Dwight's Role
Laker Film Room - Dedicated to the Study of Lakers Basketball
Pete Zayas
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🗓️ 6 January 2022
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Summary
As the Lakers embrace small-ball and centerless lineups, where does Dwight Howard fit into the rotation? And after playing very well in his last two appearances, should the Lakers try to find a consistent role for him? Pete, Mike, and Darius evaluate Dwight at this stage of his career, discuss why he's still a useful player on a team that's skewing smaller, and forecast where he might be most valuable in upcoming matchups. Later, the guys discuss the push happening in the bottom half of the West playoff bracket and why the Lakers recent run of good play needs to continue as the teams around them in the standings also find their stride.
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| 0:00.0 | What do you think about the Laker team now? |
| 0:03.4 | 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. 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 there's been so much talk of the restructuring of the team with LeBron at the 5. You got AD waiting in the wings. Hopefully we hear something about him in |
| 0:37.9 | the next couple of weeks. But going forward, it seems like we're locked into this idea. And that |
| 0:43.7 | brings us to Dwight Howard. The way I view this roster is there's two of a lot of different |
| 0:49.5 | types of players. You've got two primary ball handlers in LeBron and Russell Westbrook. You've |
| 0:55.2 | got two stretch fours in Trevor Reza and Carmelo Anthony, one who's more offensively inclined, |
| 1:01.8 | the other who's more defensively inclined. You have two speed guards in Malik Monk and Kendrick Nunn. |
| 1:06.9 | What you don't have two of are two legit traditional big men. |
| 1:16.6 | The idea, I think at the beginning of the year, but DeAndre Jordan proved to not be able to measure up to that. |
| 1:24.2 | And so in the context of this going toward a small ball type of lineup, we still have to be able to go big. |
| 1:26.0 | We still have to be able to play big. |
| 1:30.9 | And Dwight is our best option to be able to go big. We still have to be able to play big. And Dwight is our best option to be able to do that. And he's been somebody who's been able to take three, four DnPs in a row |
| 1:36.0 | and come in and be ready right away. I was super impressed with that by him in the Sacramento game |
| 1:40.4 | D's. There's been a couple of times. I think he ran into him in the lobby or in the wait room or somewhere, Mike, a little while back where he thought he was going to get some |
| 1:48.4 | minutes that night, perhaps, and he was ready to go, and he kicked butt that night, too. And so, |
| 1:53.8 | Dee, talk to me about Dwight Howard. Where does he fit into this whole new paradigm that we're in? |
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