Can the Lakers Catch OKC?
Laker Film Room - Dedicated to the Study of Lakers Basketball
Pete Zayas
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🗓️ 5 November 2025
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
The Thunder are the NBA’s best team and serve as a target the Lakers can shoot for when charting their path towards being a contender. Pete and Darius discuss what goes into chasing, and potentially catching, a team like OKC and how that differs between the regular season and the playoffs. And then later, the guys preview Wednesday’s game against the Spurs and Victor Wembanyama.
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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 part 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. Correct. What's up, Laker fans? Welcome to the Laker Film Room podcast. I'm Pete, joined by Darius. And tonight, Lakers have a showdown with the San Antonio Spurs winner will have sole possession of the two seed in the West. We're going to talk about that in the third segment. |
| 0:42.3 | But first, D, I want to talk about the team that has the number one seed, or at least the Lakers through the prism of chasing them, was watching the OKC Clippers game last night, |
| 0:47.6 | the fantastic NBC coverage. |
| 0:50.1 | And OKC was down after the first quarter, like 33 to 20. |
| 0:53.6 | Hardin was going crazy. |
| 0:55.6 | Clippers really dominated on the offensive glass. |
| 0:58.4 | But as they have many times, OKC kept at it. |
| 1:02.6 | They had a have a level of problem solving and versatility with their squad. |
| 1:06.8 | Guys like Isaiah Joe, AJ Mitchell, their depth really shone through. And when you looked up, it was a 20-point lead for them in the fourth quarter. |
| 1:16.6 | And so, do you want to talk about them and more so can the Lakers catch O.KC? And what would it take to do it? |
| 1:24.1 | One of the things that stands out from watching them is there is a level of connectivity |
| 1:28.1 | that you can't fake, you can't rush, that is probably unachievable for this Lakers team that is |
| 1:34.8 | only going to be together for a year compared to an OKC team where that core has been together |
| 1:39.2 | for years and years. Now, I do think they have some of that the Lakers do between Austin and |
| 1:43.7 | Rui and LeBron, right? They've got a few guys now that have played together for a minute, but nothing quite like what OKC has D. So I wanted to talk about that with you. That is the team the Lakers are ultimately chasing, right? We wrapped up yesterday's pod talking about how we feel good about this squad and that Lakers really have something, |
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