Hello, Lakers Nation. Welcome in to the Lakers Nation.com podcast. My name's Trevor Lane, and it's game day. Lakers Warriors 5.30 p.m. Pacific time tonight. We'll see if the Lakers can get back to their winning ways on the road in Golden State. I'll be live right here on the Lakers Nation.com YouTube channel, breaking down the game as it happens, doing a little play-by-play, taking your questions, your comments, come hang out, 5.30 p.m. Pacific time. It's like a party. I know. It's not been a super fun party at the last three games. Hopefully tonight they're going to break that streak and get back to their winning ways. A lot to get into on today's show. Got a big mailbag we're going to get into it I'm going to use that to pinball through a lot of topics. Lakers fans not happy right now, nor should you be happy with what we've been seeing out of this team lately. We'll talk about that. Lots of different things we'll get into there. Plus, of course, we'll do the injury report. Who's going to be available for tonight's game? Who is not? plus one thing that I think is not being handled correctly right now. And then we'll do the injury report who's going to be available for tonight's game who is not plus one thing that i think is not being handled correctly right now and then uh we'll also get into

uh the keys to victory for tonight's game let's get started here uh so the injury report for the lakers

ruy huchamura is really the big thing here he is doubtfulful to play tonight. Miss last game as well,

still dealing with an illness.

It's been going around.

Trust me, I dealt with it.

Rui is doubtful right now to be able to play in this game tonight.

Hopefully there will be an update and an upgrade for Rui,

but I wouldn't count on that.

Brony James and Addu Thiro are with the South Bay Lakers right now.

And that's actually where I would like to see this change.

Not for Brony.

Sorry, Brony, but for a do zero.

So here's the deal.

Right now, we know what this is for this Lakers season,

right? I think, I believe reality has set in for myself, for Lakers fans of general, I think

there's an understanding. Look, is this team going to go win a championship? No. And so one of the

biggest keys for the remainder of this season. First of all, you want to play as far as you can into the season. I mean, if you could make a deep playoff run, make a deep playoff run, right? You absolutely want to want to do that if possible. Win as many games as you can from here on out. I've got some Lakers fans telling me, oh, shut it down, just tank, whatever, because they're frustrated with this team. But that's, let's be real. They're not going to do that, that. We're talking about a team that's the sixth seed right now, 10 games above 500. They're not going to tank. That's just not happening. So one of the things they need to do, though, especially if the focus is now on building the foundation for next year, yes, you need to win games this year and you're going to continue doing everything you can to do that all the way to the bitter end. But that said, a big

piece to this season is evaluating what this roster will look like next season when the Lakers

have this mountain of cap space and all of that that we've talked

all about. And with that being the case, the growth and progress of Addu Thero is one of the

most important things for them. It's not the most important thing, but it's up there. It's up there.

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