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Laker Film Room - Dedicated to the Study of Lakers Basketball

Skill vs Fitness

Laker Film Room - Dedicated to the Study of Lakers Basketball

Pete Zayas

News, Basketball, Sports News, Sports

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2022

⏱️ ? minutes

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Summary

Miami punched their ticket to the Conference Finals in a game where their superior conditioning overwhelmed the exhausted 76ers. Pete and Mike discuss the role of endurance in basketball, how that should factor into the Lakers' next roster, and more.

Transcript

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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.

0:23.5

What's up, Laker fans? Welcome to the Laker Film Room podcast, brought you by the Blue Wire Podcast Network. I'm Pete, joined by Mike, no darius today. And last night, we had a couple of game sixes that ended up quite differently. in the early game, Miami became the first team to punch their ticket into

0:38.1

the conference finals with a win over the Philadelphia 76ers. And then in the nightcap,

0:43.2

Dallas really took it to the Phoenix Suns and forced our first game seven of the 2022 playoffs.

0:49.1

Didn't have one in the first round. So really excited, Luca versus Booker and the Sons in a game seven. But let's start with

0:56.1

the early game. This was a series that when Embed came back, it was kind of like, oh, is this,

1:01.6

is this going to be a series? You know, Philly 1, 2 at home before Miami, you know,

1:07.3

one pretty comfortably won in a blowout in game five. And then in game six,

1:12.5

in the spirit of our coverage of these playoffs kind of being this big like evaluation of

1:18.5

different player attributes and like what matters in the playoffs and what doesn't, there was

1:22.8

something I saw in that that game that I hadn't thought of earlier. And I think you're a great person to speak on

1:28.4

this. And that's the value of endurance and the harm of fatigue. Miami, they always brag about

1:36.1

their heat culture. And one of the things that they're very proud of is how in shape they are.

1:40.7

They pride themselves on being the team that's in the best shape in the NBA, and they can

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