Warriors-Kings & Lakers-Pelicans Reaction: "Dynasty Over", Lakers-Nuggets picks | Colin Cowherd NBA

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is officially. and lands with a thud as the Warriors smoke. I thought they would play a really competitive game. You know, they rested a lot of their key players for this game against Sacramento, but Sacramento last year, a lot of people thought they would beat. Warriors The Warriors had seven games, one last harra, but you saw Wiggins tonight, he's just not the same player Clay I'm talking about now, 0 for 10, he had a very good April, he was a big part of why the Warriors They had a very good April and I did a Mad Dash, a lot of winds on the way to get back to this.

Draymond and Clay were great, but I think you know that's how warrior dynasties are meant to end. I mean, I can remember vividly, you know? Will Brady stay in New England? Will he leave? In his last season there, he got shot during a loss and he's on the bench screaming years of frustration after losing Randy Moss Edelman and Grank are getting older and just can't draft. and develop the next receiver and he's screaming on the bench. Could any of you open up? Could someone open up? Well, of course they couldn't, and the Patriots still don't have a wide receiver who can get open.

I know, it's possession receivers, the players are limited and that's how it all ends and then Brady knows, okay, I'm going to go get Mike Evans and Chris Godwin, take down groon, get AB, bring in Leonard Fett, you know, I have an offensive coach, Bruce. ares and just easier and if you watch the dubs now you know last year they had that series against Sacramento, you feel good about that, what could have been, they beat us, but you know Wiggins hasn't been the same player since the year championship over Boston it hasn't been the same player some personal things I've read several things I don't know what it is I don't care it's not the same player Clay had a very good late march in April for the Warriors It's not the same player, so you know I mean, I think you just have to disconnect from what was, you know, a great 10 or 12 year streak is over, so I think if you stay with Steph Curry, you stay with Draymond Green, you stay with the pods and if you have to move a lot I don't care if it's Kaminga Looney Davis to get a legit big, do what you have to do.

I'm not sure if Carl Anthony Towns is the right guy. I think Minnesota is going to do it. they fight in their series against Phoenix, they move away from Carl Anthony's cities, potentially they won't move from goar um and maybe that's the guy, maybe in two years it'll be Giannis, but I think it's over and, you know, this night it was just Sacramento getting very good looks. I mean, they were making their free throws, they were making their threes and they were looking very, very good, and you know, I think for the last two years we've felt like Step has to carry the team and he's still a brilliant basketball player. . player, but when players get to be 30 or older, I mean even LeBron is now notable in big games, but you're not going to get 72 games out of these guys in back-to-back, uh, greatness, so finish the de the way you'd think it ends with an ugly loss and the Warriors looking a little small, a little old and a little out of their element, uh, I never have, I've always thought Sacramento is a poor man. boss and if you take the Celtics and all the players are not that good but you have four good players that would be the Kings, you know, instead of Tatum, Brown, Porzingis and Drew Holiday, you have Harrison Barnes, Dear, Fox and and sabog sabonis and Keegan Murray and they are good players.

Fox is really good, but I feel like you know Boston hasn't won a title yet and I think they have four better starters. Sacramento is a good team in a tougher conference. but I don't see them. I have never seen them as a team that is going to win multiple series. I think Phoenix, Denver's best, is more talented. I think Dallas is absolutely on fire. I think the Lakers would beat them. I imagine myself as a Golden State Warrior. I think Steve Cerr would love to have him around. I think they ran. It felt like they ran halfway. the offense through him in April to get him as many looks as they could, but whoever the Warriors get, they have to get someone who is on Steph's timeline.

Kaminga is about two years away from Davis, maybe three years, but they have to get someone. that's on Steph's timeline, I think they'll move a lot of their length and get a legitimate BigTime star, maybe a third team will get involved, but that's where we stand in terms of the Lakers, so the Lakers , like we said, I thought they would win by about six seven points, they matched up very well with the Pelicans now they had a horrible time in the third they didn't start very well they had a great second quarter they did well then in the third and the fourth uh kind of They fell apart, but I think my conclusion on this is that this is where LeBron is like no other player, uh, from my friend Nick Wright.

LeBron James has won nine straight Do or Die games, whether it's a plan game or a game seven if you count the season tournament, it's like he's won 12 in a row or 133 in a row. I said it very early in the season because of the age of the Lakers and their main playmakers, LeBron, who is very old, that if it were the NCAA tournament, I think the Lakers would get to the championship game and then lose against Denver or Boston, but in a one-game scenario, this is why the NBA's seven-game first-round series is ridiculous, it punishes aging legends, who are always the drivers of NBA ratings. the NBA.

I mean the reason Caitlyn Clark is one of the reasons she got numbers this was a rematch she came into the tournament we knew the story they lost last year here they come back they face South Carolina you mean 90% of Hollywood money are remakes so it's these aging stars these stephs and these LeBron Kevin Durants they drive ratings in the NBA so why punish him with a seven game first round series with no urgency? So the Lakers in the season tournament won in their games with LeBron, they are three and 0 in games with LeBron and I have again won nine consecutive do-or-die games with LeBron and the Lakers did what they did, they came to the line a lot of free throws and they made their free throws because of the way Sacramento made their free throws.

