Playoff Push
Laker Film Room - Dedicated to the Study of Lakers Basketball
Pete Zayas
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🗓️ 19 February 2025
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The Lakers return from the all-star break well positioned to make a run towards the playoffs. Pete and Darius look at the state of the team and where they sit in the standings, the challenge of the upcoming schedule and the multiple back-to-backs over the next month, how the team can manage this stretch of games with their depth and health concerns, and much more.
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| 0:00.0 | What do you think about the Laker team now? |
| 0:03.4 | You follow the box scores of the games every day? |
| 0:06.0 | Just the Lakers. |
| 0:07.3 | You're kidding. |
| 0:08.6 | That is really a compliment. |
| 0:12.8 | I was pleased to see you smile at the top bar show because once the game starts, you have a game face. |
| 0:17.8 | You don't smile much out there. |
| 0:20.4 | I don't think you have to do things for money anymore. Correct. What's up, Laker fans? Good to be back. You're listening to Laker Filmroom podcast. I'm Pete, joined by Darius. And good to have a little bit of time off, D. We had the All-Star weekend this past weekend, which I don't want to talk about too much, but somehow they managed to make the basketball a good deal more competitive, which was great, but there wasn't enough of it. And overall, it was kind of a disaster of a weekend. I actually really want to talk about this in a way that just devoting one segment to it the way that we would. We got too much Laker stuff to get to to get to it the way that I want to. So down the line, I think we'll talk more business of basketball and, you know, how the game's presented and all of the shenanigans from this weekend. |
| 1:01.7 | We'll reference that. |
| 1:02.7 | But the Lakers return to action tonight. |
| 1:05.3 | The basketball gods are as humorous as they are wise. |
| 1:09.2 | The only game on the NBA schedule tonight as a result of the LA fires. |
| 1:14.0 | This is a rescheduled game between the Lakers and the Hornets, |
| 1:16.3 | the battle for Dalton Connect, whoever wins gets to take him to their next game. |
| 1:20.9 | And rather than talk about this game, I want to talk more big picture. |
| 1:25.3 | The last couple of All-Star breaks, the Lakers coming out of it, |
| 1:27.9 | were below the play-in line. And there was a certain amount of run for your life. We have to win now, |
| 1:34.1 | or we could miss the play-in altogether. Obviously, a push to try to make it above that line. |
| 1:39.9 | They did not make it. Right now, the Lakers are three games ahead of the seven-seeded Minnesota Timberwolves |
| 1:45.2 | and three games behind the second-seeded Memphis Grizzlies, sitting at the five-seed at 32 and 20. |
| 1:52.5 | And so, D, there are slightly different circumstances, not the least of which is a massive league-changing trade that just happened. |
| 2:00.5 | Lakers are still figuring out who they are. |
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