How the Lakers exposed the Bucks problems 

He had AD weak too lmfao!

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​@@injusticeanywherethreatens4810 😭😭😭

As in, losing key games?

what do you mean?

@@Xtrachriispy choking key games

Got them ready to blow a 3-1 lead to the hawks, then try to get Trey Young in the off season 💀

Bucks winning the championship this year. Keep the same energy soon, you won’t

Khris needs to be way better for them to have a change in my opinion.

@@ThinkingBasketballnot your opinion. It’s facts. How else did bucks win their last ring? 😊

@@ThinkingBasketballthis is his first bad game since coming back. He’s been super good other than this game imo

How it is crazy? He never looked like the ring run after his first injury vs Bulls

agreed! Also im not sure how middleton has been playing post all star break this was just one game vs us! (Lakers fan here)@@ThinkingBasketball

And if Reaves stopped at the 3pt line for the pass Giannis would've been in range to close out.

Precisely. Spencer had nowhere near enough space to throw that pass within the arc. We saw how close Austin was to making it though lol

Plus Giannis could have blocked him. look at giannis sprinting.

I came here to say exactly that. Dinwiddie was leaning to even see around him. Lopez is huge .

@grapplerke: Not supplying a timestamp is unhelpful, but assuming you are talking about 12:18 Reaves would have no difficulty whatsoever getting his shot off from the elbow and it would have been a much higher percentage one than the long three he eventually took. Thinking Basketball is absolutely right that this was a brain fart.

He’s a little bit streaky but definitely a GREAT third option

@@xfanatick7972Exactly but he is really a great glue guy and he helps the ball move. At times he starts doing too much as well.

He's good FS the hype was warranted he's a solid player can shoot run pick and roll and is 6'6"

makes a ton of effort plays too which i love to see especially on defense

@@bilindabutcher89136'5 sadly

Nick Nurse?

@@retrosking dock

@@retrosking its only been 5 years

@@abdirahmanhassan1848 thats long enough for the world to know its kawhi's ring, not nurse's

Lmao you think that only reason why? The nba is a billion dollar organization with a rich history. You think you could be a head coach is the league this long and it be a fluke? 😂. Doesn’t work that way. Players and other nba personnel/higher ups speak highly about him as well. Guess that’s a fluke too huh?? lol 2024 is such a weird time to be alive

A rarity for them!

@@ThinkingBasketballcan’t tell if sarcasm or not

@@Homer-OJ-Simpsonpretty sure it is

If you're not talking about bad refereeing you're missing a lot of the game. I hate it when a channel shows me what it tells me is a great play and it's obviously just a refereeing atrocity.

Well, Lakers did outplayed Bucks at the moments. But refs also helped them by calling fouls on Bucks and not calling on Lakers. 32 vs 17 FT attempts. Bucks defense got worse in the end, because they were afraid to make slightest contact with the Lakers players. It is just disgusting.

@@raimundasmYeah, but the Lakers tend to drive more. The Bucks settled for midranges and jumpers all game. The Lakers tend to push offenses out beyond the arc, while favoring the drive on offense themselves. That's what tends to generate these foul disparities. Yeah, the refs make questionable calls, but the Lakers generate more opportunities to get fouls because of their drive tendencies.

@@raimundasm Or maybe the Lakers got more foul shots because the Bucks fouled more.

@@gandydancer9710 fax like the giannis turnover 1min into the video he calls it great defense by taurean but all i see is taureans arm wrapping giannis up lmao

😂facts

Hopefully he does,, especially in the playoffs ❤❤

The podcast is good if you need more basketball analysis

If you're talking about 12:18 stopping at the elbow was an easy shot for Reaves and GA was going to be nowhere near it. How long do you think it takes for Reaves to get off his shot?

@@gandydancer9710from the time the ball was inbounded to Austin getting off his shot, Giannis was able to make it from inside the paint all the way to outside the 3 point line to contest his shot. You’re telling me that if Austin were to have stopped at the elbow, (which is closer to where Giannis is already located) he wouldn’t be able to contest. The elbow is arguably a longer pass to make from where the ball is being inbounded, which would’ve given Giannis even more time to close out.

@@Fitnesscharged23 Yes, I'm telling you that if Reaves had just stopped to receive the ball, turned, and shot GA couldn't have gotten close to him. GA's running wasn't anyway being triggered by the pass being thrown, it was triggered by Reaves breaking to get open, so, no, a deeper pass would NOT have given GA more time to close out. Exactly the opposite is true. The slowest part of the closeout was the initial bit, so Reaves wasn't increasing his separation by prolonging the chase. Getting the pass around the guy defending the out of bounds is an issue, but Reaves didn't have to run as far as he did outside the 3-point line to get open for the pass. And it's up to the passer to time his pass so that Reaves doesn't have to wait for its arrival after he's ready for it. That's why you practice to get the ball thrown before he reaches where he will catch it. Nobody is defining "the elbow" as requiring Reaves to have his toes in the paint. Getting the pass inside the 3-point line as far as Reaves ended up outside it would still be "at the elbow" so far as I am concerned and, as Thinking Basketball says, that is where he should have shot it.

