LeBron & Malik
Laker Film Room - Dedicated to the Study of Lakers Basketball
Pete Zayas
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🗓️ 5 January 2022
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LeBron James and Malik Monk came up huge down the stretch of the 4th quarter in a come from behind win over the Kings on Tuesday night, giving the Lakers their 3rd straight win in the process. Pete, Mike, and Darius discuss the game, focusing on Monk and LeBron's partnership and how Monk's offensive skill set allows him to thrive in the two-man game actions the team ran to close out the win. Later, the guys dive deeper into Monk's role and debate whether he should stay in the starting lineup when Anthony Davis returns.
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| 0:00.0 | What do you think about the Laker team now? |
| 0:03.4 | You follow the box scores of the games every day? |
| 0:06.0 | Just the Lakers. |
| 0:07.3 | You're kidding. |
| 0:08.6 | That is really a compliment. |
| 0:12.8 | I was pleased to see you smile at the top bar show because once the game starts, you have a game face. |
| 0:17.8 | You don't smile much out there. |
| 0:20.4 | I don't think you have to do things for money anymore. |
| 0:22.9 | Correct. |
| 0:23.6 | What's up, Laker fans? Welcome to the Laker Film Room podcast, brought you by the Blue Wire Podcast Network. I'm Pete, joined by Darius and Mike. And last night, the Lakers beat the Sacramento Kings 122 to 114. And based on the talent levels of available guys of each teams, that sounds like about |
| 0:39.2 | what we should have won by in a home game. But I thought the details of it were especially |
| 0:43.9 | interesting. We didn't shoot particularly well for most of that game. And Dearen Fox's jumper was |
| 0:49.6 | hitting. Buddy Heald caught one a little bit. He hit seven threes. And so I was actually pretty |
| 0:55.7 | happy with that win and nothing more than the fourth quarter, the two-man game between LeBron |
| 1:01.3 | James and Malik Monk. This is something that really we're building toward the playoffs. That's what |
| 1:06.7 | the regular season is for. And you've got to find certain things that work here and there. |
| 1:12.3 | And D, back in Cleveland, LeBron and Kyrie Irving used to run two-man game. A lot of the last five |
| 1:17.9 | minutes of the NBA is really two guys on one side of the court that are really tough to guard |
| 1:23.1 | with the other three ready to react on the other side of the court to however the defense |
| 1:26.6 | reacts to them. With the two-man game of Monk and LeBron, what stands out to me so much about that is the versatility of Monk. We know what LeBron can do. We've seen this for years and years. But Darius, Monk does not defer to LeBron. If the defense is overplaying toward LeBron or gives him a little bit of an edge, |
| 1:45.8 | he's like, I will absolutely keep the ball. I will absolutely attack. And I will score on you. |
| 1:50.7 | And he did that last night. Talk to me about what you see from just a really blossoming two-man |
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