What do you think about the Laker team now?

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 bar 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. I'm Pete, joined by Darius and Mike. And today we're going to continue some of the conversation that Darius and I had the other day about StarGards and just roster building in general. I think we'll go beyond that topic, but I do want to

kind of pick it up where we left off. If you listen to that one, it was a bit hurried. I had a room here

at the office for 30 minutes, so we had to rush through it. We can talk about it a little longer,

and with Mike. And so the idea of acquiring a star guard puts the Lakers into a three-star build that, as we've seen,

is fraught with danger. And so as a result of that, I feel like if you are going to go that route,

you've got to find a guy where not only is the talent super high, but also the fit, where after

you make that trade, you're high-fiving each other. Like, there's not really much question. And if there is some of that, like, I don't know, but what about, I mean, obviously there will be holes because there's not much money or resources to allocate anywhere else. But if you start getting into that after having those three guys, you're still like, yeah, but we also need this. And we need that and we need this. And it's not a fairly simple, clear idea of what you need. I think you can be in danger. And so what say you on this topic, Mike, of the idea of a guard who provides a certain floor offensively who can get downhill but also hit a pull-up jumper? This is kind of the description that we gave the other day. So where do you view that type of player within the context of where the

Lakers might go? I think it's a very narrow path to finding a guy. And there are only a couple

in the league, A, and then B, to fit that salary wise not just salary wise but also asset wise because

there's not any free agents necessarily coming in this class i would not be focusing my

attention on that as much there of course there are there is an exception there is an exception

to there and when that's what you just

said, like, where you're high-fiving the room, if you can happen to get like one particular guy.

But I, to me, if I'm looking at roster build, this just gets back to the same conversation

we've had for years where, and we had this before Westbrook and sort of after Westbrook.

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