@@gandydancer9710​​⁠ It just doesn’t make any sense that you continue to say Giannis wouldn’t be any where close to Austin when if you pause the video at 12:13 you can see Giannis is only one foot below the free throw line. He’s 6’11. You can see Giannis has his eyes on reaves and the inbounder. If Austin were to have caught the ball at the 12:13 mark, Giannis would’ve seen the ball being inbounded and started heading towards Austin to close out. And as you can clearly see when you pause the video at 12:13, Giannis would not have to travel far to contest Austin’s shot. This is not a regular defender we are talking about. This is the former defensive player of the year whose nick name is literally Greek freak lmao.

@@Fitnesscharged23 As I already said, GA doesn't start moving because the ball is being inbounded, he moves because Reaves is getting open. And at 12:13 he is facing away from Reaves and not in motion at all. If Reaves had gotten the ball where I say he should have demanded getting it and where he should have gotten it his shot would not have been effectively contested. GA's DPOY and nickname don't change the physics of the situation -- he wouldn't have gotten there in time. Reaves running further out just gave GA more time at full speed to get to him... and he still didn't block the shot. Reread what I wrote. You are not taking it in.

Next game Sengun scores 87 on his head. Hes so inconsistent. Hell, this is his best Lakers year BY FAR.

​@@Edd-zd5wbHe's not inconsistent on defense

@@PsychicThursday thats true. He also almost never leads a real elite defense and/or gets injured and misses too many games or/and there are just as good candidates.

@@Edd-zd5wbin both 2020 and 2021 the lakers were an elite defense anchored by AD. The games after the allstar break last season the lakers were an elite defense anchored by AD. As long as he has consistent defensive help your team is guaranteed a great defense

@@dododump3144 yes. And he either didnt play enough games to compete, or there were better cadidates. It happens

That's not gonna age well. Him and Draymond have been the best defenders of this era.

It’s “defensive player of the year”…not “of the era” What year should he have gotten DPOY?😂

@@realmatic10 one of the years gobert got dpoy pick a year

@@realmatic10uhhh 2018? 2019?

​@@akshyadulal1455 Draymond has been the best defender in the NBA for arguably 8 years and he's won one. Tim Duncan never won even one. It's definitely not impossible, especially when you look at how Wembanyama is playing in his first year.

Almost every Laker game is like that. I think they are contractually obligated to have a lot of close games, even when they have a big lead.

Yes, the refs kept you guys in the game 😭😭 the NBA doesn’t even hide its script anymore.

Massive whiplash watching Jrue and then the Bucks guards back to back.

@@ThinkingBasketball Yeah how about that offense from Jrue in the playoffs, why don't you talk about that? Oh yeah you won't because your bias against the Bucks

? Do you watch the bucks? Did you know they just blew out healthy OKC FUCK NO CAUSE YOU HATE THEM AND DON"T WATCH THEM FUCK OUT OF HERE DAME HAS BEEN GOOD ON DEFENSE

@@RolininBucksbias? Are you 11 years old?! Dame and Beasley are awful defensively. They were getting exposed by DLO and Reaves

@@RolininBucks like jrue was known cause of his offense? they have many scorer that year, his role is to play-make and defend. And its up to giannis to carry his ass, unfortunately giannis choked, like he always does.

Yeah, the vid is a thoughtful analysis of the game. One of the best about this game.

I like AR too, coming into his own really nicely, not afraid of the big shot, makes good decisions consistently. But AD won the game for the lakers hitting clutch 3s out of nowhere when his team needed them, and his defense shutting down two of the top 10 players in the league when it mattered, one of them being Dame-Time, 4th quarter lillard. "Vintage AD: Both injured and dominant" sums it up nicely, imo. AD is already cemented as one of the best players in the league, and STILL finds ways to blow us away when it matters.

No one is perfect. So, isn't a contradiction to what you wrote. But, possibly his desire to be a star has him making bad plays. For example, that was a low IQ play Thinking Basketball called out at the end of regulation. Reaves had plenty of space to terminate his cut off the AD screen, set his feet, and pull up from inside of the arc or just behind the line. But, unfortunately, he went for the hero shot. That could have cost the Lakers, hopefully it won't.

