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 you by the Blue Rour

Podcast Network. I'm Pete, joined by Darius and Mike.

And yesterday, we had a conversation, one of the first conversations of really

digging into the rotation. And one of the points that we ended on, we continued after the pod.

And Darius went on an impassioned monologue about how we need a forward.

And I think this is something that we all agree with, is that the Lakers are short of forward.

And so this is one of those places that I kind of want to focus on for a little bit,

because I think it's one of the biggest weaknesses of the team is that we're thin at the forward position, which is remarkable for a team that has LeBron and Anthony Davis starting at their forward positions.

And so that has gotten me to thinking and ties into something else with us acquiring the two bigs that we have. We talked

about possibly Damien Jones starting. We've talked a lot about Thomas Bryant. And so within this,

if both of them play, that moves AD back to a forward position. And in looking at this roster,

one of the big needs that I think we have is a wing type of forward. And what I mean by that is a guy who can be an inside-outside type of guy. And that is something that when AD is at his best, D, is that's who Anthony Davis is. He's one of the best in the league at being dominant both on the perimeter. And I mean, you know, mid-range, right? He's an okay three-point shooter, at least in previous years, right? Not last year. But I think we need him to do more forward things this season as a function of the roster and the guys that we have around him. And so I think this year very much portends to him moving back to being that type of player and possibly even more perimeter oriented than before.

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