Lakers Bounce Back in Charlotte
Laker Film Room - Dedicated to the Study of Lakers Basketball
Pete Zayas
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 11 November 2025
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
After starting slowly and struggling defensively early on, the Lakers got back on track with a win over the Hornets, moving to 8-3 on the season. Pete and Darius discuss the game, highlighting the team’s defensive struggles to start out, Luka setting the tone offensively, Austin Reaves making his return, and Marcus Smart’s defensive playmaking in the 2nd half. And then later, the guys discuss Rui Hachimura’s great shooting in the 3rd quarter and zoom out to discuss his jump in offensive efficiency this season.
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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. |
| 0:12.7 | I was pleased to see you smile at the top part show because once the game starts, you have a game face. |
| 0:17.7 | You don't smile much out there. |
| 0:20.3 | 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 a busy day in the NBA right now, which means we're going to have a little three pod flurry for you guys over the next 30-ish hours or so, I'd say. Nico Harrison was fired in Dallas. |
| 0:38.5 | We're going to do a little one of our new mini-pods. |
| 0:41.1 | This is exactly the type of thing that those were created for is a little topic on a day where |
| 0:45.6 | I still really want to talk about the Lakers for 35 minutes, but this other thing, I want |
| 0:49.8 | to talk about that too. |
| 0:50.7 | So look out for that later tonight. |
| 0:52.5 | And then tomorrow, we have a early season |
| 0:55.8 | test against the OKC Thunder, and we want to preview that game. But first, Lakers moved to |
| 1:01.5 | 8 and 3 last night with a road win over Charlotte. Didn't start out very pretty. D. Lakers |
| 1:07.0 | gave up 40 points in the first quarter. But after that, their defense locked in quite a bit, 23 points in the second quarter, 15 in the third. I don't remember what it ended up being. It was more in the fourth, but sort of the middle of the game, the defense turned up in, especially in the third quarter. Rui had a phenomenal shot-making third quarter, and Lakers pushed the lead from two at halftime. They went on a little second |
| 1:28.9 | quarter surge to actually get the lead in the first place. And then in that third, they really took |
| 1:33.5 | command and by the end of it, they were up by 18. Held on one by 10 or so. D, thoughts on the game |
| 1:39.3 | against Charlotte. First and foremost, it's just always good to get a road win. Like, I'm happy with the result. |
| 1:46.0 | I thought that the defense was abysmal in the first quarter. And then the second quarter, |
| 1:51.8 | I thought it was better, but not by much. I know that they held Charlotte to 23 points, |
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