Hello, Lakers Nation. Welcome into the Lakersnation.com podcast. I am Trevor Lane.

And there are a lot of things to talk about tonight. I do want to get into the Lakers.

They're X factors on the season. Which players are we going to be particularly keeping an eye on,

which players can lead to success for the team if they can take that next step.

Plus, we need to talk about LeBron James and Anthony Davis with Team USA.

What's that looking like right now?

As Team USA picked up, pretty impressive win today against South Sudan.

We'll talk about that.

We'll also get into your questions and comments.

A lot of stuff to get into on today's show.

Appreciate seeing all of you here right now.

All right.

Let's start off with, let's start off with the Team USA stuff.

So Team USA today took care of business against South Sudan.

And it was not a super competitive game that the, the U.S. really just kind of, I don't want to say steamrolled because South Sudan was able to provide some type of pushback. There were a few runs here and there. But for the most part, it looked like the U.S. team came out and they said, you know what? Last time we played South Sudan, we almost lost. We almost. In fact, maybe they should have lost. And this time around, they said, no, no, no, that's not going to happen. That's not what we're going to do this time. This time we're going to make sure that everybody knows that we're the better basketball team. We're going to get out of here and we're going to take care of business. So that they did. Final score was 103 to 86. The U.S. now advances on to the next round of the tournament. They still have a game

left against Puerto Rico, but now they have earned themselves a spot in the next round. I thought

there was some interesting changes, and unfortunately, they are not sticking. So here's the change

that was made our guy, Anthony Davis, into the starting lineup.

That's what we saw happen. AD started along with Jason Tatum started in this one.

LeBron, David Booker, Steph Curry, AD, Jason Tatum. Anthony Davis has been much better, I think, than Jewel and Bede.

Anthony Davis has been the best big man on Team USA.

And in this game, we thought, finally, finally, Steve Kerr has got it.

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