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 and Mike. And Lakers won a couple games in a row. And in today's pod, we're going to talk about how they can keep that going. They got a pair of games this weekend. Next time you hear from us will be after the Cleveland game. We have a game against Utah on Friday night as well. This Utah game is, I think, the first game that we've played against a team that was at least not expected to be in the playoff hunt. Now, they've started certainly a lot better than expected. And then Cleveland is a

Sunday afternoon game at 1230 local time. So those games are always a little bit funky. But at this

point of the season, I'm a lot more focused on who we are and who are we are becoming. And it's a lot

less about the other team, Mike. And as we go through the season and especially

come playoff time, it becomes more about the individual matchup and all of that. But I'm curious,

to the birthday boy, happy birthday, Mike Trudell. What do the Lakers need to do to keep it going?

Well, thanks, Pete. I think you're echoing a lot of what Darvinham especially has been saying early in the season.

And most of the times that he's saying it, it's in responses to my trying to sneak a pregame question in about the opponent.

Because that's always the time to see if there's just interesting to me if there's something particular that a coach brings up about what the other team does.

And I think that he's, he and the Lakers and the players are right to be just more about figuring out what they're doing.

And sometimes last season, we talked about Frank Vogel a lot and I thought Frank Vogel was great overall.

But there were times where it was just trying to win that night's game and what lineup is going to work against this specific team. And it might be big. It might be small in one time. It might have a different rotation. And I think Darwin is trying to take more of the approach of this is what we do. This is the style we're going to play. Let's make the opponent adjust some more to us. And I think that both of those philosophies can work. But

for this new team with all these new players, I think that the way that Darwin is approaching it

does make some sense. And so when you look at Utah, Darius, they're a, they are winning games mostly right now from the games that I've watched.

I've watched three or four of them.

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