Rockets Battle Back to Take Game 4

What do you think about the Laker team now?

You follow the box scores of the games every day.

Just the Lakers.

You're kidding.

That is really a compliment.

I was pleased to see you smile at the top part of the show

because once the game starts, you'll have a game face.

You don't smile much out there.

I don't think you have to do things for money anymore.

Correct.

What's up, Laker fans?

Welcome to the Laker Filmroom Podcast.

I'm Pete, joined by Darius and

the last night, Lakers had their first loss

of the 2026 postseason.

Blowout lost to the Houston Rockets.

It got a little chip at the end.

It had a couple of fairly absurd Laker objections in the game.

Lakers turned the ball over 24 times.

LeBron, Marcus, Ann, Canard, all kind of held in check.

It started out okay.

There was a tie game basically through the first 10 minutes

but Houston started to pull away a little bit at the end of the first

and then throughout the second quarter go to halftime

up by nine.

Then really break it open in that second half

and Lakers end up having their garbage time squad on the court

with seven minutes left in the game,

kind of pack it in early, again,

a little bit of chippiness throughout.

But D, it's been two games since we last talked.

We also had the win in game three.

Thank you to Raj for hopping on for that.

But we're love just your thoughts in general

about the Lakers' weekend in Houston.

I'm of two minds about this, Pete, honestly.

The Lakers did what they were supposed to do in Houston,

which was they got a split and rested control of the series.

The game three win was just a huge, huge victory

and Houston definitely found some things in the second half

and should have won the game based off of what they found.

But I don't want to just dismiss

that the Lakers controlled the first half pretty well too,

which constituted 10 quarters of essentially really strong play

to start the series.

And based off of those first 10 quarters,

I would have told you the Lakers should have won game three.

And so the circumstances of the final quarter

and then the shift that in the final 30 seconds,

after that it's OT.

And I thought the Lakers basically played the game

they needed to play to win the game.

And the rocket shell shocked or not,

it's tied with five minutes left to go win the basketball game.

And it was a slog and then Marcus hit a three.

And then I thought the Lakers controlled that part of the game

in the same way they controlled the rest of the series.

And so nonsense.

Last 30 seconds or not, however you want to look at that.

I thought the outcome of the game

was what I would have expected based off of

how both teams played overall.

Game four was a combination of two things.

I'll give the rockets credit first.

They played with the appropriate amount of desperation.

Honestly, the appropriate amount of forget what happened before.

You just got to play this game tonight.

Yeah, short memory.

They got to play the game in front of them.

I thought they leveraged their athleticism.

I thought that some of the adjustments that they made

which we'll get into in a minute with their defense of assignments

and things like that.

Like I just thought they pulled the right levers

and they played within appropriate amount of force

and thoughtfulness to how they wanted to attack the Lakers

and they won the game.

From the Lakers perspective,

I saw early in that game

that they were not the same level of focus.

They weren't playing with the same intent.

And it wasn't some huge slippage.

It just wasn't the same as what it was the first three games.

And so I don't want to like sum it up

and wrap it in a little bow and be like,

30 second analysis of the Lakers side.

But I just didn't think they played with the same focus

and intent to go out and win the basketball game.

Like for all the step on their next finished them stuff,

talk that was coming out after game three.

I don't think LeBron nor Marcus.

That stuff wasn't there, honestly.

The only player who seemed to play with the requisite amount of like,

hey, I'm here was Aiton on offense.

But a lot of that was from the switching and scrambling

and the small groups that Houston went to

that facilitated Aiton size being such a difference.

I didn't really think he was playing with this huge amount of

go get it motor.

I'm out there to wreck the game.

To me, it was just like circumstance.

And he played well in his minutes.

Don't get me wrong.

I'm just saying that I just didn't think the team looked 75 or 80%

of where they were in the first two and a half games for sure.

The third game, I think, took a lot out of the team,

out of both teams, frankly.

But only left one in a desperate position.

