A.

Coming in at 11.

4 bucks coming in nine and five.

They're both coming off losses, as we mentioned.

So perk.

Does tonight's game mean more to the Lakers or to the Bucks?

Well, it means more to the Bucks.

Is is definitely not the Lakers.

Rachel.

Look, The Lakers don't have nothing to prove.

They are the defending champs now.

The Bucks.

On the other hand, they have everything to prove.

They have a new Big Three and Drew holiday, and I hope it be a close game of possession by possession in the fourth quarter because I I'm ready to see the MVP take control of the game late in the fourth quarter and not just staying in the corners.

So this is everything for the Bucks.

This game means more for the Milwaukee Bucks.

I mean, yeah, obviously, perk is right.

I mean, the Lakers just won the championship, had a couple months off there and cruise control of the Bucks under enormous pressure to win, I think Perk perk.

Something interesting happened in that Bucks Nets game the other night, The Bucks used the honest, more like shock and Anthony Davis down the stretch.

That game, he was setting a ton of screens for Chris Middleton, Andrew Holiday, and I wonder if we see that become a much bigger part of their late game offense.

But I will say it's tempting.

It is to say it's Buck six bucks.

The Lakers are really a brand new team.

They have a lot of moving parts, a lot of new parts around LeBron in a d, and I would like to see them get up for this game.

Say, Okay, let's see what we can do against the really elite team.

A team that thinks they're on our level.

So I do think the Lakers, with all the new pieces they have, do you have a little something to prove against the best competition side?

It is the Bucks, but it's not a total landslide.

Well, Zach, I heard you on a recent podcast.

Go ahead, guys.

Perk.

Well, Rachel, I just wanna address Zach real quick, like the numbers on the house.

Okay, listen, please do not ever disrespect the great Shaquille O Neal or Anthony Davis like that because you could go to both for them down the stretch late in the fourth quarter.

If you want a bucket, you can't do that for you, honest.

So come on, Zack.

You was on the road when you started to grin with me.

Then you threw me off towards the end.

All right?

My bad.

Rachel looks like a butterfly.

I know.

I just wanted to ask act something else.

The perk.

I know you're very interested in Zach.

I heard you on a recent podcast talking about who Yannis was guarding at the end of the game.

And I know that that is one of perks.

Favorite topics.

So, Zack, why don't you go first and I will let perk bring that home.

Well, I watched that whole bucks nets, you know, Flash ballgame.

Everybody wants to see it.

And I don't see honest guard Kevin Durant at all.

Kevin Durant is doing crazy damage over floor.

You honest is over there on Jeff Green and I get the point of it.

Yannis can help Mawr.

He's in the corner, so he's closer to the rim at some point at some time.

If the Bucks want to win the championship they're going to get into a playoff series where Yanis is going to have to guard Kevin Durant or LeBron or CO y or Jayson Tatum or on and on.

And I would just like to see them like Dip.

The sky's the defensive player of the year.

Let him guard Kevin Durant for 20 possessions just to see what happens.

I want to see it.

They're going to need to do it at some point.

Yeah, but Zack, look, you can't say Let him guard him.

Look, Yannis is the defense of player of the year and he's the MVP winner from last season.

He all he has to do is going to huddle and say, You know what?

I got him.

I watched Kevin Garnett do it.

I watched Kevin Durant do it.

I watch LeBron James do it.

Look, this is the problem I have right now, Zach.

And yes, I'm beefing with you today.

I don't know why you still my friend, but the problem I have with you is that when we want to jump last year you argued me down about why you was you know, basically riding with John is for defensive player.

of the year and I told you then Yanis do not guard anyone.

All he does is act like a free safety and want to protect the basket.

No, I want to see you sit down and actually take pride and go go up the best player for once in a while.

Don't just put you holiday on Kevin Durant and say, I'm gonna be a helper or Chris Middleton.

Chris Middleton was guarding him for most of the game and you're right, Perk.

It's not just on Mike Budenholzer.

I mean, Yannis is the M V P.

When you're of that stature, when your stature is such that your organization just a few months ago turned everything upside down just to get your signature on a piece of paper, you can go up to the coach and say, I got him and we just haven't seen that, and it's It's one of the it's just it's becoming strange.

We've been talking about this since the conference finals two years ago when you didn't guard Kawhi Leonard all it's it's time to see a little bit of it.

I think.

Alright, perk has gotten that out of the system.

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