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 Warr Podcast Network. I'm Pete, joined by Darius, no mic today. And we're recording this with all but one game completed. We got the Phoenix Pelicans game and a close one at halftime. But we had a very entertaining weekend of basketball.

Games 3 and 4, to me, always have their own personality to a series.

Now, you're going into those either in a Tide series or someone's up to nothing.

And then that game 3 has its own personality,

depending on that, right, the team that's down to zero. That's do or die time, right? No

teams ever come back. Isn't that a crazy stat? You'd think that at some point in an NBA history,

someone would have come back from 3-0, but it's never happened. And that team is usually playing that game at home.

And they know that if they don't win that game, they're in deep trouble.

There was a game, Atlanta and Miami was that game three.

Miami went up double digits, and Atlanta just played desperately and hit some great shots.

The same fortune didn't hit them in game four where Miami really took a stranglehold of the

series. And that's kind of where I see us ending this weekend is the teams who were clearly

better than their opponent. I think that we came out of this weekend with a clear idea of who that is.

And then the teams that are quite close to each other, I think we know that by now, too.

You've seen many game threes and game fours, and that's where a lot of this first round of the playoffs are right now.

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