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. I'm Pete, joined by Darius and Mike. And tonight, we have a big game in a few hours. It's an early start 4 p.m. Pacific against the Indiana Pacers. A third game of a six-game road trip. And guys, I don't want to, you know,

count chickens before they're hatched, but I think that if the Lakers can get a win tonight,

a even nine-game winning streak is not that far away. Last three games of the road trip are

Brooklyn, Toronto, and Washington, none of whom are playing for any playoff positioning at all.

And so Lakers have a big opportunity tonight, but they play a team, the aptly named Indiana Pacers,

they are in constant attack mode, D. And so I would love to talk about, Lakers have played a couple

of very memorable regular season games against them. Talk to me about what the top line items are on your mind.

So the Lakers just saw them and the pacer speed and the nature of their relentless attacking. I'm not saying it caught the Lakers off guard, but it definitely created an environment

where the Lakers were like, oh, this is new. I'm not sure they ever really got fully comfortable

with how fast the Pacers were playing and how quickly they attacked. But what I'm hopeful about

in this game, Mike, is that the fact that

they did just play them, and it is so recent, that they will be adjusted to it more. The two

players who I'm most, I don't want to say concerned about, but that stand out to me the most

are obviously Hal Leperton,

who did not have a great game when the Lakers played last week, and Pascal Seaccombe, who did have a

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