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Laker Film Room - Dedicated to the Study of Lakers Basketball

Eye of the Beholder

Laker Film Room - Dedicated to the Study of Lakers Basketball

Pete Zayas

News, Sports, Sports News, Basketball

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2024

⏱️ ? minutes

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Summary

The Lakers split their weekend games with a great win over the Cavs, but then a frustrating loss against the Wolves in which LeBron did not play and Anthony Davis left after the 1st quarter with an eye injury. Mike and Darius discuss the games, focusing more on the Minnesota loss and how it impacts the standings and the push the Lakers are trying to make to climb out of the 9th seed. 

Transcript

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0:00.0

What do you think about the Laker team now?

0:03.5

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 part 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. What's happening, guys? Welcome to the Laker Film Room podcast. A difficult night

0:27.8

at crypto.com arena for the Lakers, mostly because Anthony Davis gets hit in the same exact eye

0:34.4

that costs him all with the first quarter against the Warriors. It was like an exact

0:39.7

replica, Darius, in terms of what it was like in the building of a big game that the Lakers needed

0:44.4

to win. Now, LeBron was playing in the Warrior game, and so the Lakers hung around. And in this case,

0:49.7

when AD went out and wasn't able to come out of the half time of half time, it was just a wrap.

0:56.3

Now, from that point on, even though the Lakers did compete, they did play hard, they did cut into

0:59.8

Minnesota's lead. The Wolves were able to push back in the fourth quarter. So all of the

1:04.9

standings for mutations that we've been doing, and it had started to look like it may be a possibility

1:10.4

for the Lakers to actually run the table and then Phoenix lost.

1:14.4

So before the game, you're thinking, wait, can they, could they even maybe get up to the six?

1:19.5

And then AD gets hit in the eye and sort of changes things.

1:22.9

So what was your reaction watching that and how we'll get to the standing stuff in a second?

1:28.0

But just watching that game, seeing ad go down and immediately probably starting to write your post game

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