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Laker Film Room - Dedicated to the Study of Lakers Basketball
Pete Zayas
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🗓️ 30 August 2021
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Pete, Darius & MIke survey the new NBA landscape after most of the offseason has been completed, talking about which teams have improved, which teams they felt did not do enough, which teams around the NBA are title contenders, while engage in a spirited debate about how the Lakers would fare against them.
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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. |
| 0:22.9 | Correct. What's up, Laker fans? Welcome to the Laker Film Room podcast, brought to you by the Blue Wire Podcast Network. |
| 0:27.7 | I'm Pete, joined by Darius and Mike. |
| 0:29.5 | And we've had so much roster turnover with the Lakers, so many new players that we've been, |
| 0:35.3 | and then that little stretch right where we couldn't talk about it, that we've been going on all of the new additions. And we've pretty much come to the end of that. We'll see maybe a couple of roster spots are filled in the next couple of weeks. But it's been a minute since we looked around the general NBA. And so that's what we're going to do in this pod. It's just kind of a general overview of the offseason and what stands out to everyone. And so, Mike, I'm going to kick it to you first. |
| 0:39.8 | One of the things that stood out to me this offseason is that we're one of the few contending |
| 0:58.9 | teams that had significant roster turnover, right? Like really serious roles and positions |
| 1:02.7 | changed over, not a ton around the rest of the NBA. What stands |
| 1:08.5 | out to you about what happened this offseason? I think the most recent move, guys, is to me of |
| 1:12.7 | pretty significant interest. So this is our boy Larry Nett Jr. going over to Portland. And it's |
| 1:17.7 | built as, like if you go on ESPN right now or a couple of different sites, it's built as like the Cleveland Cavaliers get Lowry Markinan from Chicago Bulls and sign and trade part of three way deal with the Portland Trailblazers where to me, Nancy's a significantly better player right now than Markinen. |
| 1:23.3 | You know, we'll see what Marketing turns into eventually. |
| 1:38.7 | And then Derek Jones Jr. and a lottery protected pick goes back to Chicago. |
| 1:41.3 | So at least they start to restock their cupboard a little bit, which is a different point. |
| 1:45.7 | Chicago giving up three picks to get DeRosen and Butchovich over the last couple of years for the |
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