Hello, Lakers Nation. Welcome in to a bonus episode of the Lakersnation.com podcast. I am Trevor

Lane. You can find me on Twitter at Trevor underscore Lane over on Instagram at Trevor

Lane NBA. You know, the Lakers got this big win against the Chicago Bulls and this happened

last night. So now I've kind of had an opportunity to digest the win a little bit, think through

some things that we saw happen in that game.

And it's not giving me necessarily a completely different perspective, but I did have a few

other thoughts that I think are worth getting into. We also had a lot of questions and comments

coming in from that one. So I will go through the mailbag a bit here today, but I want to start

off talking about the Lakers and that starting lineup. And I thought it looked phenomenal. And that's what the stats bear out as well. I mean, look, the Lakers with with LeBron and the floor AD, of course, that's going to be the backbone of any starting five. But then you've got Jared Vanderbilt, Austin Reeves, DeAngelo Russell. That's the starting five. And I think that really should be your starting five moving forward.

Maybe even your closing five for most matchups with maybe some situations calling for

Vando to be subbed out for like a Rui Hachamorla or perhaps even Wenning Gabriel,

the situation calls upon it.

But for the most part, I think that starting group, that's probably your best group.

That's probably your best five players that you can put on the floor.

And really, that's a hell of a starting five.

I mean, that is a tremendous group that can do just about anything out there on the floor.

And I think we saw that.

That's what really stood out to me.

Going through rewatching most of this game, what really stood out about the starting five that we saw was

how diverse the offense looked. It seemed like every time the Bulls shut down one action,

the Lakers had at least one or two other options to instantly turn to.

It was very rare that we saw them kind of get stuck.

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