Are the Lakers Trending Toward More Small Ball?
Laker Film Room - Dedicated to the Study of Lakers Basketball
Pete Zayas
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 10 March 2026
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
The Lakers have been playing more minutes without a traditional center, with impressive results against even some of the West’s best teams. The guys discuss the rationale behind these groups and why they are dominating the short stretches they’ve played, how they have to defend to make it viable, and why we might see it quite a bit against the team’s three likeliest playoff opponents.
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| 0:43.3 | what's up laker fans welcome to the laker film room podcast i'm pete joined by darius and d |
| 0:48.7 | tonight the lakers take on the minnesota timber wolves last year's first round opponent. And I want to start thinking |
| 0:55.4 | about the playoffs. And the more tape that I watch, the more I think that small ball is going to be |
| 1:01.5 | significant part of the Lakers future. Last week, our guy Raj joined me on the show when you missed. |
| 1:07.5 | And at the end, we were talking sharing film room observations. And he was a little bit |
| 1:12.8 | concerned about the amount of small ball the team had been playing. We're a little scarred by |
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