Time for the LA Lakers season outlook now with Darius Soriano from Forum Blue and Gold

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It's going on, man, how are you? I'm good in yourself. Well, I'm doing just fine. We recorded this

after the Lakers got blown out again by the Denver Nuggets. It did not look good even without

Nikola Yokich playing, but we will try not to focus too much on that. I think where I want to start

with these guys is just to talk about where they were last year as a team. Obviously, they've made

some major additions, but how good were they last year, especially towards the end of the year

when they started playing some of the young guys who were still going to be around? Yeah, I think

that so two things. First, end of the year stuff is always a bit fluky. Sure. I think that you

feel the same way about this. They're winning five games in a row too. We thought killed their lottery

odds, but yes, but no, the lottery God shined on the Lakers again, and I'm sure we'll get to that

in a little bit. But so, you know, the end of the year is always fluky. Teams are sort of

position themselves a certain way. Teams are tanking, they're resting players. Playoff teams are

looking at seating and a lot of different stuff. All that said, I thought the team really did start

to kind of find a way in which they wanted to play. They were playing a bit faster. DeAngelo Russell

and Brandon Ingram were really sort of finding their strides towards the end of the year.

I thought Ingram, especially in March, had basically his best month of the season. And then that

carried in towards the handful of games that they had in April as well. And I just think that overall,

there was a lot more certainty with what the lineups were going to look like each night. And the

veterans had all been shut down. And the young guys has kind of got a chance to go out there and

and play their normal games. And I thought that that suit them well. And I was, you know, I don't want

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