Big Guards
Laker Film Room - Dedicated to the Study of Lakers Basketball
Pete Zayas
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🗓️ 20 July 2021
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Summary
Last season the Lakers won a championship with a "bigger, faster, stronger" roster grounded in the talents of LeBron and Anthony Davis, but supplemented with role players who carried those same attributes. This season, the Bucks are on the verge of winning a championship using a similar formula. Pete and Darius use this idea to discuss what approach the Lakers should take to building their roster this offseason, specifically looking at whether more size in their backcourt is needed, debating what type of investment the team should make at Center, whether Talen Horton-Tucker can be a solution to the team's needs for more size and skill on the wing, and how seeking out more size comes with the potential of losing other valuable skills that help you win.
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| 0:00.0 | What do you think about the Laker team now? |
| 0:03.4 | Do 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 part show because once the game starts, you have a game face. |
| 0:17.7 | You don't smile much out there. |
| 0:20.4 | I don't think you have to do things for money |
| 0:22.4 | anymore. Correct. What's up, Laker fans? Welcome to Laker Film Room podcast, brought to you by the Blue Wire |
| 0:26.5 | Podcast Network. I'm Pete, joined by Darius. Just going to be the two of us today as the Trudele |
| 0:31.0 | clan is hopefully out there winning championships today. Again, more positive LFR pod mojo for Mike |
| 0:36.5 | and the family. |
| 0:43.8 | And in the last pod, we talked about the final series between Phoenix and Milwaukee and how it's become this battle of size and strength versus skill and how, as the series is going on, Milwaukee's |
| 0:50.8 | power and strength is winning the day. |
| 0:53.8 | And I want to talk about that in the context of the Lakers, right? |
| 0:58.4 | Darius Lakers are at their very core a power team, right? |
| 1:02.1 | It's LeBron James, Anthony Davis. |
| 1:04.7 | They're not the best shooters in the NBA. |
| 1:07.3 | They are not the best ball handlers in the NBA, but relative to their size and how strong |
| 1:12.8 | they are and how athletic they are. And LeBron obviously has the mental and the experience |
| 1:19.1 | component. LeBron is a whole other beast. But in terms of their attributes, that is who they are, |
| 1:25.2 | right? There are two of the more powerful athletes in the NBA. |
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