Pelicans Matchup
Laker Film Room - Dedicated to the Study of Lakers Basketball
Pete Zayas
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🗓️ 7 December 2023
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Summary
The Lakers take on the Pelicans on Thursday night in the In-Season Tournament semifinals taking place in Las Vegas. Pete and Darius preview the game on both sides of the ball, and discuss the difficulties of matching defending the Zion and Brandon Ingram duo, how the Pelicans bench shooting can impact the game, how the Pelicans defend Anthony Davis, how the Lakers skill guards will deal with New Orleans' ball pressure, and much more.
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| 0:00.0 | What do you think about the Laker team now? |
| 0:03.0 | You follow the box scores of the games every day? |
| 0:06.0 | Just the Lakers. |
| 0:07.0 | You're kidding. |
| 0:08.0 | That is really a compliment. |
| 0:10.0 | I was pleased to see you smile at the top bar show because once the game starts, you have a game face. |
| 0:17.0 | You don't smile much out there. |
| 0:20.0 | I don't think you have to do things for money anymore. Correct. What's up, Laker fans? Welcome to the Laker Filmroom podcast. I'm Pete, joined by Darius. And tonight, the Lakers play the New Orleans Pelicans in the semifinals of the in season tournament in Las Vegas. Excited about that. We're going to preview that in a bit. But, D, we had the quarterfinal game, the first game of the knockout round. Lakers beat the Sons, 106, 103. You weren't on yesterday's pod. And I thought it was kind of a seminal game for this Lakers team in terms of it had more guys available and just kind of started to coalesce around like, hey, this is what |
| 0:55.0 | it was supposed to be type of thing. So I just love to hear your thoughts, not just about |
| 0:59.3 | that game contained within that game, but just kind of like what you saw from the team that |
| 1:03.4 | you think applies going forward, including into tonight's game. Well, this is like a carryover for me |
| 1:07.8 | from the conversations we had a couple of pods ago about how the |
| 1:12.5 | nature of the team's injuries revealed other things about the team. And then as these guys started to |
| 1:19.3 | trickle back into the lineup, Cam and Vando at first, and then Rui right after that, you started to see |
| 1:26.7 | how all of these pieces come together. |
| 1:30.6 | And I listened to you and Mike talk yesterday. |
| 1:32.7 | And I thought Mike's comments about him talking to Vanderbilt and Vanderbilt sort of being like, |
| 1:38.3 | yeah, like this is sort of the stuff we wanted to get to and the stuff we were talking about |
| 1:42.2 | in camp and preseason and hearing LeBron and AD, |
| 1:47.9 | if not linger on these ideas and like come back to them fairly consistently about like |
| 1:52.9 | calling out like when we get to our switching group and our switching lineup and making real |
| 1:58.9 | reference points to these ideas as, if not foundational parts |
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