DTLF HAS A CHANGE OF HEART! KEEEEEP DLO!!!!!

Join me now live for a postgame recap and breakdown on why we should keep DLO!

Hold Up Wait A Minute a first ever here on the dtlf postgame recap ladies and gentlemen first ever I had a change of heart it never happens before the trade deadline but I had a change of heart and a player made me switch up that never happens usually

When I make my mind up I’m usually right and I usually keep that mindset Till The Bitter End but not this time this time I’ve listen D’Angelo Russell is playing some of the best basketball of his career some of the best basketball of his career the last seven games with so

He’s averaging 30 points shooting over close to 50% from Beyond The Arc oh man and and this is what people don’t understand and this is why I’m gonna tell you right now why I’m team Keep dowlo From This Moment On First of all he’s actually get went up the last

Couple of games against Some solid Defenders this heat check is no fluke this dude right here man is having just an astronomical change of month we’re talking about he shot less than 30% from the field in December averaged eight points a game lost his starting job came

Back balling the [ __ ] out man D’Angelo Russell gotta stay a Laker I don’t care nobody say I don’t care if I get hate for having to change your heart that’s fine I’m a Laker fan I reserve the right to to to change my opinion okay and DLo

Is playing like an All-Star right now now now now mind you people will say damn this is a fluke no it’s not it’s been eight games now people will say Dan this is the Bulls no it’s not he did it against the Clippers as well he did it

Against a couple of good teams along the way but this man right here man he’s showing his heart out he’s showing that he deserves to be a Laker all right he went 10 for 18 for 29 Points on eight for 13 shooting from Beyond The Arc but here’s

The this is the re real reason I want to keep D’Angelo Russell I see the light with what this team could potentially become with Vando now reinvigorated and uh and healthy he’s going to wreak haboc and and just like my guy Eddie said yesterday on a round

The league he’s gonna come up cover up a lot of the blemishes that both Austin re and DLo have however I have not changed my mind about one thing I still think we need a trade but not D’Angelo Russell I think we need to make Fringe trades now

If there’s a way we can somehow get this jeante Murray for like Tori and Prince and Gabe Vincent with the first round pick I’m doing that and I’m keeping both Austin Reeves and DLo I’m moving Reeves to the two guard I’m putting dejonte at the point guard and I’m bringing Austin

Reeves Off the Bench that’s what I would do if I’m the Lakers now I’m figuring out a way if there’s a way they don’t want DLo anyways so there’s a way we can get de Jon marray without giving up Austin or D’Angelo I’m doing it straight

Up but this guy right here man this guy right here is balling the heck out and we cannot deny that right like I said I’m no D hater I’ve always been a fan matter of fact you don’t believe me we dropped the short on we we dropped the

T-shirt on courtkings it’s up there on the website right now shop kings.com okay that’s how much we believed in dowlo coming into the season but I always knew he was a volume scorer I always knew with the more shots he gets up the more he can get he can heat up

Right we knew that already problem was the defense and it’s still a problem we still even though we won tonight and we won but we gave up 132 points to the Chicago Bulls so the the the defense still persist from the perimeter our guys are getting cooked but shout out to

D man he he proves he’s not he shouldn’t be on the train more 29 Points shout out to Reeves too he’s continuously he really hasn’t had a bad stretch of basketball but he finally got another 20-point game here tonight to go with eight assist so those two guys need to

Both stay I hate the fans that try to divide and say oh no this no they both Gotta Stay LeBron did his thing with 25 points 22 for ad quiet 22 with 11 rebounds six assists and a block and then 14 for Tori and Prince so our whole

Starting lineup was in the double figures and then ruy off the bench and Jared vanderbel was 17 uh five rebounds three steals we get this Jared Vanderbilt we’re going to be trouble for lots of people in the league but I’m telling you man I’m telling I

Was waiting I was waiting to see if D’Angelo can change my mind he has he has been very solid here and the thing is that I don’t know if you guys realized every time ad was going in the pink one-on-one same thing with LeBron it was hard for them to double when

Somebody like D’Angelo Russell scorching the Nets like that this dude is on fire he’s playing like a poor man Steph Curry matter of fact right now he might be a rich man Steph Curry because Curry not even having a great season anyways right he’s having an okay season by his

Standards um gotta keep dowlo I’m sorry I gotta do it fam I have to change your heart like I said no players’s ever done this once they’re in my dogghouse they’re dead to me that’s what Russell Westbrook did to me he was dead to me

Once he got in my dogghouse right but D is actually showing that he cares which is very admirable a lot of players once they’re in trade rumors they shrink and they disappear and they want out not d’angel Russell D’Angelo Russell is having probably the best stretch of his

Career these last eight games or so and he is proving that he’s worthy of playing under the bright lights and under the pressure and no bigger pressure than being thrown into the trade rumors fam ain’t no bigger pressure than that straight up right so gotta give him his flowers guys what do

You guys think uh what do you guys think about D’Angelo are you do you guys think it’s Fool’s go but check it out his last couple games have been insane there’s no way 39 points 29 Points 20 points 34 points 27 points 29 Point guys he’s proving that he’s the real deal and

Matter of fact a lot of people will say well Dan you know we’ve seen him throughout his career might included and think this is not sustainable if they let him play freely the way he’s been asking he put his money where his mouth is he went on that podcast and I thought

