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. I'm Pete, joined by Darius and Mike. And Lakers, basically in playoff mode right now. Got three games left tonight facing the Golden State Warriors. I was not on yesterday's pod. Thanks for holding it down without me, guys.

Wanted to give my quick thoughts at the jump here. Loved our energy in Saturday's game against Cleveland. Early start, but they came out just with a ton of defensive energy, especially.

One thing, I wish we had more games left. I think our defense is more durable than our

offense, even though our offense has been

outperforming the defense over the last couple months. And if we get far enough, right, if the season

is not ending in the next few games, I think we'll talk more about that. But Lakers get 11 steals

and 11 blocks. I think the best version of this team's defense is one that gets a lot of stocks.

That's not true of every defense.

Sometimes it's just good, solid, positional defense, and you get defensive rebound, but not a lot

of turnovers force. I don't think that's the case with this Lakers team, and they really did that,

led by Anthony Davis with six blocks and three steals in that game. A nine-stock game is like

a 45, 50-point game equivalent, and we don't always

kind of celebrate it the same way. And so Lakers come out in the next game. Pretty good start

in that first quarter, but AD, as you guys know, gets hit in the eye, only plays in that

first quarter just like that last Golden State game. And it's funny, I feel like if we had one more big guy, especially one that could defend,

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