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 Filmroom podcast, brought you by the Blue Wire Podcast Network. I'm Pete, joined by Darius and Mike. And we're here. We made it to the end of the All-Star break. Lakers are back. Had their first practice yesterday, Mike. And we got a few interesting notes from that,

including a goal in terms of where we want to end up in the standing. So curious,

Mike, what you heard on the ground yesterday about where the team's head is at. I mean,

I think it was a positive vibe for sure. I think they're excited to get after it.

And yet there's also, it's this mix of understanding the kind of pressure of the moment and what they need to do in terms of wins.

And also recognizing that with this many games left, that you can't do the actual must win.

And that's like that.

So even Anthony Davis said, yeah, these are must win games.

But then what happens when you lose a must win game?

You know, you have to play the next one and then try to win that one.

So it's a bit of a, I think what teams usually serve themselves best in, I think this is

LeBron's thing amongst many others, is to handle the game directly in front of you.

But it's very difficult to do that in this kind of a setting when you know that you have to get to a certain mark by the end of a certain number of games.

So to me, those things compete some.

But the ideal is that the collective energy that you get out of that and that

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