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 Film Room podcast, brought you by the Blue R podcast Network. I'm Pete, joined by Darius and Mike. And if you're a regular listener of the show, you know how much we love the minutia of the game and debating the little pieces of the puzzle. And we've talked a lot

about the importance of even in hard times, kind of finding the little small wins where you can

because you can build upon that. But that can be, you know, shuffling chairs on the Titanic

if the overall team spirit and morale is low. And that's something that we

haven't had too many podcasts about. So that's going to be the topic today because that's something

that we've seen more and more, the last few games, kind of like the, hmm, are they going to be

able to keep it together, keep that life and keep that competitive spirit? And yesterday, Mike, I saw in the second quarter, Lakers were down

by like 13, 15 points. And LeBron started playing his ass off. He was rotating all over the place.

He was flying all over the place, you know, pushing the ball up court, just as assertive as I've

seen him all season. And this was something I was talking about the other day about how Kobe in the 2013

season saw a team that needed to be picked up and tried to do it by virtue of his own

talents.

And LeBron did that and got the Lakers back in the game.

That said the game went exactly the same way as all the others doing.

It's like this Groundhog Day where the first quarter and the second quarter and the third quarter are all the others doing. It's like this groundhog day where the

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