A new week and the shrew listeners among you may have noticed that we haven't done all of the team previews yet

We took a little break from that to get into some other stuff

It the overunders of course that we're long overdue definitely go back and listen to some of those pods Ben Taylor

If you didn't listen to that one because you don't know who he is

He has done probably the best work of anyone going back and looking at the greatest players of all time the industry is a more rigorous

Analytical approach than any of that I've seen that's been done before so that was a great pod

We did the top eight players of all time but now it's time to talk about the team that probably has the most anticipated season preview of any of these and that is the LA

Lakers and joining us per usual a

Valued and honored guests Darius or I know how you doing. I'm good Nate yourself

Dune while I'm actually finally back in the Bay Area

After a month out after I got married so I'm I'm actually like really rare to go again

I got like the good audio quality again back in my

In my office so

Ready to get started. No, well don't tell Danny, but we missed you so it's good to have you back. It's good to have you back

Well awesome awesome, so I think the place to start here

We've got a little bit of preseason under our belt which were privileged to have versus the ones the previous that we do a little earlier

And so just what are your overall impression so far of this Lakers team in preases and given of course that LePron is playing limited minutes?

Yeah, like I mean, I think one of the first thing that stands out to me is that they're playing really fast

Like really really fast. I know that playing the nuggets can sort of boost up your pace as well

Right because the nuggets want to get up and down the floor as well

But they're looking to run at every opportunity even off of opponent makes

They're really sort of getting the ball in bounce fast and and pushing the ball up floor

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