And they just weren't flying around the way that they had been,

even on the offensive end.

And against this group, especially that doesn't have KD in it,

the Lakers, even if both teams are playing at their maximum amount

of speed and athleticism, are at a deficit relative to the rockets.

And so if the Lakers slipped to that 75, even 80% of what they were

and the rockets are in, we have to win tonight or we go home,

it's easy to see how they end up with the 24 turnovers.

Now, on top of that, I do think that the rockets have found some things.

One of the major things about that game that was super surprising

was they didn't crash glass nearly as much.

Houston finishes that game with 11 offensive rebounds.

Lakers with 10.

That was a series low for them.

I thought that between that decision and then some of the matchups,

they've been putting Reed Shepard on Rui,

which is this thing that we saw last year of teams putting their smaller guards

on Rui amongst the starting group.

I thought they did a great job of ball pressuring Knard

and their ball denial has been a lot better.

The Lakers being sloppy with the ball plays into this,

but it's sort of chicken or the egg.

They were forcing the Lakers to be sloppy too.

And so I thought that they have found some things with Shenguin on offense

and they've done a better job of not trying to ram him right into DA

and more trying to go around him.

And then if you're going to do that, do that to Jackson.

Instead, a men Thompson has been phenomenal

over these last couple of games.

So what are your thoughts on that front, D.

Some of the things that Houston is legitimately figured out,

because I do think it was a combination of the Lakers not having it

and not being in nearly the same position that Houston was in.

But I do think that they have some between the offense,

rebounding on all the other stuff they've figured some things out.

So many turnovers.

And I think what Houston's doing is twofold on the turnover front

because it's different with Marcus than it is with LeBron.

With Marcus, Marcus is having a lot of passing turnovers.

And they are playing Marcus to pass.

Whenever he's aggressive,

they are playing him to sort of throw the late lob

or spray the ball out.

And then you add that to Marcus' pension

to sort of throw these looping,

risky-ish passes to begin with.

That when they pay off,

Aiden's got a basket right at the front of the rim.

But when it doesn't,

it's like a little deflection and then Houston is off and running.

So I think that they are keyed into Marcus as a passer

and trying to basically disrupt his passing

and really take away his ability to be a playmaker for his teammates.

And with LeBron,

they are pressuring his handle.

And they had multiple steals on the ball against LeBron

where his ball handling is just less secure than what it was.

And we've been pointing this out for maybe the last 20 months

or so of LeBron.

This isn't a new phenomenon.

But the increase in ball handling guards

that he's had around him has made it so that he's on the ball

less even before Luca.

It was like the Dennis Schroeder's

and then the Angelo Russell's

and then Austin Reeves taking.

And so there was it's less of him on the ball,

even to the degree that he is now.

But a Kogi really pressuring him,

re-cheppered with that blindside steal against him.

Tari Eason with another blindside action

when LeBron goes to pivot.

We're going to try to sneak attack LeBron

and really pressure his handle.

And LeBron took accountability for that.

But still,

that's a factor in the Lakers offense,

not being there at all.

Honestly, I am thrilled that we got three wins

before we got to this point of the series.

So we can't handle the ball and we're turning it over.

I do think there's plenty they can do to help clean it up.

And I think less fatigue.

They've got two days off between now and game five.

I think that's going to take care of a good deal of it.

But yeah, that's why the possession game was such a focus.

And not just the boards,

but also the turnover game.

Let's go to break here.

Come back.

Keep it going.

Pete, another thing I want to credit Houston with

is the fact that they're refusing to get screened.

So the lack of ball handling

and downhill force that the Lakers are playing with

and the turnovers that come with that

with the passing and everything else.

It's all related to Houston just refusing to be screened.

And I honestly think this is one of the bigger aspects

of why Konard is not as effective

as these last game and a half or two games.

Yeah, it's not just the on-ball screens,

but so much of the Lakers offense are those flare screens

and getting Konard to curl off of something.

It's a lot of off-ball stuff too.

