Lakers Look to Build on Strong Start
Laker Film Room - Dedicated to the Study of Lakers Basketball
Pete Zayas
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 21 November 2025
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
With 15 games in the books and the Lakers getting a break in their schedule, Pete and Darius discuss their current view of the team and how it’s different from expectations heading into the season, what they’d like to see the team focus on during this stretch without games, how that work can carry over into a softer part of the schedule, and much more.
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| 0:00.0 | What do you think about the Laker team now? |
| 0:03.0 | You follow the box scores of the games every day? |
| 0:06.0 | Just the Lakers. |
| 0:07.0 | You're kidding. |
| 0:08.0 | That is really a compliment. |
| 0:10.0 | I was pleased to see you smile at the top part show because once the game starts, you have a game face. |
| 0:17.0 | You don't smile much out there. |
| 0:20.0 | 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 D, since this off season, I've been talking about the 15-game mark as a sort of checkpoint over the course of the season. I think in any given season, you have between, I don't know, six and ten of these that I |
| 0:38.7 | think this is about the second one that the Lakers have had. And they're in a good place. They're in a place that I thought if the Lakers were on track, they would be at about 11 and 4 while having LeBron, by the way, is what I thought when I was anticipating that. But they found a way to get there anyway, despite just having him for one game. And now they're in this stretch with just two |
| 0:57.2 | games over an eight-game stretch. They're going to have three practices over the course of this time. But also, I feel like they're moving into sort of the next chapter of this season, D. And so I wanted to talk about that with you today. And just my first question to you, more broadly speaking, is I don't |
| 1:11.8 | want to get a ton into like the trade deadline and the ins and outs of it, but do you view this |
| 1:15.6 | roster or this team any differently now that you've seen them for 15 games than you did prior |
| 1:20.3 | to the season? How has that stayed with you? Coming into the year, I had hopes around the new players, |
| 1:27.3 | if not questions, just a wondering about what it might look |
| 1:31.9 | like for several of the contract guys. As you know, I was higher than consensus for sure, |
| 1:39.5 | but just higher in general on DeAndre Aiton as a fit with this team because I was one of the original |
| 1:47.1 | people that was just like, hey, what do you think about DeAndre Aiton when that caught me |
| 1:51.3 | bad looks? |
| 1:53.0 | I'll glaring at you. |
| 1:54.4 | From a lot of people. |
| 1:55.2 | No, no, you can say me. |
| 1:56.1 | You can say me. |
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