What do you think about the Laker team now?

You follow the box scores of the games every day?

Just the Lakers.

You're kidding.

That is really a compliment.

I was pleased to see you smile at the top bar show because once the game starts, you have a game face.

You don't smile much out there.

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 Rour podcast Network. I'm Pete, joined by Darius and Mike. And yesterday, Lakers snapped their three-game losing streak, beating the Rockets 140 to 132. Gosh, these regulations scores, man, are just blowing my mind.

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

was falling.

We had a franchise record, fewest turnovers in a game with just two.

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

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

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

It's a lot of scoring is what I saw, as is indicated by the score that you just laid out there.

This falls in line with a trend that I had written about in the game preview where

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

I think their defensive rating in general in those games was in the 120s.

And even in the games that they won, this was their seventh second night of a back-to-back that they played

coming in. So they were like two and four coming in. So they got their third win. I think in the

two games they won. They had surrendered 138 and 134 points. So this falls in line with that, Pete.

They surrendered 132 points to the Houston Rockets. The 30th ranked

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