Pass the Ball
Laker Film Room - Dedicated to the Study of Lakers Basketball
Pete Zayas
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 26 October 2023
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Summary
The Lakers are back in action against the Suns on Thursday night and will need to make improvements offensively from their loss vs. Denver to get a win. Pete, Mike, and Darius explore some of the team's struggles offensively, discuss areas where they hope to see improvement, and then forecast how those adjustments can manifest vs. the Suns in looking forward to Thursday night. And then later, the guys discuss the Suns injury issues and how that could impact the game on both sides of the ball.
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| 0:00.0 | What do you think about the Laker team now? |
| 0:03.5 | You follow the box scores of the games every day? |
| 0:06.0 | Just the Lakers. |
| 0:07.3 | You're kidding. |
| 0:08.6 | That is really a compliment. |
| 0:12.8 | I was pleased to see you smile at the top bar show because once the game starts, you have a game face. |
| 0:17.8 | You don't smile much out there. |
| 0:20.4 | I don't think you have to do things for money anymore. |
| 0:22.9 | Correct. |
| 0:23.5 | What's up, Laker fans? Welcome to the Laker Film Room podcast. I'm Pete, joined by Darius and Mike. |
| 0:28.7 | And ending yesterday's episode, I was like, I want to do kind of a nerdy pod on five-out stuff and different actions that you can run. |
| 0:36.5 | And so I go back and I watch some tape on specifically the units, the non-starting units, which have been very good on the offensive end. But as what happened in the Denver game, the back half of the first quarter, back half of the third quarter, really struggling on the offensive end. And so, you know, I wanted to do a pot about that. But as I was watching it and watching tape on this, I was like, there are elements that are important that I think need to be addressed before getting into the specifics of play calls and things like that, which we may touch on a little bit. And one of the things that made me arrive at that conclusion, Mike, was I was watching the Phoenix game. And I want today's pod to be somewhat of a Phoenix preview through this lens of how can we score on Phoenix outside of the starters. |
| 1:16.3 | And we go up 12 to 4. LeBron checks out at the 717 mark. So very early, 12 points and 4 minutes |
| 1:25.1 | and 43 seconds is very good. And that's been a consistent theme |
| 1:28.7 | with the start that has been able to score well. We end that quarter with 20 points and only |
| 1:33.3 | two points until LeBron comes back in, which was closer toward the end of the quarter. |
| 1:38.4 | So there were 11 possessions after LeBron comes out of the game before LeBron comes back into the game, Mike, |
| 1:44.7 | and I was like, I wonder how many times the Lakers passed the ball more than once |
| 1:49.7 | in these situations where it's not the starters. |
| 1:54.4 | So in those 11 possessions, there was more than one pass possession only once, Mike. |
| 2:00.2 | We scored two points the entire time. And |
| 2:03.6 | the whole idea that you talk about of like guys playing on islands, it's interesting because |
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