He was just talking crazy because he was averaging eight points a game but he went on that podcast and said give me the ball and let me run some point or or whatever combo guard whatever and let me get my shots up and you guys will get the production that’s exactly what what

The Lakers have done and what he has done right so credit to him that’s all I can say that’s all I can say I was wrong I thought DLo for sure was dead in the water I said a points a game in December he does not deserve to start ship his

Ass out is what I say but I take that back and I rarely do that you know once you’re dead to me you’re dead to me but not DLo man he’s shown some heart he’s shown some passion he’s showing that he could really be a star in this league

And remember steveen Nash didn’t start having his MVP Seasons till he was in his 30s so there’s always late bloomers who really start hitting their strike late what if this is what D’Angelo Russell is moving forward what if this is who he can become 26 points per game

The last eight games is insane fam like and he’s shooting damn near 50% from Beyond The Arc what if it’s sustainable what if with the spacing that LeBron James and Anthony Davis can create now you got to pick your poison because if you double down on ad he’s gonna kick it

Out to D or Austin who’s also very capable of knocking down shots right so I’m starting to see the light and when V being back healthy he sh as heck helps on the defensive end I got to keep it a fck 50 with y’all never imagined I would

Be saying this but I’m I’m happy to say this I’m all about the team and if the team is playing good because of a player right because of a player then I’m happy I’m very happy and he can open up so many things driving lanes open shots for

Others just by him staying hot like this if he can stay hot like this at least most times obviously he’s not gonna be hot every single game but right now he’s on a tear absolute tear Arthur appreciate you bro he said uh regular season’s fool’s gold in the postseason

Will uh he will Wilt well I’ll tell you this man I will tell you this this is the best stretch of basketball I have seen D’Angelo Russell play in his career since we threw him in the trade rumors my only fear is that once the trade

Deadline is over he wils right just like you mentioned however it’s a risk you have to be willing to take because there’s nowhere in the trade market you’re gonna find somebody that’s scorching the Nets the way D is and I’m of the mindset that if you’re showing it

To me you got to keep showing it to me right and he’s done that he has done that he made me do a 360 man completely like I look like Michael Jackson doing you know the little spin move the way DLo got me out here man and tonight bro

He showed a lot of heart he was shooting leaners he was shooting fadeaways he Runners he was doing everything you got to give the Young Buck props eight games it’s not easy to do all right if he would have did a three four five games

And I say ah you gotta show me more could just be a hot streak but it could be that he’s starting to figure out his game within our offensive schemes and that could be very dangerous again even let’s just say he doesn’t have going like this every night but the league is

Now on no notice if you notice they put AO Des somu on him the whole fourth quarter so he can’t get a shot off right but what did that do it opened up shots for ad to go one-on-one LeBron James to attack the lane heck even vand got open

A lot of the times why because you have to stay onus on the shooters and both Reeves and and DLo can both shoot however however you’re right 180 my bad you’re right kamakazi thanks for correcting me 180 not a 360 um however I still believe we have to make

A trade I still feel we have to make trades and Fringe trades now it could be it could be small little trades here there I still want a backup just in case DLo does struggle again you do have that backup that can come in and play Heavy

Minutes tus Jones can fit that tus Jones Can’t F fit that yes you did RP you did say it I’m not I wasn’t a Believer I needed to see more but let’s be honest the Clippers have excellent defense the the Chicago Bulls have excellent perimeter Defenders I needed to see it

Against good players good defensive players and that’s exactly what D has done so um you got come on man we can’t be haters when a young buck is playing this good you have to show him his love give him his flowers that’s what I’ve done right I wanted him out of here

Because I thought he was dead in the water after December and I was like trade him now while he’s still has value because this dude’s confidence has plummeted but now he’s showing me that he went into Ultra Instinct mode and he’s about to take over fam but but not

Only that if we can plug in pieces here and there for example let me give you guys an example if we can somehow get Bruce Brown without giving up either Austin Reeds or DLo or ruy and I think there’s a path to it like I said let’s give him

A package of uh Gabe Vincent torian Prince to make the money work whatever whatever we have to do by the way I think Vandal is ready to start again tan can become Expendable especially if ruy is his backup small forward right give me Bruce Brown start him alongside D’Angelo Russell bring

Austin Off the Bench which by the way was some of his best career numbers was off the bench if he can be a weapon for us off the bench we got our guard situation situated go give me Bruce Brown without giving up either and and try to keep ruy as well because we’re

Gonna need that Wing depth that’s what I would try to do if I’m the Lakers now if the Hawks still want to give us de Jon Murray because there’s no other takers and they want that first round pick give him that first round pick let them take

Those contracts we mentioned was one is an expiring contract right it’s a one-year deal and the other one if they can flip it to a third team we’ll throw in two second round picks go get me de jante Murray like I said and uh but we do need a Defender alongside either DLo

Or Reeves whoever starts most likely along DLo so this is why I’m still in favor of getting either Bruce brown or dejonte or if there’s cheaper players to be had that can actually come in and play defense like good defense then I’m for it then on for I understand dowlo is

Still going to struggle defensively and stuff but if he’s scorching the Nets guys it just opens up everything we scored 140 points 140 points and we kind of went on a dry spill there in the fourth quarter which tells you we can be an offensive Juggernaut however we do have to balance

That defense V’s going to we talked about it yesterday on round the league if you guys haven’t seen that episode you’re missing out I wanted Gabe Vincent because I thought as a backup he was going to cover up a lot of the deficiencies that our guards have right especially playing

