, lots of lessons to learn from game three. What do the Lakers need to do to get back to the finals? But more importantly, Andy, Lucas posting workout videos again. That's next. You are Locked on Lakers. Your daily Los Angeles Lakers podcast, part of the Locked on Podcasts Network, your team every day.

Starting point is 00:00:35 Thanks, everybody for making Locked on Lakers first listen to every day, Monday through Friday, no matter how or where you get your podcast. This one's always free, never behind paywall. And, of course, locked on Lakers on YouTube is where you can go hang out with over 35,000 subscribers to the channel, all of whom are getting inspired to get their own fitness going. Get the burn ready. All of these things. And I'm going to get outside and get my fit on after this one, Andy, because we have

Starting point is 00:01:01 been watching Luca Donch to transform his body over the course of a few short weeks since the end of the regular season. We'll end of the playoffs, I should say. So we'll talk about that. And we'll also get into some lessons from game three and perhaps more rumors about what the Lakers might be doing in this off season to try to improve the team. First, I want to let everybody know that today's episode is brought to you by Game Time.

Starting point is 00:01:25 Download the GameTime app, create and use code locked on NBA for $20 off your first purchase, Andy. We'll get to game three here in a second in the final. finals. Indiana, I don't want to say they pulled off an upset winning at home, but they pulled off an upset in terms of being up to one three games into the series. I think that is honestly, I feel like they pulled off an upset just leading as much in a game as they did. I mean, like, forget the outcome. What's really been unusual for them is being ahead for any sustained periods. I believe heading into game three,

Starting point is 00:02:07 I don't remember the exact number, but they mentioned on the broadcast. They had they had led for, I want to say about 90 seconds. The in the, well, game one, they led for three tenths of a second. Right, right. I think it was about a minute and a half or two minutes of total game time ahead, heading into game three. Well, it's unfortunate for Oklahoma City,

Starting point is 00:02:31 but that's not a real stat in terms of deciding who gets to win the finals. But there are a couple things that really stick out. when you think about those teams compared to the Lakers. We'll get to it, Andy, but more important, Andy. More important than all of this. Luke is posting workout videos and workout photos again and photos of food and things he's eating. I even saw him playing sort of like a version of almost like pickleball the other day.

Starting point is 00:03:00 This is not accidental. Luka knows what it is when you're putting out. the workout videos and things like that and i like it yeah this is a still from the most recent workout video that luca posted on ig he's doing leg presses with like eight plates on each side i have no idea how much the plates are but let's just say it's like 45s to me andy i remember from when i used to throw some plates around myself yeah yeah you you and luka luka took his inspiration from a deep Google search as he did of your high school workout. I sent him that workout, Andy. Yeah, there's one white boy teaching another. But a, that's right. Even if there,

Starting point is 00:03:48 let's say they're 25 pound plates, which is probably light, but for the sake of argument, we're talking about 400 pounds just based off the math 200 on each side. It could be higher, but either way, 45s, baby, yeah. Luca is very much going out of his way to have people, see this, which gets to, I remember the most recent show we did, breaking down the photos of Lucas food and workouts and whatnot. We got two different types of reaction. One, which we'll get into in a second, people saying, oh, he does this every year in Dallas, you're Lucy with the football, ask any Mavs fan, table that for a second. We will address that. But then the other one was, why are you guys obsessing over this? This is ridiculous. I get it's the offseason, but like,

Starting point is 00:04:35 come on. Because Luca wants us to. Luca wants this to be talked about. There are only so many times you put out public videos and photos of all sorts of things related to fitness on the heels of being traded because reportedly your other team didn't trust your fitness without this being intentional and for an audience. It would be no less subtle, Andy, if he actually tagged Nico Harrison in these posts. I mean, to be perfectly honest. Should. I have a feeling, Nico, even if he's not super active on social media, I have a feeling

Starting point is 00:05:23 Nico is at least aware. But it just, you look at these things and, you know, we would love the perfect outcome here. And it is fair. Nico is on Instagram. I just checked. There is a Nico Harrison with almost 11,000 followers, blue checkmark. It is clearly him. Luca really should tag Nico in these.

