Lakers Look to Close Out Rockets
Laker Film Room - Dedicated to the Study of Lakers Basketball
Pete Zayas
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 29 April 2026
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
The Lakers have a chance to close out the Rockets in Wednesday’s Game 5. Pete and Darius offer their final thoughts on what the Lakers need to do to win, further discussing what Austin Reaves’ pending return can do for the Lakers offense, how to get LeBron going and whether a return to the post is in the cards, cracking the code of Houston’s switching defense, and why getting back to ball pressuring Houston’s offense could be a key to the game.
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| 0:23.1 | What do you think about the Laker team now? |
| 0:26.5 | Do you follow the box scores of the games every day? |
| 0:29.0 | Just the Lakers. |
| 0:30.3 | You're kidding. |
| 0:31.6 | That is really a compliment. |
| 0:35.8 | I was pleased to see you smile at the top part show because once the game starts, you have a game face. |
| 0:40.8 | You don't smile much out there. |
| 0:43.4 | I don't think you have to do things for money anymore. |
| 0:46.0 | Correct. |
| 0:46.7 | What's up, Laker fans? |
| 0:47.9 | You're listening to the Laker Film Room podcast. |
| 0:50.0 | I'm Pete, joined by Darius. |
| 0:51.9 | Indeed, today we continue our conversation about a huge game five for the Lakers tonight. And they got a lot of work to do, according to Jabari Smith Jr. Houston Rockets are obviously the better team, so Lakers better be on their peas and cues if they want to win tonight. I missed this. Oh, you didn't see this? No, I did not. I missed it. There have been a few quotes. I mean, |
| 1:11.5 | without KD, I think they very much have this identity of we're younger than you, we're faster than you. And they also have to start from a place of belief of starting down 30, that, no, this isn't over. And yes, we can beat these dudes. And I think there's a certain amount of talking yourself into it as well. But, you know, bulletin board material aside, |
| 1:30.7 | I do understand. beat these dudes. And I think there's a certain amount of talking yourself into it as well. |
| 1:33.4 | But, you know, bulletin board material aside, I do understand Smith's confidence on some level in that Houston has found some things. And on a fundamental level, I think they came into |
| 1:39.3 | this series trying to play smash mouth basketball. And that includes Capella in the rotation. It includes |
| 1:45.9 | really crashing the offensive glass. And that is really fundamental to their identity against |
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