Heavy minutes but man it’s just Caruso would be great too somebody like that if the Lakers can figure out a way to land them without giving up DLo or Austin I am on board I still feel we need a trade don’t get me wrong don’t get me wrong I

Still feel we need a trade I really do and uh and but the way DLo and Austin play together man and again they don’t have to start to play together you can stagger their minutes and bring one off the bench and then let them both close at times assuming we don’t have killers

In the perimeter but we do need that that that Wing Defender man that you know we have torian Prince is okay right uh but vand is the guy defensively ruy I like because you can play him at the four you can play him at some three and

You can play him at even at some too if he needs to guard right he can even guard small ball fives so ruy to me would be I think is a keeper if we had to flip him then we’re gonna have to hopefully get some wings back somebody

Mentioned sadique Bay get some more Wings back in return that’s the only way I’m flipping ruie but oh man I I I feel like this is a great Revelation for the Lakers if we can have this floor spacer continuously play with this type of confidence it’s just gonna open up

Whether he’s hitting shots or not just be a weapon be a threat and right now he’s being that he is shooting every chance chance he gets and he is making it most times So eventually he’s going to cool down but here’s the thing the threat is already going to be

Established by the time he cools down that teams can no longer double off of AD and LeBron when they’re posting up you know they’re gonna have to guard you more one-on-one the way we spread the Rock tonight too like even he did right whenever they doubled one of the two

Players that I mentioned they kicked it out and they swung it around it was beautiful basketball to watch that is Championship level basketball now they got to keep developing that uh L Mamba thank you so much for Super Chat my brother he said Trey Dow for Murray

Wants to trade DLo not me I’m off that train Fam I’m off the train simply because right now D’Angelo Russell is playing like an All-Star cannot front 26 Point per game this month and he’s shooting damn near 50 screw it I’m just gonna say he’s shooting 50% from Beyond

The Arc that is not that is not easy to do especially not on the Lakers fam you know so we can’t just sweep that under the rug and say still trade them can’t especially now that I think about it they’re trying to fleece us because guess what they still want a first-

Round pick on top of DLo and z round picks that’s a little too much we shouldn’t pay that Laker tax we should find Fringe trades listen if we can somehow get tyus Jones and Daniel Gafford I’m happy because we we address two things we address the backup point

Guard position and the backup big man or or starting big man xad whatever they decide to do there but van has been a huge Revelation man V has been a huge Revelation Ricardo said Dan I’m surprised you falling for this DLo Act is not an act if it’s eight games in

Counting bro he almost broke his own record for being for three-point shots tonight 8 for 13 is not an act bro that you can’t you cannot stumble upon 8 for 13 from Beyond The Ark and not only that but again we’re going up against a good perimeter defensive team they got Caruso

And he scorched them man so that tells me he can do it against anybody his confidence right now even the commentators are saying the basket is looking like the ocean right now you can just throw it in from anywhere uh uh let’s see here DLo carried us third game he’s been playing

Great he’s been playing you at the end end of the day you know we all want this team to to play great basketball and one game it doesn’t cut it for me I’m not out here waving the flags and [ __ ] but I am excited that I get to see glimpses of

What this team could potentially become DLo has now taken Austin Reed spot as the third best player on the team last month it was Austin rezon the month before that this month Head and Shoulders has been D’Angelo Russell and sometimes he’s even looking like the second best player on the team right

That is huge that is huge especially if he can get comfortable remember there’s been cases like Shany bips who are late bloomers in their career and end up being Allstars that could be D’Angelo’s already a onetime Allstar he could be a multi-time All-Star if he discovers his

Form and he gets comfortable within the offensive schemes and same thing LeBron James and AD are going to Feast if they have an actual weapon out there sniping for them right that’s what I want people to understand it’s not so much about keep just keeping deal it’s about what

It does for ad and for LeBron James and for the rest of the team guys were able to get open shots right guys were able to get open shots because of D’Angelo Russell’s heat check right now that’s just the facts you know no I’m telling you I love the

Way this kid is playing right now he won me back over that doesn’t happen often with me because I’m very you know I’m very assertive when it comes to decision making like I I listen if you would have asked me a week ago if we should straight still trade D’Angelo Russell I

Say yes but this game solidifies it all for me and we talked about it again on around the league yesterday and even yesterday I was still team tra D still even even up to yesterday this was the game that officially changed my mind why I already told you why it’s been about

Eight games this dude has been doing it he did it again against back-to-back teams that play good defense in the perimeter so he’s he’s proven to me that it’s not just against fluke teams which is what I thought he was going to do I thought tonight he was going to go back

To scoring 15 to you know anywhere between 10 10 to 15 points and and have a poor efficiency night wrong he balled out guys and you you have to if you’re the front office you also can’t be stuck in your ways let’s just say they’re currently in trade talks with Atlanta

I’m calling them back and I’m like listen you guys don’t want D’Angelo Russell anyway if we can work out a deal for Theon Murray without giving up AR or DLo let’s figure that out you guys do want the draft pick ultimately that’s the asset they want in return a draft

Pick if we can do one draft pick and throw in a couple of second round picks and some expiring contracts here and there and we can get a third team involved just to reroute let’s just say they don’t want gab Vince’s contract just make the salary work if they can do

That I’m still for dejon Murray same thing for Bruce Brown either one of those two could help us fill some voids here um I’m still for a trade and like I said if that is no longer a viable option then I’m turning around and I’m