The Lakers made their free throws and you. We're watching these games, these playoff games, the NBA is pretty clearly modified and I don't mind at all that he does this during the regular season, the NBA said, hey, let's let him play, let's speed up the pace of the game with less whistles which is a big benefit for old teams that doesn't benefit OKC that won't benefit young teams that will benefit older teams Miami in the East will probably benefit from that Boston's existence will benefit the Lakers will benefit OKC no, so I I thought the Lakers were a very good matchup with a I think Zion Williams Zion Williamson played the best game I've ever seen him play as a professional in a big game, this was a big game, he had 40 points and he just walked off the court. injury I guess I'm just absolutely frustrated, I have no idea what happened, but we've been waiting for Zion between the weight issues and the injuries, and that was the book on him when he got to the NBA, that was the book on him, It had so much torque. he had weight problems New Orleans is not a great city if you have weight problems, it is a night city with amazing food and so he struggled with that, but tonight is a great example of what Zion can do. power mismatch a lot of times and if you know that if he has a mismatch, you screw up a defensive assignment, he's facing a smaller guy or he's coming downhill dribbling into the lane, it's over LeBron is six eight and a half 69255 got a charge from Zion and wrinkled like a lawn chair LeBron just crashed to the ground it's like Adrien Peterson ran over a small corner in his prime and I thought Zion was fantastic, he was aggressive, he's never been a great outside shooter but he doesn't have to be, You know?

I think when you get to the playoffs, three balls, it can be valuable. I mean, the Warriors didn't score theirs tonight, the Kings did. I think he can be valuable, but I think you get into situational basketball and you have to lean in. on your strengths and I think Anthony Davis is going to take most of his shots and take most of them within 8 feet of the basketball. I agree with that and Zion Williamson is going to hit inside, not shoot much from outside. and create, you know, physical imbalances. I thought he was fantastic, he's the best I've ever seen him play in a big game and he hasn't been in a lot of big games, but the Lakers are a better team, they've gotten bigger. leads every time they played the Pelicans this year, this one they held for life.

D'Angelo Russell played well and we've talked about that since he was benched, he's been a good basketball player, you almost knew it at times when I watched the Lakers. tonight there was a, I forget which quarter was second or third, they took Le out. I think it was right before the half, they brought LeBron out and you're like, "Oh my God, what's going on? Darin, put him back in there, but how much can you play with LeBron?" so it's by far their best playmaker, Austin Reeves, he tries, but he's not the same athlete, but you know, cross your fingers if you're the Lakers, they get very sloppy, sometimes they unravel very quickly when LeBron takes his short respite um and they certainly did tonight he came back couldn't stop the bleeding or the momentum but they hold on and win so the Lakers uh once again with LeBron win a game Warrior's season is over and uh and it's again I think it's over like it should be over without debate make some moves move away from Wiggins probably Clay's last game it's okay all good things come to an end the trees don't grow to the sky it's okay we're all going to be okay even in the Bay Area, okay, the 82-game NBA preseason is in the books now it's time for real basketball the playoffs don't miss any of the playoff action draftking sports book the official sports betting partner of the NBA from the tournament to the ultimate draftking sportsbook has you covered, same games parlays, live betting odds boosts and much more, all you have to do, download the draftking sports betting app, you know, the drill It takes about 90 seconds, download the draftking sports betting app, enter the code Colin C L I N new customers bet $5, that's five dollars to get $200 in bonus bets and you get it instantly, you can't lose.

Cod is Colin only at the Draftking sportsbook. The crown is yours. I think the Lakers match up with the Nuggets pretty well in terms of size. um the difference is the fourth best player on any given night for the Denver Nuggets is Michael Porter who is a high school prodigy um who can score 28 points on any given night uh he now has championship experience and I think that's real. thing, uh, I think once you win the championship, every time I saw Denver on a big TV game and it was close, they just found ways to win and I saw that about a week ago they played the close game of the t- wolves and they just found a way to win, so it's the confidence of a championship team.

I think they have the best starting five along with Boston in the NBA and there are players on the Lakers who can disappear at times. I think he has talent, he can disappear. Anthony Davis can be hot and cold. offensively uh Lebron uh depending on whether his three-point shot is effective uh DLo as a playoff player has been uh at times terrible last year at times semi-effective. I know what I'm getting with Denver with the Lakers, it's a lot. "Crossing your fingers with D'Angelo Russell and Anthony Davis in two of three playoff games will give you a really good offensive effort, but sometimes it can also disappear, so I don't see the Lakers beating Denver four times, I think so ".

They'll beat him in one game, maybe they beat him twice, they can match him physically, but you know Joic doesn't have a lot of nights off and Jamaal Murray doesn't have a lot of nights off and Gordon brings that defense pretty much every game. Michael Porter It may be a little hot and cold, but you know Denver is champion for a reason and I guess they'll probably beat the Lakers in five or six, but you'll feel late in these games, that's where you'll see the difference. Yic is younger than Lebron and Jamal Murray offensively is more consistent than Anthony Davis and AD is happy for all the trouble you can give him and he still gets 30 points so I feel the consistency the championship will have.

Experience in Denver. An even tougher outing this year and I imagine they will extinguish the Lakers in about five or six, the games will be close, the Lakers will face them.