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 bar 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. Lakers split a pair of games this weekend. First on Friday night, a skeleton crew for both teams. The Lakers were a DeAngelo Russell game winner away from dropping that to Brooklyn,

but escaped by the skin of their teeth. AD missed that one. So did Dore and Finney Smith.

And so both teams were very short-handed. Lakers end up getting the win. Austin goes for

a career high 38 in that game. And then last night, Lakers visit the Clippers D. If you could tell our

childhood selves, you know, go back to 1996 or something and be like, in 2025, the Lakers

are going to play a road game in Englewood. I wonder what we would think. Didn't go well for the

Lakers D. The Clippers controlled pretty much the entire way. Everybody had some interesting

comments afterward as well, including LeBron, basically reiterating the Clippers controlled pretty much the entire way. Everybody had some interesting comments

afterward as well, including LeBron, basically reiterating Dan Wojke's point or question that

Bron has said many times the last couple of years, they have to play nearly perfect basketball

and they have little margin for error. He asked if there's really a way to improve that

internally. And LeB Bronn was like no.

And so we could talk a little bit about the specifics of each game as we often do.

I'm itching a little more to talk big picture in this one today.

We're nine games post-trade.

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