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 part two of our preview of the Nugget series. I'm Pete, joined by Darius and Mike. You're listening to the Laker Film Room podcast. The part one was more focused on the offensive end. We'll jump around a little bit in this one, but this one's going to be a little more tilted toward the defensive end. And Darius, the Denver Nuggets in last

seasons series, one of my lasting impressions of that were just the freaking shot making that they

had, and especially in comparison to the Lakers, but just in general, like Jamal Murray, Nicola

Yokic, obviously the Sambor shuffles that he was hitting, things like that.

And just the jump shooting of the team in general was super impressive.

And they're one of the very best offenses in the league.

And so today we're going to talk a little bit about what Lakers can do to help slow them down.

And I think that's an operative way of looking at it,

Dee, is that this is not a team you were going to stop on the offensive end, but it does start

with Yokic. And so I'll give you just a quick question before you start talking more broadly,

Dee, to double or to not to double Yokic, where do you stand on kind of how we need to approach

defending him? So I think it depends

on who's defending him. I think it depends on who else is in the game. I think for the most part,

though, you single cover him and show appropriate help as you would show help on any other kind

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