Good morning and welcome to the NBA Daily.

Coming up, the Lakers lost to the Warriors in a big pivotal matchup for playoff seating.

So Yovon Buha is here to hang out and talk about it.

And I sat down with Marcus Thompson to talk about Draymond

Green's chances at winning defense player of the year.

Good morning, everybody. Good morning. Actually, good night, Yovine. I appreciate you hanging out.

Post game. The Lakers, they lose to the visiting

Warriors. It is not the game that the Lakers wanted to have. I'm sure they definitely wanted to win this

one. They're five and five in their last 10, kind of scuffling a little bit. The Warriors are

ascending and actually now have a chance to really pass them in the standings by the time it's all said and done.

What's your big takeaway from the night for the Lakers?

You know, a lot of Warriors talk is going to be out there, the defense that they played.

But for the Lakers, you know, what do you think about them?

I think this is the blueprint of how you want to attack the Lakers in the playoffs.

I think defensively, you want to switch a lot.

They have really struggled since the Luca trade with their offense against switch-heavy teams.

They tend to mismatch hunt.

And on nights when their jumper is falling,

which actually especially late in the game

as they were trying to make that comeback, it started to fall.

But for the most part, it was not falling for the first three quarters.

They can stagnate and they can settle for contested jumpers.

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