What do you think about the Laker team now?

You follow the box scores of the games every day?

Just the Lakers.

You're kidding.

That is really a compliment.

I was pleased to see you smile at the top bar show because once the game starts, you have a game face.

You don't smile much out there.

I don't think you have to do things for money anymore. Correct. What's up, Laker fans? Welcome to the Laker Filmroom podcast, brought to by the Blue Wire Podcast Network. I'm Pete, joined by Darius and Mike. And we're going to continue our player preview today. This is the first. We got a little bit into Juan Tuscano Anderson, but this is going to be the first pod where we

really get into one of the new guys. And so we're going to start with Lonnie Walker the fourth.

And Walker is a guy that a lot of our conversations so far has been framed through his contract,

right? The usage of the taxpayer MLE know, who else could have been available?

You know, there's some positional overlap.

But we haven't talked a lot about him as a player.

And I've gotten to watch a bit of tape on him.

And I have several thoughts, but I do want to start and, but I do want to start with the positive.

I think that we've built a team guys that is probably going to

play fast this year, whether or not Russell Westbrook is on the team. We got a lot of guys in their

20s, a lot of athletes, a lot of open court type of players. And that's the environment where I think

Walker is really going to thrive with this group. He's a guy where playing in the transition game

involves a certain amount of ability to go from running at full speed to stopping and being

under control. And so he's a guy that can run, you know, fill a lane at full speed and then

stop and raise up for a jumper or finish at the rim.

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