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 Wire Podcast Network. I'm Pete, joined by Darius and Mike. And I am very excited for us to be previewing the first-round matchup against Memphis Grizzlies. It's been a couple years since we got one of these. This is a gift. And I think we are in for a great series. I think this is way more like a two three matchup than a

two seven matchup. Both teams are really good on the defensive end. You know Memphis is going to

have a level of smoking intensity. They've got some history there of woofing at each other that I think

is going to be

great, especially now that LeBron is surrounded by a lot more talent. So just before we get into

the matchup, you were talking about this before we hopped on, Dee, about your level of excitement

for this series. I think we're in for a great one. So I said this yesterday and I wrote this

at Silverstone Role in a post. It should be up by the time that you guys hear this. So I said this yesterday and I wrote this at Silver Student Roll in a post.

It should be up by the time that you guys hear this. But I love the playoffs. The idea of what you

can be and what you want to do and then the other team desperately trying to take that away.

And the war of attrition that comes from the adjustments and the counters and the counters

to the counters.

And by the time you get to game five or game six in a somewhat evenly matched series,

there is so much of that gets stripped away.

And it's just the idea of who can actually perform and execute at the level that they need to in order to win.

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