Reacting LIVE To Lakers' Media Day

[@StanleyFirmin]

DLo might be the most transparent nba player I've seen

[@theelementslook]

LeBron is an encyclopedia man. He’s such a great historian of the game and part of that is he obviously has a photographic memory. That Mutumbo moment was iconic.

[@StanleyFirmin]

Dlo dropped so many bombs 👀

[@rodneyjones2357]

The whole team needs to focus more on making layups and free throws.

[@MightbePettingmyCat]

3 sets of memorizing liberal talking points

[@Dana-ie2bh]

I think Cam Reddish will be much more stable this year. He looks like he gained some muscle and feels comfortable. Let's hope these guys can stay more injury free this year.

[@thedragonarmy4700]

He’s been on so many teams and hasn’t stuck anywhere in 7yrs. We need to be realistic with these guys and understand what they are. He’s not an nba caliber player.

[@christopherhirezi5686]

DLO gonna go crazy this season.

[@theelementslook]

D’Lo was also super accountable. Let’s not miss that!

[@appetizerssushi7121]

People are sweating 🥵 over AR like he’s better than Dlo, the other thing that AR is better at than Dlo is his contract

[@johnnydepo3201]

A convicted man says he’s guilty? What else can he say? He sucks!

[@theelementslook]

Rui’s English has gotten better.

[@tylercastanedaiii5651]

Preseason 💯 accountability by everyone come Postseason 0% Real talk.

[@justsomeonepassingby009]

If JJ is just an AVERAGE coach, we already improved so much. Just a matter of Pelinka willing to pull the trigger on a TRADE.

[@superdopehiphop]

One thing I noticed was LeBron saying “I have a lot left in the tank, a whole lot” or something like that. I feel like the only thing that would cause LeBron to retire in the next 3-4 yrs (assuming he’s still a top5-25 player in NBA which isn’t a given at his age/milage, but 2023-24 he was still a top6-12 type player) is if it’s required to be apart of Vegas ownership team. Another thing I noticed was Vando seemed very depressed/down 🤬🙄🤕

[@chefalexander334]

Somebody on the team needs to learn Japanese to impress Rui and call defensive sets on the floor for him to respond quicker. Become his literal Sensei!!

[@chrismowery4481]

Need more for kenecht

[@ben-mv6dv]

bron to AD, AD to bronny, bronny 4 three…bang!

[@Maxdesignpro-u6z]

🧢 😂😂

[@thetruckdrivinggamer2098]

@@Maxdesignpro-u6zyou mean “Clang” 😂

[@Maxdesignpro-u6z]

@@thetruckdrivinggamer2098 factual 😂

[@Fayn757]

Keep dreaming

[@brianlane6118]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@rodneyjones2357]

The jabs were just at ham

[@rodneyjones2357]

The team looks good an I think Jj and his coaching staff will get the best out of the team with LeBron still playing like he is.

[@chrismowery4481]

Kenecht not getting questions wow

[@danielmonroe905]

Austin’s got that golf tan on his arms 😂

[@cynthiaharris2561]

I love D-Low interview 🏀❤️🏀

[@theelementslook]

Trevor was just ready to say he felt bad for Dalton… lol. They literally asked them an equivalent number of questions… lol! 🙄

[@afuturemodern]

Jaxson Hayes is peak noble savage

[@StanleyFirmin]

a lot of accountability in these interviews 🥺💜💛

[@Fayn757]

There will be zero in December to February when the trade rumors start and the chemistry dies .

[@tylercastanedaiii5651]

You a Casual I see,. Preseason 💯 accountability by everyone come Postseason 0% Real talk.

[@antwainski]

These reporters after the first three questions for Bronny and Dalton SUCKKKK.

[@predimercury]

Maybe dlo is apologizing about that time he was eating in the bench while the others were in the huddle.

[@DBZeni]

Is it just me or has Rui's English gotten much better?

[@chrismowery4481]

Max couldn't keep still I think he was nervous

[@rodneyjones2357]

What time is the game Friday and will it be on tv?

