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 to you by the

Blue Wire Podcast Network. I'm Pete, joined by Darius and Mike. And today we're going to continue

kind of our ongoing discussion after the first game. And around the idea of, you know, we talked so much over the summer of the starting

lineup and there was such a debate on that. And it remains to be seen what it will be, you know,

when we have a full complement of players. But I am very much of the mind that we are on the wrong

track in a few different areas and there are a few different

indicators of that. But I want to start with the idea and Mike of the value of bigs. I would like

before we kind of get into the, my idea is right. No, my idea is right. It's just like kind of

establish common ground on like what is the value of playing

two big lineups? And I want to kind of flesh that out a little bit before we get into the counter

arguments for it. First of all, guys, do you guys want me to throw the washing machine on?

I saw you getting some advice from a listener the other day. I hope they helped you out on your future washings and dryings.

Somebody knew the exact jingle and knew what brand I had. I was very impressed with the Twitter responses to that for sure.

So I think the central question for me, Pete, and this has, again, been part of our ongoing discussion, and obviously a lot of it comes based on that first game, was how the Lakers optimized their lineup when they won the title versus how they can do it with this specific roster.

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