One thing I learned about the Los Angeles Lakers this season, Austin Reeves is a true star. No more caveats. No more. This is one of the best bench players in the league. This is a sneaky, good starter, six men of the year. Awesome third option, better third option than XYZ. This is an all-star player. This is a building block superstar in the making. Obviously, superstars generous. But this is a building block that we should build around for the next five years with Luca Donchich. I think we've seen him ascend these conversations year after year. He succeeded in so many play types, so many team roles and constructions, so many different things have been asked of him. Now he's being asked to be the one option with Luca and LeBronher. He's dropping 50. He's getting 16 assists the next game, hitting game winners over, Gobert.

He answers the call every single time.

And I just think this time we recognize him as a true star, top five shooting guard in the league. Okay. Yeah. Top five shooting guard. That's stamped. The top three of Teflon. Fourth best shooting guard in the league. Best stamped. Okay. In my opinion, I would take him over Desmond Bain right now.

I would take him over Jalen Brown right now.

Yeah.

And I guess so if we agree that Austin Reeves is cleage as this guy and is playing an all-star pace, I feel very good about the state of the Lakers. One thing I've learned is that when LeBron and Luca are healthy, I feel pretty vindicated to my optimism for this team. DeAndreighton, that's played pretty goddamn well. in pretty much all the ways I thought he would. I think I'm not going to take any victory laps yet on DeAndre Aden,

but through five games, it's looking exactly like I said, it would, 18th best starting center league, whatever, very good, all-around player. He's been playing really good rim defense. Not the most mobile active defender to plug holes, but he locked up a bonus, has outplayeded Gobert twice, looks very good when he's in position. Offplayed Gobert. He revounds for game, Gober. I know. Hang the Ben and we didn't mention it. Gobert also looks like shit. He also looks like he lost his stuff again. We forgot talking about that. Two rules. But nevertheless, he's looked good defensively. He is rebounding fine. He's not going to be the best rebound in the world, obviously. And the mid-range scoring has been a real impact thing.

And in the one game you have has been a real impact thing.

And in the one game he had with Luca before he got hurt when they figured out, the Lopteret stuff looked pretty real. Feel good there. I feel pretty good about La Ravia. I feel pretty good about smart. I feel pretty good about every single spot. So once LeBron comes in, I feel like we're going to be able to see low usage LeBron,

especially with Austin Reeves ascending that can focus on defense and plug a lot of holes there. This team's going to be really goddamn good, I think. Yeah, I said it on our stream. Monday, two TD3 lives. Tap in 430 central time. Live every single Monday. I said that, yo, we've been looking for the next Jalen Brunton type player.

Someone was going to take that type of leap within their team. Last year, we thought about, we thought if it was going to be someone like Andrew Nemhard, he was heavy in those conversations in terms of like, okay, we know you're good, but are you like next level good? Austin Reeves has been there in front of our faces for the fucking longest. and we we just been seeing this undrafted rookie, undrafted by choice, by the way,

undrafted rookie a couple of years ago, just continued to ascend to insane degrees.

Last year, we watched him drop 38, 37.

I remember he gave, I think, the idiot, a pace is like 45 points on a random night in 2025 towards the back half of the season.

He's just so damn good and he's clearly like one of the best ball handler in the league.

When you compare him, when we have like a overall guard conversation and seeing where he ranks,

I start to feel like very uncomfortable because of the type of conversations that he's

forced himself into. Like now I'm looking at him and I look at someone like Deerrin Fox and I'm like

would I rather have on my team. That's a fun combo. I look at him and I look at someone like not

maybe Darius Gar and I'm like what I'd rather have on my team you have to think about

it austin reegis has forced himself into your mind he can't no longer look at him as if he's just

like a good complimentary piece no he is the piece yeah i think we're seeing like he's cape like the fact

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