Starting point is 00:05:49 Like, I really wish. Doesn't need. No, I agree. Doesn't need to. But he could. I just, I think it's this, you know, like when you break these things down, it is reasonable to say to Luca that, you know, fitness. It's not that he is not in, you know, hasn't been able to play minutes that he,

Starting point is 00:06:08 you know, he's begged out of games and stuff like that. You go to the finals a couple years ago. The dude played so many minutes through the course of Dallas's run to the finals and through the finals two seasons ago. And, you know, injuries were a big issue this year in terms of never really being able to get himself in the kind of condition that you would want, short off season and all that stuff. But, you know, he's not an old guy, but he's played a lot of basketball. And as you get older, it is, you know, it is more necessary just to take care of stuff like this. It is a fair thing to ask of him. That said, I think the, the ideal thing is he does it for the sake of itself. He realizes the value of it, of extending his career, of playing

Starting point is 00:06:57 better, of doing, having more availability and all that other stuff. That would be my hope is Luca gets in shape for the intrinsic value of doing it. But I'm willing at least for now to accept Luca does this purely out of spite and vengeance. It gets to the same place. So I'm okay with it for now. Look, there's no reason that this can't evolve. Like it could begin from a place of pettiness and anger and vengeance and double middle things. fingers and then all of a sudden,

Starting point is 00:07:32 Luca comes to realize the benefits and wants to keep doing it. Like, frankly, I don't mind if it remains both forever because, sure, like one can keep buttressing the other and vice versa. So as far as I'm concerned, let it be 10,000 different reasons that this becomes something permanent for Luca. And like I said before, we saw a lot of Dallas Maverick. fan reactions in the YouTube comment section. A lot of people going back and forth between us and locked on Mabs.

Starting point is 00:08:06 You guys are always welcome here as well. But there is a reaction of Luca does this every year. This is Groundhog Day. This is something that, you know, Nick and biased and Isaac, they've done these, you know, breakdowns of Luca's fitness and what he looks like in photos. And this happens every year. And then we run into the same perceived problems. every year, don't fall for it.

Starting point is 00:08:33 I'm just going to say this right now. You could be right. You could very well possibly be right. But for the time being, I don't care. I don't care. I am going to be excited about this. I'm going to enjoy this. I'm going to lean into the optimism.

Starting point is 00:08:51 I've covered this team for 20 years. I am more than capable of going with the different waves ebbs and flows and disappointment combined with excitement yada yada yada yada i can handle all this i'm good i'm leaning into yeah i think too it's like you know you look at where the like sort of the arc of this summer and you know the the upside of the lakers finishing when they did and how they did disappointing as it was is it does allow luca an opportunity to have a real offseason and to get the rest that he needs to start the program to build back up, make his body healthier, all that stuff. I think, you know, playing in Eurobasket is a good opportunity. It keeps, like, it gives him a

Starting point is 00:09:41 target to work towards a reason to be in good condition heading into, you know, to training camp and all that other stuff. There's a natural progression to what Lucas offseason looks like that. knock on wood a million times, you know, gets through the tournament, okay, and all that sort of stuff. Doesn't get hurt there. He rolls into training camp ready to go. And I think that is absolutely critical. Something else that's critical, Andy, that I noticed based on the results of game three. I will tell you that after the break.

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Starting point is 00:12:00 with Luca for several years and whether Luca acknowledges how much this has been discussed or not, I guarantee Luca knows. But this is the first time Luca's ever dealing with this after essentially being publicly shamed for it. And that could make it different this time around in terms of a better commitment towards it, an actual lifestyle change. because before Luca was never treated

Starting point is 00:12:30 so unceremoniously he was never so unceremoniously dismissed there was never a prove it element to it there was never like he could always be like what do you want for me I just average like 39 and 9 like shut up like but now it's not that he's coming off a bad season but he's coming off for him

Starting point is 00:12:50 a lesser season you know by normal person standards It's still pretty good. But like, that was not a good Luca Donjachir. When you go back to what he did in Dallas, just between, you know, the injury and all this other stuff, he gets to the Lakers and didn't completely find his footing. Understandable. But, you know, this was not a first team all NBA, Lucas season that he's coming off of where people then turn around and say, you've got to get in better shape. And he can say, for what?

Starting point is 00:13:22 Like, but no, like this is, this is much more of a prove it. moment just based on last season. And then when you factor in the trade too and being trashed on the way out the door and being the, you know, wanting to show, because I don't think he's one of these guys who is just there to collect a check, wanting to show the Lakers that he is in fact, and really show the Mavericks too, that he is in fact worth the investment. The Mavericks cost him a ton of money to show them that they made a poor choice, not just for next season, but the season's following.

Starting point is 00:13:58 I do think the context here changes. And the MAVs folks inside that front office might say, well, that wouldn't have happened if we had kept him here. Maybe not. We'll never know. But this is the world we live in now. And the fact that Dallas did what it did makes it more likely for the thing to pay off for the Lakers. Yeah, yeah.

