It's the Lockdown Podcast podcast. I'm Anthony Erwin. I'm joined by Pete Zayas Pete the Los Angeles

Lakers are a two-one in a second round series as the Milwaukee bucks and all of their regular season hardware

are going on home. God that feels good. This was an amazing day and it was boy we that was such a joyful second half

especially. It was a masterpiece by LeBron it was a masterpiece by LeBron.

It was a masterpiece by Rondo,

and it was, above all else, a masterpiece on defense

in the second half.

That was us at our very best when we're locked in and we're flying all over the place

and we're that conquering horde right that just our rotations are closed out like to me defense defense, this is, this sounds like such a like,

oh, I love basketball and I'm very smart type thing, right?

Like, but like defense is what makes basketball fun.

Like if you watch the All-star game it's not as entertaining

right when the guys aren't like really trying but that that we just saw and it's not

just like because I root for the Lakers right when so for example the clippers turned it up though that

they got a level defensively for sure but the clippers did that to Denver in the night

before right where they just turned the screws on them defensively

and it's like, yeah, that's a really nice basketball.

But we've got like a different gear

and a different version of that,

and the rockets present a different problem.

But that was just when we play defense like that, man,

we're the best defensive team in the league.

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