January 2024
Laker Film Room - Dedicated to the Study of Lakers Basketball
Pete Zayas
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🗓️ 3 January 2024
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Summary
The Lakers enter 2024 looking for consistency and a foundation they can build on to carry them through a pivotal, home-heavy January that can make or break their season. Pete, Mike, and Darius discuss this stretch of games, how instability has contributed to the team's struggles to this point, and the importance of finding a rotation and strategic approach and sticking with it to get the most out of this stretch. And then later the guys discuss the team's offensive approach, the benefits and challenges of building offenses that revolve around LeBron, and how playing through Anthony Davis can help this team find their stride on that end of the floor.
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| 0:00.0 | What do you think about the Laker team now? |
| 0:03.5 | 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. |
| 0:22.9 | Correct. |
| 0:23.5 | What's up, Laker fans? |
| 0:24.6 | Welcome to the Laker Filmroom podcast. |
| 0:26.1 | I'm Pete, joined by Darius and Mike. |
| 0:28.6 | And today we're going to look forward a bit. |
| 0:31.0 | But first, let's look behind ourselves at a crazy 2023 for the Lakers. |
| 0:37.0 | On January 2nd, 2020, the first Laker game of the calendar year, |
| 0:42.8 | the starting lineup was Dennis Schroeder, Patrick Beverly, Troy Brown Jr., LeBron James, |
| 0:49.9 | and Thomas Bryant, because AD was hurt at the time. The last game of 2023, the Lakers starting lineup, was Jared Vanderbilt, |
| 0:59.0 | Rui Hachamura, Torian Prince, LeBron James, and Anthony Davis. |
| 1:03.3 | And that's somewhere in between we made the Western Conference finals somehow. |
| 1:07.2 | But there is no other team, especially near the top that has that level of transients. |
| 1:12.1 | And being an analyst of the team has been a wild ride. I'm sure you guys feel this on some |
| 1:17.1 | level where it's like every couple months, maybe even less the team is changing. And that's one of |
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