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 Wire Podcast Network. I'm Pete, joined by Darius and Mike. It's been a minute since we've done a mailbag since the beginning of the offseason. All these changes have been made. We've tried to get to a lot of the topics. we still have quite a few to go. And you guys ask some great questions, several of which will be pods, right? That happens whenever we put out the call for questions. You guys seem to ask some very good ones that are like, you know, we should dedicate a whole 30, 35 minutes to that. But today, we're going to get to as many of them as we can. Thank you to anybody to everyone who submitted their questions. I'm going to be reading them today. And our first question comes from Quest for 18. Can you highlight the advantages of how having someone like Mark, a big who provides spacing and playmaking, how that would complement our big three specifically in the starting lineup. Russ likes to push the pace, so on the surface it could seem counterintuitive to have a slow

big in there with him.

Darius, so much of how I've thought of Mark in the context of this offseason is, is he going

to start or not and kind of being, having some suspicions about his role.

But it's very likely that he is playing and very good chance that he does start. So let's dive into that a little bit. What does Mark with 80

at the four, Russ at point guard? What does that look like in terms of how that meshes?

Can I just say if Mark doesn't start, I don't know if he plays.

Yeah, that's true. So I mean, maybe down the road when we talk about Mark and like a bigger

picture idea, that could be something that we dive into a little bit more. But Mark at the five,

I actually think that he fits more of a prototypical big style,

except as a spacer rather than a rim runner

that Russell Westbrook is used to playing with.

So Mark has more of a boxout big.

He's not a high rebounding rate big himself.

And I think you'd probably find a lot of natural synergy between them in that regard, right?

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