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 of our 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, directed by the Blue Wire

Podcast Network. I'm Pete, joined by Darius and the Lakers fall in game 5, 121 to 106. In what's

emerging as a classic series, Dee, I can't wait to talk more about the adjustments. Golden State had a stellar performance from an emerging vector that they hadn't had as much before from the forward position. We'll talk about this a little bit more later. A physical game, probably the roughest whistle of the series for the Lakers. I'm going to give my thoughts on the refs later, I think, in terms of why I don't really talk about them very much. And I don't think that they're a huge factor in NBA games. But it was a physical game where Anthony Davis gets cracked in the head, as did a couple of other Lakers players. And he missed the end of the game with that. But it wasn't why the Lakers lost that game. That was a game where Golden State gets out to a good start in the

first quarter. Lakers battle back and I'm like, all right, weathering the storm. I was really happy with most of the first half and then like the last couple of minutes they lose the rope. And that's what Golden State can do to you, right? Tough to win a game where you give up a 70 point first half, D. and so let's start there. Lakers in the first half give up 70, Golden State Carbonus up.

What did you see?

First of all, Lakers went into game five with the same game plan they had in the second

half of game four, right?

And that game plan mostly worked, which was Anthony Davis on Andrew Wiggins and sometimes switching ball screens,

sometimes not switching ball screens. As the game got deeper into game four, the Lakers switched

more and more and more. And it became a sort of an ISO heavy game where LeBron defending Steph a lot of times and then

LeBron trying to target Steph a few times. And then AD, of course, having the monster stops at the

end of game four to sort of secure the victory after Lonnie Walker was going offensively.

This game, the Lakers start with AD on Andrew Wiggins again and sort of the same

matchups and Golden State had some tweaks.

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