Instant Chemistry
Laker Film Room - Dedicated to the Study of Lakers Basketball
Pete Zayas
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 16 February 2023
⏱️ ? minutes
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Summary
The Lakers got LeBron back, unveiled a new starting lineup, and promptly dispatched of the Pelicans with a double-digit victory in a game that neither LeBron nor Anthony Davis had to play more than 30 minutes. Pete, Mike, and Darius discuss the game, focusing on the instant chemistry of the starting group, Jarred Vanderbilt's defense, and Malik Beasley's lasers. Then later, the guys discuss Mo Bamba's debut and how a rough shooting night shouldn't overcome his defensive potential.
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| 0:00.0 | What do you think about the Laker team now? |
| 0:03.4 | 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 bar show because once the game starts, you have a game face. |
| 0:17.8 | You don't smile much out there. |
| 0:20.4 | I don't think you have to do things for money anymore. Correct. What's up, Laker fans? What a way to go into the All-Star break. I'm Pete, joined by Darius and Mike. You listen to the Laker Film Room podcast, brought to you by the Blue Wire Podcast Network. Guys, I always talk about how the Lakers are my favorite novella. |
| 0:37.9 | And one of the ways that sometimes they will end a season, you'll gasp and be like, |
| 0:42.6 | oh, I can't wait for the next episode, but you've got to wait a long time. |
| 0:46.8 | And that's where we're at, man, the last game before the All-Star break, |
| 0:50.3 | Lakers try out a new starting lineup, one that our very own Mike Trudell called here on this podcast |
| 0:54.9 | yesterday. And it looked beautiful. Mike, there are all sorts of reasons for my Laker heart to be |
| 1:03.8 | pinging all over the place after that performance. But you called it, man, you saw it. And the bench |
| 1:09.5 | was rougher at the beginning, but had a good second half. And Lakers got their first blowout win in a minute. Talk to me about what you saw, Mike. Well, there are certain things that really do just fit right away. Like, do you think the first time that somebody had peanut butter and jelly, they got it? Or do you think that that took a little while that must have |
| 1:28.7 | been an amazing moment like oh my god you guys you have to try this what is it and then and then were |
| 1:34.7 | there there had to be haters too with it was like nah that's like there was another way you used to |
| 1:40.2 | eat peanut butter with something else yeah you're some kind kind of idiot? Why would you have that together? |
| 1:45.1 | And I don't know, man. |
| 1:46.5 | I'm still in the, I do think that this is going to work. |
| 1:50.3 | So I don't think it's small, sample size theater. |
| 1:52.4 | And I thought the way, the reason that they did it in the first place, part of it is just simple basketball logic. |
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