00:00all right so here's the unfortunate part about saturday night um look i mean if luka donchich
00:06is playing in this series between the rockets and lakers it's an epic one i mean you got hall
00:10of famers all over the place here in this one but unfortunately you don't and there's been no injury
00:15update on luka whatsoever so that tells me the lakers have to get out of this series for him to
00:21play at all in the playoffs so that's a week and a half two weeks here and the odds makers
00:26are
00:26telling us they're not houston is minus 800 that's one of the biggest favorites in the first
00:30round of the playoffs even with the one eights and the two sevens and the lakers are also five point
00:35dogs on saturday night too houston minus five total of 206 and a half so set the table for me
00:43carlin
00:43what what has to happen let's just say to make this a series and show the odds makers they were
00:49way off
00:49on houston being this big a favorite i can't make a case make a case for it the case has
00:54to be that
00:55you're expecting a 41 year old lebron james to turn into uh what he was maybe five years ago and
01:01and take over this series and kind of carry the lakers through past the promised land i would say
01:07though there's not a great chance of lebron turning back the clock and being what he was five years ago
01:11but i think lebron can be good enough to steal you a couple of clutch close games right like if
01:17if
01:17the lakers can do their best to keep it close in the last five minutes of a game i think
01:21that would
01:21give lebron james enough to get you passing over the line maybe steal a couple games here or there
01:25the other side of things is let's not forget kevin duran is no spring chicken himself like he's not
01:30buying green bananas in his nba career either so you know he has to show up and perform at a
01:35high level
01:36and oh by the way they're missing some of that playoff experience outside of kevin duran
01:40it's just a very young rockets team who were out quickly in the playoffs last year that's the reason
01:45why they brought kevin duran in so yes imi udoka is a great head coach they're gonna have a great
01:49game plan to kind of throw things at lebron james but he has seen it all if you're the if
01:53you're a
01:54laker fan out there all you're asking for your team to do is not get blown out give you the
01:59last five
01:59minutes of a basketball game and hope the king could be the king once again so carlin as we as
02:05we wrap
02:05up that series what's your prediction on that uh do you have houston and if so how many games
02:10depending on luca's uh kind of uh you know health here i'm gonna go i'm gonna go if no luca
02:16i'm gonna
02:16go rockets and six if there is a luca i think we see a seven game series and i think
02:21that if luca
02:22is healthy enough to play in the games and be effective i think the lakers have enough to get
02:26through
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