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 War

Podcast Network. I'm Pete, joined by Mike. And just as is every weekend recently, the biggest

weekend of the year for the Lakers coming up with the biggest game of the year tonight against

the Dallas Mavericks. Mike, they are a game ahead of us in the standings. I believe even if we

win tonight, they have the tiebreaker against us because it'll be two, two, but they'll have the

better conference record. And so that means if we lose tonight, we're down two games in the

standings and lose the tiebreaker, which basically means

we'd be down three games. And that is very difficult to make up that amount of real estate

in the last 11 games. So big weekend, Mike, but it's been a couple shows since you've been on,

man. How was the road trip? What were your impressions from it? It was kind of a roller coaster

as it always is around these parts.

Yeah, it was, I think it went about as expected. Honestly, I think that you and I and Darius certainly like have discussed some of these things and I listen to both of the podcasts,

long-time listener. I always enjoyed listening to you guys. And I think what I was,

what I was trying to convey on text and it's always a little little bit harder, but there's just there's a certain feel that you get, you know, when you're like when you're there on the road and even a little bit more so at home, because you just can kind of sense the energy on the bus and at the hotel and at the arena. And I think that ultimately the energy coming out of the game in Houston, albeit a loss,

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