Looking at at at you know third teams to see if we can make direct trades with them I’m talk listen it sounds like we have a great relationship with Washington they’re always in the trade rumors I’m hitting them up man I’m hting up Washington what what is it going to

Take to get you know obviously you guys are tanking you guys just fire your head coach you’re probably they’re probably going to be sellers they’re probably giving up Clues and everybody so I’m hitting up Washington and I’m saying okay let me get Daniel Gafford and and

And uh and the little point guard off of y’all man let me get let me go both of those guys and that’s gonna help this team out tremendously I promise you that especially if you don’t have to give up key pieces man that’s how I feel about that appreciate the Super Chat lamba

Thank you bro even though I disagree with you now um let’s see here is DLo contract that has him being moved yeah I understand about the the contract situation but if he feels comfortable here and we go into the summer we still have his bird rights which means we

Could offer him the most if he plays like this even in the summer I have no doubt that the Lakers and D’Angelo Russell will reup if for some reason he disappears he either comes back cheaper or he finds a new home and and then yeah it’ll hurt but we’re trying to win a

Championship now and if this guy is going to discover his form and and he’s going to play Peak career Prime basketball which he me he did mention um in training camp that this was the prime of his career career this month is looking like he’s starting to discover

His form so I’m right there man I’m right there man uh my guy said yo Dan shirt idea the dowlo don’t trade me tour shirt uh waiting is uh stats from the last seven eight games we’ll see man we got to run it by Chris he’s very busy

Right now so I’m not sure if he has time but there’s a lot of there’s a lot of shirt ideas floating out there right now and there’s there’s a lot of stuff we still haven’t dropped so uh stay tuned for that but we did drop some bangers if

Y’all haven’t checked those out go check him out uh he said dowlo and Murray together is cool though all I want man all I want is the Lakers to win and what I see now that V is healthy and that D’s playing career type basketball is that

Why mess that up right if you can add to it instead of subtracting right when we’re struggling and he was struggling clearly it’s common sense that I wanted to throw his name in into the trade rumors because I thought of last year right I had PTSD of the Western

Conference finals and what he did there and I was like if that’s going to carry on to this year then peace out but right now he’s showing a lot of heart and he’s doing it during the hardest time to play good which is a trade deadline because

Nobody wants to get traded uh one 123 says you’re entitled to a change of heart Dan I’ll tell you you know what I have never had a change of heart about a player once I wanted him trading this is the first time in the history of me

Being a Laker fan now I’ve had a change of heart after a trade that has happened like after we traded for Russell Westbrook and I saw he had a poor attitude um then I immediately regretted that decision but but I’ve it’s never happened before the trade deadline and now it has so

Credit to DeAngelo man you gotta give credit to to his hard work is paying off and and what he’s doing does not go un notied like I said I’ve told you guys I love D’Angelo Russell I’m not a DLo hater we got court we got shirts on

Court Kings uh you know what I’m saying uh with D’Angelo Russell on them you know the the icy DLo dunk poster dunk from earlier in the season so clearly we got love for this young cat but it it’s all about production here in Los Angeles it’s never nothing personal and right

Now he’s given us the best production you might argue that these last eight games he has been the best player it hasn’t been LeBron or Anthony Davis it has not it has actually been d’angel Russell if we’re talking about efficiency and production on the offensive and him now defensively that’s

A different story but offensively if listen you can look up you can Overlook any defensive deficiencies if somebody’s playing this bad defens I mean this good def offensively right just like with curry Curry’s not the best defender but if he’s scorching the Nets ain’t nobody talking about his poor defense right I

Am because I’m a curry hater and I don’t like his play style but in general I’m just talking in general nobody’s talking about his poor defense you find a way to mask that and we have players that can help mask and we can get more players

That can help mask the poor defensive uh deficiencies from these players like Austin and like D’Angelo Russell lamba appreciate you bro thank you thank you man he said I like DLo but Murray can play defense also I feel you on that but when Murray can’t do a Scorch the nets

For eight straight games like D’Angelo just did and let’s just say D’Angelo cools off the next couple of games if he goes on another you know five to eight game teror again it’s just gonna help us so much same thing in the playoffs if he let’s just say he doesn’t do this every

Playoff game but if he does this every other game it’ll help us tremendously we know LeBron’s going to turn up in the playoffs we know ad is gonna turn up we know Reeves is a killer in the playoffs we know V is gonna be an xfactor in the

Playoffs if DLo can bottle this and just say okay you know what this is the player I am I finally discovered who I am at the age of 28 years old Shany BBS did it in his 30s Steve Nash did it in his 30s everybody’s on a different timeline

Not everybody is who they’re going to become at the right a at the same age right some guys are killers at the age of 21 some 25 some 28 some 30s Steve Nash had his MVP seasons in his 30s so we have to look at this and say oh snap

Can dowlo finally be you know paying off for for for what we thought he was when he got drafted this is why I thought d’angel Russell would be when we drafted him this is who we all thought he would be but sometimes it takes time and and I

Just hope he can sustain and continue to build off of it right but I think the confidence let’s just say he survives the trade deadline Lakers don’t trade him his confidence is gonna be peing he’s gonna feel Untouchable and I think it’s going to lead to even better