[@dominicjherr]

Any shots by DLo, towards Lakers fans...subtle, or otherwise...are warranted. If you want to trash talk someone, expect the get back. 🤷🏿‍♂

[@MassiahProfit]

trev crying about the bronny questions is hilarious. you’re in the media brotha, shouldn’t be shocked or upset about it tbh. people ask questions to base articles around - who’s really clicking on an article about Dalton’s opinion of his potential role this season?

[@kidadaliburd5035]

Dalton has more muscles than Reaves

[@andraingram6953]

So I'm guessing the Lakers will shoot themselves out of alot game this season!

[@quentinseicappie1246]

😂yup we sure are.

[@BobbyLouxMusic]

Clearly Austin “noodle arms” Reaves, has not gained 15lbs of muscle this summer!!!🤣

[@MightbePettingmyCat]

same old same. 15lbs of muscle isn’t even possible in 3 months anyways

[@peteranders6893]

Thank god he hasn't put on 15 pounds of upper body muscles. It would have messed Austin up in more ways than just his shooting. Would have sunk a guy that lacks explosiveness and has such a low jumping height from stand still, which is due to a massive lack of strength in relation to body weight. If you care to actually understand why that is continue reading: There is something called the ESD - explosive strength deficit. You test for it with comparing long and slow contact times usually with like a depth jump and another from a hop. The greater the difference between the two, the lower your explosive strength deficit is assuming technique is not a problem. Now because Austin's technique is really really good, his speed is great and he aces all the speed drills, that really means any big discrepancy can only be due to his explosive strength deficit being very low. He trains for short contact times and speed a lot. So it makes sense. While that is fantastic for an advanced athlete it can also be a huge problem. When an athlete has worked a lot on speed and technique yet still lacks a lot of power, then you need to improve strength to improve the athlete. If a bball player lacks power, he can't switch direction as well as others, struggles with start and stop moves, can't explode with the attacker on defense, can't jam and recover, struggles fighting over a screen and or fails to jump high when loading up on it like on a rebound as apposed to running into a jump like cutting in to a dunk. That's all Austin for you. Improving strength is the right call. Last time Austin was on, he talked about the goal of the Lakers for him being hypertrophy and putting mass onto his upper body, because his lower body is comparatively fine in size. That was absolutely the worst assessment and game plan for Austin. More weight and less explosiveness, negative impact on shooting and speed. That would have made the stuff he is good at worse without helping the stuff he is bad at. In fact it would have hurt his game across the board to just put on muscle size. A guy like Austin will only get better, if you create a new baseline strength level. The problem there is that it takes a lot of time and is much harder to do than taking a guy with a lot of strength that lacks explosiveness and speed. In other words it a player has a big explosive strength deficit focusing on hot feet, shortening contact times, doing speed drills and plyometrics etc. will quickly improve a player. If a player lacks absolute strength instead and has gotten every last bit of athleticism out of their base strength level, you need them to squat and pull heavy. That fries the CNS and takes time. You'll also get fiber conversion with intermediary fibers becoming slower. Now this swings back when you train speed again, but it zaps a bit of explosiveness and you see and feel that as a player. So it's hard to convince someone that this is the right thing to do. Boxers frequently say that working on strength makes them slower. That's true in the short term. But it is necessary for long term development. But good luck explaining that to a player or boxer. Anyway absolute strength should be his focus and hypertrophy is generally a horrible idea in his situation. Explosiveness comes from strength / weight. If weight goes up and strength stays the same, good luck becoming more explosive or worse yet increasing your speed. I don't think lack of muscle mass is actually a problem for NBA players in general. We hear that all the time, but most of the time it seems to be absolute nonsense. Players like Austin are muscularly developed enough. Some guys are just a lot stronger and you can be a lot stronger at the same size like Anatoly vs. a lot of bodybuilders. Anatoly is stronger and able to do explosive feats of strength the bodybuilders he films can't do, because they weigh a lot more, but are a lot weaker. Austin lacks absolute strength and should focus on squats, heavy pulls and then progress into power cleans until the first day of practice. Cleans have a great carryover to on-field explosiveness, but absolute strength is better developed with heavy pulls and squats. Then once the season gets started he should go back to speed and balance drills and let himself recover and get into his best ever game shape about 6 weeks in. Most of the veterans ease into a season the same way, although too few utilize a strength focused approach.

