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Laker Film Room - Dedicated to the Study of Lakers Basketball

Playing with Fire

Laker Film Room - Dedicated to the Study of Lakers Basketball

Pete Zayas

News, Sports, Sports News, Basketball

4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 17 January 2023

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

The Lakers snapped their 3-game losing streak with a win over Houston in a game without much defense. The guys discuss the balance between LeBron’s rhythm and rest, Thomas Bryant’s defensive struggles, and Wenyen Gabriel’s growing role. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

What do you think about the Laker team now?

0:03.0

You follow the box scores, the games every day, 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 because once the game starts you have a game face you don't smile much out there

0:20.1

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

0:23.0

Correct.

0:24.0

What's up, Laker fans?

0:25.0

Welcome to the Laker Film Room Podcast,

0:26.0

brought you by the Blue Wire Podcast Network.

0:28.0

I'm Pete, joined by Darius and Mike.

0:30.0

And yesterday, Lakers snapped their three-game losing streak, beating the rockets 140 to 132.

0:36.3

Gosh, these regulation scores, man, just blow in my mind.

0:39.5

LeBron scores a season-high 48 points, a relatively effortless 48 points and his

0:45.8

jumper was falling. We had a franchise record fewest turnovers in a game with just two.

0:50.6

D it was not the most serious basketball game, but God bless the Houston Rockets,

0:56.0

got ourselves a much needed W, especially with the Kings and Grizzlies coming up.

1:00.9

Not the prettiest game, but but tell me what do you see?

1:03.0

I saw a lot of scoring is what I saw as is indicated by the score that you just

1:07.2

laid out there. This falls in line with a trend that I had written about in the

1:11.1

game preview where the Lakers have not played much defense on the second night of back-to-backs.

1:17.5

I think their defensive rating in general in those games was in the 120s and even in the games that they won.

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