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 to by the Blue Wire Podcast Network. I'm Pete, joined by Darius. And for like the fourth week in a row, we're entering the biggest weekend of the season. Lakers play the Minnesota Timberwolves tonight at Minnesota. And then Sunday,

it's the Rockets on Sunday. Yes. Revenge tour. There's the revenge tour like Anthony Davis said,

Pete, every team that they're played beat them the last time that they've played. So it's a

get back road trip. That's right. The get back road trip. And so Lakers find themselves in the ninth seed after the Pelicans beat Denver,

after they sat Yokic last night.

But I think we're in a good spot.

This is the fifth game of that like last 10 stretch that we were talking about.

Lakers have won three out of the four so far.

And in yesterday's pod, we really focused on

the new starting lineup, Dilo, Austin, Vando, LeBron, and AD, its debut and how great it looked.

But in today's pod, before we preview the Minnesota game specifically, and we did, if you want to

hear more thoughts on that, we did get to it at the end of yesterday's pod. But I want to talk about something that's just about our team that is going to

not only impact tonight's game, but I think the game's the rest of the season. And that's the

bench, D. I want to define a time of game to really focus in on that. And that's going to be

the six-minute mark of the first quarter and third

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