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. I'm Pete, joined by Darius and Mike. And I'm excited about today's pod, guys. We're going to delve into a bit of Austin's weaknesses. And that's something that this tournament, this FBA tournament, was a great opportunity to kind of zero in on him as a player and that we're going to give him a disproportionate amount of our attention because he's a Laker.

And we talked before the tournament that him playing in a Steve Kerr scheme was going to be really informative about Austin as a defensive player because he likes to switch a lot.

This was a smaller group. And there were certainly some wins in that respect, too, that I think

it's important to not get lost in his broader discussion. He was also the target of a lot of

opponent's game plans, especially down the stretch. And so in today's pod, we're going to talk a little

bit about how teams target him

and what the Lakers have to kind of counter that both in terms of lineups and scheme.

Mike, you wrote a wonderful recap of his run, a review of his run in Manila.

Let's start with that, man.

Let's put Austin's run in context.

Well, first of all, Pete, all I really heard right there in those last, that last minute or so

was you calling Austin him like four or five times.

Did you, did you pick up on that as well, there is just literally.

He is him.

Yeah.

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