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 part 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. I'm Pete, joined by Darius.

And last night, our Lakers moved to 22 and 11. Got a kind of an underrated win, I think.

That was a tough one, beating the same team back to back, getting a pair of

wins against Memphis. And so starting to stabilize a little bit, but today we are going to focus

our conversation a little bit more around Luca and coming off of not his best month, certainly

shooting from the field, but starting to again stabilize a bit. I thought he was brilliant last night in the game last night. And joining us today, his blog over at Diggin Basketball is an absolute must read for thorough, comprehensive day-to-day Lakers coverage. Once again on the show, joining us, Ishton Franco, Ishtak. Thank you for joining us. Hi, guys. Thanks for inviting me, as always.

It's always fun to have Istok here, not only for his thoughtful and long-time coverage of

Luca, but I think his more targeted and smart basketball analysis around the Lakers.

And the league in general, I know that you were doing very similar

work around the Mavs when Luca was there. And I think Lakers fans are better off to now have you

writing about the Lakers more consistently. And the insights that you bring around the league,

we can dive in so closely, like being here in the mix and log time, decades log fans

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