They've done a great job of top locking

and just kind of refusing to let the Lakers get into that.

Yeah.

And the top locking is I think particularly effective

against Konard because they are defending him

with like stronger, more physical athletes

and particularly like to switch to a Kogi on him.

I think has been important,

but they'll defend him sometimes with Tarisin.

He obviously gets a fair amount of almond Thompson.

These are physical good athletes

that are just like my whole entire job right now

is to make sure that you don't catch the ball

and they're doing a good job of that.

And so they're top locking in and not getting screened.

And then even on the off-ball action

or the on-ball action stuff, Houston is not getting screened

in these guard to guard or wing to wing screen actions.

And they're not then forcing switches.

They're not getting advantage.

And I thought the only time the Lakers really made

hey against Houston's defense

was when they went back to traditional pick and roll stuff

and it was, here's your big man just coming

to set a screen on a guard or a wing.

And they're getting free.

So here's Marcus Smart getting downhill or here's LeBron

getting downhill a little bit.

And to me that was the most effective stuff.

The off-ball screening, beautiful games sort of stuff.

The Lakers worked in the first two and a half games.

That stuff's been gone for essentially six quarters.

And even the game down the stretch

where the Lakers won in game three.

A lot of that was like individual shot creation

or like just getting it out of the mud to a certain degree.

Like drawing fouls, getting to the foul, foul line.

It wasn't like, no, oh, we're moving guys around

and here's a beautiful screen in Cunard Snaking.

It was like so little of that.

And I think that's the test and the puzzle that JJ has

to figure out is how can we start to shake guys free

a little bit more because Houston has found something here.

Certainly so.

And yeah, like with the top locks,

that's supposed to trigger a whole sequence of your back cut

and you just sort of run the action the opposite way.

You could do it counterclockwise if it was supposed to be clockwise

or vice versa.

The regular season only provides a certain level of that.

You know, like you don't work on that a ton during the regular season

because it requires the defense to be at a high enough level

to be able to beat that.

And so how the Lakers are able to utilize the next practices

over the next couple of days to be able to work on things like that.

But it's also a personnel thing.

If you're top locking Cunard,

one of the things that a top lock is vulnerable to

is a back cut to the basket for a finish at the rim,

ideally a lot, but if you can.

But Lakers don't have much in the way of athleticism

and certainly not relative to Houston on the wing

that Houston can sort of get away with things

without paying the price that you would normally pay just because like

if Cunard's being guarded by a men Thompson,

he's not going to like that cut him and Yam on him.

You know what I mean?

There was actually a play I want to say in game two.

It was either game two or game three where Cunard did exactly that.

He shook free.

He got a back cut on Thompson and he tried this little

righty reverse layup inside hand layup on the left side of the hoop.

And Thompson just came and snatched it away.

Like he just blocked it and pinned it against the backboard.

Like, damn, okay.

Yeah, no, they've and that's one of the things

you're supposed to do as a coach is be like,

what are the places I can sort of get away with something

and take resources away while still being able to survive?

Like the other team either doesn't have the capacity

to take advantage of it to the same degree or we just

just got such an advantage that seeing them like that's

part of where their advantage is against us.

What do you make of the defensive assignment adjustment

that they made by putting shepherd on to Rui

and really having him guard any non guard?

Yeah, no, that's a great question.

I think it's a little bit fool's gold for the Lakers.

I thought it was a wise move on their part

in that the Lakers do not involve Rui in a ton of on-ball action.

Right?

Obviously not as a ball handler, but even as a screener,

they don't do a lot of that for multitude of reasons.

But by putting shepherd on him,

they know that like whenever shepherds in the game were like,

go after that guy.

And by doing that, you get the Lakers into like LeBron

and Rui picking pops or Marcus and Rui type of action

that they've barely done that this year.

And there are I think ways to build that out for sure.

But then between that and Rui is a very stiff finisher

around the rim.

