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 Filmroom podcast, brought to by the Blue Wire Podcast Network. I'm Pete, joined by Mike. No Darius, but he'll be back for tomorrow's episode. And last night, the Lakers lost a game that was mostly garbage time. No LeBron, no AD. He's still out, hopes for

later in the week, but we shall see. And Luca Donchich made quick work of the Lakers.

He had 17, 5, and 5, I think, in the first quarter, and that game was over about five,

six minutes into it and was a ton of garbage time.

Mike, I don't think we need to spend an entire pod kind of rehashing all of the reasons that

that game went the way that it did because we'd be repeating ourselves of multiple other games.

But we did end of the night outside of the play in tournament.

A league monk made comments about, you know, we got to play harder.

Stanley Johnson was like, hell no, we're not quitting.

We signed a contract to play with the Lakers.

It's part of the reason I'm so fond of him.

But my eyes see what they see.

And the Lakers don't have a ton of fighting them in the first place.

And I thought Luca took that out of them pretty quickly last night.

What was your vantage point from last night's game? Yeah, no, they came in with the proper energy, I thought, to start the game. They, they just, Luca just completely crushed the hope right away. And it's in contrast to the Philly game when they didn't have LeBron and AD. And look, man, 95% of the time you don't have your two best players. You're losing. Right. Period. In the NBA. There are the exceptions where I remember like the Lakers were in OKC a couple of years ago the year that they won the title and nobody played. But it was the guys, it was a good team feeling. The other team wasn't particularly good.

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