ESPN's Dave McMenamin and Kendra Andrews

The Woj Pod

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4.6 • 722 Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2022

⏱️ 41 minutes

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ESPN's Dave McMenamin joins The Woj Pod to discuss the Lakers' freefall, Russell Westbrook, LeBron James and what the franchise can do in the offseason. Plus, ESPN's Kendra Andrews on the Golden State Warriors. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, everyone. Welcome into another edition of the WojPod here with Dave McMinneman,
0:07.9	ESPN's Lakers writer, NBA reporter at ESPN. And Dave, we are here in the Shadows of Crypto.com
0:17.2	arena. I'm still getting used to saying that. It still feels like it's like somewhere the Raiders would play.
0:22.9	That's fair.
0:24.2	Yeah, it's kind of like when the calendar changes over and you fill out a check and you still
0:29.2	write the wrong year on it.
0:30.3	Yeah.
0:30.6	I get caught saying staples all the time.
0:32.4	Yeah, yeah.
0:33.1	But the Lakers, Dave at 27 and 35. They've lost 11 of 14.
0:38.9	They've lost four in a row.
0:40.2	They haven't just lost four in a row this week here in L.A., Dave.
0:44.7	They've gotten drilled.
0:45.9	They're not competitive right now.
0:48.1	And it is alarming.
0:50.3	It is alarming to watch each night, especially at home, where you have got to find a way to win some home games.
0:56.4	And earlier in the year when they went through the soft part of their schedule and they're losing to the Kings and the thunder and you go, they're going to pay for that.
1:04.4	And now playoff teams like Dallas and the Clippers who are a better team than they are right now they're struggling to even stay in
1:14.1	games and and it feels dave like they are in a free fall they are they're tumbling quickly the belief factor
1:22.7	you just don't see it out there right now and unless they find a way to stay in the moment
1:29.1	it's going to be even harder because if you look ahead they have the second hardest strength
1:34.2	of schedule from here until april 10th they go on the road now for most of the month of march the 10th
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