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Happy Tuesday, everybody.

I hope all of you guys have had an incredible week.

Well, the Lakers keep their winning ways going as they improved a 13 and 4 with a game where they struggled a little bit,

guarding James Hardin, but they pull away late for a comfortable double figure win.

135 to 118 over the clippers. It's the only thing we're hitting today. Just going to cover that Lakers win over the clippers. You guys know the joke before we get started. Subscribe to the Hoops Tonight YouTube channel so you don't miss any more of our videos. Follow me on Twitter at underscore Jason LT so you guys don't miss show announcements. Don't forget about our podcast fee wherever you get your podcast under Hoops tonight. and it's always super helpful if you leave a rating and a review on that front. Jackson's doing incredible work on our social media feeds on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, and TikTok. Make sure you guys follow us there for more content throughout the season. Last or not least, no mailbag this week. We will be having a mailbag next Friday. So if you want to get your questions in for that mailbag, you can drop them in this episode or any of our other full episodes on YouTube. It will get to them in our Friday mailbags throughout the remainder of the season. All right, let's talk some basketball. Again, not going to go too long tonight, just like 10, 10, 12 minutes or so on the game, just to give my quick breakdown. Again, we were live on playback. We're doing two playback streams every single week we will have

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So this game followed kind of a similar flow to many of the Lakers games that we've seen this year.

I've been kind of intrigued by this concept of the Lakers net rating compared to some of the

other teams around the league.

And, you know, for a team that's 13 and 4, you'd expect them to be near the top of the

league and net rating, but they haven't been.

They've been in middle of the pack type of net rating team.

And one of the reasons for that is that they do not

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