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.

Lakers split a pair of games. What I thought was a productive weekend. First, getting a win on

Friday night over the Hawks. It was LeBron being amazing on offense. His jumper was just looking

incredible. Anthony Davis really locking in on the defensive end and on the boards. Just a good

professional win all around Austin continuing to play very, very well. But I want to linger on

the Houston game a bit, D. There are certain games on the schedule these days as the Lakers journey more and more toward being a serious basketball team like Cleveland

and Houston, the two recent losses, both of which I think were full of information and

full of takeaways. And so I really want to linger on this Houston game. Houston gets off to a quick

start, especially

toward the end of the first quarter. Starters came out okay for the Lakers, but end of the first

quarter team is rough. It continues into the second. Lakers are down by 20 at some point in the

second. And then they come out in the third quarter and play one of their best third quarters of the

year. Scratch and clawed their way back, they do pretty much make it all the way back, but

you can't pull it off at the end.

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