Hello, Lakers Nation. Welcome into the Lakers Nation.com podcast. I am Trevor Lane, and it is

game day. Lakers, Pacers, tonight, the Lakers on a five-game win streak, and they keep it rolling

against the Indiana Pacers. These two teams were in a track meet just a few days ago. The final

score 150 to 145 the last time these two sides played so we could be in for a very

fast pace very high scoring game tonight that hopefully the lakers will come out on top and

once again got a lot to get to on today's show need to talk about gave vincent's return we need

to break down this matchup with the pers. Plus, I've got to get

into the mailbag as well. But first, Darvindham firing back at his critics. This is what

Darvindham had to say after the Lakers win the other night over the Memphis Grizzlies. He was

asked whether or not he regretted not putting

Rui Hanchamara into this starting lineup sooner. And this was Darwin's response. He said,

I mean, things play out the way they play out. The same could be said when you're looking and

you're going through different stretches during the season.

And I think whether it's injuries or lack of performance or if the guys struggle or going

through a tough stretch, it forces you to make different decisions and you have to activate

different lineups and different schemes or whatever that you feel like in the moment are going

to help you get through whatever

rough stretch you're going through. Again, injuries, would everyone agree that injuries would

affect the rotation or minutes or something like that? Like, it's a real thing. It's funny because

it was being reported like I'm just sitting in my office and just throwing stuff against

the wall with a bunch of healthy players.

Like, no, there's a reason why things were the way they were. And I'm just happy we got through

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