What do you think about the Laker team now?

Do 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 part 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 you by the Blue Wire Podcast Network. I'm Pete, joined as always by Darius and Mike. And since the last time we talked general NBA, we've seen a somewhat spectacular demise of a couple teams in Utah and Philly.

And the centerpieces of the aftermath, right, in terms of what happened and how have been Rudy Gober and Ben Simmons in particular.

And I'm really curious to hear your guys' thoughts about them through the prism of how playoff basketball attacks weakness

in ways that regular season does not.

And the NBA has a long history of guys who have really thrived in the playoffs.

And this can be too binary, right?

Like he's great in the regular season, but not great in the playoffs.

We do see guys kind of go out in similar ways. And both Gobert

and Simmons have been rendered ineffective in certain ways in multiple playoffs series that I

think is worthy of a conversation. Let's start with Utah and Gobert. Mike, they're a team

that since the beginning of the year, right? And this goes back even beyond this year,

where you've been very adamant that they are exactly this type of team, a team that can be very good

in the regular season, but come playoff time, they'll be exposed for not being quite up to the

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