Basketball play but that’s just pure speculation it could change it could change right but right now it just feels great man uh Lakers over everything says this all just gives me vibes balling out because it’s their contract year Vibes how many guys do that get the bag and

Then fall off I’m just scared after the deadline he goes back to what’s been well I’ll tell you what if if he’s not gonna get the bag if he plays like crap in the playoffs again so actually what you said bro supports my argument because that is the insurance policy

That he’s got to ball out even in the postseason even all year wrong all year long right he’s gotta ball out because if he wants the bag he’s he’s gonna get a huge discount from any team if he doesn’t ball the heck out period right he’s gonna look

Uh and another thing you gota love about D’Angelo he’s been a great team player so postgame D’Angelo says on Jared vanderbelt make sure y’all give Vandal some love he played his ass off tonight that’s what I like about him man and the locker room he’s good for the locker

Room as well you know even when he was off the bench he was definitely cheering on his teammate so we got to give him props for that uh let’s see here muray is going to be our biggest What if after the trade deadline look Antonio the Hawks do not want D’Angelo Russell

Anyways he doesn’t fit their schemes for whatever reason so we can maybe still find a way figure out a way to get that deal off without giving up DLo or Austin in my opinion I think there there could be an outside way again if we were heading shoulders above the

Competition I’m sure they could rework with us I’m sure they could man we just got to make the salaries match and and of course we’re going to have to give give up a draft pick but it’s going to be all worth it I’m a big fan of dejonte

Murray man you know I’m a big fan of dejon Murray I’d still love to acquire him same thing for Bruce Brown defensively I’m a huge fan of his huge fan of his but you can’t trade a player who’s on the verge of potentially breaking out for his career uh you know

What I’m saying like you can’t you can’t trade that right now it will make us look imagine he goes whever team he goes to and he starts averaging this for the rest of his career it’s like the Lakers had him when he was peing and they gave

Him up too early you know what I’m saying so I just personally me I don’t I don’t feel like that’s a that’s a real issue my guy LOE says Nah you misunderstood what I was saying I’m not saying he’s playing for the B I’m saying he’s balling out because of the trade

Deadline similar to the way guys oh okay I see what you mean Hey Hey listen LOE man it’d be a pleasure to have you on board if you want to come in and chop it up with your with your boy man it’s a lot easier to do it in person than than

In you know what I’m saying than over the chat so I can send you the link and if you want in go ahead bro I I’ll post it right here if you do want in all right give me one second let’s see see if I could post it

Here my guy said Dan we have to build a team that can beat the Nuggets if we can’t beat them we can’t beat anybody did you guys see what happened to the Nuggets today the Knicks demolish them they’re not unbeatable yo they’re definitely not unbeatable at all right here’s the thing

Here’s the thing we cannot build a team just to beat one team when there’s other people that are coming out in the Western Conference and and doing you know crazy stuff as well like like there’s other team we got to worry about and by the way this link is only for LOE

So if anybody else tries to join I’m not going to bring you up on the stream uh but if El does want to tap in there’s a link for you bro right in the chat uh but thank you so much for Super Chat bro

But I I do agree with you that we have to improve the team right I get that and I think there’s still plenty of ways to do it Lakers just have to get creative heck our biggest improvements may come from the bio market and there’s still a

Chance that the Lakers still end up trading DLo but maybe you have to give up less assets all I’m saying all I’m saying is that this kid has won me over it is not easy to get have your name thrown into the fire pit of the trade

Deadline into all these rumors and to put your head down and do what he’s been been doing this month 26 points per game because his name has been thrown into the trade rumors since December since like since the December what was it December something people already we all

Couldn’t wait for the date to come right we all couldn’t wait for that date to happen uh when his contract was tradable right so I’m telling you right now man especially with Vanderbilt the way he has um kind of starting to look healthy again right the way he’s starting to

Look healthy I think you have to you have to feel like this team is about to make a run however I agree with you guys in one sense and I’ve always said this we still need to make trades that hasn’t changed but the only thing I’m changing

My stance from is DLo has to be the piece that moves he doesn’t that’s all I’m saying there’s ways around it there’s ways around it I’m sure the Lakers will figure it out but I’d be shocked at this point if the Lakers do include D’Angelo Russell like I’d be

Extremely shocked like because he’s I’m telling you guys man some players sometimes it takes them years to discover who they truly are and to fully to fully uh develop that that that skill set all the way right now the way he’s playing is making everybody else play

Better I don’t know if you realized everybody else was knocking down their shots as well everybody else was uh you know the game of basketball is infectious so if your lead guard is doing that the rest of the players are going to do it as well they’re gonna

Move the rock they’re gonna do things uh that are going to improve this roster I I absolutely love the way he’s playing all right now I want to know from the chat right now before I bring my guy in it says is not connected he’s trying to

Connect right now um but before I bring in my guy I want to know chat are you guys still in favor of trading D’Angelo Russell or have you guys had a change your heart like your boy some of you guys already didn’t want to trade him so credit to you guys

But I want to know fire emojis if you guys still want to trade them and then ice cube emojis I know they’re in there somewhere you got to find them Ice Cube emojis if y’all want Mr ice in his veins to stay I want to hear from the majority

Of the chat that’s what I want to hear right now I want to see what the majority thinks right now that’s what I want to know right and I expect to see a lot of ice cubicles but if I don’t I’ll be surprised but still I think this

Front office is is going to do its best to improve this team moving forward without giving up you know key pieces I think so I think so now there’s still some people that still want to trade them that’s fair that’s fair you know some people think it’s still Fool’s Gold