[@peteranders6893]

@@dmitryowens for the typical 6'9'' guy? Yes. Look at the pics with him and Magic. Besides Magic having a bigger biceps and Bird wider shoulders (frame), they look pretty much identical. Bird was about 6'9'' and 225. Magic was about 6'8'5'' and 225. Did they move like MJ at 6'6 and 225? No. Would Michael have moved even better had he added 30 pounds of muscle? I highly doubt it. I mean of course Larry was muscular. Did you think Larry moved through space through osmosis and jumped by method of rocket propulsion built into his shoes? The misconception here is that 225 pounds at probably 15%BF is not an athletic build for a lanky 6'9'' guy. That's still 190 pounds of muscles. He also had really long arms, but you can't be unfit and get 24 points, while grabbing 10 rebounds per game in the NBA. Neither then nor now. Most people have no idea how fast and explosive the NBA really is. Every single one of those guys is a 1/10000 freak athlete. If someone stands out among them, they are probably at least middle of the pack. While he wasn't jumping over guys, he was also not just tall like Dirk Nowitzki. Let's put it this way. If you put 190 pounds of muscle mass on a regular 5'9'' guy, lighting from the top and put some oil on him, you got yourself a fitness influencer. Doesn't look as much stretched out to 6'9'', but it's definitely not the same as your average 6'9'' 280 pound guy with 35% fat. That guy has 10 less pounds of muscle on his frame than Larry did and will look very skinny in the arms and have a big belly. And even that guy is more muscular than a lot of people on the street are. It is fairly normal in America to be about 280-300 for guys between 5'8'' and 6'2''. And 40% BF is also quite normal. Those guys also have 10-20 pounds less muscle than Larry had, but they most definitely have the bigger biceps. On 6'9'' frame things stretch out quite a bit and you'd have to be at least 275ish to look really muscular. Austin isn't 6'9'' though. He is 6'5''. Competition goes up as height and reach goes down. Austin is almost exactly one inch shorter than the average NBA player. The guy needs to be very strong to compete. And he is not. You're not stopping Ant, Booker, Brunson, Brown, etc. if you are half as strong as them, even if your straight line speed isn't super far off. The difference in explosiveness is clear as day every time a great player switches on to Reaves. Either way being visibly big in muscle cross-section is unnecessary for most athletes. Strength, power and speed are not. for someone to be strong and powerful in relation to BW, they need to have some muscles. And muscle size does correlate with strength, but you can get a lot of strength without getting 200 grams of protein in and doing hypertrophy training. Again Anatoly and most powerlifters and weightlifters in the lower weight classes aren't tremendously bigger than normal people, they just have very low BF and extremely good coordination. Anatoly still looks like a Greek god without the cleaner outfit, but compared to regular bodybuilders with a decade under their belt, he seems downright tiny.

[@peteranders6893]

