Mike Conley: Transition has been a big key for us were allowing too many easy buckets. Its tough to defend when youre giving up layups and dunks in transition. ... Its about turning and running. We get caught in the corners watching.

Laker Legend Byron Scott says Lakers are pretenders Defense wins championships still in this league At the end of the day you got to get stops right Kessler at the center position he better average about 8 blocks a game because they're going to be getting a lot of blow-bys

Norman Powell When I was with the Clippers Brian Shaw has this thing whoever airballs has to run down and back When Kawhi shot an airball in practice he tried to do that well wait with him and hes like Im not running down and back man Ill probably airball again

Milo Teodosi intercepts the pass and while falling out of bounds he sends a genius no-look fastbreak pass to Blake Griffin for the dunk with replaysClippers and Lakers commentary 12292017

Rafael and Ime have talked about wanting to get your minutes down at points this season-Kevin Durant Why I'm better on the court The team is better when I'm on the court That's what I'm supposed to be training for is to play the long haul 48 minutes a night If the game needs me to be out

Mike Conley cracks a small joke about Joe Mazzulla being crazy Mazulla makes eye contact with him and Conley's self-preservation instincts kick in as he adjusts his statement and clarifies that Joe Mazzulla is definitely totally not crazy repeating it several times for clarity

Kyle Anderson with a great no-look lob to rookie Brandon Clarke for the dunk over Bradley Beal with replaysGrizzlies and Wizards commentary 12142019