What do you think about the Laker team now?

Do you follow the box scores of the games every day?

Just the Lakers.

You're kidding.

That is really a compliment.

I was pleased to see you smile at the top part show because once the game starts,

you have a game face.

You don't smile much out there.

I don't think you have to do things for money anymore.

Correct.

What's up, Laker fans? Welcome to the Laker Film Room podcast. I'm Pete, joined by Darius.

And last night, Laker games started out with a bit of a pump fake, right?

They put everybody on the injury list. We talk on the pod, hey, you know, maybe they're going to sit everyone, talk about, kind of assume to some degree that that's what they're going to do.

But nope, a few hours later, they get upgraded to probable.

Everybody ends up playing in the game except for Rui, who's going to be out the whole time.

And it's a shootout D. starts out, OKC putting up points on the board.

Raj had tweeted out that it felt like a game where it was game two of the playoffs

with the road team having one game one.

And I thought that was very accurate about sort of the energy.

OKC had a push to them.

Lakers defense was in a totally different place. They give up

80 first half points to OKC. But the Lakers managed to channel some elite offense of their own.

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