Groundhog Day
Laker Film Room - Dedicated to the Study of Lakers Basketball
Pete Zayas
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🗓️ 16 January 2023
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In a game it feels like we've seen many times before, the Lakers lost in crunch-time when they weren't able to convert on their final offensive possession. Pete, Mike, and Darius discuss the recurring themes of these losses, focusing on Russell Westbrook's role, how much injury and skill-player absences matter, and whether additional shooting would help alleviate some of the spacing issues LeBron is facing at the end of close games.
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| 0:00.0 | What do you think about the Laker team now? |
| 0:03.5 | 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 bar show because once the game starts, you have a game face. |
| 0:17.8 | You don't smile much out there. |
| 0:20.4 | 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 and Mike. And, guys, this weekend, I saw a movie I haven't watched since it came out in 1993. But it's a movie that's always been on my mind. It's very |
| 0:38.2 | Twilight Zone-esque and it's plot, and I've always been into that sort of thing. And it's Groundhog Day |
| 0:43.0 | with Bill Murray. Saw it for the first time in 30 years when it came out. And if you haven't |
| 0:48.0 | seen the movie, the premise of it is this guy is stuck in a time loop where he has to |
| 0:53.3 | relive the same day in a town that he doesn't |
| 0:55.8 | particularly like on Groundhog Day, Punksetani, Pennsylvania. |
| 0:59.6 | And every day that he wakes up, it's that same day that he was just in and he has to do it |
| 1:03.0 | over and over and over again. |
| 1:04.8 | And I was thinking of that as we were watching the Lakers lose another game in Crunch Time, Dee, |
| 1:10.1 | in heartbreaking fashion. There's so much to say, but we've had a |
| 1:14.8 | ton of games like this this year that it definitely seems like we're living a sort of groundhog day |
| 1:21.2 | in terms of the closing minutes of a close Lakers game. So first and foremost, man, how you |
| 1:26.4 | holding up? There have been a lot of |
| 1:27.9 | gut punches like that. So I'm tired of this team. I'd much rather talk about Groundhog Day, |
| 1:32.6 | the movie right now. And so this is what we built the displeasure scale for. Okay. Just, |
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