Episode 23: The Lakers Go Up 3-1 and Sam Vecenie Joins to Talk Bronny James to USC
Mostly Hoops with Mark Titus and Co.
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4.7 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 9 May 2023
⏱️ 107 minutes
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Summary
Sam Vecenie is a Senior Writer at The Athletic covering the NBA and the NBA Draft. He also hosts the Game Theory Podcast talking all things basketball and more. He joins the program to talk Bronny James to USC, Victor Wembanyama, the rest of the prospects in the upcoming NBA Draft, and a whole lot more (37:08-1:20:56). In other basketball news, the Lakers, led by Lonnie Walker and Austin Reaves, have a commanding 3-1 lead over the Warriors, Nikola Jokic shoved the Suns owner, the 76ers held off the Celtics to tie their series 2-2, and the Heat might be the darkhorse left in the playoffs. Every series has awesome storylines, and once again the NBA playoffs are delivering way above expectations. Mark and TJ also talk the Bob Huggins situation that broke yesterday, and bring on Junior Editor Kody to explain his first run in with the Barstool news cycle. Follow Sam Vecenie on Twitter @Sam_Vecenie We'll be back with a new episode Thursday as we continue our offseason schedule of Tuesday/Thursday uploads. Thanks to our sponsors: HelloFresh: Go to https://HelloFresh.com/marktitus16 and use code marktitus16 for 16 free meals plus free shipping! Gametime: Download the Gametime app or go to https://barstool.link/GametimeApp, enter your email, and redeem code TITUS for $20 off your first purchase (terms apply). Astroflav: Visit https://Astroflav.com/barstool for a FREE 2 Week Trial. Just pay shipping. Follow the show on all socials @MarkTitusShow
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, barstool listeners, you can find every episode of this show on Apple podcasts, Spotify, or YouTube. |
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| 0:08.2 | On today's episode of the Mark Titus show, just as everyone predicted, Lonnie Walker, the fourth has led the Los Angeles |
| 0:15.1 | Lakers to a three one series lead over the warriors. |
| 0:19.6 | What again, we just got done watching Lonnie Walker go bananas in the fourth quarter. |
| 0:23.2 | It felt like the warriors were, I wouldn't say destined to pull out a win, but it just felt like the basketball |
| 0:28.3 | gods knew that this was going to be an awesome series and, and, you know, it felt like the best way to |
| 0:33.5 | write the script would be to have Steph Curry play out of his mind and lead Golden State to a win to tie the |
| 0:38.0 | series and take it back to Golden State's home court. |
| 0:41.3 | That seemed to be what the script called for for most of this game. |
| 0:44.0 | And then Lonnie Walker showed up in the fourth quarter and said, watch this. |
| 0:48.4 | Who had this on their scouting report and played the fourth quarter of his life. |
| 0:52.2 | And now the Lakers are up three one, which should be a comfortable lead. |
| 0:55.8 | But wouldn't that be something if LeBron and company now squandered the three one lead against the |
| 1:01.2 | warriors? I don't know. We'll see. |
| 1:03.7 | But the Lakers go up three one, which I certainly did not see coming. |
| 1:06.6 | I mean, I'm not exactly shocked if the Lakers are, if they do, in fact, finish this off in advance, |
| 1:11.8 | that would not be a shock. |
| 1:12.9 | But I just assumed the warriors would get it done tonight. |
| 1:17.4 | And they did not and very, very bizarre decisions down the stretch from the |
| 1:22.0 | warriors, championship DNA back on the fraud power rankings, perhaps. |
| 1:26.2 | Meanwhile, the James Harden roller coasters back on top after another brilliant |
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