He shoots every shot like kind of the same,

including his jump shots that you see a shot get blocked

all the time around the rim.

Or it puts him in a position D where he's posting read up.

And if he's dribbling and backing down

and there are guys digging at him,

he doesn't have the court vision to be able to spot,

oh, the extra help's coming from here.

I got to spray it out here.

Nor does he have really the desire to swing that MF too much.

And so I thought that was a super sharp choice

that they made.

It was something that we saw a good deal more last year

where small guards would be put on Rui when he was

in the starting lineup.

But I thought it sort of took the Lakers out of what they wanted

to do a decent amount was a sharp move.

What do you think?

I totally agree with what you're saying.

Rui had a turnover where he was like backing down

and tried to spin middle from the left sort of mid post area.

He is not a good enough shot creator beyond two dribbles.

If Rui is trying to do anything beyond Rippa close out

and hit a midi or duck in and get a deep post up,

I think he's going to struggle.

And it is smart of them to do it.

I will be interested to see what the Lakers do to counteract that.

I would be more inclined to use Rui as like an off-ball screener

on the weak side where the idea is to get shepherd in a situation

where he has to make multiple decisions on whether or not

he's going to stay with Rui or end up being the low man.

For example, rather than simply attacking him with Rui

as we're going to play the offense through you

because I don't think that that's going to lead to efficient enough offense

for the Lakers.

That's why I say it's full school because you can look at it

and be like Rui is a great scorer, huge size mismatch

on a weak defender.

Let's go.

But I think that a great example of how this can best work out

if shepherd is on Rui is one of my favorite plays from game three

was that play where Bronn missed a three on the from the right slot.

Rui saved it from going out of bounds up top to Marcus.

Lakers had just this killer ball movement.

Ball goes all over the place.

It's back to Rui in the right corner.

He's got shepherd closing out on him.

And now Rui is racking the clothes out

and bumping shepherd off with his shoulder

and just using that physicality.

So it's not like that sort of sequence

where Rui is catching the ball off of a swing swing

and deciding whether or not he's going to shoot a rack of clothes out.

That's what Rui does for a living.

The bringing Rui into the on ball actions

or posting him up and having him as an on ball threat.

That's not really what he does.

And so I, yeah, again,

I thought that was a very sharp move on their end.

I'm more interested in trying to use Rui in what he does best,

which is an off ball player,

rather than bring him into the action more.

But JJ is going to have two days to sort of look at that idea as well.

The other thing I wanted to just really discuss

before we go to our third segment is Shen Goon's really found something

for himself offensively, Pete.

You mentioned this earlier.

And playing through him is empowering him to sort of just be a very physical player.

When the series started,

my wife's a warrior son.

The warriors played the rockets last year, the playoffs.

And so there is a, you see this team over and over and over again

and you start to hate the other players.

Like she got like this.

What's the bonus from Sacramento when the warriors played the King?

She's like, I hate that guy.

And now it doesn't matter.

Yeah.

The King can be playing some random tea,

but she's just like, I hate to bonus.

And so she got like that with Shen Goon.

Shen Goon was just running up the quarter or whatever.

She's like, oh, Shen.

And the last game and a half, though,

I've really started to appreciate that idea more about disliking this dude.

I thought game three,

this is something I didn't bring up when I was talking about game three.

I thought his combination of, I'm going to throw out my off arm every single time

to try to create space and separation.

I'm going to wipe away your arm in order to finish around you,

which is what he's doing to DA every single time.

He can't just back him down so he's throwing out his off arm

to wipe away DA's contest so that he can finish around him.

And then with Jackson,

he's just elbowing him in the ribs and then throwing the off arm

every single time.

And then when you bump into him,

he's just falling down on the damn ground like he's been shot essentially.

And the combination of him flopping around like a fish in game three

while being the most physical player on offense and fouling pretty much every time

I was done with it by the end of the game.

And this game, I thought it was just more of the same,

particularly when Jackson was defending him.

