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Lakers vs Houston: Game 2 Adjustments

Laker Film Room - Dedicated to the Study of Lakers Basketball

Pete Zayas

News, Sports, Sports News, Basketball

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2026

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

In advance of Tuesday’s Game 2 between the Lakers and the Rockets, Pete and Darius discuss possible adjustments from both teams, including how things shift on both sides of the ball if Kevin Durant returns, how Houston could try to get Alperen Şengün going, whether the Rockets change their defensive matchups to better account for the Lakers shot making, and much more.


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0:00.0

What do you think about the Laker team now?

0:03.0

You follow the box scores of the games every day?

0:06.0

Just the Lakers.

0:07.0

You're kidding.

0:08.0

That is really a compliment.

0:10.0

I was pleased to see you smile at the top part show because once the game starts, you have a game face.

0:18.0

You don't smile much out there.

0:20.0

I don't think you have to do things for money anymore. Correct.

0:23.7

What's up? Laker fans? Welcome to the Laker Film Room podcast. I'm Pete, joined by Darius.

0:28.3

And today we talked some adjustments for game two on Tuesday. Dee, it was obviously an excellent

0:34.2

result for the Lakers. And I think in a lot of places, they sort of get to keep their

0:38.3

cards where they're at. I think they got off to a good start on the defensive end, especially.

0:43.0

The main place my mind goes to is the possession battle, once again, the offensive rebounds,

0:48.2

the 21 to 3 differential. A big part of that is because Houston missed like 30 plus more shots than the Lakers did, but

0:56.1

Lakers do need to clean up more of those offensive rebounds than others.

0:59.9

From a personnel standpoint, I thought things went pretty chalk.

1:03.2

There were a couple places like Rui got more minutes than I expected all the way up to 41.

1:07.6

We had a three minute and 50 second brawny shift, no cleba.

1:12.1

I thought that unit to start the second quarter, at least, was Reddick's attempt to go as athletic as possible with a bench

1:17.1

group. So I have my little list of notes and things like that of specifics and whatnot. But from

1:22.8

a general sense, Dee, when you think about game two adjustments for either team, we're going to cover

1:26.8

both us and the

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