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Hey everyone, welcome to Lockdown Lakers for Thursday, Brian Kiminetski, Andy Kiminetski.

Andy has Rob Polinka redeemed himself, not just in the eyes of fans, but in your eyes as

well, that's next.

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with over 20,000 subscribers to the show and leave us questions. I got a bunch of them written down for

shows today and tomorrow leave us comments. A lot of people talking about the show we did for Wednesday,

kind of comparing the James Harden saga to the Kobe Bryant, summer of Kobe, Andy, the 2007, the hot summer of Kobe.

So we'll get into some of those comments over the course of the next couple of shows I think.

I want to talk a little about Darwin Ham and some comments he made about the caliber of the roster that we didn't get to for Wednesday's show.

So while you're on vacation, Andy, I had our friend, Harrison Fagan from Silver Screen and Roll SP Nation on the show, great guest, great guy.

And one of the things we ended up talking about was kind of a place where I really wanted to get your thoughts too because we ended up

spending a lot of time in Rob Polinka. And, you know, kind of what has been a redemptive, I don't know what is it eight months now, whatever it is since the trade deadline.

And even a little before that when you come bring it in Rui, right, I kind of put all that together. But yeah, I consider Rui sort of an early deadline move.

One of the things he's like the reception from Laker's fans for Rob is certainly a change.

I think like he's, he's, people are a little more enthusiastic about it, but we've spent a lot of time breaking down his tenure.

And I think it's a really interesting one. So I wanted to get your thoughts too on this, this idea of whether or not the last, you know, seven months, this Rui on stretch changes your perception of Polinka as a GM.

Yeah, we're all talking about like free agency grades and where the Lakers are going to like this is all related to Rob.

I would say potentially, if not definitively, like it's, I think it's still a bit of an open book, still a bit of an open question, but things are, if nothing else coming to light in ways that I think reflect really well on Rob Polinka.

Yeah, like the last seven or eight months, however you want to put it six months, I think have been the best work Rob Polinka's done since starting to run this organization.

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