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Laker Film Room - Dedicated to the Study of Lakers Basketball

In the Blender

Laker Film Room - Dedicated to the Study of Lakers Basketball

Pete Zayas

News, Sports, Sports News, Basketball

4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Pete and Darius discuss the team's ability to put defenses "into the blender", the role LeBron and Austin Reaves play in this idea, and how creating and maximizing these possessions will be critical to their success into the playoffs and beyond.

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. Correct.

0:23.7

What's up, Laker fans? Welcome to the Laker Film Room podcast. I'm Pete, joined by Darius. And today

0:28.6

we talk about the blender, D. This is the place that offenses want to be, defenses want to stay out of

0:34.4

no matter what. And with having Luka Dantchich on the team,

0:43.0

the Lakers are going to be able to get there a lot more than other teams. One of my favorite memories of this year was sitting with you at a Laker game, the third game of the season,

0:48.1

watching LeBron James score 16 points. Bro, we got to see LeBron have one of those runs in person sitting behind the

0:57.0

basket at the basket he was shooting at. Right. So all the action was coming right toward us.

1:02.2

And LeBron has scored 16 points in the first three minutes and 37 seconds of the fourth quarter.

1:08.3

And the Lakers are on a 21 to nothing run flipping a seven point

1:12.7

deficit into a 14 point lead just like that. The crowd's on fire. DeLo racks from the

1:19.5

left slot position, drives toward the baseline, whips it over into the opposite corner to Rui.

1:25.2

I'm sorry, he wasn't in the corner. He was like on the wing. So he shot

1:27.7

fakes, racks baseline, and takes a pull-up, like 14-footer or so that clanks. A couple plays go

1:35.3

by, get a timeout. On the bench, LeBron is incredulous, imploring Rui to swing that MF to him,

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