Cedric & the Lake Show
Laker Film Room - Dedicated to the Study of Lakers Basketball
Pete Zayas
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🗓️ 9 September 2021
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Summary
In the period between when the Showtime Lakers ruled the NBA and the Shaq/Kobe Lakers ran roughshod over the league, there was the "LakeShow" teams that, while never competing for a championship, captivated the hometown fans with a brash and fun style of playing the game. While he was only on the team for a little over two seasons, Cedric Ceballos was instrumental in ushering in the LakeShow and helping set the foundation for the team that ultimately was able to lure Shaq from Orlando. Pete and Darius discuss Ceballos' game, his importance to those teams, and why that era of Lakers basketball offers a real nostalgia for them as fans.
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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 |
| 0:22.4 | anymore. Correct. What's up, Laker fans? Welcome to the Laker Film Room podcast, brought you by the Blue Wire |
| 0:26.7 | Podcast Network. I'm Pete, joined by Darius. No Mike today, but he should be back tomorrow. Today, |
| 0:32.9 | we're going to reflect back on an important and underrated player from, I think, an important and underrated era in Lakers history that really set the stage for a lot of what ended up happening over the last 25 years or so. |
| 0:45.2 | Yesterday's pod was on Magic Johnson as one of the basketball gods and his retirement, which is going to be 30 years ago in November. |
| 0:53.6 | Can you believe that be? 30 years, |
| 0:55.1 | man. We're old. We are definitely old. And so that announcement, Magic's retirement, obviously had |
| 1:02.5 | massive social implications, the awareness of HIV. Like it rippled through society, much far beyond |
| 1:09.2 | basketball. But for the purposes of this pod, I want to just talk |
| 1:13.3 | about it from the basketball perspective. The Lakers were in the finals, man, in 91. And one of the |
| 1:19.8 | storylines of that final series was we didn't have a lot of ball handling. So Scotty Pippen picked up |
| 1:24.9 | magic full court. And we didn't have much to turn to. And so the needs of that team, if we were, you know, doing this 30 years ago, going into that offseason, we would have said we needed another ball handler. And so we get Sidale Threat. We're excited about that. And we're hoping Eldon and Vlade are getting a little older. Magic's still, you know, wonderful player. He's still one of the best players in the NBA. We have these kind of fringe. We could win a title if things go right for us. We were, after all, just in the finals. Magic retires. And now all of a sudden, we're a seventh or eighth seed overnight. And we have a couple of years where where we are, I believe, |
| 2:01.3 | the eighth seed, back to back seasons. We almost get the sons. We almost beat them in a one-eight |
| 2:06.0 | matchup one year. We go up two nothing, but lose the last three. And as this is happening, |
| 2:11.0 | James Worthy's knees are starting to go. So James actually retired after his age 32 season, |
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