Russ at the Crossroads
Laker Film Room - Dedicated to the Study of Lakers Basketball
Pete Zayas
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🗓️ 12 January 2022
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What is Russell Westbrook's ideal role on this version of the Lakers? How aggressive does he need to be? What should the team be doing to help him thrive on offense? Does that change when Anthony Davis comes back? Due to injuries and COVID absences, the first half of the season hasn't been as informative as we'd have liked, but we have a better idea of how to answer these questions than we did over the summer. Pete and Darius dive in on all things Russ and the path to getting the most helpful version of him and his game.
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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. |
| 0:22.9 | Correct. |
| 0:23.7 | What's up, Laker fans? Welcome to the Laker Film Room podcast, brought to you by the Blue Wire Podcast Network. |
| 0:28.0 | I'm Pete, joined by Darius, no mic today. |
| 0:30.4 | And at the end of yesterday's pod, which was a discussion on the halfway point of the season, |
| 0:35.4 | one of the big themes was, what do we know about this team and what don't we know? |
| 0:39.2 | And there are some things that we was, what do we know about this team and what don't we know? |
| 0:39.2 | And there are some things that we do know, |
| 0:41.1 | but we know an unusually small amount for this point of the season. |
| 0:44.4 | But there have been two players |
| 0:46.7 | that have played in every single game this year. |
| 0:47.8 | One is Carmelo Anthony, |
| 0:49.6 | and the other is Russell Westbrook. |
| 0:50.9 | And I would argue of all of the players that we need to get to know this season, |
| 0:53.2 | Russell Westbrook is far and away the number one. |
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