Building Bridges
Laker Film Room - Dedicated to the Study of Lakers Basketball
Pete Zayas
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🗓️ 15 November 2022
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How can the Lakers continue to prioritize Anthony Davis offensively when the team is fully healthy? What is LeBron's role in getting him involved? How much of it falls on Davis and how much of it will be tied back to his ability to make jumpshots? Can Dennis Schröder's return help balance out lineups better to help towards this goal, even if it comes at the expense of Patrick Beverley? Pete, Mike, and Darius contemplate these questions and more in their discussion on maintaining the superstar level production AD has shown in recent games.
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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. |
| 0:07.3 | You're kidding. |
| 0:08.6 | That is really a compliment. |
| 0:12.8 | I was pleased to see you smile at the top bar show because once the game starts, you have a game face. |
| 0:17.8 | 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. |
| 0:23.5 | What's up, Laker fans? Welcome to the Laker Film Room podcast, brought to by the Blue Wire Podcast Network. |
| 0:27.6 | I'm Pete, joined by Darius and Mike. And yesterday we talked about Anthony Davis's weekend |
| 0:32.5 | this past weekend. It looked like a true superstar on the offensive end. And that was the case as well during the Utah |
| 0:39.0 | game when the Lakers visited Utah that LeBron also missed. But today we're going to talk a little bit |
| 0:44.9 | about how do we bridge that with a LeBron-led offense when he comes back. Shams reported yesterday |
| 0:51.1 | that he's on track for either Friday or Sunday, depending on how he feels. So we'll see, but he should be back soon. We'll talk this week as well about kind of the cavalry arriving. You've got a Dennis and Thomas Bryant coming back as well. And so the Lakers, if they're going to shift, if they're going to make some changes, this is a great opportunity to do that in this week where they don't have any games. So, Dee, I'm curious your thoughts on that. We got a very assertive Anthony Davis over these last couple of games. And that said, when LeBron is on the court, it certainly changes the dynamic of touches and just how things go. So I'm curious your thought on that. How do we bridge the AD that we saw this weekend |
| 1:28.0 | with the version that's on the court with LeBron? So I think it really is a bridging of ideas |
| 1:33.2 | from both of those players individually. One of the things about AD, and this has been true |
| 1:40.6 | his entire career, and in fact it was true of him even in college, is that |
| 1:45.0 | there was this idea of him as sort of the guy who likes to fit in. And the guy who, like, |
| 1:54.3 | and this is a part of AD's origin story as well, right? That he was, he was basically a guard, then he went through a |
| 2:02.8 | massive growth spurt. And he was, even when he won most outstanding player in the NCAA |
| 2:12.8 | championship, it wasn't because he scored 40 points on like 17 for 17 shooting, |
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