Defensive Fits
Laker Film Room - Dedicated to the Study of Lakers Basketball
Pete Zayas
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 4 November 2021
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Summary
When the Lakers are at their best defensively, they're flying around the court, trapping, and really pressuring offenses into mistakes and misses. This style, however, isn't a sustainable approach over the marathon that is the NBA season. Pete, Mike, and Darius discuss how the Lakers can play a more conservative brand of defense effectively, offer their own ideas of how to accomplish this, and question whether it's possible at all with the current injuries and roster construction.
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| 0:00.0 | What do you think about the Laker team now? |
| 0:03.4 | Do 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 anymore. |
| 0:22.9 | Correct. |
| 0:23.6 | What's up, Laker fans? Welcome to Laker Filmroom podcast, brought you by the Blue Wire Podcast Network. |
| 0:27.9 | I'm Pete, joined by Darius and Mike. And we're going to talk defense at some point, but we just got some crucial information, breaking news coming in. |
| 0:36.0 | Today is Mike Trudell's 40th birthday. We've got to |
| 0:39.0 | celebrate that just a little bit. We all realize that Mike's actually the freshman of the group, |
| 0:44.5 | right? I'm the junior, I suppose. Darius is the senior. D, before we kick this, before we kick this, |
| 0:50.4 | Darius is the senior, and you always will be, yes. Look, man. |
| 0:59.4 | Darius, tell me a good Mike Trudell memory in honor of his 40th birthday. |
| 1:00.4 | Oh, come on. Yeah, sorry, Mike. |
| 1:01.9 | We got to do this. |
| 1:04.0 | No, look, I don't know if I have any, like, groundbreaking Mike Trudell story. |
| 1:10.7 | I do remember, though though when I first realized that the guy who was |
| 1:17.9 | doing sideline reporting for the Lakers and the dude who I'd see on TV was someone who was |
| 1:26.2 | following me on Twitter and retweeting some of the stuff that I was |
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