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 talk a little bit about how the Dallas Mavericks built their team

and some of the similarities with the Lakers and some, perhaps some insight in terms of what the Lakers can do

to build the team going forward. Mike, you correctly pointed out when we were talking about

this earlier that both the Lakers in 2023 and then the MABs this year were both teams that

really went for it at the trade deadline and ended up reshaping their team to great benefit.

They're also an example of a team that, they're also an example of a team that had the ingredients, I think, but in terms of the main ingredients, but did not have the ancillary talent,

the secondary guys around them, and show kind of how far and how much you can improve your

team strictly through role players. They had Kyrie and Luk Luca last year, but they didn't have any of the other guys. They've really changed the role players on their team, and they went from missing the playoffs to about to start the NBA finals in a couple of days. So talk to me. I've got some thoughts, Mike, about just sort of the overall building what the Lakers can and cannot take from Dallas.

But what do you think of when you think of this of what the Dallas Mavericks did?

The conversation is basically about fit versus continuity or some balance of the two.

And it's a, it's a conversation we've had a lot about the Lakers because of the way that the roster changed and where it went from the like the first thing was AD comes in and there's not any continuity there on that team but it works right away and they win a lot and as that season goes on they keep winning bubble happens after the pandemic and they win the title the next, most of the continuity is there with a couple of talented pieces.

Then they make the Westbrook trade.

And then we get to getting out of the Westbrook trade and it works right away to the point

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