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Laker Film Room - Dedicated to the Study of Lakers Basketball

How Far Away Are the Lakers?

Laker Film Room - Dedicated to the Study of Lakers Basketball

Pete Zayas

News, Sports, Sports News, Basketball

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2026

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

After the Lakers suffered back to back losses against the Thunder and Spurs, Pete and Darius discuss how the Lakers stack up against the two young powerhouses in west, how close the team is to actually contending, the challenges of closing the gap, the importance of Austin Reaves development and LeBron’s ability to turn up in the playoffs to this discussion, and much more.


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0:00.0

I'll now hand you over to my best man, Eddie.

0:04.0

Wow, wow, wow, second time's a charm, eh, Billy Boy?

0:09.0

Oh God.

0:10.0

Substitution, courtesy of Paddy Power, embarrassing Eddie, makes way for sensible Samuel.

0:15.0

Cool, that was close.

0:16.0

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0:19.0

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0:38.6

That is really a compliment.

0:42.8

I was pleased to see you smile at the top bar show because once the game starts, you have a game face.

0:47.8

You don't smile much out there.

0:50.4

I don't think you have to do things for money anymore.

0:52.9

Correct.

0:53.7

What's up, Laker fans? Welcome to the Laker Filmroom podcast. I'm Pete, joined by Darius. And Lakers dropped their second of a back-to-back last night. They sat what I believe will be their starting lineup. So no Luca, no Austin, no LeBron, no DA, no Marcus. And Lakers were predictably down by 30 in the first half.

1:13.0

And the only drama to that game was how historic would Wemby's performance be.

1:17.1

He had like 25 points in the first eight minutes of that game.

1:20.8

Was he going to be wilt?

1:22.5

Yeah, is this dude about to go for 75?

1:24.2

And we looked not particularly interested in changing any of the outcomes of his

1:29.9

shots and so yeah just kind of a one of i think four or five games so far this year that it's

1:36.0

hardly unusual around the league these days but certainly a splash of cold water to the face of

1:41.1

an old basketball fandy to have so many games in a season where

1:44.7

it's like, uh, today's just a sit day for our main guy. So as a result, we're going to have

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