Built for Speed
Laker Film Room - Dedicated to the Study of Lakers Basketball
Pete Zayas
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🗓️ 20 September 2022
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Summary
The Lakers don't have a lot of wings on their roster, but after signing Dennis Schröder they have several good guards who can all play fast and can defend the perimeter with quickness and range. Pete, Mike, and Darius discuss the team's commitment to speed, how they can leverage it on both sides of the ball, and some of their concerns of how that speed can be countered with size by good teams. Then later, the guys discuss how much better defensive talent at the guard spots can translate to rebounding and how much that matters if they want to be a good transition team.
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| 0:00.0 | What do you think about the Laker team now? |
| 0:03.0 | You follow the box scores of the games every day? |
| 0:06.0 | Just the Lakers. |
| 0:07.0 | You're kidding. |
| 0:08.0 | That is really a compliment. |
| 0:10.0 | I was pleased to see you smile at the top bar show because once the game starts, you have a game face. |
| 0:17.0 | You don't smile much out there. |
| 0:20.0 | I don't think you have to do things for money anymore. |
| 0:22.9 | Correct. |
| 0:23.5 | What's up, Laker fans? |
| 0:24.7 | Welcome to the Laker Filmroom podcast, brought you by the Blue Wire Podcast Network. |
| 0:27.9 | I'm Pete, joined by Darius and Mike. |
| 0:30.4 | And in yesterday's pod, Darius took us home with a cinematic analogy of like an X-wing fighter as the walls are closing in, you know, |
| 0:41.8 | about to seal their certain doom and turning a certain way and, you know, getting out of that, |
| 0:47.2 | you know, at the last moment, everyone gets saved and they get out of that potential trap. |
| 0:51.7 | And, you know, one of the ways they do that is with a little |
| 0:54.2 | turbo boost of speed. And that's where we're going to go with today's pod. Now, ultimately, |
| 1:00.6 | this team needs forwards to be able to win an NBA championship. We don't need to win an NBA championship |
| 1:06.7 | right now. It's September. We need to be able to form a cohesive team. And I think that |
| 1:11.9 | with the position that we've held on the Westbrook trade in those circumstances, we need to be |
| 1:17.8 | able to be both functional now and if we are able to make a Westbrook trade, have a team where it's |
| 1:23.3 | like, okay, now we're in a spot where we're able to slot those pieces in. So I think that |
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