Let's go to break here, Pete, because when we come back,

I'd love to get your thoughts on like the Lakers sort of Shen Goon problem right now

because without Durant, he is the focal point of their offense.

And I think the Lakers need to find a solution for him.

It's funny here and you say that here and you talk about Audrey's perspective on him too,

because I was watching him last night with a similar but slightly different twist on it of a...

I wouldn't want to root for this guy on my team type of...

Yes.

Like you'd be an irritating person to cheer for with respect to containing him though

because he's really hurting the Lakers for sure.

I think he's another player you can put two on the ball against.

I don't think that he's handled our double teams particularly well at all.

Game four when we're up three oh and everybody's legs are a little bit fried

from a game three over time win that was 48 hours before then.

Probably eight the time to put two on the ball and have everybody scrambling around.

But whether or not KD comes back I do think that's going to be a big character in game 5D

and just sort of getting the ball out of Shen Goon's hands is one of the things that I think

that the Lakers need to do a better job of.

He had 27 shot attempts in game three.

A bunch of the offense went through him in game four as well.

I don't have the box score in front of me for the shot attempts

but he was just so heavily active.

There were so many possessions D where I was like we're going to help on him.

We're going to help here and they really posting him up a lot at the nail right in the middle of the floor

and he used that spot to initiate things but I do think we need to send a second defender to him.

What's your thought process on containing him or slowing him down?

Yes, only 12 shot shot attempts in game four Pete but he did go to the foul line for 13 free throw attempts.

He had the ball a ton.

Yeah, I know he didn't shoot a ton but he added the ball a lot.

I do think the Lakers should be sending help at him.

I have grace for the Lakers sort of defensive game plan, the non KD version

and even the KD version in that the Lakers hadn't lost until yesterday.

Even in game three when it was clear that Houston had found some things,

the Lakers controlled the first part of that game and then won.

I feel like a lot of more of what they've found has been on the defensive end.

Lakers are without their two main ball handlers.

At some point of this series Houston should have figured out a way to lock that down

and make it be like crap.

We're turning the ball over.

We can't get a good shot.

I'm just thrilled we got three wins before or at least halfway through game three before that happened.

To LeBron's point, so much of Houston's offense did come from the Lakers miscues in this game.

Like 30 points off of turnovers.

If they minimize that more, then we may not even be having this Shengoon problem question.

But the number of open threes that they generated and just like the ball movement in general,

it's just picked up in the last six quarters.

And I think the Lakers would be wise to really start to key in on.

All right. Well, what are we going to do with Shengoon when he starts to back down from 18 feet out,

which is what he's doing.

He is getting the ball at the elbow or the free throw line extended.

And he's just basically trying to back a guy down.

And to your point, I don't trust that he's going to make every right read with his passes.

I also don't trust that Houston is going to be able to suddenly morph into this team

that handles all of the secondary stuff effectively because this is the same game plan.

The Lakers have used against Durant.

And part of that isn't just get the ball out of Durant's hands or forced Durant to have a turnover.

It's that, well, what is Tariessen going to do when he catches the ball?

It has to rack a closeout and then faces an early step up when the help is there.

Is he going to make the right read?

And it's a different geometry with Durant versus Shengoon because their touch points are so different.

But can Houston make plays on the move and make them quickly against a rotating defense?

That's a gambit.

I think the Lakers need to explore again now to lay off the Lakers for not doing that in game four a little bit.

I don't think they had the legs to execute that style of defense in that game.

Coming off an OT win and with only one day off between the games,

like, I think the Lakers were going to go in and say, we're going to play our normal game.

And if it's good enough to win, it's good enough to win.

And if it's not, it's not.

And they tried to play their normal game, but played it at like 80% of focus and execution that they did in the previous games.

And it wasn't near good enough against Houston's desperation.

Yeah, I don't want to make it sound like the Lakers were dogging it in game four.

I don't think that was the case at all.

They were given what they had.

I just don't think what they had was what it's been on in other games.

