What do you think about the Laker team now?

Do 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 part 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. I'm Pete, joined by Darius,

and the Lakers switch a lot, which neutralizes the pick and roll game, which turns the game

into a game of isolations and one-on-one and match-up hunting. That's one of the fun things about basketball is the offense has to solve the puzzle, but the defense gets to pick it. And with the way the Lakers play defense, it goes beyond just the switching, but that is what the Lakers really turn the game into as a game. You're going to have to beat us one-on-one, and we really want to make it like one-on-one-half as often as a game oh, you're going to have to beat us one on one, and we really want to

make it like one on one and a half as often as possible. Well, that can be a great environment for

a player like Anthony Edwards to thrive in. A lot of those responsibilities land on the doorstep

of him and Julius. So we're going to talk about those guys today and how to guard them.

We're going to really focus on the

Lakers defense focused out of that. Now, D, to me, Anthony Edwards has the best jab step in the game.

The jab step is fundamentally a speed attack, right? And it's a, I'm so afraid that you're going to

drive by me and dunk on our whole team that it's sort of like an offensive equivalent of going

boom real quick to somebody and they go ah right because they're so scared of getting beat off

of the dribble and then it counters that with one of the high volume step back threes in the NBA game

right you're so scared of getting beat off of the dribble one-on-one that you're on your heels

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