Lakers Lounge

JJ Redick has made the decision to keep Jarred Vanderbilt out of the rotation completely. Anthony and Khobi talk about the implications of this decision and whether it's something Redick should reconsider.

The Lakers lost in an all too familiar way, which has Anthony pulling out his hair for having to have the same conversation all over again. Please, JJ Redick, we're begging. Change up the starters.

Anthony once again notes the ways the Lakers are getting blown out and the specific problems that lead to these lopsided losses.

Austin struggled against length and athleticism again, so the familiar criticisms popped back up. Anthony addresses those criticisms (and doesn't necessarily disagree), but thinks Reaves' struggles are indicative of a flawed roster moreso than of Reaves' own shortcomings being some fatal flaw as a player.

Anthony answers some questions from the live audience and, in doing so, addresses Rich Paul's comments about the Lakers not being a championship organization. Those comments rang a little hollow seeing as LeBron and his camp butt heads with Pat Riley and the championship organization that the Heat was.

These episodes where Anthony and Harrison basically wandered around a subject like Rich Paul launching his new podcast with some Lakers takes are usually when they're at their best. So let's see how this one goes!

Seems like a bad idea!

LeBron spoke about Austin Reaves on his own podcast today and somehow that message (as well as James' own actions while playing with Reaves) is being ignored completely because it's more fun to dramatize what James might think about Reaves based on what his agent said on a podcast.

Anthony was traveling and had a bunch of pent-up takes he needed to fire off coming off that great Lakers road trip. This was a blast to record.

Anthony and Raj give their thoughts on the Playback platform shutting down, then dive into this most recent and successful Lakers road trip.