Lakers vs OKC Preview
Laker Film Room - Dedicated to the Study of Lakers Basketball
Pete Zayas
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 5 May 2026
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
In advance of Tuesday’s Game 1, Pete and Darius continue their 2nd round series preview between the Lakers and the Thunder. The guys break down some of their top-line items that give the Lakers the best chance to compete vs. OKC, what entry points the Lakers offense has against the Thunder defense, strategies to deploy against Shai Gilgeous-Alexander defensively, and much more.
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| 0:00.0 | Some follow the noise. |
| 0:03.0 | Bloomberg follows the money. |
| 0:04.8 | Whether it's the funds fueling AI or crypto's trillion dollar swings. |
| 0:08.9 | There's a money side to every story. |
| 0:11.4 | Get the money side of the story. |
| 0:13.5 | Subscribe now at Bloomberg.com. |
| 0:18.5 | What do you think about the Laker team now? |
| 0:21.9 | Do you follow the box scores of the games every day? |
| 0:24.4 | Just the Lakers. |
| 0:25.8 | You're kidding. |
| 0:27.0 | That is really a compliment. |
| 0:31.2 | I was pleased to see you smile at the top part show because once the game starts, you have a game face. |
| 0:36.2 | You don't smile much out there. |
| 0:43.4 | I don't think you have to do things for money anymore correct what's up laker fans you're listening to the laker film room podcast i'm pete joined by darius and tonight we have game one of the |
| 0:48.5 | second round lakers versus oklahoma city thunder today we continue our preview that we began yesterday, Dee. And to start |
| 0:56.2 | that Rocket Series, I thought that we had a pretty good roadmap for how the Lakers could beat |
| 1:01.9 | the Rockets in that series. Not a prediction that they would or knowledge that it would go a certain |
| 1:06.5 | way, but just there were very clear points that the Lakers needed to hit that also weren't entirely built from a position of weakness. Like, oh, they're so good at rebounding, we've got to just survive this, right? That was one of the points that we hit, but it was also, no, they can't really handle the ball. And they've got a few guys that if you speed them up, their jump shot can degrade a little bit. And it was sort of predicated on the weaknesses of them just as much as it was the weaknesses |
| 1:30.3 | and strengths of the Lakers. |
| 1:32.0 | I posed the same question to you with respect to the Oklahoma City Thunder. |
| 1:35.0 | I think that roadmap is less obvious and apparent, being that they're a better team with |
| 1:40.2 | fewer strengths and weaknesses and certainly to a lesser degree. |
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