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, brought you by the Blue War Podcast Network. I'm Pete, joined by Darius and Mike, who just took a flight to Memphis this morning, along with the team. Mike, how is the flight? What's the mood of the squad?

Fine.

You know, nothing really to report, honestly, from the flight.

I think that heading into game five, it's a little different from where the Lakers have been

in playoffs past, where they've more often than not been the higher seed.

And game five is sort of that pivotal, all right, we're the better team by now,

and here's why.

And it's a little different when you're going into a home arena for game five, when the desperation

that the Grizzlies had in game two is obviously going to be there.

And for me, it's really just all about how much of the early energy can the Lakers match

and then how close can they stay in order to get into more of an execution game and kind of

see which guys can step up around LeBron. And he's the biggest question, certainly, when it comes

to the likes, having played an overtime game. And he having to expend so much based on what else was going on in that game.

So I think that the mood of the team is that they definitely don't want to come back to Memphis.

And, you know, they, but it's a little bit of a tricky mindset when you go into game five,

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