Starting point is 00:14:25 So we'll see. But I am excited about it. Game three, Andy, was a surprise. I think a lot of people after game two in Oklahoma City rolls in that one expected perhaps for the thunder to go into Indiana. And despite the energy of the crowd and all that stuff, ultimately win the game. And I thought throughout most of the game that they were going to, I felt like Indiana was doing just about everything that it could correctly.

Starting point is 00:14:54 doing it right in Oklahoma City was either right there still like up by two, up by three. But in the fourth quarter, Indiana really pulls away. And, you know, I find this series, it's been a, you know, two of these three games have been really entertaining. And, you know, all the pre-series commentary, the worst file, whatever, it's like, shut up. It's been really entertaining. It's been good. Ultimately, will be good for the NBA because, as you noted before the things,

Starting point is 00:15:24 started all that money and the ratings and all that doesn't matter. Like they're getting the money one way or the other. The ratings are irrelevant. And it's a chance to put some of the best young players and interesting teams on the biggest stage. And it benefits the league. You know what I thought was interesting. I've heard, you know, because the ratings have not been great for these games so far.

Starting point is 00:15:47 And it's not shocking. But I heard somewhere that it was either game one or game two was the lowest. non-COVID finals since 2007. You know who played in 2007 in those finals? LeBron. That was the first finals that LeBron went to as a member of the Cavs. Caves versus San Antonio, so obviously you've got smaller markets. But even somebody like LeBron, who was obviously, you know, he entered the league a massive

Starting point is 00:16:16 star and from minute one showed that he was going to be one of the best to ever do it. So it's not like there wasn't anticipation about LeBron. And to some degree, this is, you know, this is a pre-social media world, pre-consumption habits, a lot of things that have changed about the way I think people watch the league now, watch sports. But I think in some ways, it's very similar to what's going on with the thunder now. And like SGA is now the new MVP. Even when your credentials are there, you still have to build the experience.

Starting point is 00:16:52 excitement. And if somebody like LeBron out of the gate could not automatically get people to watch, just because he hadn't to that point proven it even beyond whatever you want to say about Cleveland and markets, I think it just shows how these things often have to build. And again, this is a great organic opportunity for the NBA to showcase some really fun young players. Well, it's funny too. Like, so mom called during the game. And she was saying like, what are you doing? I'm doing some work watching the game.

Starting point is 00:17:30 And she's like, I'm watching the game too and needle pointing. So as one knows. She's like, I don't know who these players are. And our mom lives in St. Louis. And she only gets to watch games that are on national TV. And she's not finding NBA TV either. We're talking about TNT or ESPN. That's basically the extent of her search capabilities.

Starting point is 00:17:52 And when she's like, I don't know these players, mom likes basketball. She's interested in this stuff. She'll sit and watch games even that don't have the Lakers in it if it's on TV. And that to me is an indictment. And it really gets to some of the stuff we're talking. This is an indictment of the people who promote the league. And it's something that they can fix because market in basketball should not matter. I mean, it matters a little bit.

Starting point is 00:18:15 You get your marquee franchises in any sport. It makes a difference. But it should like, your MVP of your league is in this series. You know, I can understand why Indiana, you know, Halliburton coming off an iffy season, maybe wasn't on TV as much. But like this is an example of how the NBA can fix stuff and do a better job of promoting and introducing small market teams to me. Like, you know, your stars are your stars.

Starting point is 00:18:46 I go back to the example. I know it's football and a try. Trumps everything and quarterback is different. But Pat Mahomes plays in Kansas City, which is not exactly playing in New York. It's, you know, so like it can be done, folks, as long as you, you don't bleep on the product all the time. The thing that I noticed, though, Andy, that really stuck out to me in terms of thinking about the Lakers, the level of athleticism, just starting there on both of these teams

Starting point is 00:19:21 compared to what the Lakers put out on the floor this year is absurd. Like before you even get to the two-way versatility and all this other stuff, the team like Indiana has, these two teams are light years more athletic than the Lakers. And I don't think the Lakers can make up that gap at an offseason. but they've got to make up some of that cap this offseason.

Starting point is 00:19:46 They've got to try to find ways. I mean, whether through trade, you know, hopefully just the center that they will presumably trade for and maybe another one that they sign or whoever they look to try to bring in, athleticism among other qualities simply has to be. I mean, in the trade for Luca, as much as it's a trade, the Lakers will make 100 times out of 100, and we approve of that logic. Losing Anthony Davis and losing Max Christie, you lost two of your most athletic players

Starting point is 00:20:19 in that one piece of the transaction. And even when you brought in someone like Dorian Finney Smith for Delo, DFS might be an athleticism upgrade over DELO, but as far as NBA athleticism goes, particularly at this stage of DFS's career, in his early 30s. I'd say he's middle of the road. He's an average.

