Hello, Lakers Nation. Welcome in to the Lakers Nation.com live postgame show. I'm Trevor Lane. The Lakers get the big win over the Warriors 129.101. What a win for L.A. and a game that didn't require too much of a struggle for the Lakers in order to get the job done.

Joining me now, it's Matt the optimist Peralta.

Hang on. There we go.

There we go. Matt, how are you doing?

You know, I'm good, Trevor. I love it when the Lakers can give me a stress-free win, especially on a Saturday night.

So we'll take that. Obviously not maybe the most inspiring win given the opponent and who they had available. But I think if you're the Lakers, then you need to win as desperate as you do, we'll take it. Yeah, I mean, this is not going to ease the concerns. It's not like anybody's now putting the lakers firmly in the contender category or something

just because they beat the warriors but you know the lakers were jumping back and forth between a

three and a half and a four and a half point favorite going into the night so it's not like

they were projected to win by you know 13 and a half or something like that it was supposed to be a

closer game and the lakers just absolutely cruised, crushed

the Warriors. The Warriors couldn't get anything going from deep. The Lakers were hot, but I also

thought the Lakers largely played well in this one. They didn't play perfect basketball or anything,

but they played well and were clearly the better team. So this was much needed though,

Matt, especially coming off of the last three games.

This was a stress-free win.

And I think a good pallet cleanse here for Lakers fans.

Yeah, I think pallet cleansers a good way to put this.

And then for some people that aren't aware,

the Lakers do play again tomorrow.

So there's obviously some benefits there to blowing out a team like that on the first night of a back to back. But like you said, it's not really much that you're going to write to, you're not going to write home about this win necessarily. But I think for a team that just needs to get back in the right direction, this is a good start. Yeah. I mean, this is a good start for that. By the way, Matt, did you know that Golden State is an above 500 team on the season?

They are currently in the playing tournament. So that, I mean, again, no, it's not like a win over the thunder or something like that, but they aren't above 500 team. Yes, they're missing Steph Curry, missing Christop's poor Zingis. They've got some players. I mean, of course, Jimmy Butler out for the season. This is not a full strength, Warriors team. But nonetheless, an important win for the Lakers. Anyway, let's get into some of the stats here. A lot of people asking, too, is LeBron going to sit tomorrow? You already mentioned it's first night of a back-to-back. Given the fact that he didn't have to do such heavy lifting tonight, 28 minutes, 22 points for LeBron James. Shot the hell out of the ball. Four of six from deep was four-for-four at one point. Seven boards, nine assists. Does LeBron play tomorrow against the Kings? I would like for him to play. I mean, he's been pretty good about playing back to backs since the ramp up period. And so I think against the Kings and tonight, he only had to

play 28 minutes, right? So I don't see why not. It's going to be a home game too. The

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