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 you by the Blue Wire Podcast Network. I'm Pete, joined by Darius. And last night, Lakers lost in Denver, very short-handed. LeBron ended up not playing at all. And they competed. They kind of maintained this identity of

tenacity that they'd been playing with and made things a little bit annoying for Denver,

cut it to five, I think, in the third quarter. But it was never really a game that was in

doubt and ended up falling to the Nuggets. So today's pod, we can get into yesterday's game to whatever degree you'd like, D.

But today I'd really like to reflect because yesterday was the halfway point of the regular season.

And it has been a wild ride between, from the beginning of training camp until now,

in which I think we've learned a lot about

the team. I think we're in a much stronger and healthier place, but it hasn't been everything

that I expected it to be. So I'd love to reflect with you, man, on over these last few months,

on where this team has been so we can help determine where the team is gone.

Well, I'm interested to hear what you mean by.

It's not exactly what you thought.

Is it because of how they've changed

or like just the general shape of the team?

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