What do you think about the Laker team now?

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 bar 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 Filmroom podcast, brought you by the Blue Warrant Podcast Network. I'm Pete, joined by Mike. And Mike, there is a great sense of optimism around the team. Every Laker fan that I talk to is really excited about the games coming back. and today's the first day where the Lakers come back to practice. We're recording before that, but only a couple hours before then. And so for all intents and purposes, done with the All-Star break. And the Lakers have a shot, right? We got this team where about half the roster has turned over. I'm really excited about what we saw in a couple of games with them, but there's a lot of work to do, Mike. And so that's what I wanted to talk about

today is Lakers are getting back to work and there's a lot of work ahead of us with not a lot of time

to do it. I'm curious, your impressions of this idea, Mike, from the people you talk to around the team,

kind of where is the

mindset in terms of what the work ahead is? I think that's all pretty obvious and commonplace

for, I think they all know and have a pretty similar vision of what they have to do. And it's

win a lot more games than they lose. To me, what the more interesting aspect of that is how they do it from a basketball

perspective.

And so I'm going to flip this on you as somebody that just watched, as we discussed in the last

podcast, the game against the Pelican six times.

And we now have a pretty good idea about what the rotation is going to be.

So, Pete, what do the coaches do over the last week?

What do they discuss?

What worked well there?

What are the simple actions like the screen roll, like with LeBron and AD that they

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