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Laker Film Room - Dedicated to the Study of Lakers Basketball

Pete Zayas

News, Sports, Sports News, Basketball

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Many of the remaining playoff teams have multiple centers in their rotations and play two-big lineups as one of their key rotation looks. Pete and Darius use this as a springboard to talk about the Lakers need for not one, but two centers this offseason, what type of skill sets they want from these bigs, and how to best allocate both financial and trade assets in order to acquire these players. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	What do you think about the Laker team now?
0:03.5	You follow the box scores of the games every day?
0:06.0	Just the Lakers.
0:07.2	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
0:15.5	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 anymore.
0:22.9	Correct. What's up, Laker fans? Welcome to the Laker Film Room podcast. I'm Pete, joined by Darius.
0:28.8	And D, today I want to start getting into our conversations about the center position in particular.
0:34.3	We've been watching these playoffs. And one of the things, crazy night in the NBA yesterday, Mavs win the lottery.
0:41.7	Boston goes down, 3-1, Tatum suffers possibly a devastating injury.
0:46.1	We don't have news on that yet as we record now.
0:48.8	But from the actual basketball on-court standpoint D, one of the things that stood out to me about these playoffs is the proliferation of two big looks around the league. In the Boston Knicks series,
1:00.3	one of the big storylines to me is the Mitchell Robinson cat duo. They only played 47 minutes
1:06.5	combined over the course of the season. And I've played more than that already in these
1:10.4	playoffs and have been a big part of how the Knicks were able to go up 3-1 on Boston. They were well
1:16.0	on their way even prior to the stadium entry in the last couple of minutes. And so the Lakers, as we
1:21.8	were talking about over text, not too long ago, we don't even have a one big look, right? And they
1:26.2	spend a lot of time trying to modernize, quote unquote, into being more of a three-point shooting team,
1:32.7	getting more of those attempts up. And one of the most bittersweet parts of the first part of this
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