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 Filmroom podcast, brought to by the Blue Wire Podcast Network. I'm Pete, joined by Darius. Mike is in route to our longest road trip of the season. I think it's our longest one. And so just the two of us today, D. And last night, Lakers finished what they started.

It was a very similar game to the Indiana game, except down the stretch, they really closed

it out.

Good game by the Lakers, right?

The Blazers are without Damian Lillard.

They've lost a few games in a row, right?

But these are the types of games that

aren't really about the other team to me. And I thought the Lakers, in terms of lessons learned,

applied immediately what they, you know, they went up big in the fourth and then they closed it out.

It also represents the quartermark of the season. It was the 20th game. And most of the time,

when we talk on the

pod, we talk about what we think about this team. I want to talk today about how we feel about

this team. Last season, I think left a, I think it scarred the psyche of the Lakers fan base.

And I think earlier in this season, everything has been very, at least the encore product,

has been kind of juxtaposed with the disaster of last year. And I don't know what this

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