Fair Expectations
Laker Film Room - Dedicated to the Study of Lakers Basketball
Pete Zayas
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🗓️ 8 November 2021
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Summary
With LeBron James still out and the Lakers other injuries still very much impacting their ability to play productive lineups, what should our expectations of the team be night to night? Pete, Mike, and Darius try to answer this question, discuss how they're looking at this upcoming stretch of home games, and whether playing more lineups that lean towards offense could lead to smaller successes within any given game.
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| 0:12.4 | What do you think about the Laker team now? |
| 0:15.7 | You follow the box scores of the games every day? |
| 0:18.3 | Just the Lakers. |
| 0:19.6 | You're kidding. |
| 0:55.4 | 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 you by the Blue Wire Podcast Network. I'm Pete, joined by Darius and Mike. And last week, when we ended, Darius accurately and colorfully put the Lakers' prospects right now, considering the roster and everything that's going on, that we're not in the best position right now. And that proved to be true in the Portland game, right? We got blown out, but we got blown out fairly early. And D, |
| 1:01.1 | to me, there's a difference between losing by 20 and being down by 20 in the first quarter, |
| 1:06.3 | right? Like, we were obviously at a big talent deficit, but we still have NBA players, right? |
| 1:13.4 | And so what I wanted to talk about today is what are considering the totally messed up |
| 1:19.1 | circumstances that we're in right now, what are fair expectations from the team from |
| 1:24.1 | what's probably going to be, or at least has a good chance of being pretty choppy waters this coming week. |
| 1:29.7 | Because to me, like, you still got to compete, right? |
| 1:32.8 | You still have to, you have to try your best with what you have. |
| 1:36.8 | And so I think I would like to establish, like, what is fair to hope to see from the team, |
| 1:41.6 | even if we end up losing every game. |
| 1:44.6 | Are we thinking they're not trying their best with what they have? |
| 1:48.4 | Well, I think that having a, that being down 20 in the first quarter is indicative of |
| 1:55.3 | that they didn't come to play, right? |
| 1:58.9 | Whether, I'm, where that blame pie or anything, you know, credit to the Kamenisky Bros. |
| 2:04.1 | That's not really what my point is. |
| 2:07.0 | Or do you disagree? |
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