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 Filmroom Podcast Network. I'm Pete, joined by Darius. We're going to start looking at kind of the different ingredients that we have, right? We've been talking about how we're in this in-between space with the roster where we don't know what the resolution is going to be with

Russ. Both Rob and Jeannie have made comments about how there's still deals on the table,

still work that we're going to do. So we don't think that we have the final roster, but we do

have a few guys on the team that are very likely to be on the team this year. And today we're

going to explore the forward positions a little bit.

Yesterday, Yovan Buha had a great article in The Athletic that really laid out the rotation

battles and the positional battles. And based on the idea that there are two kind of routes

that we can go. There's the AD starting at the four

version and the AD starting at the five version. Dee, before we started recording, you had some

pretty definitive thoughts on which path you think the Lakers are going to take. And I agree with you.

Where do you stand on that? I think AD is going to start at the four. Yeah. Like, I think there's

little chance he starts at center.

There's a variety of reasons for that.

And we could get into those, like, if you want, because I think it's part of the discussion that includes Darwin Ham and, like, where the strength of the roster actually is.

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