Benching Russ
Laker Film Room - Dedicated to the Study of Lakers Basketball
Pete Zayas
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🗓️ 20 January 2022
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Summary
As has been all too common this season, the Lakers lost another game down the stretch -- this time against the Pacers and a red-hot shooting Caris LeVert who nearly outscored the entire Lakers team in the 4th quarter by himself. Pete and Darius discuss the game, using it as a microcosm for some of the Lakers larger issues and how the misalignment of players vs. scheme contributed to the team's defensive struggles down the stretch. Later, the guys discuss Russell Westbrook's late game benching and how they envision that getting resolved (or, not) as the team ventures out on a 6-game road trip.
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| 0:00.0 | What do you think about the Laker team now? |
| 0:03.4 | You follow the box scores of the games every day? |
| 0:06.0 | Just the Lakers. |
| 0:07.4 | 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. |
| 0:22.9 | Correct. |
| 0:23.5 | What's up, Laker fans? |
| 0:24.5 | Welcome to the Laker Film Room podcast, brought to by the Blue Wire Podcast Network. |
| 0:27.4 | I'm Pete, joined by Darius. |
| 0:28.8 | No Mike. |
| 0:29.5 | He is traveling with the team today. |
| 0:32.2 | On Monday's pod, we discussed a pretty disastrous game in Denver. |
| 0:38.2 | On Tuesday's pod, we discussed probably the best win of the season against the Utah Jazz, |
| 0:44.0 | in which I was effusively praising that as kind of the blueprint where we have these two distinctive |
| 0:51.0 | lineups, one being a bigger group that runs drop coverages and |
| 0:54.6 | kind of plays a certain way. And those are kind of the survival lineups with Russell Westbrook |
| 0:58.4 | and LeBron both on the floor. And then you've got a speed group off of the bench that is fast |
| 1:04.0 | and flying around all over the place. Then on Wednesday's pod, we are met with the news that |
| 1:10.8 | Frank Vogel is basically coaching for his job or is on the hot seat, which was yesterday's pod. And we provided a bunch of context on Vogel where the intent was kind of to put a bow on it at the end. But what it ended up being was this kind of long view, unsatisfying ending where we talk about how the roster was constructed over the course |
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