@@dmitryowens you keep saying very simple nonsense like it's some kind of revelation. We all know the relative size at the different positions, although you might want to check your PG facts. They seem to be from 5 years ago. PGs have gone up in size over the entire last decade, whereas centers have slightly decreased in size. And now look at yourself. You have 30 pounds less muscle on your body than Larry Bird had. What the hell are you talking about? You are a basketball nerd that doesn't even understand basketball very well. Slower. Again. For you. Larry Bird played and competed with some of the best big athletes that time had to offer and favorably so. If you think he was a random muscle less stick figure or something like that, who got by on intelligence and being crafty or some such nonsense, then you must be out of your mind. He was the same exact size Magic was. Google the photos. Do you look like that? If you walked into a college weight room with some of those regular Joe type basketball players you would be shocked to find they are more than 3 times as strong as you are. But it's probably their intelligence and shooting ability which lifts those massive weights. And Larry might have been one of the best shooters of his time and certainly wasn't unintelligent, but he was in fact a very good athlete, too. For once move your ass and go to an NBA game and watch it in person. Then tell me again that someone can be great at that while being a bad athlete just by shooting the ball well. You are talking absolute nonsense here. And that's often par for the course for you. There was exactly one guy that was able to get by on shooting while not being very athletic in the NBA and it was Dirk, who was just too tall for guys to guard his fade-away hop shot. Nobody else that ever made the NBA was anything less than an elite athlete. Larry Bird wasn't a thin guy with no muscles. And even Dirk is still a 1/10000 athlete when it comes to people his size. Ja Morant is a good one. Follow Ja on Instagram. The man lifts massively heavy weights. He is freakishly strong and that is why he is perhaps the best athlete in the NBA. Is he muscular? I would say absolutely, because when he takes his shirt off, all the girls melt. And Larry was more muscular than Ja is. Ja sits at a much lower BF percentage though. Once again strength in relation to BW. Either way Ja is much much stronger in relation to his BW than Larry Bird was and the difference in power and speed that comes from that is obvious. Any way you slice it, pointing to an NBA athlete as a sign that you can be in the NBA while being a normal Joe so to say is a horrible argument to make. Larry was an exceptional athlete just like all the rest of them. Austin is a great athlete, too, but at that level of competition he is a step slow and lacks explosiveness. There is a reason Austin got destroyed by any starter that felt like it and had a good day for the last years as well as a lot of guys off the bench and the reason that happens is not related to his bicep size or upper body hypertrophy in general. That's just utter nonsense brought to you by a medical team that mishandled AD moving to center, thought Nunn was fine, then thought Gabe was fine, then mishandled Vando and that's just part of the stuff we know. There is a new team in town and immediately Austin is talking about strength not hypertrophy. Finally someone over there makes some sense. Athleticism isn't something that exists in an unmeasurable way and manifests itself regardless of looks. There are literally hundreds of books based on tens of thousands of studies that explain in great detail why one guy outperforms another. Your main problem is that you don't read at all. You are super opinionated about everything, but you don't know anything about the science behind it. Doesn't matter if that's basketball or sports science or probably anything else. You fancy yourself as some super smart man that knows everything, when the opposite is true. You don't have any concept of how detailed and big the fields are that you don't know at all, because it takes years of hard work and thousands of hours of reading to get that idea in the first place.

[@nicconasty]

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[@rodneyjones2357]

Why didn’t they each get their own time instead of them doing it together is it because they are the young guys on the team?

[@arthoskins7667]

Damn meat riders… that’s 5 questions in a row to Bronny!!!

[@painhub9459]

Tyrone Reddish

[@chrismowery4481]

Kick ass

[@StephenHoliday-f6m]

Why is this reporter keeping asking about the first two gave? Like ask something more meaningful or give up your pass if you have nothing more interval to ask lol

[@LoveSunflowerz332]

My sister has bigger biceps then Reaves😂

[@tylercastanedaiii5651]

He doesn't wanna build muscle his priority is having a Golf player physique. Having muscles will mess up his form & stroke. This clown 🤡 is 💯 overated.

[@IsaacClark23]

AD looks like he’s tired of this bullshit🤣

[@Flush0000]

Naw it's just resting AD face

[@cliffwhatley]

Sounds like a revenge season for Dlo! We gotta keep him! 💪🏽😤

[@giftedimagesllc]

Revenge? I just want him to maintain his production but on a more consistent basis.

[@YungLanxx]

We need a revenge playoffs for him, we know he’ll be just fine for most of the season

[@chrismowery4481]

Bronnie is funny

[@rodneyjones2357]

Do we need to get try and get Randall?

[@kidadaliburd5035]

Again, you all run your mouth and doesn't pay attention, dlo and AD been speaking negatively about ham from December

[@MrExBearPoker]

Calm down LBJ we know your excited about playing with your son 😂

[@tkbaku3036]

?????

[@wewantthetruth722]

I would of kept it real and said I give a rat ahs about bronny and lebron we just want to win

[@StephenHoliday-f6m]

I understand the hype behind Bronny but that's disrespectful to put him before the other older returning guys

[@StephenHoliday-f6m]

This guy and these arena questions are annoying. Like ask about the dynamic of the team damn

[@StephenHoliday-f6m]

No we don't have a really good team! I get they have to say that but we know you guys don't believe that crap lol

[@whyareyousoreeediculous7707]

Non of them sound like they actually Believe what they’re saying except maybe the delusional young guys. 😂

[@rodneyjones2357]

Why didn’t they each get their own time instead of them doing it together is it because they are the young guys on the team?