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Pete Zayas. This is not going to be one of those shows where I even try to get

Pete to laugh at it because it was I'm in that same spot that Pete's usually in

after a game like that. It was just it was a it was frustrating in very

predictable ways. I wrote before the before the game happened and I promised

Pete at some point you'll get to talk but I I wrote before the game happened

that Luke has has somehow not figured out how to stagger minutes when the team absolutely needs to.

So get ready for Lance Stevenson at Point Guard minutes, even though there's a very viable way for the Lakers to have either Rajan Rondo or

Lance Stevenson on the court and lo and behold that's kind of...

You mean Brandon Ingram you mean?

What I say?

Lance Stevenson. Oh yeah So Rondo or Stevenson.

Yeah, either.

Either. That game made both of us stupid.

Raj on Rondo or Brandon Ingram should have been on the court at every minute of last night's game and yet they weren't.

And like for, look, you and I, I think you and I have done a pretty good job of keeping things

fair as it pertains to Luke Walton but this is effing madening like I'm not supposed to cuss and I'm supposed to avoid it at all times but that's

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