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, brought you by the

Blue R podcast Network. I'm Pete, joined by Darius and Mike. And yesterday, we were brought to the

halfway point of the 2022 NBA playoffs with a pair of blowout game sevens. In the first game, Boston advanced over Milwaukee

in a series that was hard fought, but I think the better team certainly won. And then probably the

first or at least biggest surprise of the playoffs is Dallas absolutely ravaged the Phoenix Suns

in the nightcap. And yeah, we're going to,

I think, dedicate a little more time to that one than the first one. But I do want to start

with that first one, guys. And I wanted to focus at least my part of it on shot quality and the kind of shots that you can create.

Now, normally in game sevens, there are these rock fights that are fought on the inside

and that jump shots are at a premium, very difficult to make jumpers oftentimes in

game sevens. Milwaukee came into that game with a really interesting game plan,

and the story of that game was the discrepancy from the three-point line. I think it was like

48 points or something like that. And Grant Williams shot 17 threes. Now, the reason, D, that he

shot 17-3s is he was extremely open for much of the game. It seemed like the game plan was to leave him open. And when you do that, now, certainly there's a certain amount of fatigue and nerves and, you know, they are closing out sort of. That allows a shooter to get into a rhythm,

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