Hello, Lakers Nation.

Welcome in to the Lakers Nation.com podcast.

It's time.

Media Day is upon us.

Training Camp is here.

And today on the show, we're going to talk about training camp battles, how we think.

Those are all going to play out and what the Lakers rotation could wind up looking like.

I'm Trevor Lay and make sure you do subscribe to the Lakers Nation.com YouTube channel,

as well as the podcast feed over on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, wherever you listen to podcasts. Joining me, Donnie, Danny, happy to have you on here and talk some Lakers basketball. And I am so excited at the time of year that we're out right now that we are finally back in in action with the Lakers. man it it was, it felt like a long, long summer, man. And I, I'm so happy that we're back as well because the summer just, I was so ready to get back into things just like a week later. I was like, all right, we need to get back. Right. It is, it felt like a drag for me, but I'm really excited. It's always a long summer in the NBA. other sports or even longer, but I don't care. It felt like forever, but happy that the Lakers are back in action. We'll talk a little bit about the camp battles that we expect to see taking place here. But before we get to that, you know, Rob Polika and JJ Redick had their introductory presser the other day. Did you have any, you know, like big picture takeaways or what your

impression was of those, uh, the comments they made there? No, not really because they mostly

stuck to the script. If I can say that for the answers that they provided. And they also did

the thing where they don't really answer specifically the questions that are asked. They kind

of dance around it.

But what I will say is one of my big takeaways, I guess, would be JJ.

And the fact he said there was a lot of self-reflection.

And he seems like at least he's in the right headspace to lead this team into the next season.

And it seems like he's got some plans and things that he wants to implement. And I'm really excited to see how all of that takes shape. And JJ and his buddy, chat GPT are in the right headspace if you saw that story. Yeah, that's the new gen right there, man. We're going to be like 10 years. All the coaches are going to be doing that.

I was going to say, do you, do you view that as like, I've seen people that are responding very negatively to that, him saying, and I would, he's him saying he spends an hour and a half a day talking to Jet, GPT, how accurate, how much is he exaggerating all of that. But is that a bad thing that he's doing then?

I mean, he sounds certainly lonely.

If that's the case, I would, I would,

and he's, that he's doing that? I mean, he sounds certainly lonely.

If that's the case, I would, I would, he used to figure things out on that front of things.

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