What is wrong with the Lakers? + Pistons Powering Up
The Athletic NBA Daily
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🗓️ 25 March 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
The Lakers continue to struggle after a loss in Orlando, how can they bounce back? Es Baraheni and Isaac Gutierrez of the Deep 3 Podcast discuss which trends are real, and which are just a product of March in the NBA. Then, the Athletic’s Hunter Patterson joins to discuss the Detroit Pistons and who they’d want to play in the first round + what has led to the turnaround for Detroit.
Host: Es Baraheni
With: Isaac Gutierrez and Hunter Patterson
Executive Producer: Andrew Schlecht
Audio Producer: Grayson Moody
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| 0:42.6 | Good morning and welcome to the Athletic NBA Daily. |
| 0:47.0 | Coming up, we've got Isaac Guterres coming on from the Deep Three podcast. |
| 0:52.0 | We're going to talk about Devin Booker, hitting a game winner, and the Sun's winning four in a row. |
| 1:13.3 | We've got Hunter Patterson coming on to talk about the Pistons. Let's break it down. Good morning, Isaac. How you doing? Good morning, everybody else, watching another crazy night in the NBA. I know it's kind of the dog days, if you will, but it's March. |
| 1:14.3 | It's March basketball. |
| 1:20.5 | And I thought it'd be a fun way to talk about this night by doing a segment called, is it March or not? |
| 1:22.2 | Basically, is it real or not? |
| 1:25.1 | Do we believe in what's happening on the court right now for some of these teams? Isaac, I want to start with the Sons. All right. Sons win four in a row. They just beat the Milwaukee Bucks. No, Damian Lillard for Milwaukee in this one, but it was the KD show. He dropped 38 points. He was awesome throughout this game another great game for kevin durant |
| 1:45.4 | and then devon booker hits the game winner uh with about like 1.5 seconds left to seal the deal here |
| 1:51.1 | so suns win four in a row is that real or is it just march basketball well i mean four wins are |
| 1:59.9 | on the schedule they are in the column true it's real to that extent yeah |
| 2:03.7 | i'm always hesitant with march basketball for all the reasons you mentioned you know the fakes |
| 2:08.5 | time in the NBA calendar half the league if you watch the schedule every night is almost unwatchable |
| 2:13.5 | with the mad tanking we had a hilarious game today with pelicans versus 76ers, which I won't even tell you who was starting those lineups. |
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