What do you think about the Laker team now?

Do 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 part 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 Film Room podcast. I'm Pete, joined by D.D., when we recorded after the game on Sunday, I hadn't done my rewatch yet. It was pretty soon after the game. And those are fun, right, to just kind of record off of the vibes of the game and what

you can remember. But after doing my rewatch, you know, been saying for a minute, I think the Lakers are the fourth best team in the league when everybody's playing their best. But I had thought 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

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

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

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

reasons to kind of downplay it a little bit.

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

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

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

we are going into these

playoffs or very close to it. Right there, right there, that climb up the mountain that we always talk about that, you know, being able to get to the top and all the little wins you got to be able to get. If we can crack that top three, if we've cracked that top three, we're there, man and we've got one week left what i wanted to talk to you about today is what do you want to see

between now and the end of the end of the time've got a game again in OKC tonight. I love that they kind of had three days together in the same city. I think that's great for team bonding. But it looks like no one's going to play tonight or at least got half the team out on the injury report, Dee. Rui is definitely out, but it's looking like Luca, LeBron, Austin, Gabe, Dorian. So it looks like there's a decent chance that they might sit the guys tonight, Dee. So in that context, talk to me about tonight, but also like, what do you want to see over this last week of the season? So all of those guys are questionable. Luke is on there with a growing strain that I've never heard of before.

Uh-huh.

So that's also a thing where I'm just like, oh, what's going on?

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