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Laker Film Room - Dedicated to the Study of Lakers Basketball

Pick up the Pace

Laker Film Room - Dedicated to the Study of Lakers Basketball

Pete Zayas

News, Sports, Sports News, Basketball

4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Pete and Darius discuss LeBron James' role in the Lakers defense, how his return from injury and ramping back up impacts all that he does for the team on that end of the floor, and much more. And then later, the guys ongoing lineup questions and the decisions facing JJ Redick, particularly when looking at the bench groups led by Luka Dončić vs. those led by LeBron and Austin Reaves.

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0:00.0

What do you think about the Laker team now?

0:03.0

Do 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 part show

0:15.0

because once the game starts, you have a game face.

0:18.0

You don't smile much out there.

0:20.0

I don't think you have to do things for money anymore. Correct.

0:23.7

What's up, Laker fans? Welcome to the Laker Film Room podcast. I'm Pete, joined by Darius.

0:28.3

And D, we usually record these in the morning. It's 9.30 a.m. where we are right now.

0:32.5

And we don't usually get morning shootarounds by the time we record or some Lakers news and quotes that

0:39.0

dropped. But we did this morning. This is a shootaround that Redick has been looking forward to

0:43.5

for a little bit, right, that in this stretch of a lot of games over the course of March,

0:48.3

not a lot of opportunity to practice. They had one after the Brooklyn game in which they were

0:52.9

threatened with practice, as you

0:54.2

noted. And then this is one they've been looking forward to for a while. And Redick was talking

0:58.5

about, you know, some of the bad habits they've slipped into and all that. And got to hear from

1:02.4

LeBron a little bit. You know, we talked yesterday a little bit about the rut that the Lakers

1:06.6

are in and that this is an athletically very challenging time for an already athletically challenged

1:12.4

team. And the question of when can they turn it around, how can they turn it around, when can

1:18.2

they pick up the pace again is, I don't know, but I think that a shoot around like this and the

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