Starting point is 00:20:44 Yeah. Yeah. I mean, Root, like, Rui, LeBron, when he's really cranking things up, connect sort of in his own right. And honestly, like, brawny, like, those are really your most athletic players. Yeah. I mean, Rui's, other rotation guys, Ruiz probably most athletic.

Starting point is 00:21:04 And Hayes is, too. But he has other issues. Yeah. I mean, like, but you know, I agree with you. Among the rotation guys, Ruy is probably the most athletic and, you know, that you can put, that you can put LeBron. I mean, Lucas obviously a tremendous athlete, but that's not in the way that we're talking about here.

Starting point is 00:21:22 But like, you know, that LeBron is in there. Like, it's both remarkable and kind of an indictment of the rest of the roster. I mean, even someone like Vando, like Vando's got, I think, above average athleticism, but he gets, he gets hurt so much like at this point. I mean, like, and it's a limited, you know, it's, you know, Connect might be the best pure athlete. He means a guy can jump out of the gym and he's quick and he's, oh, it's a bit, like, but he's not, but he also, like, it doesn't translate, like defensively. He doesn't move his feet. Like, he's got that sort of offensive hops. Like, this is a, you know, we'll talk about this after the break, but like, this is the other part of the issue.

Starting point is 00:22:03 It's like, connect has athleticism that train. translates one way. Vanderbilt has athleticism that essentially translates one way. LeBron, when he's dialed in, has that, can do it sort of to his, but you go to up and down the roster for Indiana, you know, Turner, Niece Smith, Nemhart, you know, Seacum. I mean, these guys are, you know, and then go to Oklahoma City and it's the same thing. The whole goddamn band is white.

Starting point is 00:22:41 It's like, you know, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's just crazy what these guys can do and the gap between them and the Lakers. So we'll wrap this up a little bit and, um, also get into the absurdity that is the New York Knicks coaching search. We'll get to that next. Locked on Lakers is brought to you by Wayfair. there's nothing like stepping into your own outdoor space and feeling like it's an oasis, your own personal happy place. And if you want to turn your update, if you want to update your patio, Wayfair has it easy. It's the easy way to turn it into a space that feels like yours, comfortable, stylish, and ready for summer.

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Starting point is 00:24:23 like, we've talked about, what about Brooke Lopez? What about Chris Paul? What about, like, some of these players that are objectively still productive NBA players and probably significantly better in some ways, than some of the players that they could get. You know, like Brooke Lopez still really good, and he's better than 90% of the centers that are on the open market this offseason.

Starting point is 00:24:49 Like, you know, he's just definitionally that we know. It might be an indictment of the center market, but it is what it is. It is what it is. You know, CP among, let's just say, veterans minimum guards, still going to be more productive than most of them. But the problem is, none of them, Those guys are don't, they make the lack of athleticism worse. They do not improve those shortcomings.

Starting point is 00:25:18 And so the Lakers just have to be really careful in how they, how they put this stuff together as much as they can and have a really good feel for how they want to approach it. What they're going to value. Are you going to value the raw talent? the overall productivity that a player might bring, or is it better to have a lesser player that, you know, balances the roster a little bit?

Starting point is 00:25:49 You know, a guard who isn't as good as CP, but fills different needs. Maybe a little better back court defender. It's just a little bit more athletic, but whatever it is, or a center, you understand what I'm getting at.

Starting point is 00:26:02 Like, this is the challenge the Lakers have because where they're going to be getting a lot of talent likely, especially depending, you know, if they trade, you know, three or three players out to bring two players back, like all these things. Like, they're, they're going to be in a market to get a lot of minimum guys, probably. Well, I think that's where you hope someone like Jordan Goodwin, who I am expecting to be on the team this coming season just because he's contract, it's under $3 million. And he's, if nothing else, he is clearly a back-end rotation player.

Starting point is 00:26:36 but there's certain things good when I think already is established he brings to the table with defense, with rebounding, particularly for his position and size. I think he reads the floor well, especially defensively. Like I think he anticipates certain things well. It's like if he can just get himself up to essentially average level offense, like to a point where it feels like you know he's at least going to contribute something, even if it's at the low end of a baseline. something. Then you just start balancing things out. And then he starts becoming more of a younger playable guy at that salary slot. And it gives you a little bit more wiggle room for some of the other things you're going to be looking to do. Yeah. For sure. And I just, I find this sort of this process to be kind of fascinating and what the Lakers are going to do and how they do it. And

Starting point is 00:27:31 you know, which can you build a more. more coherent, balanced roster this offseason, given the challenges that you have in terms of the assets available. It is presumed that Jay Reddick will be the coach of the Lakers next year. We don't know because as of about 10 o'clock on Wednesday evening, the Knicks may or may not have gotten around asking for permission to interview him for their job. we don't know of JJ. I think the Knicks are just kind of moving down a list.

