Austin Returns
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Pete Zayas
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🗓️ 7 February 2023
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Summary
Austin Reaves is set to return from injury, which is both a welcomed addition to a team that has missed his specific skill set and another variable to a rotation that will now be as crowded as it has been all season. Pete, Mike, and Darius talk about Austin's return, how his minutes should shake out, and who might find themselves with a reduced role as he rejoins the rotation. Then later the guys discuss Anthony Davis' progress since he returned from his foot injury and some schematic decisions that can get him on track and back to the level he was pre-injury.
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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. Correct. What's up? Laker fans? Welcome to the Laker Filmroom podcast, brought to by the Blue Wire Podcast Network. I'm Pete, joined by Darius and Mike. And tonight, Austin Reeves returns to the Lakers lineup. And this will be the healthiest. The Lakers have been all season, I think, all last two seasons, maybe. |
| 0:40.4 | At least that's what's projected to be. |
| 0:42.5 | Mike, let's start with you. |
| 0:44.0 | What's the latest update on Austin? |
| 0:46.3 | He's probable for tonight, right? |
| 0:47.9 | Yes, fellas. |
| 0:48.4 | So Austin spoke at practice yesterday, and it was probably the most media members that i've seen her to practice since |
| 0:55.7 | media day with uh you know everybody wanting to find out some trade thoughts and that didn't really |
| 1:04.0 | happen uh really i mean darvin ham got asked a couple of questions about it but i think handled it |
| 1:09.0 | well and lebrron didn't wasn't |
| 1:12.3 | didn't speak and you know neither did AD or Russ so the the main story out of all that |
| 1:17.3 | ends up being that Austin Reeves which is a big deal for the Laker Filmroom podcast so I know |
| 1:22.5 | and I think he could have come back on the trip we had hinted at that that maybe as early as the Indiana game, but certainly the New Orleans game. And they decided to just give him an extra couple days and stick with the guys that they had been playing rotation-wise. But now that he is back, that does beg the question of whose minutes are going to get cut because it's going to have to be somebody. And I don't think he's going to go right into his full role that he was playing as essentially the often closing guard or one of the |
| 1:50.0 | two closing guards. And at times he certainly started when other players were out. But to me, |
| 1:55.3 | he lands into one of those bench guard spots. And so that's the question to kick back to you, Darius, is whose minutes |
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