COVID Hits the Lakers
Laker Film Room - Dedicated to the Study of Lakers Basketball
Pete Zayas
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🗓️ 15 December 2021
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Summary
The NBA is under siege with new COVID cases and the Lakers are the most recent team to be impacted as Talen Horton-Tucker, Dwight Howard, and Malik Monk all enter the NBA's health and safety protocols. As we all hope for low impact cases, quick recoveries, and containment of the virus, the basketball will (for now) go on. With that, Pete, Mike, and Darius react to the news by first discussing THT's recent play and how much losing him hurts, and then exploring how to replace him in the starting lineup and why they'd all choose Austin Reaves. Later, the guys discuss Kent Bazemore and whether he too should get a chance in the rotation as another wing option to help supplement Monk's absence.
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| 0:12.3 | What do you think about the Laker team now? |
| 0:15.9 | You follow the box scores of the games every day? |
| 0:18.2 | Just the Lakers. |
| 0:19.5 | You're kidding. |
| 0:20.9 | That is really a compliment. |
| 0:25.0 | I was pleased to see you smile at the top bar show because once the game starts, you have a game face. |
| 0:30.0 | You don't smile much out there. |
| 0:32.6 | I don't think you have to do things for money anymore. |
| 0:35.2 | Correct. |
| 0:35.6 | What's up, Laker fans? |
| 0:36.6 | Welcome to the Laker Film Room podcast, brought you by the Blue Wire Podcast Network. I'm Pete, joined by Darius and Mike. And yesterday we got the news that three Lakers have entered health and safety protocols, Talen Horton Tucker, Dwight Howard, and Malik Monk. Mike, you're traveling with the team. In anxious times, I would imagine. What do we know and how are things looking on the ground? |
| 0:56.0 | And how are you doing? |
| 0:57.1 | I'm fine, thanks. |
| 0:58.0 | I think that it's this as we're seeing is not just a liquor issue now, right? |
| 1:04.3 | It's really been the last couple of weeks that things have picked up not just around the NBA, but around the NFL. |
| 1:10.4 | And to me, the larger message here is more |
| 1:13.4 | of a societal one that the reason why these tests are these kind of positive cases are coming up |
| 1:18.8 | is because they're testing more in the NBA, which tells you that the general public, which is not |
| 1:23.5 | testing very much right now, the cases are probably also going up exponentially. And this was |
| 1:29.3 | expected some after the Thanksgiving, sort of everybody getting together and some more people |
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