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 part 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 Film Room podcast. I'm Pete, joined by Darius. And today's going to be our first mini-pod. These are going to be between 10 and 20 minutes long. A lot of times these will be on a specific topic. But today, with it being the playoffs and all of that, We're going to give kind of our last thoughts on an upcoming game 3D, maybe talk a little bit about the other

side of the bracket with Warriors and Rockets, which I know is a series of interest in your household.

Only going to be one break in this one. And as we build out LFR to these different type

of things, again, this will just be like a shorter pod, won't be too different. You know, we're going to keep trying to cover some ground here. So, Dee, I start here with my mind on a big game three, right? I think from an energy perspective, Lakers came out in game one and did not have the requisite playoff intensity that LeBron really spoke to in his postgame

comments that he was like, hey, you know, sometimes it takes a game, a possession of quarter,

a whole game to get ramped up and ready for the playoffs. Then I thought in game two, Minnesota

had that we stole the one that we needed on the road type of energy to a degree, and Lakers brought it

and won convincingly.

I think this is going to be the first game of the series where neither team has any issues

with being able to get the car started.

It's a big game tonight.

We've seen as the series have flipped to the road games, that game three crowd can be very

excited and ready to go. The Minnesota Timberwolves

crowd will be exactly that. Dee, what's on your mind as we go into a big game tonight?

So honestly, it's funny. I got fed some Kobe content yesterday. And you saw me when I was on vacation and I was wearing a jersey because it was hot

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