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Laker Film Room - Dedicated to the Study of Lakers Basketball

Hopes for the Final Week

Laker Film Room - Dedicated to the Study of Lakers Basketball

Pete Zayas

News, Sports, Sports News, Basketball

4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Pete and Darius discuss the team's strategy for the looming back-to-back against the Thunder and Mavericks, and then dive into specifics on both sides of the ball that they'd like to see as the team refines its approach and prepares for the postseason against four very different opponents who offer specific challenges. .

Transcript

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0:00.0

What do you think about the Laker team now?

0:03.5

Do 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 part show

0:15.5

because once the game starts, you have a game face.

0:17.7

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. I'm Pete, joined by

0:27.8

D.D., when we recorded after the game on Sunday, I hadn't done my rewatch yet. It was pretty

0:32.8

soon after the game. And those are fun, right, to just kind of record off of the vibes of the game and what

0:37.6

you can remember. But after doing my rewatch, you know, been saying for a minute, I think the

0:43.1

Lakers are the fourth best team in the league when everybody's playing their best. But I had thought

0:47.4

that the top tier of OKC, Cleveland, Boston was sort of not out of the Lakers' reach in terms of capability, but I had felt that there

0:55.0

was a tier between the Lakers and there was some gap between the Lakers and those top three

0:58.9

teams. After rewatching that game, not just watching it, but watching it again, and I know all the

1:03.5

context and it's not a superty huge game for them or anything like that, right? All several

1:08.8

reasons to kind of downplay it a little bit. But

1:11.9

the Lakers have enough actual advantages over them where I certainly wouldn't be surprised

1:18.1

if the Lakers beat them in a series. You know what I mean? Whereas before that game, that's probably

1:23.0

where I was. I was like, I don't know if the Lakers have enough. And if that's the case, bro,

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