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 Film Room podcast, brought you by the Blue Rie Podcast Network. I'm Pete, joined by Darius and Mike. And yesterday, we got reintroduced to Dennis Schrooter, had his opening media availability with the Lakers after some visa issues. And Mike,

there's part of it that caught your attention. Talk to us. Well, the whole vibe around Dennis

Schrooter coming in and has to do with Darvinham. And I think that it's hard to underscore the

importance of this type of relationship in certain situations.

Sometimes it doesn't matter at all.

Sometimes it matters a lot.

But there is a, with a player like Dennis, like there's a huge background of trust between

these two who probably were together more than people realized, like for five years in Atlanta

when, you know, the start of shooter's career and so

shooter started out by talking about how he has unfinished business and you know that was when he was

last time that he was here and we've gone over all that before I really liked how he played especially

early in the season once he got in Darius, slotted upwards when all the injuries happened.

That was not a burden that he was able to carry as well.

But he had some really good moments when he was just the guy that was supposed to be the pest

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