What do you think about the Laker team now?

You follow the box scores of the games every day?

Just the Lakers.

You're kidding.

That is really a compliment.

I was pleased to see you smile at the top bar show because once the game starts, you have a game face.

You don't smile much out there.

I don't think you have to do things for money anymore. Correct. What's up, Laker fans? You're listening to the Laker Filmroom podcast. I'm Pete, joined by Darius. And the Lakers got their asses kicked in Texas, losing both games against the Rockets, which was a good game. Last night was not. They got trounced by the Dallas Mavericks. No Luca,

no Kyrie, no Gafford, absolute butt kicking, the 21 point loss where Lakers got manhandled

on the boards. I thought that was probably the most outclassed Redick has been in a game.

The rebounding is the one thing. There are several

directions that we can go in, right? And as we talked about yesterday, this is an evaluation period.

And if that's the case, and Dallas may not have the high-end talent that they normally have

with the injuries that they have, but they are a contending team, right? Like the whole

environment that they are and kid is a very serious customer that sort of demands a level of

you better not fuck around. And that they still bring that with a level of collective force

that I thought really exposed a lot of Lakers' weaknesses,

even without their two top guys? Yeah, and could I just say, Dallas had been playing really poorly.

They had lost several games in a row. The news had just broken within the last couple of days

that Kyrie's back was an issue and that he was going to be out. And there's a nationally televised game

against the Lakers. And J. Kid has a history with the Lakers from his being an assistant with

Frank Vogel. And he's got some insights into ways to try to disrupt what the Lakers, even if the personnel is changed, LeBron and AD are

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