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 Darius. And today we talk about the blender, D. This is the place that offenses want to be, defenses want to stay out of no matter what. And with having Luka Dantchich on the team,

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,

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

right? And the creation of and the exploitation of getting into

the blender, it's that moment. It's that decision right there where should I shoot this

semi-contested shot or should I swing that MF to my teammate? And when and where to do that,

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