That’s fair but I’m just telling you I’ve seen too many times in players careers they’re starting to Peak and they get traded at the wrong time and the new team really benefits from this player that’s about to Peak and I that could be the the you know that could be the case with

D’Angelo and I’m not willing to risk that at this point if he Peaks I want him to Peak with us if he turns into an allar like a consistent one I want that to happen here on the Lakers we drafted him he’s one of ours we’ve always had

Mad love for him guys he’s averaging 26 points per game shooting damn near 50% from Beyond The Arc like basically it’s 50 it’s 49 point something he shooting that means half of the shots this man is launching are going in ladies and gentlemen that’s not something you could

Just scoff at that’s not something you could just say oh not enough of a sample size we’re talking about let me look at the exact stat but this guy right here man he is going just absolutely nuts he’s going bonkers right now uh here it is okay so during December obviously he

Was shooting 32% from Beyond The Arc that’s not ideal it’s not the worst but it’s not ideal it’s like below average in January ladies and gentlemen d’angel Russell is is 39 out of 88 out of 81 that is 8 48.1% that’s damn you can call it 50

Let’s split it and call it 50% right there let’s just split it and call it 50% princess Dan would you do ruy gabes contract in top four protected pick for for Murray and sadique Bay or a conu hell yeah especially if we can get a

Wing like sadik Bay in return I do it bro and I love ruie but if you can get the jante Murray you keep Austin you keep D’Angelo and you know what I’m saying if it’s it’s a top protective pick it’s going to hurt but gab’s

Contract would be a plus to get rid of as well yeah I do that that’s that’s actually a good proposal does it work have you tried on the trade machine I’m not sure what the x is and those with the money but let’s see uh ad and capella would be

Nicer the only thing about capella is people do not want his contract y’all looked at his contract go take a peek it’s like a horror movie Man people are afraid of his contract me personally I’m not afraid of any contracts if we’re in win now mode right not afraid of any

Single contracts but hey it is what it is all right let’s bring in my guy eloe man I’d love to hear his opinion on this whole situation I know he was like me he was pro trade dowlo but let’s see if he’s had a change of heart or not and

Let’s hear why here he goes what’s up what’s up man Mr Bleacher Report himself okay I see youcome it man it Lakers W man Lakers W let’s go big win big win and it feels good to get it doesn’t it it feels good to get a win even you know what I’m

Saying even uh you know no matter what the team is people are saying it’s the bulls the bulls have sneaked up on teams right so feels good to have it so let me ask you brother are you still team treade DLo or are you team keep them oh

Man it’s tough man it’s tough but like I was telling you I I I just I got to see a little bit more I know it’s been eight games he’s on a tear I want to see how we look doing this uh doing this road

Trip man right now I’m still yes I still think that that um I still think we need Murray um just for what he does what he can do defensively because even though DLo bought out tonight man you look at you look at uh uh what what white and

And Caruso did man they they they they scored a lot of points man on that back court so I’m just looking at it say you’re playing uh you know say you’re playing Denver or say you’re playing Phoenix or teams like that you know um I I don’t we’re not going to be able

To outshoot those teams we’re going have to play defense man right um I rather I want to build my identity on defense not you know not making eight threes every night you know no right all right so I do believe I do believe that there’s

There’s a way that we can you know make FR trades and and and Shore up our defense there’s there’s gonna be a lot of sellers LOE there’s gonna be a lot of teams like Washington that are looking to get up from you know under contracts just or are looking to either aggregate

Draft picks right um is there anybody out there that you would love to add to this team besides dejon Murray yeah yeah I mean you mentioned it obviously the obvious answer is Bruce brown right because you pair him now if you pair Bruce brown with this version of DLo

Then you got something I like that a lot man I like our chances um you know stopping those other guards you know the sgas and all those cats right dearon Fox and Malik monk those guys right that that’s just my fear just with Austin and dowlo um you know I don’t think we’re

Going to be able to outscore our our back courts going to be able to outscore or a lot of these other you know compe competitive teams they’re back courts you know so um again that’s why I still right now I’m still leaning towards Murray like I said that could change I

Know he got you I need a little bit more time man I need a little bit more time let me see how we look against Boston next week right and New York and New York this this Grammy trip and then um if DLo balls out like this and we could

Kind of clean things up and inserting uh V in there right um that definitely will help but but you know I I don’t want to wear vand down man that’s because it’s that’s that’s going to be a lot for him to cover you know so I still think we

Need somebody here but Bruce Brown to answer your question yeah Bruce Brown is definitely one of those guys Bruce Brown would be great to have man and and I actually think you know he’s both of those players are still attainable like am I crazy to think that jonay Murray

They didn’t even want D’Angelo Russell in the first place and we got other contracts that could fill in you know for the trade so I think the main piece that that the Hawks want to get is draft picks we have one right if we throw in a

Couple of seconds and maybe a Young Piece they they might do it I’m still for it and I agree I’m a big huge dejonte Murray fan I think you know this dude has a Killer Instinct some people were saying that he doesn’t have what it takes based off of the clapback I don’t

Know if he saw around the league but it they most definitely do you know he he has a dog in him and I think actually think the clapback displays that dog you know right I agree uh how do you feel about the Jean Tim is he built for La

