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. I'm Pete, joined by Darius and Mike. The Nuggets Holds Serve in game one with a 114-103 victory and open up some old wounds for the Lakers. Started out well, though. It started out a little differently than last season's series did. Lakers come out, play well out of the gates, especially LeBron. LeBron has an excellent first quarter. I think he had 10 and 5 or 12 and 5 in that quarter. And he kind of saw the whole array, had him coming off of the zoom action on each side of the where he hit a three off of a screen on one side, then another three off of a handoff from AD on the other, got Jamal Murray on a switch and posted him up for a layup.

And meanwhile, on the other end, the Lakers are doubling hard on Yokic and flying around on those rotations.

If you listen to our preview pod, the first

like 16 minutes of this game were exactly what I wanted in terms of the stuff I wanted to see

is doing, trapping, flying around, we're boxing out, rebounding well. At first, Dilo has a good

first shift, I thought. Even though he didn't hit a three, he hit three of his shots before having a disastrous rest of the game. But yeah, Lakers come out well in the first

quarter and we have a change to the rotation. LeBron plays the whole first quarter and we come

out to start the second quarter with A.D. and Hayes out there. And I could almost cry. And not

only that, we're blitzing Jamal Murray and using Jackson

as a perimeter defender, which is great in concept, but I do have some thoughts on that a little

bit later and just some more stuff in that family overall. But they're blitzing. They're playing

very well. LeBron gets a steal and a breakaway puts the Lakers up 49 to 37. And then right after

that timeout, Denver goes on a run. And then to start the third quarter, LeBron hits a big three

to send us into halftime. Lakers up three, 60 to 57. And then the offensive woes for the Lakers

really turn up in the second half. Denver makes a couple of adjustments, and the Lakers really get out of sorts on a

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