What do you think about the Laker team now?

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 bar 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, brought you by the Blue Wire Podcast Network. I'm Pete, joined by Darius and Mike. And we have reached the end of this crazy whirlwind season, with the Lakers going 43 and 39. And guys, oh how I wish we could travel back in time six to eight months to tell our past selves.

You know, all of this is going to end in the seventh seed and a 43 and 39 record and a team that you feel pretty good about the talent level, right?

And so that's where we are.

Is we are, the opportunity is ahead of us. We did not get the safety of a seven game series. We probably did not deserve it. We lost one too many stupid games. As I said last week, this is a just end. But we are playing a Minnesota team that is punching each other, punching walls, that is without Nas Reid, who's been very

important for them. Mike, things are set up for us to do some things. We signed a couple

players this weekend, but I'd love to hear the closing thoughts of the team and just your

perspective from on the ground because just I feel like exhaling at the end of this season.

Yeah, I asked Arvin Ham a variation of that question after the game last night.

Just, hey, where this scene was in early February, clearly you would take this, this type of opportunity, right?

And just to just to rewind.

So on February 4th, actually let's go but let's go

past that let's go February 9th 25 and 31 that was after the the New Orleans loss then at

New Orleans then the okayC loss when LeBron passed Kareem and then the loss to Milwaukee before

the new guys that had been acquired at the trade deadline played so six games under 500 and to go from 25 and 31 to 43 and 39 um is i don't want to say

remarkable given the talent that they had but still that's quite a run and even against these last

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