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00:00All right, so Saturday, Lakers take on the Minnesota Timberwolves.
00:03The Timberwolves have been one of those teams that, you know,
00:06pretty much have played to the competition that they have.
00:10So if they play a really good team, they tend to play well.
00:12If they play a bad team, sometimes they play down.
00:15The Lakers are pretty big favorites to win the series,
00:17minus 172 as they open up this one in L.A.
00:21Total amount of games over-under is five and a half, so that's minus 158.
00:25Oddsmakers are telling us this is going to be maybe a six-game series,
00:29potentially seven, and the under is plus 128.
00:32I mean, certainly the Lakers with Luka, and we'll get to him in a second, Gilbert,
00:35are the better team on paper here.
00:37But let's be honest.
00:38I mean, Minnesota has shown they can beat anybody in the NBA.
00:41So maybe this will go the distance.
00:44Yeah, it's been interesting.
00:45There's been a lot of confidence and a little arrogance coming from Lakers fans
00:48and a Lakers faction, which is very typical of that fan base,
00:51no disrespect, but that's how it is.
00:53But I think that they're underestimating this Timberwolves team a little bit.
00:56And I think people are thinking back to what Luka Doncic with the Mavericks
00:59did against the Timberwolves last year.
01:01But this Lakers team is completely different from that team.
01:04I think the interior advantage that the Timberwolves have with Rudy Gobert
01:08and Julius Randle, if he can finally put his playoff woes behind him,
01:11will be a big thing that's going to happen and define this series.
01:15And then who's going to guard Anthony Edwards?
01:17That's a big deal.
01:17And he's a guy who, if he doesn't have anybody that can slow him down,
01:21he can have a good series and keep things close.
01:23I do lean Lakers in this series, but I don't think it's going to be a four or five game series.
01:28I think it's going to take six games for the Lakers to get this done.
01:31So I would take that over five and a half because I do think the Timberwolves talent
01:35and the way that that roster is constructed is going to give the Lakers some problems.
01:38But ultimately, Lakers have more talent with Luka and LeBron
01:41and also J.J. Reddick's the tactician.