No, that's right.

That's right.

And this isn't AO there.

The Lakers go again, letting their foot off the gas.

No, no, no.

I think that they were in some ways mashing their foot on the gas more.

And the car wasn't responding.

It was like, there's no rev in this engine right now.

I know we'll have a couple of more pods to talk adjustments and everything else, Pete.

But I do think that game five is setting itself up to be the game of the series.

Just with the nature of the schedule tightening back up over games five, six, and seven.

And with there being travel in between all of those games, it's like this is the game that is important for everyone.

Right.

Obviously it's do or die for Houston.

But I do think the Lakers need to view it that way as well.

I do think though that the comments from everyone post game, particularly LeBron and JJ,

they were to me struck the right tone and were measured in the right way.

And then particularly with some of the bad blood that I think could help fuel the Lakers as well,

that they're in a good place.

But I'm wondering where your head is around the same stuff.

Yeah, I don't want to be like, oh, we're fine.

We got nothing to worry about.

Nobody's blown a 30 series lead or anything like that.

Like our second best player is Marcus Smart.

Again, I'm super grateful we got those first three wins when we did because nothing's guaranteed.

And guys I came in canard are not going to be 20 point per game guys every single night.

I do feel really good going back to LA and the position that the team is in.

But to your point that between five, six and seven,

there's only one day between games five and six and six and seven.

Houston would also have a good deal of momentum if they win game five.

And the rockets crowd will be rocking if you go back there by game six and all of that.

So this is a huge game for the Lakers.

They got to close this out in game five.

I do think that they've got the means to do it.

And so much of it was built on their own mistakes that certainly Houston played into.

But a lot of like looping, lobbing passes that get deflected or picked off.

And things like that that the Lakers certainly have under their control to be able to fix.

So all in all, you know,

thrilled with how things went in Houston over those this past weekend.

But with as shorthanded as the Lakers are, like there's plenty of work to do.

It's not a like, ah, this shit's over perspective or anything like that.

And on top of that, I think we could really use Austin in game five.

A lot of the stuff that we're talking about about the turnovers and the ball handling

and what Houston can do to that on the Lakers is predicated on the Lakers not having those guys.

So even just having Austin back for a little bit as somebody who could dribble the basketball.

And that's what he does for living can attack off of the dribble.

That's the main thing that he does.

I think will be super helpful.

Just game five of a playoff series, welcome back.

Good luck type of thing.

And we don't know if he's going to play or not.

But I do think we could really use Austin.

Any final thoughts about kind of our weekend in Houston?

No, not necessarily.

I do want to mention two players and just say, like good for Bronny James.

Yes, he hasn't looked out of place in this series at all.

He's been good.

That was exactly where my mind was with him.

He looked capable.

A second year player who was pick where he was in the draft.

Forget all the other noise around this.

If his name was, I don't know, man.

Bronny Johnson or something.

This is like, no one would care.

No, people would care.

We'd be like, our second round pick looks totally fine.

Yes.

And he's what 21 years old.

And you know what I'm saying?

We'd be freaking stoked.

And so the cool putting the cool moments aside from game three

where him and LeBron sort of tag team for that ten oh run.

I just think that he's looked good and fine.

And to say that about any player drafted where he was

with his experience level is like great for him.

I also want to say that I've been reading or seeing more comments online

about Jake LaRavia and just being super, super down on Jake.

I get it.

The offensive production and like sort of the not looking at the basket stuff

and just the lack of shot making.

And the sort of not holding on to the ball at times has been like,

oh, Jake, you got to make that play.

But I just want to caution against like scapegoating your seventh man

in these situations and being like, oh, can't play Jake.

He should be out of the rotation play the hero or like,

there's just been sniffs of that.

And I just want to say like, go out there and play hard and do your thing Jake.

I actually thought he was good.

It was good.

Yeah, at least in the first half, yeah.

Yeah. And then in the second half, he looked like everyone else.

Yeah.

