What do you think about the Laker team now?

You follow the box scores of the games every day?

Just the Lakers.

You're kidding.

That is really a compliment.

I was pleased to see you smile at the top bar show because once the game starts, you have a game face.

You don't smile much out there.

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, brought to you by the Blue Wire Podcast Network. I'm Pete, joined by Darius and Mike. And wow, what a 24 hours in Lakerland. Of course, this is the season that, you know, perhaps the biggest and best win of the year is followed by an entire day of talk about Frank Vogel's job status.

Probably the best highlight individual moment of the year was Austin Reeves hitting at 3 in Dallas, which may or may not have also been a super spreader event.

It's one of them years, man.

What we're going to try to do in this episode is we're not here to talk about, like,

should they keep frank, should they not keep frank or anything like that?

That's not our place, especially in Mike and I's position.

But the point of this episode is just to give all of our thoughts on Vogel, how Vogel's coached and Vogel's

circumstances, just to look at this season through the lens of Frank Vogel to provide, I think,

more information on why we are here and what kind of the broader landscape is so everybody

else can make up their minds. So in that vein, Darius, when you look at Frank Vogel's season and

all that it entails and all of the external factors, all of his decisions, things like that,

where do you kind of start in terms of the contextualization of his season?

I mean, I start with the fact that he's been dealt a rough hand, in my opinion.

I think we'll get into how you manage a rough hand, right?

I'm not really a card player or anything like that.

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