@@AndrewRobyEngineerI get what you’re saying but, I think the inside the arc shot would have been an easier challenge by Giannis or somebody else for the Bucks as apposed to getting plenty of room to launch for the 3. Also, I disagree with the assessment that he wants to be a star. I actually think he needs to be encouraged to take even more command even if it takes away from the guys ahead of him in Bron and AD. The most recent game they had against the Denver Nuggets I got really frustrated because Austin only got 1 touch in the final 7 minutes of that game and both AD and Bron wilted down the stretch and kept on forcing the issue instead of going to HIM or elsewhere for production. So, respectfully, I think until he’s willing to take at least 15-20 shots a game, he’s going to continue to be a little underutilized on this team for what he’s really worth.

@@nicoalexander774 the problem imo is Austin, consistently, should only be taking 12 shots per game. The Lakers should be finding more shots for Rui and imo, if it's as you said, continue to Force feed AD.

Same

Idk about Vincent barely got to see him play and Dinwiddie has been good for us but Vando is going to change the defense just by being available Lakers always play with more energy when he's out there and right when he got hurt again he had found his groove offensively cutting off ball and hitting his threes looking like he made a leap in his game.

@@CrazyxEnigma yea. feels bad for vando and even reddish, best wing defenders were starting to legit score 10 every game before they got injured

Hamm was a bucks assistant coach for years. He knows how to defend Giannis and his teammates

be quiet lil yboy.

Facts, everything is everyone else’s fault but not Giannis

Giannis 29/21/11 56% shooting on bad game. Leaving it there ☠

@@everythinglakers1713 they wanna protect their golden boy

no it just a little annoying how you comedians wait for him losing a game even if he literally outperforms ad to say "ad is better than him" when Giannis clears him EVERY GAME win or loss @@everythinglakers1713

Giannis coocks AD more often than not

Trash take right there, if you actually watched other Bucks games this year you'd see Dame getting layups all night long in most of their games.

​@@DPR-GENXWhy couldn't he get to the rim against the Lakers or Boston? P.S. I've watched almost every Bucks game this year.

@@DPR-GENX casual take. But what do you expect if these nerds also play that narrative. Bucks actually were fine to good in the clutch all year long

him and dame are really the only guys that make a quick move and f*cking get past ya lol

What about the bullshit lakers calls before that ? 🤡

@@Lucciii32 Before what? MIL had two 19pt leads. One of which was in the 4thQ where LAL only had 5 FTA. Even if LAL made every FT in regulation it still wouldn't make up the lead MIL had...

Great video too!

LOL. The entire team to the ft line earlier, the opposing team gets tired of guarding someone going through contact all game long, plus bigs need to be careful when they have 4-5 faults in the 4th already. All these and more happen when you drive to the basket all the time.

He has always tried defensively, he just isn't athletic enough to stay or bang with bigger guards

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And Luka donkick

@1:51 for anyone wondering

Adetokounbo

Because it’s an objectively difficult name to pronounce lol 😂

every single one of those dudes routinely outplay him

He does... Giannis embarrassed AD and LBJ way too many times during their encounters. He must have come on top something like 9/10 times. And this was a Bucks collapse more than anything else... Anyway, Bucks just better team and Giannis just better player on both ends.... It's just that Lakers fans (like this channel) don't wanna admit that AD is cooked and plays once every other week because his body can't take it. Good game, but lets not act AD is on the same level as Giannis, he is absolutely not.

@@panagiotisatmatzidis9972 can you read lol

@@meech2066 the answer to that question is kinda obvious… assuming you have a brain.

The Lakers bench would've lost the game. With the injuries to Vincent and Vando and Dinwiddie out there with LeBron out it's not very good.

They'll get cooked. They don't have the respect of the refs. The dropoff from starters to bench is steep. Plus, you have a veteran point guard and Giannis, who should be able to exploit these Laker guards like everybody else does.

wow, I didn't know the drop off was that steep for the bench lineups, I figured that talent was starting to be more evenly distributed in the league and that bench players and starters would have less difference between them, but I guess not. Must be kind of tough to watch the starters be exhausted when you're on the bench just watching the play

Ham has lost us multiple games this season with his refusal to call time outs and inability to adjust. Average coach and this team has 4-5 more wins at least and we're in the hunt for 4th. AD has expressed frustration multiple times that the team needs to trust him more and not hard double on guys driving and leave it to him but that's the scheme🤷 leaving guys wide open to get hot from 3 doesn't help either.

cuz ham just loves prince too much when in reality rui was much better than him, then ham finally figured out the starting lineup on a time Lakers need to win every game and pray suns, mavs, kings take losses

@@HubertKingHebra Not a coincidence Prince is playing better with less minutes too. He was being asked to do way too much and play way more minutes then he ever had to prior to this season.