NBA Opening Night Recap: Warriors Beat Lakers 119-109

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00:00Line movement.

00:01You get that in the NBA, specifically on opening night.

00:03Look ahead line, which was out for quite some time here between the Warriors and the Lakers.

00:07The Lakers as a favorite, but no LeBron James.

00:09Switch it over to the Golden State Warriors, and the odds makers were correct in doing that.

00:13A 119-109 finish.

00:14The Golden State Warriors were the victors.

00:16And also understand this.

00:17The acquisition of Jimmy Butler, since the Warriors got him,

00:20when he's in that starting lineup with the rest of the fellas,

00:22they're a really good basketball team.

00:2435 minutes last night for Jimmy Butler, 7 of 14 from the floor.

00:2716 of 16 from the free throw line.

00:3131 points and a plus 20 last night.

00:34Jimmy Butler and the boys go on the road to Tinseltown and knock down the Lakers by double digits.

00:40Yeah, so the big question with the Lakers is always going to be,

00:44okay, well, you didn't get better defensively in the offseason by any stretch.

00:49Because we know LeBron ain't going to play defense when he comes back.

00:52We know Luke ain't going to play defense.

00:54So what is it?

00:55Gabe Vincent, like, who are you going to rely upon?

00:58Austin Reeves was in foul trouble from the get-go for the Lakers.

01:02And it became the Luka Doncic show.

01:04Listen, we saw that in Dallas.

01:06Except Dallas eventually bit a team, right?

01:09Built a team that, yeah, all the guys around Luka would play some defense.

01:13They were long.

01:14They were athletic.

01:15Young guys willing to sacrifice.

01:17That's not what you got with the Lakers.

01:19And now you've got a very old team in Golden State.

01:23But when you got Jimmy Butler going 16 for 16 at the free throw line, and Steph Curry's like,

01:28I'm just going to play, you know, assist here.

01:31I'm going to dish to you, dish to you.

01:33They're hitting threes from all over the place.

01:35If Steph Curry doesn't need to be that guy, then this is, once again, a very dangerous team.