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Laker Film Room - Dedicated to the Study of Lakers Basketball

Goons & Banshees

Laker Film Room - Dedicated to the Study of Lakers Basketball

Pete Zayas

News, Sports, Sports News, Basketball

4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

A key development in the Lakers recent success has been the play of the guys JJ Redick affectionately refers to as "banshees" who are flying around on defense and bringing a level of toughness and grit each and every game. Pete and Darius discuss these guys, first diving into the emergence of Jordan Goodwin and Trey Jemison as contributors on two-way contracts who are helping on both sides of the ball. And then later, the guys talk about Jarred Vanderbilt's defensive contributions and how he's finding a role on offense, Dorian Finney-Smith's ongoing strong play, and much more.

Transcript

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0:00.0

What do you think about the Laker team now?

0:03.5

Do you follow the box scores of the games every day?

0:06.0

Just the Lakers.

0:07.3

You're kidding.

0:08.6

That is really a compliment.

0:12.8

I was pleased to see you smile at the top part show because once the game starts, you have a game face.

0:17.7

You don't smile much out there.

0:20.4

I don't think you have to do things for money anymore.

0:22.9

Correct. What's up, Laker fans? Welcome to the Laker Film Room podcast. I'm Pete,

0:27.5

joined by D. D., sometimes Harrison will text me. And he does it out of love. He knows

0:34.7

I'm old and pop culture passed me by a long time ago. And I might say something on the pod that he's like, you know, you might want to give me a bit of extra context to it. So the other day, remember I texted you guys in the thread. I was delighting about the Luca and the Goon Squad, right? As soon as they hit the floor, it was, I forget which game it was, but it was like,

0:56.2

Luca and just all the dogs on the team.

0:58.4

And they played pretty well, and you could kind of see the vision for that.

1:02.5

And so Harrison text me, and he's like, Pete, goon means something different these days.

1:08.7

And I'm like, Harrison, I refuse to seed ground to Gen Z on this

1:13.6

for many reasons. But one of the great childhood movies of our childhood was the Goonies.

1:19.5

Reddick's preferred term for this type of player is a banshee. He referred to Jordan Goodwin

1:24.0

as this, of which they are of the same ilk. The great Jack Perkins, who for my

1:29.8

money is on probably the greatest run of a season of any NBA content creator, just put out a

1:35.6

great one of the first Clippers win of Goodwin and Trey Jemison. With Goodwin in his mask,

1:43.4

Jemison with the baseball bat and the purple and gold eyes.

1:46.1

Just brilliant stuff.

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