Hello, Lakers Nation. Welcome to the Lakers Nation.com podcast.

A lot of things going on in the world of the Los Angeles Lakers.

Not a lot of positive things, I guess I should say, but plenty for us to dig into.

We do have a bunch of super chat still left over following the postgame show from Lakers versus Wolves.

The Lakers now 0 and 5 on the season.

And as I'm recording this, unfortunately, the Sacramento Kings defeated the Miami Heat,

which means officially the Lakers are the only winless team in the NBA.

Ouch.

Fans are not happy and rightfully so.

You can see it in the questions that we're going to go over today i'm

going to address a lot of different topics as we go through all of this quick reminder do

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that specifically, even though as most of you are watching this or listening to this, we are getting

ready for the Lakers to take on the Denver Nuggets, hoping for their first win in the season

and what would be their sixth game. But nevertheless, here we go.

David says, no shame in losing if you fight. We're short-handed tonight. And clearly,

the underdog got to take care of the ball. We competed. That's what fans want. See, I agree with

everything he's saying until the last bit there. We competed. That's what fans want. To a degree, right? I mean, fans want to see the team compete, especially compared to last season when last season's team was not competitive on most nights. But, but you have to have a baseline of wins. If you just keep losing over and over and over, well, that's the fan base is not going to be okay with that.

This is the Los Angeles Lakers.

This is the Lakers. This is a Lakers team, by the way, that doesn't have a, well, they have a pick this year, but it's a pick swap. So the Pelicans can take their draft pick. So there's no silver lining here to losing games. this is a very prideful fan base that wants to see this team do well that holds

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