Lakers Opening Night Preview
Laker Film Room - Dedicated to the Study of Lakers Basketball
Pete Zayas
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 21 October 2025
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Opening night is here and the Lakers open up with a matchup against the Warriors. Pete and Darius preview the game, discussing what changes in this matchup without LeBron available, the challenges of defending the Warriors offense led by Steph Curry and Jimmy Butler, dealing with the Warriors shooting bigs, how the Lakers offense can make inroads vs. the Warriors aggressive defense, the importance of Austin Reaves vs. switching defenses, and much more.
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| 0:29.6 | What do you think about the Laker team now? |
| 0:32.6 | You follow the box scores of the games every day? |
| 0:35.6 | Just the Lakers. |
| 0:36.6 | 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, it's opening night. You listen to the Laker Filmroom podcast. I'm Pete, joined by Darius. So today, we're going to get into the matchups on defense, offense. In terms of health and availability, obviously LeBron is out. Maxi Kleba played in one game and strained his oblique. He will be re-evaluated in two weeks. Probably wasn't part of the rotation either way, but just got that news this morning. But otherwise, it looks to go. Dero is out as well. Moses Moody is out for the Warriors. He is the only guy out. But that's a significant one. He's kind of their main POA guy for them. So let's get right into it, |
| 1:28.2 | D. Golden State, the team you're very familiar with, got a couple of new faces, but we know |
| 1:32.8 | what they do. They've been doing it for years. What's your thoughts on the game? |
| 1:35.4 | So my mind goes in so many directions, Pete. I'm so excited about this season, about to start |
| 1:41.2 | the LeBron-Stef rivalry, which has been played up a ton over the years and for good |
| 1:49.8 | reason. And I think has created real high-level games between the Lakers and the Warriors over the |
| 1:56.4 | years, missing out on another one of those. When you're not sure how many more of those you're going |
| 2:01.6 | to get in the first place. Remember that crazy stat a couple years ago where LeBron hadn't |
| 2:07.5 | played against Kevin Durant in a regular season game in like four years? And it was like, |
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