Starting point is 00:28:09 Maybe they're going alphabetically, by geography. I'm not entirely sure. We have mocked the Lakers and their coaching searches and how they approach certain things, process questions for the Lakers, Andy. But I cannot think of an early coaching search process that has been more embarrassing than, is going on with the Knicks right now, who have apparently reached out to and been denied

Starting point is 00:28:39 permission to speak with, let me know if I'm forgetting anyone, Jason Kidd, Chris Finch, Quinn, Quinn Snyder. Right. Billy Donovan. Billy Donovan. That's who I was forgetting. Eme Adoka. Plus, and this doesn't require permission from a team, but just on his own retired

Starting point is 00:29:03 Villanova former coach Jay Wright just said no on his own. He didn't actually need permission from an NBA owner. He just, I guess in his own right, went rogue and said no. So at this point, to the best, I mean, to the best of my knowledge, I mean, neither one of us are Nick's insiders. And I'm sure over at Lockedown Knicks, they are. I hope it's appreciative of the content, if nothing else. Yeah, I was going to say, if nothing else,

Starting point is 00:29:30 there's some dark comedy that they can mine from this. To the best of my knowledge, they have thus far interviewed nobody because they are too busy getting told that you can't interview this person. At what point if you're an existing, you know, an active NBA coach right now, do you get offended when they're not trying to get you? I mean, the young guy Mosley or whatever, I think it is in Orlando. Like, is he, is there his feelings hurt? Like, Kenny Atkinson coming off a good season? Are his feelings hurt? Like I and look it is not uncommon for teams to ask for permission or all these other things.

Starting point is 00:30:10 What is different about this and I think there is a lot of glee in making the Knicks look bad. I know I enjoy it. Well like you know among coaches like coaches GMs all these stuff who feel like they did Tibbs dirty and you know it was unfair and like so they're kind of enjoying the making him suffer a little bit. I've never, I've seen ask for permission, permission denied, okay, move on, who are our assistants. I've never seen like publicized at the very least this many coaches this quickly.

Starting point is 00:30:48 Maybe it's happened, maybe it's normal, but it doesn't usually get out if nothing else. You and I have covered the Lakers for almost 20 years, which means by definition, we are at least semi-covering the NBA. Because to cover a team closely, you have to know what's going on with the rest of the league. I find it very difficult to believe that neither one of us can remember even a close cop to what's happening. Like, it is one thing to ask one team for permission to talk to their employed head coach.

Starting point is 00:31:23 That happens. I don't remember ever a team asking for two employed head coach permissions, much less five. and who knows how many others are coming. In like three days. It's not like you've been doing this for like a month and a half. I am sure there is an element of the other owners essentially giving Jim Dolan the finger because he is notoriously not popular among his peers.

Starting point is 00:31:51 But what I think is unspoken about this is all of these teams, where they talk about the rockets or the bulls or the wolves or whoever, the Mavs, whoever said no. They're saying no, I guarantee having at least run it by their current coach. And they're finding out that their coach isn't interested. Because if your coach actually really wants that interview with the Nix and to get that NICS job, you're better off getting that guy out the door, extracting some type of asset from the NICS and moving on. So the piece of this that's going unspoken a lot is none of these coaches want to coach.

Starting point is 00:32:31 a team that just went to the Eastern Conference finals. Yeah. And I think, you know, people don't want to leave that gig again. Well, this is where letting Tibbs go in the way that they did probably doesn't help them. But also, too, it's just, you know, James, Jim Dolan is not, not considered the greatest of owners. They do have, you know, Leon Rose has finally got that organization, you know, they just went, they went to the Eastern guy. There's a good team. But what I think is, is funny about it, too, it's like, isn't this the kind of thing you should know before you ask? Like, do a little background work here. Like, you should know whether or not Jason Kidd really is interested in would put the internal

Starting point is 00:33:14 pressure on Dallas to let him go. And, you know, or like, you know, obviously there's going to be compensation. There's all this other stuff. Like, but, you know, you should know if like Quinn Snyder would wants to leave Atlanta to come to the Knicks. Like, do some back channeling work here. people like come on anyway we do want to get into we'll do it tomorrow this uh lanzo ball has been connected to lakers more than once over the course of this offseason this potential trade target from a chicago bulls team that could be active this off season that's doing intriguing potential acquisition for the lakers we'll talk about that and plenty more tomorrow we'll see everyone then

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