Play-In Debate
Laker Film Room - Dedicated to the Study of Lakers Basketball
Pete Zayas
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🗓️ 31 March 2022
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Summary
Has the play-in tournament devalued the regular season? Can tweaks like a shorter regular season or fewer playoff teams make the regular season more competitive and interesting night to night? Does a team like the Lakers -- that is more than 10 games under .500 -- even deserve a chance at the post-season? Pete, Mike, and Darius answer these questions and more as they debate the state of the regular season and how much it does (and does not matter) in today's NBA.
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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, brought you by the Blue Art Podcast Network. I'm Pete, joined by Darius and Mike. And, Dee, it's good to have you back, man. We've missed your high usage style of play you start you start already you start |
| 0:39.9 | already you and mike i've been listening to the pods i've been listening to y'all plotting |
| 0:45.4 | your double teams uh-huh and and all of this other garbage right and so i thought we were |
| 0:53.5 | teammates so hey no no no no don't bring me into Pete's plot. Pete's laying out dairy scenarios. I'm just sitting there. Okay, Switzerland. This is a coup attempt. Exactly. Okay, Switzerland. Mike jumping in. Now he's in the middle. Everyone's trying to round robin needs. It's a mess. Everything's falling apart with the Lakers. |
| 1:11.6 | Nothing is as it should be. First of all, I mean, I missed you in general. I didn't have a problem picking up my usage rate. No, of course not. Mike. But I did miss you. And we all get more shots up. Yeah, I got more shots. It's all good. but I did miss you just in general. |
| 1:27.6 | Very much so. |
| 1:28.6 | Very much so. |
| 1:29.7 | So guys, |
| 1:30.3 | tonight, I got more shots. It's all good, but I did miss you just in general. |
| 1:33.3 | Very much so. Very much so. Sure, sure. So guys, tonight, I watched the Miami Boston game. |
| 1:48.6 | Really good game in Boston. Miami ends up closing it out down the stretch. And it was very fun to watch a well-played basketball game between two good basketball teams in which the team I was rooting for, one. |
| 1:51.0 | So that's certainly a part of it. |
| 1:53.5 | But I was watching that. You don't like the Celtics? |
| 1:55.4 | Believe it or not. |
| 1:56.6 | Yeah, believe it or not. |
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