UNDISPUTED | "The Lakers got so lucky!" - Skip RIPS Lakers beat Pelicans as Zion 40-Pts injury

skip me yes say for the top Apex every F if you ain't got no haters you Ain I ain't trying to let's have a IPP Diamond think comment my my comption not issue TI unconventional controversial convoluted uncal undet and Undisputed [Music] good morning it is time to skip the BS it's time for Undisputed it's time for Paul Pierce and kesan Johnson and I to dive deep into the Lakers 110 106 survival last night in New Orleans Dian Williamson had scored 40 points and just tied the game with 313 left when he somehow injured himself St coming down after I don't know pretty routine bucket a little 3-ft floater over Anthony Davis Zion ended up running running to the locker room and did not return I believe it was the most mysterious injury I have ever seen the Falcons would say only that it was a quote unquote left leg injury no specifics I do not believe the Lakers would have won if Zion had finished that game but they did win they do either get to or have to play defending champ Denver in the first round instead of the Conference Finals like last year game one Saturday 8:30 Eastern in Denver so Paul kick us off here with your opinion of what happened last night in that game I mean first off good win uh cuz that was the goal get the win get some rest for Saturday but a lot of concerns with this game because the Lakers they went up 18 supposed to put a team like this away they gave up a lead um on a night where LeBron doesn't shoot well ad doesn't shoot well and you get a win because you have role players who stepped up I mean you'll take that but moving forward they got to play better skip this is not a team playing like this that you want to see going to Denver you know they got thrashed in the paint I mean they gave up 62 points they got crushed on the rebounds and if you play like versus the Denver Nuggets the defending champs in their building you're going to go home early and by early I mean you might get swept and so yeah it was a good win there's some positives that you can take from this obviously you like what D'Angelo Russell did Austin Reeds did uh but moving forward they got to play better and you're right they were on the ropes if Zion had to stayed in the game because he was just Unstoppable and I'm thinking like he was playing the game of his life so it had to be some type of injury it looked mysterious it didn't look like much but something had to happen because you having a game of your life you tie the game up your life I mean gave your life and you you go up and you tie the game up and you come out so I know it has to be something but uh you know good win for the Lakers moving forward they need to be better though if they want to at least push this series Beyond four games with the Nuggets I hear you so Kean are you more relieved or happy which way are you are you the win is a win is a win we got the win skip you did I expect the for I expect the for him to continue that 18-point ons Slaughter with 532 to go in the third quarter it didn't happen didn't happen okay they closed the Gap they tied it up I get all that LeBron didn't play well he shot well from free throw as you like to say skip there are free throws for a reason he was 10 to 10 he's gotten better than that that's one up on him with the goat conversation that's one up on him wait I thought you didn't do gold conversations no but so he didn't play well he didn't shoot the ball particularly well you know you look at him he was 620 from the field but at the free throw line he cashed it in he played bully ball you know and he did get to the cup many times and went to the line that was a plus Anthony Davis has to play better y can't get pushed around when he's down low he has to finish he's already at The Rim he had an opportunity to have a lot of M1 last night but he couldn't cash in the easy I'm already kissing the rim but for some reason I can't put it in no but then okay so now you say well the role players as I said to you yesterday and as I said throughout these conversations those guys Austin Reeves Haim Mo along with DLo have got to finish and they did DLo especially knock down crucial threes especially late in the game in the fourth quarter minute some change ago he hit The One in the corner Reeves assist knocked it down go up by four the game was over at that point right it was pretty much over with so when I look at this matchup against the Nuggets if you want to move things forward they've got to clearly play better but they got to go back and look at the things that they've done wrong in the last eight appearances against the nuggets and fix that whatever that is whatever that is they got to fix that if they want to have an opportunity steal one I don't care if it's the first one or the second but you can't come back to LA 02 cuz it's going to be hard as hell if you come back to LA O2 to tie it up it's curtain it's over with it's curtain it's Cur and I think they look I think they know that now look Anthony Davis didn't play well last night skip but he did have a back injury okay he did to some degree and I don't know how well he was feeling last night he played y so you would think with the rest that he's getting now over the next several days that back will be much better and he'll be able to withstand the punishment down low the bruising the pounding of that joker will put his butt up on him and bounce him around he'll be able to withstand that yeah I I I would think so and then LeBron just gotta LeBron's just got to shoot it better he too again at times he was so out of control and Speedy Gonzalez down the lane he fell one time I was like LeBron come on man cuz they I think he thought that they was going to defend him and they and he moved out way it's almost like the chair got pulled out from the chair got pulled from underneath cuz he was coming down he was coming downhill so damn fast agreed I'm like you got to you got to start to be under control man and stop taking bad shots and getting caught in traps where you trapped you can't get rid of the ball and you wind up just taking a bad shot because you're holding on to it too long get rid of the ball I need some Pace I need the ball to move around in different people's hands and if they can correct that I'm giving us a fighting chance man I don't care what nobody say I know everybody out there skipped the is bringing out the broom again I don't believe that okay all right my turn to your point about the free throws he did make 10 out of 10 and I say to that what I said to 41% from three it's about damn time we're near 21 and finally he's making free throws that better hold through the next four games or five games or six games or whatever it's going to take he's going to have to keep making free throws and start making threes again in big games because he did not shoot it well from three last night he was one of five okay now I'm going to say this again I really like this basketball team I've liked it from the start and I loved what Gabe Vincent started to bring to this team last night because I started seeing little flashes of that guy who scored 29 points against your Celtics last year in game three in Miami knocked down a couple crucial threes and the same guy who scored 25 points in game two at last year in the finals which was the only game that Miami won he is capable and he's finally getting legs underneath him so I I like that and yet to both of your points with 621 left in the third quarter I tweeted in all caps bring on the Nuggets because the Lakers were up by 18 at that point and from that moment on they proceeded to give up a 38-20 run 38-20 it's wrong it's just it's scary wrong to me because you're better than that I think maybe I'm wrong maybe maybe they're flawed to the core but I think LeBron was out a little bit of that time that they they couldn't get it back and little Alvarado came in and then jump my nerves man well he gets on their nerves he gets on D's nerves how he get on my nerves Paul alado he and DLo got into it early and then every shot every shot DLo made he's looking at the talking to their bench you know he had something going with them but whatever if you had told me going into this game that LeBron and AD would combin to shoot 12 of 36 I'd say curtains for this game right and yet Zion I'm a big fan and I was I was Zion over jaw coming out in that draft and then it was going back and forth and jaw's had his issues off the court but it's always been kind of 5050 between those two last night was his first postseason game and that was a out parte for him because he was cooking them into your both your points I mean you you got blasted in points in the paint 62 to 3 are are you kidding it was all him it was all him it was all him so he's got 40 points and we get to the flasho moment and he just goes up and scores e easily over ad and I'm thinking uhoh this feels wrong again because it's 95 all and he comes down and it doesn't look like he came down awkwardly or dangerously did it it didn't to me and he's got a little bit of hitch in his step just maybe a tiny bit of gimpy little limp in him as he's going to the bench and he sits for a second there's a there it is again and he's he's angry and he's angry and he's angry and then he just picks up the he pulls Jersey over his face then he goes and sits on the bench and then he throws the towel and he gets up and he

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Published: Wed Apr 17 2024