So I just wanted to bring up both of those guys and say like,

I'm happy what I'm seeing with Ronnie.

And I'm going to show a little bit of grace for Jake LaRavia,

who has played hard all season, played more minutes and just like been

the sort of Iron Man of the team.

And I'm just going to show him some rope and just be like,

hey, go out there and play hard in game five.

And I have a feeling he's going to make a couple of plays,

dive on the ground, force a jump ball, get a key offensive rebound.

Like, that's just the stuff that he does.

And I'm grateful to have him on the team.

Even though I know he's not playing his best, that's basketball.

I think he's been fine, frankly, to play against Houston,

you need guys with size and motor and length that can sort of at least

just compete with them on that front so that you don't get

killed in that respect.

And I think that it's easy to not see a good deal of the work

that Jake does on that front.

Also, my expectations of players are right there, Ronnie,

somewhat tied to their salaries.

And Jake makes six million a year.

I expected him to be like our eighth guy or ninth guy on this

year's team.

We played in every game.

We all want him to lock himself in a gym and work on his jumper

throughout the entirety of this summer.

We all see kind of the holes in his game.

But there is always that phenomenon.

This is a human-being thing, even outside of sports.

When things are going wrong, we instinctively look toward

and it's you.

We always want the simplest solution and the simplest answer.

And sometimes we end up in an absurd place where it's like,

it's you eighth man making six million dollars.

That's the problem here.

Do you know what I'm saying?

For sure.

For sure, for sure.

And every fanbase loves to scapegoat.

Of course.

A guy that they, for some reason, don't like or whatever.

I know we're going to wrap up Pete.

A guy I want on your mind for tomorrow when we talk again

is Luke Conard.

I'd love to talk about him on offense.

I'd love to talk about him on defense.

You mentioned Austin.

I think that no one should be welcoming in Austin Rees return

more than Luke Conard.

So I'd love to get into that more on tomorrow's podcast.

Yeah, we'll get into all of our adjustments.

Also, I cannot wait to talk to you about Denver in Minnesota.

We've got game five tonight.

There's some great hoops around the league.

So we'll chat.

Maybe we can double up on pods and do a general NBA one on top of that as well.

But until the next one, you've been listening to the Laker Film Room podcast.

We'll catch you guys next time.

Danger's got to be unloading the kale.

The kale wants to turn these double-team.

Just pass out if I'm broken up by Worthy.

Get some magic.

Worthy guys on his belly.

Magic storm.

And the magic got us.

Magic fireers again.

They will Lakers win the game.

They'll Lakers win the game.

You're about to win.

Three seconds left.

That next one will win us.

It's about to win us.

It's about to win us.

40 points.

16 revolts.

We're going to drop the tie in an NBA finals record.

A lot of Laker fans.

What's going on for this?

You're seeing something that's very rare indeed.

A Laker to get MVP chance in Boston.

A ball place.

Are you kidding me?

Are you kidding me?

Are you kidding me?

Unreal!

Are you kidding me?

Lakers looking to push.

Ryan spinning in the lane.

Back for Gasson.

Ready pass.

And it's back to a three-point game.

Will we, Brian?

Pick that by bow.

There's the ball.

Two are scored.

This is it.

One, two, three.

One, two, three.

What's over?

Got caught down on five.

Ryan.

Yes.

And up with a little top-down trajectory.

That is all the injury, Kobe.

I mean, what a shot.

I mean, you can't defend that.

Are you kidding me?

2.1 seconds remaining.

Denver a foul to give.

Yokech.

Trying to disrupt Rondo.

He puts it in.

Here's Davis 4-3 in the win.

Oh, it's gone.

Anthony Davis has won it for the Lakers.

James again.

Oh, he hits another one.

LeBron James.

Putting together a closing corner against the Nuggets.

This historic 2020 NBA championship belongs to the Los Angeles Lakers.

The Lakers conquer the bubble.

And banner number 17 will soon hang in the rafters.