Hello, everybody. Welcome in the Lakersnation.com podcast and the Raptors Nation.com podcast.

We're doing a little combined show here to preview Lakers versus Raptors tonight.

I'll talk a little bit about that game.

We'll also talk a little bit about the mailbag.

I'm going to get into that for the Lakers Nation portion of the show to finish things off. But a very special guest from Raptors Nation, it's Luca Rosano. Luca, how are you doing? Trevor, I'm doing great, a lot better now that the Raptors are seemingly starting to hit a bit of a stride. So yeah, I'm a lot better than I was last week. That's for sure. Lakers fans are throwing their hands up saying, of course, the Raptors are hitting their stride right before they're going to play the Lakers. Luca, by the way, for anybody who doesn't know, if you're over watching on Lakers Nation right now, Luca heads up, Raptors Nation. You guys can check out YouTube.com slash Raptors Nationcom. That's one of our sister sites or sister channels. Lakers fans, if you haven't done so, yeah, do me a favor. Go follow that channel. Go hit the subscribe button on their channel. Help us out as we're looking to grow that out. Luca does a phenomenal job over there. Even if you're not a Raptors fan, I guarantee you there's going to be stuff that you're going to like over there at Raptors Nation. Also, Raptorsnation.com, the website is absolutely fantastic. Luca, you guys have had a little bit of fun here. You've got the big trade. The big trade so far of the season. Are you, are you happy with it? Are you missing OG and An Anobi? Where are you at right now?

I'm not going to lie, Trevor. It was tough to see OG go. He was one of my favorite Raptors, being with a team for seven seasons, watching him grow as a player. Obviously, the Raptors drafted him. But I absolutely love the trade, and I am so loving it right now. And I think we're going to look back at that trade and, you know, call it a win-win for both teams because you look at what OG has been doing with the Knicks. Knicks earned defeated with him at the time of this reporting. He's been really making an impact for that team on the defensive end. He's been a seamless fit with Randall and Brunson. But then you look at what the Raptors got back, exactly what they needed.

You know, two young pieces with tremendous upside that you can now build with Scotty Barnes,

going into the future, two guys who immediately got slated into the starting lineup,

who have been making immediate impacts on this team.

I mean, RJ had 37 the other day against Golden State.

That was the best he's looked in a while. He started red hot. You know, he hit five threes in

that one, really just imposing his will in the pain. Warriors had no answers for him. And then

you look at Emmanuel quickly, he had his stand-old game in a win against the Grizzlies.

I call him the Raptors future franchise point guard.

You know, he has all the attributes that you want to see in a young point guard.

His skill set is unbelievably, you know, solid to watch.

And he just gives me Tyrese Maxi vibes.

Obviously, there's a, you know, it's going to be ways to go until he gets to that level.

But just the way that he's able to generate offense, hits the three, really giving that

Raptor, this Raptors team, a breath of fresh share of a guard, a dynamic guard who can create.

So yeah, it's been really good so far, Trevor.

The New Look Raptors are three and one.

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