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 of our 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 Lakers have a big weekend coming up, and we'll probably get more to the specifics of it in the second half of the pod. but we've been wanting to get into some lineup numbers for a bit, and we're going to do that,

at the very least, for the first half of the pod today.

I want to give a shout out to the tool that I've been using for this.

Last couple of years, I've kind of drifted away from net rating information in large part

because I think there's a lot of noise in it.

But there's a great tool over at pbpstats.com called the waui combinations.

That goes back to NBA,

Waii, which was a really good on offsite that I think maybe got absorbed into PbP.

Anyway, what it allows you to do is to kind of filter for who is on the court and who

is not and see all of the different combinations of that. And in a lot of ways, Darius,

that is the fundamental challenge that Darwin Ham has been facing since the beginning of training

camp. I got this group where I got a couple of guys that I know what they are within the lineup. And then a bunch of

other guys where it's like, are they starters? Are they bench players? Are they rotation guys at all?

And finding those combinations that work, I think, has been one of the stories of the first part

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