Shumpert - LeBron ECLIPSES MJ With Lakers Championship!!

Spurs game. So, we're going to go ahead

and look at some high Oh, we're doing

Lakers. My bad. It's not what it says

here. Uh Lakers holding off the Rockets,

taking it a two nothing series lead.

10194. LeBron James, there's not enough

you could say at this point. 28 points,

eight rebounds, seven assists. Marcus

Smart had 25. Kevin Durant was back and

had 23, but nine turnovers. Uh the two

nothing series lead in a sort of a

landscape where there are a lot of one-

ones right now. I don't know if it's

shocking. I don't know if you expected

it. You were at the game last night.

What'd you see, Aman?

>> Uh, I think that the Rockets got hit

with a game plan that they weren't ready

for. I'm not sure what EA was telling

his guys, but once they saw the double

team, I saw Kevin Durant accept a double

team, which then led to a usually a

unaggressive pass. And the filling guy

usually was Sangon. Sangon also was

seeing a double team. And it was like

play after play, possession after

possession. We saw the Rockets look

mindboggled by the fact that there were

two guys getting double teamed on the

floor. Nobody else became aggressive

within space. Everybody tried to get

aggressive, shoot a three here and

there, go at the end of the shot clock,

but nobody played within space

understanding the concept that those two

guys were facing the double team. And I

think if they can't get that adjustment

ready for the go in game three, they

need to be more concerned with how many

games they might win in this series.

Yeah, a agree with Shump. Like I I

watched Houston last night and it looked

like they were waiting to see what was

going to happen instead of being

prepared for how for what the Lakers

were going to do. Like they still were

playing ISO basketball. Um defensively

they they ran and jumped LeBron a little

bit, but it was no assertive effort.

Like if you have Austin Reeves and you

got Luca off the floor, you got to start

doing any meeny mighty mo. Which one of

these guys are we going to take out? It

should have been Luke Canard. Luke

Canard was still able to have some

success in this game last night. like

they didn't take away any options on the

defensive end and on the offensive end

they still were stagnant. The Lakers

were running guys to uh to Kevin Durant,

running guys to Singon and uh like Shump

just said they just didn't adjust well

to it and they just relied on jump shot

ability. Like every once in a while KD

would attack the double team and go

downhill and try to get to the rim, but

other than that it just were no

adjustments. I thought JJ did a great

job of giving them different looks and

made and and he made an adjust well to

it. That's what I saw. Yeah, you got to

give credit to JJ Reic, right? Like this

was a huge adjustment. You know how good

and how capable Kevin Durant is as an

offensive player and even early on he

got going. He was, you know, he was

shooting over double teams, getting to

his mid-range and then they just stopped

that and they kept forcing him toward to

the guy that was coming to trap him and

it was brilliant. And the Rockets

offense, it reminds me a lot of the

Knicks offense where it's just a lot of

heavy ISO. It's just it's so predictable

and it's easy to guard. When you just

have Jaylen Brunson, Kevin Durant kind

of bringing the ball up at the top of

the key pick and roll. It just gives the

defense a chance to to to kind of blitz

that pick and roll and then the Lakers

are okay with Josh Kogi and Tari East

and these guys having to beat them and

make shots.

>> Iman, you won a title in 2016 with

LeBron. You sort of talked about this

before these games even started and now

that the Lakers are up 2, it's sort of

the conversation becomes even more

relevant. If somehow someway this Lakers

team and it looks like Austin Reeves has

begun a little protocol coming back,

Luca will start as well with some

encourt stuff. If LeBron James wins a

title with this Lakers team, is that his

greatest accomplishment?

>> Hold on now.

>> No, I'm saying it's like a hypothetical.

We may not talk to himself. No, it's

>> all right. No. All right. Um Well, I I

will say this though. I don't believe

that's what we're witnessing right now.

If he does do that, yes, I don't think,

and I'm a Jordan guy, I do not think I

can put something over uh putting a

career together like he's had, having

the longevity that he's had, uh, and

then winning championships after we are

all saying this, this team is not it.

He's passed his prime. He's a little too

old. the health conversation comes into

play and now he's outlasting guys late

in the season. Uh yeah, I would have to

give it to him at this point.

>> I think we all can agree on this. We

didn't expect him to be up two zero in

this series with those Yeah, we didn't

we didn't expect that. So, you got to

give credit where it's due. At 41 years

old, this guy continues to evolve and do

what's necessary to get his teams into a

position to win. Like Marcus Smart was

able to throw in 25 last night. Luke

Canard, he threw in another 23. Like,

he's put those guys in a position where

they can be successful. They're not

playing out of body. They're they're not

asking him to do anything that they're

not used to doing. They're just doing it

at a high level. And because of that,

LeBron James is able to be a natural

point guard like he always has been.

He's always been somebody that can

manage games, that can manage the

offense and the defense. But to bring

these guys along for the ride for him,

to put them in positions to be

successful, man. And to have, you know,

he didn't have his most efficient night,

but he managed that game from tip off to

to when the game was over. It's just

it's incredible to see at this at this

juncture um of his career, but to see

the impact that the other guys around

him is having based on how he's playing

was incredible to see.

>> Yeah. We keep talking about his age. I

don't care if he's 28, 29 years old

years years old, he is still so good and

so effective and has so much production

value on any team in any role. Think

about this year before the season

started. We said, "Yeah, he might be the

third option of this team and everyone

thought it was crazy." Then Austin

Reeves started off and LeBron was

perfectly cool with that. Then through

the injuries and everything that

happened, he had he had opportunities

where he was the go-to guy and he was

had to be aggressive score. Then he was

kind of that point forward team USA

point guard to get everyone involved.

Now he's taken and then he at one point

he was diving all over the floor as the

best defender. Like he has put on every

hat this season as arguably one of the

greatest players if not the greatest

player of all time. And no role has been

too small. No role has been too big. He

wants to win. He's committed to JJ Reic

and this team and it's showing like look

at look at the series that Luke Canard

is having who by the way is a free

summer.

>> Uh oh.

>> We're going to get a little bag. Marcus

Smart playing well. Like he makes

everyone around him better throughout

the season. Jake Laavia had a great part

of the season where he was on a tear.

like that. It's all because LeBron James

impact and what he has done this season.

I don't care how how old the age is.

It's just crazy that we haven't seen him

slow down at all.

>> Yeah.

>> I think the biggest thing I think the

biggest thing uh that I took away from

that last night and I love what Lou said

as far as LeBron controlling the tempo