00:00You just mentioned Luka Doncic.
00:01He just goes for 51 the other night.
00:04Are the Lakers starting to do anything here?
00:06I mean, LeBron comes back.
00:07He's been banged up a little bit over the last couple months,
00:09obviously for a guy over 40 years of age.
00:12But where are the Lakers right now, in your opinion?
00:15Listen, they are right now tied with the 3C with the Rockets,
00:18which is fantastic.
00:19For me, big sales, this is going to be about styles make fights.
00:22Last year they played the Minnesota Timberwolves in the first round.
00:25I thought everybody Minnesota was going to run over them.
00:27They absolutely did.
00:28They got to be careful.
00:29If they're right now, the 5C is Denver.
00:32Who are you taking in a 7-game series?
00:35You're taking the Lakers or are you taking, obviously, the Nuggets?
00:38I know who I'm taking.
00:39Number 6 is Minnesota.
00:40Who are you taking?
00:41The Lakers?
00:42You're taking Minnesota.
00:43I'm taking Minnesota.
00:45They got to hope that Phoenix or one of these teams jumps up
00:47or they slide down because at the end of the day,
00:50I don't trust DeAndre Aiton as much.
00:52I love him.
00:53And I don't think they shoot the ball well enough in three.
00:55And they don't defend enough that I think that they can win a 7-game series
00:59regardless of how great Luka Doncic is.
01:02How good do you think the Cavs are?
01:04The Cavs are going to be judged by their playoff lack of success in the past.
01:10Not Kenny Atkinson, but particularly the players.
01:13I'm not a big fan of that double-barrel big man of Evan Mobley and Jared Allen.
01:17But to me, it's the beard.
01:19You know that out of Philadelphia, James Harden, who turned into a pumpkin in Game 7.
01:24Can he exercise his demons?
01:26Same thing with, obviously, Donovan Mitchell.
01:29Can the Knicks exercise their demons?
01:31Can Jamie Picker 7 Detroit exercise their demons?
01:33It's going to be fun to watch the East because you're going to make a case for all of them.
01:37And you're going to make a case that all of them can flounder it up at the end of the
01:41day.
01:42Hey, 20 seconds.
01:44I'm looking at the Magic.
01:45Are they making any kind of noise here at all?
01:47Or can they do anything?
01:49I mean, they're playing some pretty good basketball as of late.
01:51Or is this just a blimp?
01:53No, I was big on the Magic before the season started.
01:56It was all about getting them healthy with Bankera and Wagner.
01:59They play elite defense and defend at a high level.
02:02Desmond Baines is going to continue to shoot the ball from three
02:04because that's been their Achilles heel.
02:06They're one of the worst three-point shooting teams in the league.
02:08They must shoot it well from three, but they can be dangerous in the right matchup.
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