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 part 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? Welcome to the Laker Film Room podcast. I'm Pete, joined by Darius.

And today we talk game three, Lakers tied with the wolves at one. And in a pair of games where

both teams kind of threw a haymaker, wolves in game one, Lakers in

game two. And I think game three is going to be a pivotal game, obviously always the case in a

one-one-one series. And it was one of my favorite rewatches of the year, D, because I thought that

their game plan, right, I didn't like the game plan at all in game one. It's always difficult

to tell how much of that is effort versus execution, which we talked about. One of the things

I loved about game two was an increase in ball pressure and how they jumped out on their jump

switches and really sort of took the fight to Minnesota's ball handlers. They picked up Nikila

Alexander Walker full court and turned

them over twice, made him cough it up another time. It's easy to sort of cower at the younger,

more athletic team. But from watching the tape and doing the rewatch, it really became apparent to me

the degree to which winning the ground game against Minnesota is the key

to victory. And I think the Lakers have the horses to do it. They were finding more and more places

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