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 part 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 Film Room podcast. I'm Pete, joined by Darius.

And D, it is well known amongst Laker fans and even nationally that the Luca LeBron and Austin groups have not been very good together so far this season.

We're about a net neutral last year as well. But with all of the injuries, we actually haven't had much chance

to see it, which means that you and I haven't really drilled down much on the reasons why.

So I wanted to do that today. And I actually really want to emphasize the offensive end,

because that's what's peculiar about that trio, is it makes all the sense in the world to me why maybe you're not going to be able to find too many five-man groups that can defend that well, starting with those three. But those groups have struggled on the offensive end quite a bit. And I'd love to get into some of the reasons why Lakers play Phoenix tonight. This will be out a little bit later. So it's going to be right before the pod. We'll see how it goes. But they're another deep drop team. They love having Mark Williams be a big old tree right in the middle of the paint and then having their perimeter defenders pressure the ball. Now, no Dylan Brooks. They've got several injuries, right, that kind of knock down their core of

players who can guard, but they still do what they do. And so it should be an interesting game tonight

on this front. And it's another opportunity for the Luca, LeBron, and Austin trio to get on track

on offense. So focusing on that end of the court and through that lens of all three of them

together, what do you see, Dee? I've been working on a piece for Silver Screen and through that lens of all three of them together. What do you see, Dee?

I've been working on a piece for Silver Screen and Role that's going to talk about this idea.

When you mentioned that last year, the team didn't get a lot of minutes together with those three players.

They only played, I think, last season, 423 minutes together during the

regular season, like after the trade. So, 423 minutes is not a lot when you talk about three-man

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