Agents of Chaos
Laker Film Room - Dedicated to the Study of Lakers Basketball
Pete Zayas
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🗓️ 15 October 2021
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Summary
The Lakers dropped their preseason finale on Thursday night, but in the process gave us even more insight into the type of team they're trying to be and the preferred style they want to play. Pete, Mike, and Darius discuss how speed, tempo, and creating chaos are pillars of the Lakers approach and how well it's working so far. Later, the guys talk about LeBron's strong play, an improving Russ, and some of their final thoughts on the team now that preseason is over.
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| 0:00.0 | What do you think about the Laker team now? |
| 0:03.0 | You follow the box scores of the games every day? |
| 0:06.0 | Just the Lakers. |
| 0:07.0 | You're kidding. |
| 0:08.0 | That is really a compliment. |
| 0:10.0 | I was pleased to see you smile at the top bar show because once the game starts, you have a game face. |
| 0:17.0 | You don't smile much out there. |
| 0:20.0 | 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 to you by the Blue Wire Podcast Network. I'm Pete, joined by Darius and Mike. And if you guys will indulge me, I'm going to take a couple of minutes to go through a sequence of plays in the first quarter. We started out that game. |
| 0:37.9 | The score was 17 to 11. |
| 0:39.8 | Starters played really well. |
| 0:40.9 | We went big. |
| 0:42.2 | We saw some of the good of that and how, in the ways that that can work. |
| 0:46.6 | And then, as has been true of several of the preseason games, things totally went to crap. |
| 0:52.6 | And this is kind of the sequence where that happened. |
| 0:56.0 | So, uh, Mello subs into the game. We've got Rondo subbed into the game. And, uh, Buddy |
| 1:02.7 | Healed hits a three-pointer on Mello. Mello switched on to him after Rondo, you know, |
| 1:07.6 | switches with him. And Mello gives everybody a little bit of extra space when guarding them, because he knows he can't move that fast these days, right? But the problem is that's buddy healed, right? He wants that. If you give him that space, he's going to be like, all right, I'm going to take this shot. And so he hits the three, now we're up by three. Next play down, we got the ball lebron posts up they kind they zone him up |
| 1:29.0 | as often is often the case one on those mid post wing you know post plays he skips the ball to mello |
| 1:34.7 | on the opposite wing or on the opposite corner and mellow attacks the close out driving baseline |
| 1:40.5 | and his read on that play is either to score right with the layup at rim, or LeBron on a cut or skip to Bays in the corner. |
| 1:48.5 | LeBron cuts a little bit late and draws the help, but it ends up in a turnover, right? And so that's |
| 1:56.1 | going to happen. Those types of plays right there are part of the lack of familiarity and timing. You live with those. |
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