What is going on? Lakers Nation. What is going on? My name is Luca Rosano filling in for Trevor Lane, joined by Matt the Optimus Peralta, as the Lakers get a much, much needed victory against the Portland Trailblazers.

A little too close for comfort there at the end, but nonetheless, they get it done just what they needed before

that big game against the nuggets on Saturday. Matt, that was a roller coaster man. How are you

feeling after that win? Relief, joy. I feel like this game was a lot closer than it needed

to be, but you know what? We'll take that and

we'll go look forward to Saturday against the Nuggets, but overall, just happy they responded

with the win after last night. Yeah, I mean, look, it was some big fourth quarter play, of course,

from LeBron. Like, how does this guy keep doing it? It amazes me every single time, but they really needed LeBron to be his best to win this game.

And they're still having to rely on him.

But you look at LeBron, he did have the career high in turnovers with 11, but 40 points,

eight rebounds came up big when the Lakers needed him to.

He and Austin were phenomenal. They phenomenal they you know combined for 72 of the lakers 110 you know before we get into like the negatives

and other guys need to step up i think from those two just performing as well as they did was

very really great to see yeah you know on a night where the Lakers are short-handed and the rest of the guys

aren't really scoring, it's encouraging to see LeBron and Austin be able to take over games

regardless of the opponent.

I know Portland's dropped the past three games prior to tonight, but again, the Lakers

needed this win.

It was a scrappier win than I thought it should have been, but we'll take a 40 ball from the broad and 30 plus from Austin. When you look at, you know, what was concerning in this one, definitely turnovers. Like I felt that was the reason why the Blazers even had a chance in this one. Like, then if he had the, uh, Advia played amazing.

You got to tip your cap to him.

But the turnover has continued to be a,

a bit of an issue. Um, so you definitely want to see them clean up on that. And just like, you know, where's that other production going to come from? Obviously, that's going to be the, the big question. but I did like, you know,

...