Training camp

I'm your reporter and analyst for Buha's Block, and welcome to another live show.

On today's episode, we're going to be breaking down day three of Lakers training camp.

A quieter day, all things considered.

We spoke with JJ Redick, Ziaire Williams, and Jake Laravie.

Shout out to Lego Teen Builder, who's often first in here.

Appreciate you.

And he asks, "So is tomorrow the last day of training camp?" Lakers are actually not practicing tomorrow.

They are practicing Saturday.

Is that on the table? Giannis Antetokounmpo said what? Nikola Jovic is talking too much.

A lot of stuff in training camp.

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I will be live tweeting the Aces fever match tonight, as well as many things from Heat training camp.

And of course, Heat's preseason game on Saturday, the debut of Giannis.

Josh, how are you?

doing good there's actually stuff to talk about now practices training camp media day no more yeah we we can't we can't excuse ourselves anymore because now now there's actually stuff happening

the basketball the beard is looking oh it's a mess

no it's no

Everyone's gone.

Uh, everyone that can be gone is, is gone.

Um, and, and yeah, so I think that, that, that follows through like, um, that's been the training camp vibe so far is trying to bring the joy back uh wonderful last couple years

simply wonderful so okay we got um let's go back media day was last friday so we're recording here it's thursday night media day was last friday we had all intents and purposes of recording on monday unfortunately i didn't ask josh until like six o'clock on monday after on monday evening if we wanted to record and we just you know we're still getting our shit together Our goal moving forward is to continually record Mondays and Thursdays, regardless of games.

Yeah.

Uh, Jerry, uh, continuing the conversation about training camp, last season, and we kind of joke about this, last season, oh, man, they're really getting after it in training camp, and they're picking up 90 feet, and Dennis Schroder looks good.

Jerry, then they went out, went 0 and, 0 and four, okay? Uh, for the preseason games, and won 22 games.

D- it's happening again, Jerry, with the Ben Simmons hype machine, guys look good.

How much should we be taking away as fans, and us kind of on the outside, how much should we be taking away from the storylines coming out of training camp?

Well, usually not much, because every team does the same thing.

Mm-hmm.

There's no reason to say it can't mean something, but it's also true, it, you, [laughs] there's no evidence that it means very much.

My name is Nick Angstadt.

In today's episode, we're gonna get into a bunch of notes from training camp.

Cooper Flagg said some things today about, uh, growing.

Did he grow even more? We'll talk to- about, uh, that with Cooper Flagg.

Who's he playing with? Is he playing with Cooper Flagg? Is he playing with Kyrie Irving?" 'Cause that's, that's the only two I think that we have guaranteed starters.

So he's got reasons that he's not gonna settle on a starting five, and he doesn't, he doesn't think he's gonna settle on a starting five for a while.

I think they're gonna look at preseason, obviously the rest of the training camp, got a couple more days of that.

They're gonna look at, you know, the fir- the first couple games of preseason, then the next couple games of preseason, try different combinations, do a whole bunch of different things, and I think they're gonna settle on one eventually.

Court is in session.

How are we? What's going on? Day three, Kings training camp.

Double days.

Guys played some ball last night.

So you'll be going back and forth, Grant, tonight after Thursday night football as well.

And I'm thinking, okay, we've got stuff to talk about.

Training camp today, Ben Simmons talked to the media, Domas talked to the media.

And obviously, Coach Christie as well.

Charles Lee sure did.

He's excited about training camp.

As you would imagine, the sicko head coach that he is would be so excited because there's a lot of depth.

I think there's going to be a pretty good mix of intriguing camp battles for rotation spots, lead dog in the offense, roster battles.

There are all sorts of different training camp battles.

Charles Lee talked about it.

He said, quote, we have some things that are up in the air right now in terms of minutes and positions to be won.

But like the center position, he lost minutes last year as the season went on when Moussa really blossomed.

got to be on the hot seat.

But the Sixers are in training camp.

They're practicing.

So the first –

We were talking about on the Ricky the other night, and I said, Joel looks skinny.

And I said, wait a minute.

How many times have I in training camp said, hey, it looks like Joel lost weight? A lot of times.

Yeah.