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 of our 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. I'm Pete, joined by Darius. The Lakers fell on Monday night, 114 to 109. A bunch of different directions we could go in with this one. but Lakers have not been playing good basketball since

the end of the in-season tournament. They are one in three with the one win being one where they

just barely held on in San Antonio. They were in this game throughout, but the Knicks certainly

controlled it. There are a few different ways that I think we can go with it. But the game was

tight. Lakers pulled ahead by six in the third quarter at one point.

And then, you know, I was just rewatching the game D. And then the last like 90 seconds of the

third quarter were disastrous. It was like a two point game. And then it was an eight point game all

of a sudden. Mike has talked about how the Lakers are, you know, kind of battling fatigue right now.

And a lot of the postgame comments were certainly about that. The questions have been leading

towards that, right? A lot of those guys are traveling with them, right? So a lot of the people

that travel that are covering the team have the same schedule as the team. And so when Mike pointed

that out in yesterday's pod is like, I wouldn't expect too much until the beginning of the new year. I think that's probably the

case. And that's certainly the questions like you said and the play trended in that direction.

But the Lakers also have to get good at the coasting part, at the jogging, right? Like, we're good

in a sprint. When we're a full

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