The Offensive Explosion, Dwindling Lakers, Trades, and the Top of the West

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🗓️ 30 January 2024

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Zach and ESPN's Chiney Ogwumike discuss the offensive explosion around the league, the Jalen Green situation in Houston, the Lakers-Rockets fracas and the Lakers up and down play, Doc Rivers first game as Bucks coach, Wolves, Thunder, trade talk across the league, and more. Then ESPN's Kendrick Perkins joins to talk about the struggling Heat, pitch a wild trade idea, Zach LaVine, Pistons, much more. Feels like it's not going to happen for the Lakers (4:42) Defense is not dead (15:15) Are there any rule changes that could slow the scoring? (19:43) Vanderbilt ejection- Brooks push (28:52) Should the Rockets trade Jalen Green?!? (30:45) Defensive 5 seconds (38:15) Wolves-OKC (41:42) Bucks with Doc (51:39) Pelicans (55:10) Perk (58:48) Time to trade Jimmy Butler? (59:29) LaVine to the Pistons?!? (1:09:01) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	And now the low post.
0:04.0	Welcome to the low post podcast. It's Tuesday morning and oh my God
0:10.0	What a Monday night in the NBA what a weekend in the NBA? What a weekend in the NBA.
0:14.0	Even leaving aside like the Warriors Lakers double overtime game feels like five days ago.
0:18.0	Chanei Guma Kay, how are you?
0:20.0	We're here. We're in the building.
0:22.0	I'm back baby. Let's go
0:23.1	Got the Rockets gear on speaking of the Rockets. Here's just a partial list of
0:27.6	topics that I want to hit from last night.
0:29.7	Um, Jared Vanderbilt got ejected after appearing to give Dylan Brooks a wet willy and among other things.
0:37.7	And the Lakers lost again.
0:40.0	Cam Whitmore out hustled, I think nine different Lakers for loose balls and rebounds and exploded through them like the Kool-Aid man and just dunked and dunked and dunked again on the Lakers' faces. We had two elite versus elite games, the
0:56.0	wolves exercising some fourth quarter demons winning in Oklahoma City and the
1:01.6	Denver Nuggets a defending champs, completing a trifecta of wins against
1:06.0	Boston, Philly, Milwaukee, the top three in the east by ruining Doc Rivers' debut.
1:10.1	And Chennai, I liked those games.
1:11.9	You know why I liked those games?
1:14.0	Why? Because after all of this whining, offense is out of control.
1:20.4	All these guys score 70 every game. I remember back in my day when 40 was big news.
1:26.2	And those complaints are not without a mirror. We're going to talk about the scoring explosion.
1:29.7	But the Wolves Thunder game and the Nuggets Bucks game were reminders,
1:35.0	Oh, when you get two serious teams together,
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