Hello, Lakers Nation. Welcome in to the Lakers Nation.com podcast. My name's Trevor Lane, and it's

Game Day. Lakers Wolves, Game 3, 6.30 p.m. Pacific time on Friday. I may drop this episode a little

bit early on Thursday. So if you're watching this on Thursday, tomorrow is game day. But nonetheless,

Lakers Wolves, game three, 6.30 p.m. Pacific time. Come hang out. Lakersnation.com's YouTube channel, which is at YouTube.com slash Lakers Nation or over on playback.tv slash Lakers Nation will be there as well. Come hang out during the game. It's like a party. We do a little play-by-play. We react to the chat. We react to the game. It's a good time. We hang out. We watch the Lakers and the Wolves battle in a pivotal game three. Both teams should be very, very motivated for this game. I'm expecting a good one. So on today's show, we've got a lot to get into. I'm going to start off talking about what the Lakers need to do heading into game three, what adjustments we'd like to see specifically on the offensive end. J.G. Reddick just talked a little bit about that. Then I've got John Krasinski from the athletic. He covers the Minnesota Timberwolves. He's going to join to talk a little bit about the adjustments he expects the wolves to make and a little on kind of where the wolf's mindset is at right now heading into

game three and then I'll finish things off getting into the mailbag. So as I said, a lot to get

into here on today's show. But I want to kick things off. You know, JJ Redick was just talking a little

bit before I started recording this show about his team, about what he's expected to see for game three,

that kind of stuff, what he needs to and see improved upon. Well, I guess first,

an important note here. JJ did note that Rui Hachamura will be available for game three,

but he is going to wear a mask as a precaution. I talked about this a little bit during game

two after Rui got hit,

that he at least he has experience wearing a mask. He's done it several times over the course of his career. So hopefully this won't, this won't bother Rui too much, having to wear a mask. But he's going to wear it as a precaution. We did see him wear a mask for a little bit in game two, and then he took it off. So if it does bother him, again, I kind of expect we'll see the same thing.

Ruby will just wind up. him wear a mask for a little bit in game two, and then he took it off. So if it does bother him, again, I kind of expect we'll see the same thing.

We'll just wind up taking it off.

Now, I really want to focus on this, Dan Moikie, providing this quote here from JJ,

saying the tape showed we weren't very good offensively.

So the Lakers need to find more ways to create thrust and pace.

And Dan noted I'd file this as under easier said than done because Minnesota's

defense on the perimeter is a hell of a hurdle.

Yeah, you know, I talked about this a little bit when I on our last show, the last podcast that went out,

the question and answer episode about the fact that the wolves, they've had their great

shooting game, right? They had that in game one. The Lakers haven't yet. The Lakers have yet to have

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