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 Wire Podcast Network. I'm Pete, joined by Darius and a just rising early in Vegas, Mike. We'll get to Mike in a moment. But I'm so excited. Basketball's back, guys. Last night, we had a great battle between the projected two top picks in the NBA draft, Victor Wimbunyama and Scoot Henderson, and they both lived up to the billing, and they very obviously wanted to kick each other's ass, and it was great. And tonight, we have another Laker game, so we are back in it. Fall is upon us. But Darius, I was sad you weren't on the pod

with this the other night. There are some nights I was telling you this before we started. There are some nights that like, I just want to hear the first impression, right? So I'd love to hear, man, take it wherever in as many places as you want to go. What did you think about Monday's Well, I thought you all covered a lot of ground in yesterday's pod.

So if the listeners for some reason skipped ahead to this pod and didn't

listen to yesterday's pod, you should go back and listen to that one because I thought both

Pete and Mike did a great job of sort of offering up some very initial thoughts. I don't know.

Like, I guess my first thoughts were, it would have been nice to see the

full team because I actually wanted the Lakers to try to win that game. And in the second half,

they clearly did not with everyone sitting out. I thought it just would have been nice to have,

like, those three additional players there to sort of help supplement those bent units in the second half, at least.

As far as like first impressions of play, I thought AD's activity on the boards was something that stood out.

So like, let's say there's five things that stood out to me over the course of the, of everything that that I saw a d's activity on

the glass I thought was good I thought pat bev doing pat bev things was exactly sort of what I

thought including what you mentioned that I said in the text thread about like him doing a lot

on on offense and it was capital a L-O-T a lot.

I think, yeah, I said I didn't want to use the word that you use, and you can if you want,

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