What do you think about the Laker team now?

Do 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 part 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 as always by Darius and Mike. And in the last podcast, we talked about the difficulties of

properly weighing how much the injuries matter so that we can avoid the pitfalls of blaming too much on the injuries, but also not enough on them.

And I thought Darius really struck at the core of how to do that in the last show by saying it's through individual player evaluations.

We know more about every guy that's on the team relative to what we did at the beginning of the season.

And that's not true for anyone more than the new guys.

And so with that in mind, we're going to start with Dennis Schrooter.

And Mike, you always talk about the value of big guards.

We were talking about this with Donovan Mitchell or just big players, bigger wings, that at some point, if you're 6-1 or 6-3,

there is a limit for how much you can impact the game no matter how good you are.

And there's a lot of truth to that.

I think that's also true with not the superstars, not the Donovan-Mitchells, the guys that

are asked to carry a team, but even in role players, the playoffs can be a really tough place for a guy who's

6-2, 6-1, Dennis Schrooter's size. And to overcome that, I think that you need a certain

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