What do you think about the Laker team now?

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 bar 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, brought you by the Blue Wire Podcast Network.

I'm Pete, joined by Darius. Mike is in transit to the last stop of a five-game road trip that the Lakers, never a dull moment in Lakerland. Lakers pulled out a comeback win.

They got a, on a Groundhog Day, they flipped the script on the Indiana Pacers with a furious

fourth quarter comeback after three quarters of pretty disengaged and disinterested basketball.

And, Dee, I want to zoom out to a multi-game point to start out.

We've played five games since Anthony Davis return.

We're three and two with one of them being the loss against Boston.

And the other one being a game where LeBron and AD sat.

And in those five games, I've only watched them and be like, this is the engaged version of the team once, and that was against Boston.

Every other game, there's been long patches and long stretches where they've been just very sloppy.

And one of the things that Indiana did last night, and this is something that we've seen on a number of occasions, is it's obvious to me that just attack the Lakers every single time and you're going to get good

opportunities, whether it's transition or just early offense. That's obviously very high up on

the scouting report for other teams. And Indiana controlled the first three quarters of that game,

mostly doing that. And then in the fourth quarter, Lakers turned up the ball pressure. Patrick

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