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Laker Film Room - Dedicated to the Study of Lakers Basketball
Pete Zayas
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🗓️ 2 January 2023
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The Lakers had an eventful weekend when LeBron James celebrated his birthday with a breathtaking performance against the Hawks and set themselves up for a potential winning road trip if they can get a victory in Charlotte on Monday. Pete, Mike, and Darius discuss LeBron's performance, appreciating the level he's still able to reach in his 20th season, and then get into some of the ways the team supported him defensively and with different lineup types in Atlanta. Then later the guys discuss the matchup with the Hornets and why the Lakers are positioned to get a win to close out their trip.
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| 0:00.0 | What do you think about the Laker team now? |
| 0:03.5 | 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, brought you by the Blue Wire Podcast Network. I'm Pete, joined by Darius and Mike. And boy, did the Lakers give us a day to sit with for a couple of days. Happy New Year to everybody. Lakers brought us in, right, with a remarkable |
| 0:38.6 | Friday night. It started actually with Anthony Davis addressing the media and providing an update. |
| 0:44.1 | We'll get into the details of that later. And then LeBron James, on his 38th birthday, |
| 0:51.3 | scores 47 points, 10 boards, and nine assists to lead an incredibly fun game |
| 0:57.5 | to get a win in Atlanta, one of my favorite road cities for the Lakers. Lakers always play fun |
| 1:03.3 | games in Atlanta and just a masterful performance by LeBron. Also, if the Lakers win tonight, they're closing out a five-game road trip. |
| 1:13.0 | If they win tonight at Charlotte, they will have gone three and two on that road trip. |
| 1:17.8 | If you extend that out even further, and if you count that first game with Denver, |
| 1:21.7 | which I do because the Lakers were down when AD went out, the Lakers are currently four and five |
| 1:26.1 | since AD went out. And so if we win tonight, |
| 1:29.1 | we get to the 500 mark. All of this is just a lot of landmarks and a lot to talk about within that. |
| 1:34.7 | Also, D, within the specifics of the game, it was probably the most conventionally sized |
| 1:39.8 | lineups the Lakers played all season. And just I don't know that was one of those landmark |
| 1:45.2 | games during the season D and I'd love to hear what you thought about Friday I mean first off |
| 1:50.5 | just thinking about LeBron really I brought him up in my game preview for the Hornets game and |
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