Guard Up
Laker Film Room - Dedicated to the Study of Lakers Basketball
Pete Zayas
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 25 October 2022
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Summary
The Lakers are a disappointing 0-3, but their defense has been the exact opposite of that, ranking #2 in the NBA on that end so far. Pete, Mike, and Darius discuss how the Lakers have been playing so well defensively, highlighting LeBron and Anthony Davis' efforts on the back-line and the guards' efforts to pressure the ball, force difficult shots, and create turnovers. Then later, the guys talk about Patrick Beverley's role in setting the tone for the perimeter defense and how playing smaller has impacted the team's rebounding.
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| 0:00.0 | What do you think about the Laker team now? |
| 0:03.4 | 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. |
| 0:22.9 | Correct. |
| 0:23.5 | What's up, Laker fans? |
| 0:24.6 | Welcome to the Laker Film Room podcast, brought you by the Blue Wire Podcast Network. |
| 0:27.7 | I'm Pete, joined by Darius and Mike. |
| 0:30.0 | And Lakers are 0 and 3 going into Wednesday's game against Denver. |
| 0:34.6 | The main reason behind that O and3 start is a historically poor start |
| 0:39.1 | on the offensive end and some bad execution down the last five minutes of games. And if you want to |
| 0:44.4 | listen to us, talk about that a little more in depth, listen to one of our last two pods in which |
| 0:49.1 | we get into that. But as is true in basketball in life, many times, multiple things can be true at the same time. |
| 0:56.4 | One of the things that I said over the course of the offseason that I was looking at is one of |
| 1:00.0 | my first kind of checkpoints is we have to build a credible defense. And the Lakers find |
| 1:04.8 | themselves second in defensive rating in the NBA, which is quite a leap from last year. |
| 1:09.9 | Also extraordinary in that they don't really have much in the way of forwards, which is quite a leap from last year. Also, extraordinary in that they don't really |
| 1:12.0 | have much in the way of forwards, which is exacerbated by the fact that they're one of their |
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