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. I'm Pete, joined by Darius.

Sorry, I had jury duty to start this week, so it was out, but good to be back. And crawling up the walls, Dee, we are 11 days away from Media Day.

Very excited to get that started. And so the premise

of today's podcast, the offseason as a coach was a very fun time that involved a lot of list

making for me and, hey, what if we tried this lineup or what do we think of that? And it is a key

part of building out your team for the season.

And one of the first things that I think that you have to do is identify what can we be good to grade at?

So that's the topic of today's podcast is what can this year's Lakers team be good to grade at?

Because after you identify those things, then I think you try to build out a system that is calibrated toward accentuating that as much as possible.

Obviously, there's a whole wing of how do we minimize our weaknesses and all of that.

We will talk about that probably more in other pods, but this is more about the identification of what can this Lakers team be good to grade at.

And so I have some ideas, Dee, but I pose that question to you.

Yeah, so I always think of this idea conceptually as what do your best players do best

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