Building the Defense
Laker Film Room - Dedicated to the Study of Lakers Basketball
Pete Zayas
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🗓️ 1 August 2024
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What kind of defensive team can the Lakers be next season? Pete and Darius discuss the potential shifts in defensive style next year under JJ Redick, how much Jared Vanderbilt and Gabe Vincent matter towards the team's defensive ceiling, whether they should switch more and the challenges of doing so with some of the team's personnel, and much more.
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| 0:00.0 | What do you think about the Laker team now? |
| 0:03.4 | 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. |
| 0:23.6 | What's up, Laker fans? |
| 0:24.8 | Welcome to the Laker Film Room podcast. |
| 0:26.3 | I'm Pete, joined by Darius. |
| 0:28.1 | And yesterday, calling the game on playback, USA versus South Sudan, was a fun game. |
| 0:32.7 | I was struck by how much a game can have a different personality between the same two teams based on |
| 0:39.7 | what one team does defensively. As many of you know, they benched Joel Embed, put AD in the |
| 0:45.8 | starting lineup. They bench Drew. M. Bid didn't play at all. Drew came off the bench. Tatum started |
| 0:50.6 | after being a DMP, after being a D&P the last game. And the real decisive move on the defensive end from Team USA is they decided to switch everything, |
| 0:58.8 | which is why you go to an AD instead of an A&B. |
| 1:01.2 | Actually, there's several reasons, but that's one of the reasons, right? |
| 1:04.0 | You go to that. |
| 1:04.8 | And it really stymied South Sudan. |
| 1:07.7 | They went from a really productive first half in that first game to a 14 point |
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