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Laker Film Room - Dedicated to the Study of Lakers Basketball

Another Third Quarter Collapse for Lakers

Laker Film Room - Dedicated to the Study of Lakers Basketball

Pete Zayas

Sports, Basketball, Sports News, News

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2024

⏱️ ? minutes

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Summary

The Lakers got blown out in the 2nd half for the second consecutive game, this time in a bad loss to the Suns. Pete and Darius discuss what went wrong in another rough third quarter, the bad vibes that are showing up in these poor stretches, LeBron's mental engagement and how it fits into the current problems and potential solutions the team is dealing with, and much more. 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

What do you think about the Laker team now?

0:03.4

You follow the box scores of the games every day?

0:06.0

Just the Lakers.

0:07.3

You're kidding.

0:08.6

That is really a compliment.

0:12.8

I was pleased to see you smile at the top bar show because once the game starts, you have a game face.

0:17.8

You don't smile much out there.

0:20.4

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 it was a repeat of Saturday night, the decent first half for the Lakers. It went into halftime down by two. I actually thought they started getting

0:37.8

a little wobbly in that second quarter. And then Austin went on a great run to close the second

0:42.8

that kind of pushed the game back close. But two point game nonetheless. And it was even a two point

0:48.6

game with like 743 left in the third quarter, believe it or not. By the end of the third quarter,

0:54.0

it was garbage time because the L of the third quarter, it was garbage

0:54.5

time because the Lakers got beat down once again, this time in Phoenix, disastrous second half.

1:01.9

I've rewatched it a couple of times already, D. I have both an urge to talk about a big picture

1:08.1

vibesy type of conversation. And also, I wrote down most of the plays throughout that quarter to just go one by one of

1:15.3

there being very real basketball reasons why things happen and not everything is some

1:19.9

grand moralization of this and that or the other.

1:24.2

It's like you leave Rui in single coverage on a man who's 40 pounds bigger than him and just let him back him down under the basket, guess what's going to happen? He's going to score. You have possessions over and over again where DeLo has to guard Devin Booker in open space. Guess what? The other team's going to get an open shot so combination of a few things d but i'm curious

1:45.3

where do you want to start with last night's game i think the point you made about austin making the

1:51.4

push was a good one i actually thought when it was a two-point game you sent us a screenshot

1:57.9

of this like i can't believe there's this much time left or that all

2:02.1

this time this passed it was like seven minutes left in the third quarter and it was still a two point

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