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. I'm Pete. This is Darius. And the Lakers capped off a back-to-back sweep of the Sacramento Kings in their building with another stellar defensive performance that was led by what I thought was LeBron's best game of the year.

And D, ever since he's come back, the team has really been just fantastic.

And so is he.

He's had a level of two-way play that along with, I think,

a shift in Anthony Davis's focus,

has kind of shown, it's funny after a week where you and I were

really diving deep into the personnel of the team and what do they need and what does the trade

deadline look like. I think these are exactly the type of games that you should be judging the team

off of, not based off of are they good or are they not, but like this is what they need

and this is what they don't. Because this is what they look like when they play hard.

When they play hard, they're pretty good on defense. And so again, that crazy plot twist,

D, but we saw another night of Lakers locking in holding another team under 100 points.

Yeah. So we talked about Thursday's win win and Thursdays when I thought was very similar

in the context of the Kings just had a really hard time around the basket and AD was so great

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