D'Angelo Russell Reacts To Lakers Game 6 vs Warriors | May 12, 2023

Always hatin'. You always hatin'. Mike, you can start us off. Hey D'Angelo, it's been a pretty steady rise since you came to the team along with the other acquisitions at the deadline. Just wondered how much at a certain point did you foresee that the team could be this cohesive that could get to the conference finals where you're at now? I told you honestly, Rob Pelinka can tell y'all right off. I didn't I didn't expect this. I didn't think this, so I'd be wrong. I'd be lying to tell you I did. But once we got out there, you could just tell guys liked each other, guys wanted to play for each other, and it was just contagious. Everybody wanted to win. Everybody wanted to just get the job done every night, and you looked up, we had a chance, and we ran with that. Just a quick follow-up. Just what have you learned about the duo of LeBron and AD, kind of how to play off them? What kind of advantages did they give you as a team in a playoff series? I mean, when you throw a bunch of looks at those guys, they kind of seen it all. So for those dudes to just be prepared and a step ahead of almost every coverage, you know, throughout these first few few series, those guys were ahead of the curve, and they knew what it was, and it allowed us to kind of just fall in line and play off of it. Kurt. D-Lo, over here to your left. Can you expand on that when you said with Pelinka, why did it work? A lot of people didn't think it would, but why did it? He got snubbed for that GM, that award he was supposed to get. He got snubbed for it, honestly, for him to sacrifice the pieces he made to kind of get the right group of guys, you know, that came with that energy. Bunch of guys that were selfless, too. You know, nobody expected or wanted anything. We worked for it all, and we had a touch, just a tad bit of chemistry in there, too. It kind of made everything that much easier, just being out there with a group of guys that I kind of had a feel for. And then it just made all the pieces that was here, already, it made those guys, you know, feel more comfortable being themselves as well. We had the right chemistry with guys. It makes it that easy to go out every night and just play for each other. Helene, over to your right. Did you ever have any doubt that A.D. would play tonight? And, you know, considering how bad it looked the other night, and he comes back 20 rebounds, 17 points, it's pretty amazing. No, he's a champion, man. I don't think he'd miss a game like that. I think this is the time of the year, if anything's going wrong right now for you, your body a little aches, I think you'll play through it at this time of the year, for sure. Any more questions for D'Lo? Thank you. Y'all know, I was about to get my branding going. Let's go. Alright, well, legacy. Legacy.