Hello, Lakers Nation. Welcome in. It's game day. We've got Lakers versus Wolves tonight, play in, win, and advance on to the playoffs.

Going to be a great matchup. We're going to break down the whole thing. I am Trevor Lane. You can find me on Twitter at Trevor underscore Lane over on Instagram at Trevor Lane NBA.

Join by Lakers Nations Ron Gutterman.

Ron, how are you doing?

Doing great.

Really excited for some Lakers basketball.

I can't believe the Lakers are kind of just like the resident play-in team at this point, right?

Two of the three years of this version of the play-in it's the lakers in the seven eight game hosting it

yeah here we go again uh hopefully we get the same result where the lakers get through that would

put them into a first round matchup with the memphis grizzlies now they are going to be playing

against a very undermanned wolf side uh they're going to be without... The most insane way in NBA history.

Right. I mean, two guys throwing punches.

One guy punching a wall, Jaden McDaniels, breaking his hand.

He's out. Another guy throwing a punch at a teammate and gets suspended, and that's

Rudy Gobert.

Which is the bigger loss for the wolves run?

Rudy Gobert or Jane McDaniels?

Like the funny analyst in me wants to say Jaden McDaniels

because I think that's funny that your Supermax isn't your biggest loss.

But I do think given that it's Anthony Davis and that your next interior defender

is Carl Anthony Towns, I do think Rudy Gobert is a big loss for the wolves. I know that there are

stats that say that the wolves have fared better with him off the floor. It's a smaller sample

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