Man what do you feel about his game he plays with a chip on the shoulder he he has some attitude he has that dog in him so and that’s definitely something this team needs um you know we need we need a guy who brings that dog

You know we got him you know we got Austin you know you got a couple but we I think jante fits in perfectly that Atlanta thing I I agree with you that didn’t him triping clapping back in fans that didn’t bother me at all it just

Screamed you guys said it last time on the around League it just screamed he wants out of Atlanta right he’s tired of being in Atlanta and he’s tired of being attacked you know and being the skate if you will so um and if I’m him I’m not playing defense either over there right

Right the team they’re they’re terrible they a lot of it is because they shoot so many bad shots you know that’s why their defense is the way it is but I think he’ll be dialed in he’ll be REM motivated here in La um you know and I

Think he’ll get back to that that defense you know that defens of dog that he was in San Antonio I definitely think he’s built for La I I love to have him listen people forget he played for Greg papovich and he took over the starting job of Tony Parker how somebody you took

Over the starting job of a Hall of Famer and he even told it on his podcast on a podcast man he said that he didn’t feel like Tony Parker was happy that’s why he went to Charlotte but he remembers when they you know papovich sat both Tony

Parker and him in the room and told him it’s your job now you know what I’m saying and uh that’s that that screams to me just an absolute Beast so I would love that I’ve always been a fan of his and something else that people don’t

Realize I was we know he made that second all NBA team right he only averaged like 21 minutes that year how do you make the all NBA team second team averaging 21 minutes like come on man that that tells you and you don’t just lose that that come on you don’t get

There by fluke and that doesn’t just you don’t just lose it you know in the span of a few years it’s just he’s not motivated on that end because the team Atlanta they don’t play defense you know so it’s justo shoot shoot jack up shot

So I mean I don’t blame him but um yeah what you said you know that’s crazy man him him taking a job from Parker that that’s wild I mean that shows he has that dog in him most kids would be happy just to be mentored but he wanted that

The Reigns right right now let me ask you this would you be willing to trade ruy in a package to get the jeon Murray oh yeah for sure if they if that could get it done then yeah definitely definitely you’re able to keep uh keep DLo and keep uh Keep

Austin also um yeah I’m doing that all day every day if that could get it done um let’s see you you put in ruy you throw in what TP right like you said you know with Van the way he’s playing you know that makes TP a little more

Expendable um yeah man if you if that can get it done then yeah for sure yeah absolutely you you got to look at your main assets for sure especially if ru’s being being uh underutilized for sure now bah bayah Knox here says D’Angelo uh Russell has a player option and so I

Understand that that might scare some people away from holding on to him but when somebody’s this hot right you have to understand you have nothing to lose because if he leaves us in free agency he’s probably not going to make the same amount of money uh elsewhere than he

Could have here we have his bird rights we can go over the cap to resign him right uh if he leaves us he he better make sure that he he had a career year the rest of the way like if he averages 26 points per game then I think it’s a

Real threat that he’ll leave us just because of the tradeit rumors and stuff right but see I think DLo is eventually going to cool down but my think is the biggest reason why I see the light with D’Angelos because just by having a shooting threat out there like d we

Haven’t had that and all of LeBron and ad’s career here with the Lakers D’Angelo now becomes the best shooter we’ve had since right so just by having a a weapon like that in my opinion and this is the main reason I want to keep him besides him scorching the net uh I

Want to keep him because he’s a weapon and he’s going to open up things for both LeBron and ad and anybody who’s slashing or attacking from the mid range on in right because now you got to stay onus I don’t know if you noticed uh you

Know uh uh what’s his name AO I like that guy’s name AO dumo bro he’s a elite he’s a great defender in this league he picked up D’Angelo Russell now in the past when D wasn’t scorching the net he probably would have had a smaller guard

On him like Caruso or somebody else they actually put one of the lankier guys on him which means it freed up guys like torian Prince for wide open shots ruy Le R and everybody else see so that’s what I like about d’angel Russell is that he’s becoming a a real threat to the

League they’re now have to do their scouting on him what what’s that gonna do for LeBron ad what’s that gonna do for Reeves right it’s gonna open up things for others so for me I’m right there with you I do still want dejon I think he should still be primary target

But let’s just say we back out and we say we don’t want to trade DLo is there a way to to get him without including Reeves or DLo and they say no now I’m going and trying to get Colin sexon now I’m going out there trying to get Bruce

Brown I’m I’m trying to get other options I do believe we have other options right so that’s how I feel about that bro and and I do I have had a change of heart which rarely happens just because I see the passion in this

Kid I see that he wants to stay here you know and he’s built for this if he wants to stay here he’s built for this right Kobe Bryan said it best when he said got rest so he said we shouldn’t have to beg players to want to play here right and

That’s what I see with DLo man I got me hype tonight he’s over here hitting the flex he’s out here getting on fire and just embracing the crowd and I’m like he’s bill this [ __ ] man so so what if what if they they keep them and like I

Was saying in the chat um I think we got a little Mis miscommunication there but what if it’s like you know we see this all the time in guys with their contract years right where they ball out for that for the the contract then you give them

The contract then they kind of fall off and it’s like now we’re trying to move them you know attach pcks to move the contract what if that’s what this is not saying Do’s balling for a contract but he’s balling to stay here because he does let’s be honest DLo bounced around

You know like you said yesterday more than Kim K right he’s that man is bouncing all around so um what if he’s doing that to stay and then you know we keep him and then he kind of reverts then what like what what how you feel if

