Hello, Lakers Nation. Welcome to the Lakers Nation.com podcast. I'm Trevor Lane.

Joining me tonight is Ron Gutterman. We are live, our first live, official live show,

since the postgame pressers. Want to jump on here and get involved here with the chat.

Talk a little Lakers basketball, Lakers offseason, the most fascinating team of the summer. We got a lot to get into tonight. We will get into a regular live

schedule as we progress forward, but still waiting for the conference finals to play out and all

of that right now. Speaking of which, the Knicks did take a 2-0 lead over the Cavs. I don't

know if the Cavs are going to be able to fight back or not in that series. I think the next may be headed to the NBA finals. But Ron, how you doing? Happy to have you here. Doing great. Happy to be in for the first for the first official live show of the off season. Yeah, we got a lot to get into. Obviously, we'll talk a little bit about LeBron's latest comments. We'll talk about what we think the Lakers need to really focus on this offseason. Of course, we'll be taking questions and comments from the chat, doing a little Q&A here. But I guess let's start here, Ron, so LeBron on the Mind the Game podcast, did say this about the Lakers

against the Thunder and why the Lakers lost in the second round to OKC.

He said we were not outworked.

They didn't out physical us.

They didn't outsmart us.

I feel like we were just out talented by OKC.

They just possess so much more talent.

I guess before we dig any deeper, is he wrong in saying this?

No, I don't think at all.

I don't think in any part of this.

I think the Lakers played about as well and about as hard of a series as they could have played

against the Thunder.

They were just severely outmatched, especially withoutuka i'm not i'm not even sure with luka it's like that much better of a fight but it it's you know especially without him there was no chance okay so and i'm in agreement that the lakers did not have the the talent level to compete with the. But then what's the implication here, I think is the more interesting piece to this

is when he says, we were not worked, they didn't, they, it's not like they just played tougher.

We needed to man up.

He said they didn't outsmart us.

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