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What a weekend I mean hockey NBA Phil Nicholson soccer if you love sports it was one of the great TV weekends in a year I mean it was just a couple of years it was absolutely fantastic and joy Taylor is joining me one hour from now where Colin was right where Colin was wrong I watched as much television outside of an NFL season as

I have watched in years yeah it was a great weekend the couch got a lot of usage well my house is being torn down so I didn't have the couch I laid in bed all weekend either way okay so let's start what are you making this weekend does it matter does it not matter

Okay, let's just talk Laker Sunslet start there. That's the biggest brand in the NBA Laker fans. Here's the reality with Anthony Davis

celebrate when he's great and tolerate when he's not that's who he is the good news is I still like the Lakers and the series is far from over of the many things LeBron James will go in the record books for LeBron has won 60% of his playoff series when he lost the first game all time the NBA percentage is 21%

so he's three times better remember the sons were favored in this game they're not favored in the series they were favored yesterday the Lakers are favored in the series why were they favored well the sons have been off for a week they were the

better rested team their younger had a ton of energy it was the first playoff game for Phoenix in 11 years you could feel the intensity and the juice in the arena

Phoenix at home this was a celebration of a once-proud franchise now the series simmers down both teams are equally rested Chris Paul's not 100% and Anthony Davis who's never been highly motivated just wildly talented has always

need to be pushed and prodded and he is because he was so bad we've all worked with an Anthony Davis in our life somebody that's super talented but doesn't have a ton of fire you gotta kind of light a fire under him as the old saying will Anthony Davis admitting after last night's game

yeah I was terrible I'm horrible I'll be back by the way Anthony Davis who was the best high school player in the country and then let Kentucky to a national championship as a freshman and has been marvelously talented forever should never have the worst plus minus in any basketball game he ever plays

in he not only did nobody was close he was awful but I do think he'll be the key factor going forward and I think the Lakers win the series why Deandre eightons a very talented big for Phoenix

sons are small but he's only 23 I don't believe he's going to lock down a D for the series and the sons don't have a lot of bigs their backup center appears to be Dario

I didn't know he was a center six six J Crowders another one of their biggest guys listen they're talented but they're not big and now Anthony Davis is motivated which you have to

poke and prod him in light of fire to get the best out of them that's reality but when you get to a playoff series it's always been a book not a pamphlet

season you're just handing out flyers not a lot of depth messages in long you look at a little tape team just flew into town

that's not what a playoff series is a playoff series is a book with chapters every chapter can be different and the broad James has been in a lot of these playoff

series and Frank Vogel has been in a lot of these playoff series so regular season this happens all the time but the idea that Phoenix is going to beat the Lakers

four times in the next 10 12 days I don't buy it I don't think they have the experience I don't think they have the size and that's okay nice win for Phoenix

they deserve it I grew up in the Phoenix sons were fantastic they beat my sonics regularly in fact the last time I cried during sports may have been the sons beating my sonics

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