That happens you know if he goes back to the dowlo in in in in you know December and November that DLo well here’s the thing is that basketball is a sport of Risk Takers right I think uh Dr Jerry bus late great Dr Jerry but said it best

You have to take risks and uh that that very well could happen I’m not saying that you know I’m saying that that can’t happen and there’s actually a probability I say it’s 50-50 that happens but let let me give you the flip the coin flip of that let’s just say we

Make the de jante Murray trade we gave up D’Angelo he gets routed to the Nets he has a career year with the Nets he ends up becoming a 25 Point per game scorer for the rest of his career at least in his prime and and then on top

Of that I’m not saying that’s likely but let’s just say this is where doomsday scenario for leg then we gave up a draft pick and a young talented ass it and then we get the jonay Murray here and it doesn’t work out like we thought he was

So there’s always a risk both sides of the coin flip right I think what the Lakers have to do now is play with their Fringe assets which is their last first round pick uh it’s people have a misconception that if we trade this pick we don’t have picks in between right we

Have either 25th 2025 or 2024 we have either one whichever one the Pelicans opt not to take we have uh 27 is it 26 28 30 and Beyond so that we have one like almost every other year right on top of that once LeBron and AD their

Contracts come off the books we have all this cap space so I never worry about stuff like this bro just because it’s the Lakers we’re always gonna have talent here and and there’s always gonna want be somebody out there that wants a piece like D’Angelo Russell I don’t

Think it’s hard to trade them the only thing is right now I think the league is trying to figure out who is a buyer and who is a seller I I think the Lakers have to be buyers in this trade deadline they have to because you know what I’m

Saying what if we give up the best shooting threat we’ve had in the last five years or so and then he goes and he shines elsewhere and we bring in De jante and we still got to work him into the offense and it doesn’t work like we

Thought it did right you’d be giving up a little too much and my phone’s going crazy right now my apologies but but yeah bro like bottom line is it’s a risk either way in my opinion right so so you either gonna believe in the player or

You could choose to to just use his track record and you know brush off all this whole hot but personally me when was the last time we saw this type of hot streak right I’ll tell you when was the last time we saw this type of hot

Streak Lyn sanity Jeremy Lynn that was the last time we saw somebody get hot like this right and then the rest of his career wasn’t the same but my point is if Jeremy Lynn had stayed with the Knicks under Mike dantony he might have had a better career you know I mean he

Made the choice to leave you know what I’m saying and and and that ultimately ended up costing him I think that’s what D’Angelo Russell has to see like bro if you’re figuring something something out here with the Lakers you’re never going to get this many open shots playing with

You’re not going to play with a LeBron and an ad this is the best place for him right now for his personal career so if he walks in free agency so be it I’m willing to risk that personally but that’s just me I respect your opinion

Bro I was right there with you just yesterday I was like Trey DLo I got you know he hasn’t done it against Elite teams all this you know right right and for me like I said it’s they’re about to go on this trip what six game Road Trip

Let’s let’s see how they looked on the road trip and you know then I I’ll probably you know if he balls out the ball out then we win that’s my thing we got to win we got to go on the street D could drop 40 at night but if we’re

Playing 500 basketball it ain’t gonna do no good you know so yeah but anyway thanks for having me on man let me go ahead and finish your show man always bro by the way go ahead and Shout yourself out before you go this guy’s doing big things so go subscribe to his

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Love Hey listen listen this guy right here man he’s doing big things go follow him man show him mad love I wanted to talk to him personally because you know it’s good to see from a different perspective I was right there with him yesterday we were talking about how we

Should still ship him off but I’ll be honest man um the last time I saw a hot streak like this was Lin sanity and he kept it up the whole year so I think a player can get hot and can find themselves and their confidence can grow

Immens if you’re a Hooper you know exactly what I’m talking about your confidence can grow immensely and take it to the next level I say it’s worth keeping around personally that’s just me though uh passport Blackheart thank you so much for Super Chat brother said I don’t care DLo isn’t a winning piece

He’s shown flashes like this before playoffs come and downhill he goes here’s the difference though the difference is right now he’s having this last eight game uh shooting streak he has having career he’s putting up career numbers right so we haven’t seen this version of him he like you said he’s

Shown flashes but he hasn’t been able to sustain it for more than two to three games throughout his career and then he’ll have another you know subpar a low two to three games this is the first time I have seen this guy go off like

This he’s on a Lin sanity type of run right now honestly and that is a huge asset to have because you still have a superstar in Lebron you still have ad you still got Reeves and he’s peing at the right time right before the trade

Deadline so it’s going to work in one of two ways either’s going to build up his trade value and they’re going to flip him and have to give up less so it’s still going to benefit the Lakers one way or the other or they’re gonna hold

On to him he’s going to continue to have this Allstar caliber season and is goingon to pay dividends come playoff time and moving forward in his career potentially with the Lakers so it’s a coin flip I respect both sides I’ve been on both sides of this coin flip but

Right now man after what I saw tonight the passion the heart he almost broke uh you know his three-point shooting Mark of eight he was about to get nine I don’t know why Darin benon when he was the hottest to me that’s your worst enemy right there and kudos to me the GM

Because he always calls out Darin for that but man it’s just uh it’s just crazy man uh but thank you so much for Super Chat my guy Mark says I love this show great job as always dtlf I appreciate you man and it’s you know we

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