Halfway Point
Laker Film Room - Dedicated to the Study of Lakers Basketball
Pete Zayas
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🗓️ 11 January 2022
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Summary
The Lakers have hit the halfway point of the regular season, so there's no better time to reflect on what has happened to this point in the year, how much we do and do not know about this team, and where we think they're headed. Pete, Mike, and Darius discuss some of their big picture takeaways through the halfway point -- from the injuries to the shift towards small ball to the load LeBron has had to carry on both sides of the ball. Later, the guys dive into Russell Westbrook's play, both the good and the bad, and how Anthony Davis' looming return could impact it all.
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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. What's up, Laker fans? Welcome to the Laker Film Room podcast, brought you by the Blue Wire Podcast Network. I'm Pete, joined by Darius and Mike. And after the last game, we are exactly halfway through the season with a 21 and 20 record. And so in today's pod, we're going to just reflect a little bit on the first half of the |
| 0:39.3 | year, kind of see how we're feeling. |
| 0:41.7 | And Mike, what I'm most struck by with this first half of the season is how little we know |
| 0:47.6 | this far into the season. |
| 0:49.1 | We're certainly not at ground zero, the place where we started this season and we talked |
| 0:53.2 | about the starting line of a marathon. |
| 0:55.8 | We're certainly not there, but you tweeted out something yesterday about how the most recent |
| 1:00.6 | starting lineup is now our currently most used group, the one with Stanley Johnson in it, |
| 1:05.4 | who's on his second 10-day contract. |
| 1:07.5 | And I don't think that there's any individual fact that represents the first |
| 1:13.0 | half of the Lakers season more accurately than that. So I would love to hear where you're at |
| 1:18.6 | with this team and also being in the room with all of these guys, kind of what you think the general |
| 1:24.2 | sentiment is amongst the players and coaches. Well, first of all, I got to, I have to get a blessing from Darius to be doing all this |
| 1:31.0 | lineup data searching that I've been doing lately. I had a period of time where our friend |
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