It's the Lockdown Podcast podcast. I'm Anthony Erwin. I am joined by you guys. You guys

sent in your questions. I have a few things that I have to talk about before we

get to the mailbag and there's only you know a handful of questions in there given the weird weekend and weird week

we're just coming off of.

So first I'm going to start by looking back at the Blazer series.

I am going to talk briefly about the Clippers taking care of

business in their series and and how important it's going to be for the Lakers

to get through their next series as quickly as possible.

And then, you know, with whatever time we have left over,

we will answer your guys' questions.

So let's start with looking back on the Lakers taking care of business

and winning their series against the Blazers in five games. Game five wasn't

exactly impressive.

There were certainly moments where the Lakers look like the team that should have won that game,

maybe in, or that series, maybe in one fewer game.

There were also moments where you

where you remembered,

oh yeah, this is the human element of the game

and the Lakers looked kind of checked out.

But either way, the Lakers were able to take care of business

and business and move on for the first time

into the second round since 2012. you know that year they lost to Kevin Durand and

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