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 Film Room podcast,

brought you by the Blue Wire Podcast Network. I'm Pete, joined by Darius and Mike.

And in yesterday's pod, in the last segment, we did a preview on the Warriors Dallas series.

And I find myself being annoyed with myself because I keep trying to

think, you know, how is how is the series going to go? What are the specific matchups? And everything

I came up with was pretty pro-Dalice slash anti-Golden State, right? And I even said on the

bottom, like, watch, they're going to go and kick their asses tonight, right?

And sure enough, that's what happened. Golden State beat the crap out of Dallas yesterday. And I think in seeing it in action on the court, D, I was like, oh, okay, there's this and there's that and there's this. And I'd like to talk about that. And I'd like to start on the defensive end. It was something where I was like, hey, Luca's got a lot of guys that he's able to pick on and isolate one-on-one. Now, he had a bit

of a right shoulder issue that, who knows to what degree that was impacting him. But the very first

play of the game, they end up getting a switch where Kavan Looney is matched up with Luca on the left wing left

slot type of area. And the way that Looney guarded him, now we talk so much on this pod about

are you going to drop, are you going to trap? Are you going to switch everything? But the league

is always having a conversation with itself. And the way that the switching era really

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