It's the Lockdown Podcast Network, your team every day. Welcome everybody to the lockdown Lakers podcast. I'm in the near one. I am joined by you guys. Like I said yesterday and heading into this week,

Pete and I switched up the days. So yesterday, Pete and I reacted to last night or by the time you guys are listening to this a couple nights ago the Lakers beating the rockets to even up the series at 1.1 that was a really fun show and I thought in terms of the matchup I think it's a fascinating one just because I think from

game to game you're really going to see some pretty clear varying approaches and differing

approaches from whether it's players or the coaches and it makes

for a wildly fascinating series. I mean you always hear in boxing right you always hear styles make fights and in this

one this is about as as clashing two styles you're going to see in the NBA

right now where obviously I mean this has been

said a bunch but Houston is is not just are they small but they also play slow

would think small and they would be flying up and down the court and taking shots

as quickly as possible but they actually they actually try to stand around as much as possible, but they actually try to stand around as much as possible to, you know, so that they can

rest on the court and so that Mike Dantoni can continue to play a short rotation.

Whereas the Lakers, as you saw last night,

especially in the fourth quarter,

when they get out and run, there's just nothing Houston can do

to deter them from it.

I think right now,

LeBron James is now shooting or making his shots

at the highest clip in the league right now, in the key key and that's a pretty good sign

as you know for I myself had some questions about his athleticism but if he's finishing at

the rim right now he's at 75 76% at the rim right now he's at by 75 76% at the rim right now that means he's he's

elevating pretty well and and finishing you know albeit against a smaller Houston team, but Robert

Covington is is actually a pretty good rim protector.

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