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 Laker Filmroom podcast. I'm Pete, joined by Darius. And last night, Lakers moved to 500. In a slog of a game, we sure haven't been ahead on the scoreboard all that much this season, D. But Lakers find a way to pull it out down the

stretch of 106, 103 against the Orlando Magic. A bit of a movable object versus a resistible force

situation where you've got the team with the 38-year-old superstar coming off of a second

night of a back-to-back in an OT road loss the night

before versus a young team who had a whole weekend off in Los Angeles and the supposed

at L.A. Nightlife and it's an undefeated record. And it was a game D where we couldn't get a loose

ball. A lot of the struggles that you would expect from second night of a back-to-back coming off of the road. But Lakers find a way to make it happen. Really behind the strength of Anthony Davis has been, AD's just been unbelievable since after opening night and just really on both ends of the floor dominated the game. So what did you see last night? What was your overall kind of impression from last night's game? So we should make a note too that Rui

Hotchamur did not play. He was a late scratch before the game. He has an eye contusion. And so he was

listed as probable earlier in the day. And then his status kept going down and down and down.

And then until he was ruled out before the game.

Remember, P2, Darvin had mentioned that he was going to start to fine-tune the rotation

and start to dig in.

We talked about that in yesterday's pod.

It probably wasn't super realistic for that to happen on the second night of a back-to-back,

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